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Today in History ~ February 19
Events0197 - Lucius Septimius Severus' army beats Clodius Albinus at Lyon
0356 - Emperor Constantius II shuts all heathen (non-Christian) temples
0842 - Medieval Iconoclastic Controversy ends as a council in Constantinople formally reinstates the veneration of icons in the churches
1539 - Jews of Tyrnau Hungary (then Trnava Czech), expelled
1634 - Battle at Smolensk: Polish king Wladyslaw IV beats Russians
1674 - Netherlands & England sign Peace of Westminster (NYC becomes English)
1736 - Georg F Handel's "Alexander's Feast," premieres
1803 - Congress voted to accept Ohio's borders and constitution, but Congress did not formally ratify Ohio statehood until 1953.
1807 - VP Aaron Burr arrested in Alabama for treason; later found innocent [H]
1831 - 1st practical US coal-burning locomotive makes 1st trial run, Penn
1846 - Texas state government formally installed in Austin
1847 - Rescuers arrived at Donner Party Site [H]
1856 - Tin-type camera patented by Hamilton Smith, Gambier, Ohio
1859 - Dan Sickles is acquitted of murder on grounds of temporary insanity 1st time this defense is successfully used -- Sickles shot and killed Philip Barton Key, son of Francis Scott Key, author of "Star Spangled Banner"
1861 - Louisiana State troops seize the U.S. paymaster's office in New Orleans
1861 - Russian Tsar Alexander II abolishes serfdom
1878 - Thomas Alva Edison patents gramophone (phonograph)
1881 - Kansas becomes 1st state to prohibit all alcoholic beverages
1884 - Tornadoes in Miss, Ala, NC, SC, Tenn, Ky & In kill 800 people
1906 - WK Kellogg & Ch Bolin Start Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Co
1910 - English premiere of Richard Strauss' "Elektra"
1913 - 1st prize inserted into a Cracker Jack box
1914 - Riccardo Zandonai's opera "Francesco da Rimini," premieres in Turin
1915 - British fleet fire on Dardanellen coast
1922 - Vaudeville star Ed Wynn became the first big name in show business to sign for a regular radio show.
1923 - Jean Sibelius' 6th Symphony premieres
1927 - General strike against British occupiers in Shanghai
1929 - Medical diathermy machine 1st used, Schenectady, NY
1933 - Nazi Prussian minister Herman Goring bans all Catholic newspapers
1941 - Nazi police attacked & driven away from Koco, Amsterdam (by young Jews)
1941 - Nazis raid Amsterdam & round up 429 young Jews for deportation
1942 - About 150 Japanese warplanes attacked the Australian city of Darwin
1942 - FDR orders detention & internment of all west coast Japanese-Americans to internment camps located in remote areas of Arizona, Arkansas, inland California, Colorado, Idaho, Utah and Wyoming. They were allowed to return to their homes in January 1945. [H]
1942 - Japanese troops land on Timor
1942 - Tommy Dorsey and his orchestra recorded "I'll Take Tallulah"
1943 - German tanks under brig general Buelowius attack Kasserine Pass Tunesia
1945 - Some 30,000 US Marines land on Iwo Jima, opening one of the bloodiest battles in the Pacific during World War II.
1945 - 900 Japanese soldiers reportedly killed by crocodiles in 2 days
1947 - CBS radio premiere of Villa-Lobos' "Bachianas Brasilieras No 3"
1949 - Mass arrests of communists in India
1952 - French offensive at Hanoi
1953 - Georgia approves US 1st literature censorship board
1953 - William Inge's "Picnic," premieres in NYC
1958 - Hail the size of baseballs and flash lightning reported over parts of Minneapolis
1959 - Britain, Turkey & Greece sign agreement granting Cyprus independence
1959 - USAF rocket-powered rail sled attains Mach 4.1 (4970 kph), NM
1963 - USSR informs JFK it's withdrawing several thousand troops from Cuba
1969 - 1st Test flight of Boeing 747 jumbo jet
1981 - George Harrison is ordered to pay ABKCO Music $587,000 for "subconscious plagiarism" "My Sweet Lord" with "He's So Fine"
1985 - 150 killed when a Spanish jetliner crashed approaching Bilbao, Spain
1985 - Canned & bottled Cherry Coke introduced by Coca-Cola
1985 - Mickey Mouse welcomed in China
1985 - William Schroeder is 1st artificial heart patient to leave hospital He spent 15 minutes outside Humana Hospital in Louisville, Ky
1986 - The Senate endorsed the United Nations convention against genocide, 37 years after President Truman first sought approval of the accord.
1986 - Jordan King Hussein severs ties with PLO
1987 - Anti-smoking ad airs for 1st time on TV, featuring Yul Brynner
1987 - Reagan lifts trade boycott against Poland
1990 - Police kill 8 demonstrators for multi party system in Nepal
1992 - "Crazy For You" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 1622 performances
1991 - Russian Federation President Boris Yeltsin demanded the resignation of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
1991 - President George Bush told reporters a Soviet proposal to end the Persian Gulf War fell "well short of what would be required."
1992 - Peter Collins discovers nova Cygni 1992
1992 - Conservative candidates won South African by-election; seen as a barometer of white attitudes toward President de Klerk's reforms to scrap apartheid.
1993 - A Superior Court judge ruled that a gay group has the right to march in South Boston's annual St. Patrick's Day Parade.
