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Events
197 – Emperor Septimius Severus defeats usurper Clodius Albinus in the Battle of Lugdunum, the bloodiest battle between Roman armies.
356 – Emperor Constantius II issues a decree closing all pagan temples in the Roman Empire.
1594 – Having already inherited the throne of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth through his mother Catherine Jagiellon of Poland in 1587, Sigismund III of the House of Vasa is crowned King of Sweden, having succeeded his father John III of Sweden in 1592.
1600 – The Peruvian stratovolcano Huaynaputina explodes in the most violent eruption in the recorded history of South America.
1649 – The Second Battle of Guararapes takes place, effectively ending Dutch colonization efforts in Brazil.
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.
1726 – The Supreme Privy Council is established in Russia.
1807 – Former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr is arrested for treason in Wakefield, Alabama and confined to Fort Stoddert. He is later acquitted.
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 the annexation of Texas by the United States.
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1859 – Daniel E. Sickles, a New York Congressman, is acquitted of murder on grounds of temporary insanity. This is the first time this defense is successfully used in the United States.
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.
1913 – Pedro Lascuráin becomes President of Mexico for 45 minutes; this is the shortest term to date of any person as president of any country.
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 Ethiopian nationalists of Eritrean origin attempt to kill viceroy Rodolfo Graziani with a number of grenades.
1942 – World War II: Nearly 250 Japanese warplanes attack the northern Australian city of Darwin killing 243 people.
1942 – World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the executive order 9066, allowing the United States military to relocate Japanese-Americans to internment camps.
1943 – World War II: Battle of the Kasserine Pass in Tunisia begins.
1945 – World War II: Battle of Iwo Jima: About 30,000 United States Marines land on the island of Iwo Jima.
1948 – The Conference of Youth and Students of Southeast Asia Fighting for Freedom and Independence convenes in Calcutta.
1949: Ezra Pound is awarded the first Bollingen Prize in poetry by the Bollingen Foundation and Yale University.
1953 – Censorship: Georgia approves approves the first literature censorship board in the United States.
1959 – The United Kingdom grants Cyprus independence, which is then formally proclaimed on August 16, 1960.
1960 – China successfully launches the T-7, its first sounding rocket.
1960 – Bil Keane's "Family Circus" cartoon strip debuts.
1963 – The first publication by W.W. Norton & Co. of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique reawakens the feminist movement in the United States as women's organizations and consciousness raising groups spread.
1965 – Colonel Phạm Ngọc Thảo of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam, and a communist spy of the North Vietnamese Viet Minh, along with Generals Lâm Văn Phát and Trần Thiện Khiêm attempted a coup against the military junta of Nguyễn Khánh.
1972 – The Asama-Sansō hostage standoff begins in Japan.
1976: Executive Order 9066, which led to the relocation of Japanese Americans to internment camps, is rescinded by President Gerald R. Ford's Proclamation 4417
1978 – Egyptian forces raid Larnaca International Airport in an attempt to intervene in a hijacking, without authorisation from the Republic of Cyprus authorities. The Cypriot National Guard and Police forces kill 15 Egyptian commandos and destroy the Egyptian C-130 transport plane in open combat.
1985 – William J. Schroeder becomes the first recipient of an artificial heart to leave hospital.
1985 – Iberia Airlines Boeing 727 crashes into Mount Oiz in Spain, killing 148.
1985 – EastEnders, BBC's flagship soap opera, broadcasts for the first time.
1986 – Akkaraipattu massacre: the Sri Lankan Army massacres 80 Tamil farm workers in the eastern province of Sri Lanka.
1986: The U.S. Senate approved an international treaty outlawing genocide, 83-11, nearly 37 years after the pact had first been submitted.
2001 – The Oklahoma City bombing museum is dedicated at the Oklahoma City National Memorial.
2002 – NASA's Mars Odyssey space probe begins to map the surface of Mars using its thermal emission imaging system.
2003 – An Ilyushin Il-76 military aircraft crashes near Kerman, Iran, killing 275.
2006 – A methane explosion in a coal mine near Nueva Rosita, Mexico, kills 65 miners.
2011 – The debut exhibition of the Belitung shipwreck, containing the largest collection of Tang dynasty artefacts found in one location, begins in Singapore.
2012 – Forty-four people are killed in a prison brawl in Apodaca, Nuevo León, Mexico.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
Contemporary Western
Barbatus of Benevento
Conrad of Piacenza
Lucy Yi Zhenmei (one of Martyrs of Guizhou)
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Eastern Orthodox
February 19 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Saints
Apostles Archippus and Philemon of the Seventy Apostles, and Martyr Apphia (1st c.)
Martyrs Maximus, Theodotus, Hesychius, and Asclepiodota of Adrianopolis (305-311)
Venerable Saints Eugene and Macarius, Priests, Confessors at Antioch (363)
Saint Mesrop the Translator, of Armenia (439)
Venerable Rabulas of Samosata (c. 530)
Venerable Conon, Abbot in Palestine (555)
Saint Dositheus of Gaza, disciple of Saint Abba Dorotheus (7th c.)
Venerable Sophronios, Bishop
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Saint Gabinus, a martyr in Rome who was related to the Emperor Diocletian, but
also the brother of Pope Gaius, and father of the martyr St Susanna (c. 295)
Saint Quodvultdeus, Bishop of Carthage in North Africa, exiled by the Arian
Genseric King of the Vandals after the capture of the city in 439 (450)
Saint Valerius (Valére), Bishop of Antibes in the south of France (c. 450)
Saint Odran, ranks as the first Christian martyr in Irish history (c. 452)
Saints Publius, Julian, Marcellus and Companions, martyrs in North Africa
Saint Barbatus of Benevento, took part in the Sixth Oecumenical Council
in Constantinople at which Monothelitism was condemned (682)
Saint Mansuetus, Bishop of Milan and Confessor, he wrote a treatise against
Monothelitism (c. 690)
Saint Beatus of Liébana, a monk at Liebana and was famous for his firm stand
against Adoptionism (789)
Saint George of Lodève, a monk at Saint-Foi-de-Conques in Rouergue but later
moved to Vabres and became Bishop of Lodève (c. 884)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
Saint Yaroslav the Wise, son of the Varangian (Viking) Grand Prince Vladimir
the Great (1054)
New Nun-martyr Philothea of Athens (1588)
Venerable Theodore, Abbot of Sanaxar Monastery (1791)
New Hieromartyr Nicetas, Hieromonk, of Epirus and Mt. Athos, at Serres (1809)
Saint Maria, desert-dweller of Olonets (1860)
New Martyrs and Confessors
New Hieromartyr Vladimir (Terentiev), Abbot, of Zosima Hermitage,
Smolensk (1933)
New Martyr Demetrius Volkov (1942)
Other commemorations
Icon of the Mother of God of Cyprus (392)
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