Nearly 250 Japanese warplanes attack the northern Australian city of Darwin, killing 243 people. On February 19, 1942, the northern Australian city of Darwin was…
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19 February 1949
Ezra Pound is awarded the first Bollingen Prize in poetry by the Bollingen Foundation and Yale University. The Bollingen Prize in Poetry is a prestigious…
19 February 1963
The publication of Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique reawakens the feminist movement in the United States as women’s organizations and consciousness raising groups spread. Betty…
19 February 1649
The Second Battle of Guararapes takes place, effectively ending Dutch colonization efforts in Brazil
19 February 2002
NASA’s Mars Odyssey space probe begins to map the surface of Mars using its thermal emission imaging system. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_Mars_Odyssey’]
19 February 2003
An Ilyushin Il-76 military aircraft crashes near Kerman, Iran. The 2003 Iran Ilyushin Il-76 crash occurred on 19 February 2003, when an Ilyushin Il-76 crashed…
19 February 2006
A methane explosion in a coal mine near Nueva Rosita in Mexico kills 65 miners. Palau, Mexico — Fermin was a mechanic, not a coal…
19 February 1985
EastEnders is broadcast for the first time on the BBC. On the 19th February 1985, the BBC’s flagship soap opera EastEnders was broadcast for the…
19 February 2002
The Mars Odyssey space probe starts mapping the surface of Mars using the thermal emission imaging system.
19 February 1986
Soldiers in the Sri Lankan Army kill 80 Tamil farm workers in the eastern province of Sri Lanka.