Here’s a chronological timetable of events that occurred on this day in history. Let’s find out what happened today in history.
February 19
1701 Philip V of Spain makes his ceremonial entry into Madrid.
1902 Smallpox vaccination becomes obligatory in France.
1903 The Austria-Hungary government decrees a mandatory two-year military service.
1917 American troops are recalled from the Mexican border.
1919 The First Pan African Congress meets in Paris, France.
1926 Dr. Lane of Princeton estimates the earth’s age at one billion years.
1942 Port Darwin, on the northern coast of Australia, is bombed by the Japanese.
1965 Fourteen Vietnam War protesters are arrested in New York.
1966 Robert F. Kennedy suggests the United States offer the Vietcong a role in governing S. Vietnam.
1976 Britain slashes welfare spending.
1981 The U.S. State Department calls El Salvador a “textbook case” of a Communist plot.
Born on February 19
1473 Nicholas Copernicus, Polish astronomer
1683 Philip V, King of Spain.
1817 William III, King of the Netherlands.
1859 Svante Arrhenius, Swedish chemist, founder of physical chemistry.
1902 Kay Boyle, short story writer (“The White Horses of Vienna”).
1911 Merle Oberon, film actress.
1917 Carson McCullers, writer (The Heart is a Lonely Hunter).
1940 Smokey Robinson, American singer and songwriter.
Source: History Net
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