What are the important events that happened on February 19? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
February 19: Facts & Myths About This Day
February 19 is the 50th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 315 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is February 6, 2025 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 483,312 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘pentacontagon’ day.
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Aquarius is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Amethyst is the modern birthstone for this month. Bloodstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 363 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,443 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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February 19 Historical 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.
- 1807 –In Alabama, former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr is arrested for treason and confined to Fort Stoddert.
- 1859 –Daniel E. Sickles, a New York Congressman, is acquitted of murder on grounds of temporary insanity. This is the 1st time this defense is successfully used in the United States.
- 1861 –Serfdom is abolished in Russia.
- 1884 –More than sixty tornadoes strike the Southern United States, one of the largest tornado outbreaks in U.S. history.
- 1942 –World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the executive order 9066, allowing the United States military to relocate Japanese-Americans to Japanese internment camps.
- 1945 –World War II: Battle of Iwo Jima – about 30,000 United States Marines land on the island of Iwo Jima.
- 1949 –Ezra Pound is awarded the first Bollingen Prize in poetry by the Bollingen Foundation and Yale University.
- 2015 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Sheep in Chinese astrology.
Who were born on February 19?
- 1897 –Alma Rubens, American actress (d. 1931)
- 1920 –Jaan Kross, Estonian writer (d. 2007)
- 1958 –Helen Fielding, English writer
- 1960 –Leslie Ash, English actress
- 1971 –Miguel Batista, Dominican baseball player
- 1975 –Daewon Song, Korean professional skateboarder
- 1979 –Mariska, Finnish rapper
- 1986 –Kyle Chipchura, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1986 –Reon Kadena, Japanese model and actress
- 1988 –Miyu Irino, Japanese voice actor
Who died on February 19?
- 1589 –Saint Philothei, Orthodox martyr and Patron of Athens (b. 1522)
- 1663 –Adam Adami, German bishop and diplomat (b. 1603)
- 1789 –Nicholas Van Dyke, American lawyer and President of Delaware (b. 1738)
- 1887 –Multatuli, Dutch writer (b. 1820)
- 1916 –Ernst Mach, Austrian-Czech physicist and philosopher (b. 1838)
- 1970 –Christoforos Nezer, Greek actor (b. 1887)
- 1988 –André Frédéric Cournand, French-born physician, Nobel laureate (b. 1895)
- 2003 –Johnny Paycheck, American singer (b. 1938)
- 2007 –Celia Franca, founder of National Ballet of Canada (b. 1921)
- 2008 –Yegor Letov, Russian song writer and singer (b. 1964)
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