February 19

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on February 19. From 1900 until now. February 19 is under the sign of Pisces. Famous birthdays on this day include Benicio Del Toro (1967), Seal (musician) (1963) and Victoria Justice (1993). Several movies were released around February 19 over the years, such as Donnie Brasco in 1997 directed by Mike Newell and The Man Without a Past in 2002 directed by Aki Kaurismäki.
But much more happened on February 19 over the years: find out below

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Astrology: First day of sun sign Pisces
Astrology: Can also be last day of sun sign Aquarius depending on the time of birth and the astrologer's viewpoint.
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Events

2019 Insurgency in Egypt (2013–present): Sixteen militants are killed in two different raids in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula. A number of weapons and explosives are also found in the raids. (Al Jazeera)
2018 Syrian Civil War: Rif Dimashq offensive: Ahead of an expected ground offensive, Syrian Air Force strikes on rebel-held eastern Ghouta, near Damascus, kill at least 44 people, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. (France 24)
2017 Iraqi Civil War, Battle of Mosul: Iraq Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi says U.S.-backed Iraqi forces have launched an operation to regain control of western Mosul from ISIL militants. The United Nations says humanitarian agencies are setting up in these older sections of the city where, already, food and fuel supplies are dwindling, running water is scarce, and electricity in many neighborhoods is unreliable for the estimated 800,000 civilians. (CNN) (BBC) (UN-OCHA)
2016 Libyan Civil War (2014–present), Military intervention against ISIL: United States Air Force warplanes carry out airstrikes on ISIL in western Libya, near the Tunisian border, reportedly killing at least 38 people. (BBC)
2015 Greece requests its partners in the eurozone for a six month loan program extension in an apparent compromise attempt; Germany has rejected the request. (BBC News)
2014 After protesters had resisted the police, opposition and President Viktor Yanukovych hold talks and reach a truce. The toll of riots over the past couple of days is at least 25 dead and 241 injured. (BBC), (Yahoo! News), (Wires via Chicago Tribune)
2013 Nigerian Sharia conflict:: Seven French tourists are kidnapped by gunmen near Waza National Park in northern Cameroon, near the border with Nigeria. President of France François Hollande states that the Islamist group Boko Haram may be responsible. (BBC)
2012 Iran suspends oil exports to Britain and France following sanctions put in place by the European Union and the United States in January.
2011 2011 Libyan civil war:
2010 Bill McKibben and 350.org reacted to President Barack Obama and Copenhagen Accord. (Huffington Post)
2009 The US Mint releases the 2009 William Henry Harrison Presidential dollar to circulation.
2008 A fireball and sonic boom are reported in parts of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and British Columbia.
2007 Three Salvadoran deputies to the Central American Parliament from the ruling ARENA party are killed execution-style in Guatemala City. One of the dead is the son of former president and party founder Roberto D'Aubuisson. (BBC)
2006 A methane explosion in coal mine near Nueva Rosita, Mexico, kills 65 miners.
2005 blink-182 officially break up on this date. However, the "indefinite hiatus" was not announced until February 22, 2005.
2004 One Dane and five of the nine Britons held without trial as terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay are to be released, probably within the next two weeks, according to British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw. The soon-to-be-released captives have been amongst the 660 detainees at the US base in Cuba, held for the past two years as suspected Al-Qaida or Taliban 'combatants'. (BBC) (BBC)
2003 2003 Iran Ilyushin Il-76 crash: A military plane carrying 302 members of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards crashed in the mountains of southeastern Iran killing all on board. The government did not go into the possible cause of the crash. The plane was en route from Zahedan, on the Pakistan border, to Kerman, about 500 miles southeast of Tehran.
