FEBRUARY 19TH
- TODAY IS PRESIDENTS DAY
- TODAY IS NATIONAL CHOCOLATE MINT DAY
BIRTHDAYS:
- NICOLAUS COPERNICUS (1473-1543)
- SMOKEY ROBINSON (1940, 78)
- CHRISTINA FERNANDEZ DE KIRCHNER (1953, 65)
- JEFF IMMELT (1956, 62)
- ROGER GOODELL (1959, 59)
- SEAL (1963, 55)
- JUSTINE BATEMAN (1966, 52)
- BENICIO DEL TORO (1967, 51)
- MILLIE BOBBY BROWN (2004, 14)
ON THIS DAY:
- IN 1807, VICE PRESIDENT AARON BURR IS ARRESTED IN ALABAMA FOR TREASON
- IN 1831, THE FIRST COAL POWERED LOCOMOTIVE RUNS IN PENNSYLVANIA
- IN 1878, THOMAS EDISON IS GRANTED A PATENT FOR THE PHONOGRAPH
- IN 1881, KANSAS IS THE FIRST STATE TO ENACT PROHIBITION OF ALCOHOL
- IN 1910, “TYPHOID MARY” MALLON IS RELEASED FROM ISOLATION. SHE GOES ON TO CAUSE SEVERAL FURTHER TYPHOID OUTBREAKS BEFORE BEING ISOLATED AGAIN
- IN 1913, CRACKER JACKS BEGIN PUTTING PRIZES IN ITS BOXES
- IN 1923, THE US SUPREME COURT RULES THAT HINDUS ARE NOT ELIGIBLE FOR US CITIZENSHIP
- IN 1928, THE SECOND WINTER OLYMPICS CLOSE IN SWITZERLAND
- IN 1934, BOB HOPE MARRIES HIS WIFE DOLORES
- IN 1942, PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT ORDERS THE DETENTION AND INTERNMENT OF 110,000 JAPANESE CITIZENS AND IMMIGRANTS ON THE WEST COAST
- IN 1945, THE INVASION OF IWO JIMA BEGINS WITH THE 30,000 MEMBER 5TH MARINE FLEET
- IN 1953, GEORGIA ENACTS AMERICA’S FIRST “LITERATURE CENSORSHIP BOARD”
- IN 1960, THE “FAMILY CIRCUS” COMIC STRIP DEBUTS
- IN 1963, THE USSR ANNOUNCES IT IS REMOVING SEVERAL THOUSAND TROOPS FROM CUBA
- IN 1963, BETTY FRIEDAN RELEASES “THE FEMININE MYSTIQUE”
- IN 1968, “MISTER ROGERS’ NEIGHBORHOOD’ DEBUTS ON PBS
- IN 1968, FLORIDA TEACHERS STAGE THE FIRST EVER TEACHER STRIKE
- IN 1972, HARRY NILSSON GOES TO #1 WITH “WITHOUT YOU”
- IN 1973, TONY ORLANDO AND DAWN RELEASE “TIE A YELLOW RIBBON ROUND THE OLD OAK TREE”
- IN 1977, MANFRED MANN GOES TO #1 WITH “BLINDED BY THE LIGHT”
- IN 1982, OZZY OSBOURNE IS ARRESTED FOR URINATING ON THE ALAMO
- IN 1983, KAJAGOOGOO GOES TO #1 WITH “TOO SHY”
- IN 1984, THE 14TH WINTER OLYMPICS IN SARAJEVO CLOSE
- IN 1985, COCA COLA INTRODUCES CHERRY COKE
- IN 1987, YUL BRENNER STARS IN THE FIRST EVER ANTI-SMOKING TELEVISION AD
- IN 1988, TWO MEN BEGIN A FIVE YEAR JOURNEY ON HORSE BACK FROM SOUTH AMERICA TO THE ARCTIC CIRCLE
- IN 1990, ABC BEGAN ITS MINI SERIES “THE KENNEDYS OF MASSACHUSETTS”
- IN 1993, ACE OF BASE RELEASE “HAPPY NATION” FEATURING “THE SIGN”
- IN 1995, PAMELA ANDERSON MARRIES TOMMY LEE
- IN 1997, CHINESE LEADER DENG XIAOPING DIES AT 92
- IN 2001, OKLAHOMA CITY OPENS THE OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBING MUSEUM AND NATIONAL MEMORIAL
- IN 2016, WRITER HARPER LEE DIES AT 89