1997 - FCC makes available 311 for non-emergency calls & 711 for hearing or speech-impaired emergency calls
1998 - US hockey team destroys their rooms at Olympic village in Japan
2000 - Texas Gov. George W. Bush easily defeated Arizona Sen. John McCain in the South Carolina Republican presidential primary.
2002 - President Bush, on an Asian tour, told the Japanese parliament that the United States, if necessary, would come to the aid of South Korea, the Philippines and Taiwan.
Birthdays Today
0003 - Sadiq Hidajat, Persian writer (Blind Person Owl)
1473 - Nicolaus Copernicus (Mikolaj Kopernick) (Polish astronomer: the father of modern astronomy, the Copernican theory: the sun is the center of our universe) was born in Torun, a city in north-central Poland on the Vistula River.
1671 - Charles-Hubert Gervais, composer
1687 - Johann Adam Birkenstock, composer and sandal designer
1743 - [Rodolfo] Luigi Boccherini, Italian composer, cellist (Minuet)
1843 - Adelina Patti, Madrid Spain, opera soprano (Lucio)
1877 - Louis Francois-Marie Aubert, French composer (Habanera)
1892 - Scott Lucas (politician)
1893 - Sir Cedrick Hardwicke (actor: The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Stanley and Livingstone, Richard III, The Ten Commandments)
1895 - Louis Calhern (Carl Vogt) (actor: The Count of Monte Cristo, Duck Soup, Blackboard Jungle, Prisoner of Zenda, The Student Prince)
1902 - John Bubbles (Sublett) (actor)
1902 - Nydia Westman (actress: One Night of Love, Velvet Touch)
1909 - Susan Fleming (actress: Range Feud)
1911 - Merle Oberon (Thompson) (actress: Wuthering Heights, Stage Door Canteen, Deep in My Heart, Hotel, The Oscar, Interval)
1912 - Dick Siebert (baseball)
1912 - Stan Kenton (songwriter: No Longer a Prisoner; Grammy Award- winning bandleader: West Side Story [1961], Adventures in Jazz [1962]; theme: Artistry In Rhythm; How High the Moon, September Song, Laura)
1916 - Eddie (George) Arcaro (only jockey to win two Triple Crowns [1941, 48], 1958 Racing Hall of Fame)
1917 - Carson McCullers (Smith) (author: The Member of the Wedding, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Reflections in a Golden Eye)
1921 - Claude Rene Georges Pascal, composer
1924 - Lee Marvin (Academy Award-winning Best Actor: Cat Ballou [1965]; The Caine Mutiny, The Dirty Dozen, Delta Force, Ship of Fools)
1930 - John Frankenheimer (director: Days of Wine and Roses, Birdman of Alcatraz, The French Connection, The Manchurian Candidate)
1932 - Jean-Pierre Ponnele, Paris France, opera director (Carmina Burana)
1935 - Russ Nixon (baseball)
1936 - Bob Engemann (singer: group: The Lettermen: When I Fall In Love, Goin' Out of My Head, Can't Take My Eyes Off You)
1940 - Smokey (William) Robinson (Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Famer: group: The Miracles: Shop Around, I Second That Emotion, Tears of a Clown; song writer: My Guy, My Girl; solo: Cruisin', Bein' with You; Motown VP)
1942 - Bob Menne (golfer)
1942 - Paul Krause (football: NFL Individual Career Record for interceptions [81] for Washington Redskins & Minnesota Vikings [1964-1979])
1943 - "Mama" Cass Elliot, actress (Mamas & Papas-Monday Monday)
1943 - Lou Christie (Lugee Sacco) (singer: Lightnin' Strikes, Two Faces Have I, The Gypsy Cried, Rhapsody In the Rain, I'm Gonna Make You Mine)
1947 - Bruce Fairbairn (actor: The Vampire Hookers, Cyclone, Nightstick)
1949 - John Van Horlick (hockey)
1952 - Eddie Brown (football)
1958 - Rebecca ("Becky") Hoppe, founder, Soccer Moms of US
1960 - Prince Andrew, Albert Christian Edward, of Britain/Duke of York
1989 - L A Baby orangutan, at Woodland Park Zoo, Seattle
Famous deaths
0197 - D Clodius Septimus Albinus, Roman dignitary in England, dies in battle
1401 - William Sawtree, 1st English religious martyr, burned in London
1414 - Thomas Arundel, archbishop of Canterbury/chancellor of England,
1545 - Pierre Brully, [Peter Brulius], Calvinist minister, burned to death
1858 - Alois Basil Nikolaus Tomasini, composer, dies at 78
1878 - Charles F Daubigny, French restaurateur/painter, dies at 61
1941 - Hamilton Hamilton Harty, composer/conductor, dies at 61
1951 - Andre[-Paul-Guillaume] Gide, French writer (Nobel 1947), dies at 82
1967 - Wilmer King, 1st casuality on Tappan Zee Bridge, NY,
1986 - Adolfo Celi, actor (Thunderball), dies at 63
1990 - Michael Powell, Engl director (Life & Death of Col Blimp), dies at 84
1993 - Gerhard Gesell, judge (Pentagon Papers), dies of liver cancer at 82
1995 - Calder Willingham, novelist/Scriptwriter (The Graduate), dies at 72
1996 - Baseball showman Charlie O. Finley died in Chicago at age 77.
1997 - Deng Xiaoping, the last of China's major Communist revolutionaries, head (Chinese Communist Party), dies at 92
1997 - Leo Rosten, writer/humourist (Joys of Yiddish), dies at 88
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