2002 NASA's Mars Odyssey space probe begins to map the surface of Mars using its thermal emission imaging system.
2001 The Oklahoma City bombing museum is dedicated at the Oklahoma City National Memorial.
1999 President Bill Clinton issues a posthumous pardon for U.S. Army Lt. Henry Ossian Flipper.
1998 Soyuz TM-26 lands
1997 US Federal Communications Commission makes available 311 for non-emergency calls and 711 for hearing or speech-impaired emergency calls.
1996 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in York PA on WQXA 105.7 FM
1995 1st broadcast of Woman of Independent Means on NBC-TV
1993 Kenya Moore, 22, (Miss Michigan), crowned 42nd Miss USA.
1992 Crazy For You opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 1622 performances
1990 Police kill eight demonstrators for multi-party system in Nepal.
1989 Legs Diamond closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 64 performances
1988 Helga Arendt, Silke-Beate Knoll, Mechthild Kluth, and Gisela Kinzel walk indoor female world record 4x200 metre (1:32.55).
1987 Stardust opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 102 performances
1986 USSR launches Mir space station into Earth orbit
1985 150 killed when a Spanish jetliner crashed approaching Bilbao, Spain
1984 Doonesbury closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 104 performances
1983 Vladimir Salnikov (USSR) sets 400-metre freestyle swimming record.
1982 The DeLorean Car factory in Belfast is put into receivership.
1980 Eric Heiden skates Olympics record 1000 metre in 1:15.18.
1978 On the 20th Century opens at St. James Theater NYC for 460 performances
1977 Shuttle Enterprise makes 1st Test flight atop a 747 jetliner
1976 Frente Polisario forms Democratic Republic of Sahara.
1974 1st American Music Award
1972 The Asama-Sanso hostage standoff begins in Japan.
1971 Paul McCartney releases Another Day in the UK
1970 AL Cy Young winner Denny McLain suspended for bookmaking
1969 1st Test flight of Boeing 747 jumbo jet
1968 First US teachers strike (Florida).
1966 The naval minister of the United Kingdom, Christopher Mayhew, resigns.
1963 USSR informs US President John Kennedy it is withdrawing several thousand troops from Cuba.
1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
1961 Henk van der Grift (Netherlands) becomes world champion all-around skater.
1960 Protest strike in Poznan, Poland.
1959 Britain, Turkey and Greece sign agreement granting Cyprus independence.
1958 Carl Perkins leaves Sun Records for Columbia Records
1956 Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA Saint Petersburg Golf Open.
1955 South East Asia Collective Defense Treaty goes into effect.
1954 WAST (now WNYT) TV channel 13 in Albany-Troy, New York (NBC) 1st broadcast
1953 Ted Williams safely crash-lands his damaged Panther jet
1952 French offensive at Hanoi, Vietnam.
1951 Jean Lee becomes the last woman hanged in Australia, when Lee and her 2 pimps are hanged for the murder and torture of a 73-year-old bookmaker.
1950 Konrad Adenauer tries unsuccessfully to negotiate with East Germany to begin unification.
1949 Inside USA closes at Century Theater NYC after 339 performances
1945 30,000 US Marines land on Iwo Jima
1944 U-264 sinks off Ireland
1943 German tanks under Brigadier General Buelowius attack Kasserine Pass in Tunisia.
1942 About 150 Japanese warplanes attacked the Australian city of Darwin
1941 Nazi police attacks and driven away from Koco Amsterdam (by young Jews)
1938 Soviet arctic ice research station North Pole 1 evacuated, Denmark.
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.
1934 Bob and Dolores Hope marry
1932 William Faulkner completes his novel Light in August
1929 Medical diathermy machine first used, in Schenectady, New York.
1928 2nd Winter Olympic games close at St. Moritz, Switzerland
1927 General strike against British occupiers in Shanghai.
1922 Ed Wynn becomes first talent to sign as a radio entertainer.
1921 Reza Shah takes control of Tehran during a successful coup
1920 Netherlands joins League of Nations.
1919 Pan-African Congress, organized by W E B Du Bois (Paris).
1915 British fleet fire on Dardanellen coast.
1913 Mexican General V Huerta takes power with US support.
1906 WK Kellogg and Ch Bolin found Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company
1905 Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Mukden begins in Manchuria.
1900 British troops occupy Hlangwane Natal.
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