About February 19
February 19, 2024 is the 50th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 316 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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Aquarius is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Amethyst is the modern birthstone for this month. Bloodstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 345 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On February 19
- 197 –Emperor Septimius Severus defeats usurper Clodius Albinus in the Battle of Lugdunum, the bloodiest battle between Roman armies.
- 1674 –England and the Netherlands sign the Treaty of Westminster, ending the Third Anglo-Dutch War. A provision of the agreement transfers the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam to England, and it is renamed New York.
- 1807 –In Alabama, former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr is arrested for treason and confined to Fort Stoddert.
- 1819 –British explorer William Smith discovers the South Shetland Islands, and claims them in the name of King George III.
- 1846 –In Austin, Texas the newly formed Texas state government is officially installed. The Republic of Texas government officially transfers power to the State of Texas government following Texas’ annexation by the United States.
- 1861 –Serfdom is abolished in Russia.
- 1878 –Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.
- 1884 –More than sixty tornadoes strike the Southern United States, one of the largest tornado outbreaks in U.S. history.
- 1915 –World War I: The first naval attack on the Dardanelles begins when a strong Anglo-French task force bombards Ottoman artillery along the coast of Gallipoli.
- 1937 –Yekatit 12: During a public ceremony at the Viceregal Palace (the former Imperial residence) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, two Eritrean nationalists attempt to kill viceroy Rodolfo Graziani with a number of grenades. Italian authorities exact vicious reprisals on the population.
- 1942 –World War II: nearly 250 Japanese warplanes attack the northern Australian city of Darwin killing 243 people.
- 1943 –World War II: Battle of the Kasserine Pass in Tunisia begins.
- 1960 –China successfully launches the T-7, its first sounding rocket.
- 1972 –The Asama-Sansō hostage standoff begins in Japan.
- 1985 –Iberia Airlines Boeing 727 crashes into Mount Oiz in Spain, killing 148.
- 1986 –The Soviet Union launches its Mir spacecraft. Remaining in orbit for 15 years, it is occupied for 10 of those years.
- 1996 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Rat in Chinese astrology.
- 1999 –President Bill Clinton issues a posthumous pardon for U.S. Army Lt. Henry Ossian Flipper.
- 2002 –NASA’s Mars Odyssey space probe begins to map the surface of Mars using its thermal emission imaging system.
- 2006 –A methane explosion in coal mine near Nueva Rosita, Mexico, kills 65 miners.
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