February 19

Facts & Historical Events On This Day

2019

US Democrat Senator Bernie Sanders announced his second attempt to run for President.

2007

The website Tumblr was launched by its founder David Karp.

1986

The USSR launched the Mir core module, the first module of the new space station.

1964

A British company sent a 1,000-pound shipment of The Beatles wigs to the USA.

1963

The iconic book 'The Feminine Mystique' was published by Betty Friedan.

1949

American poet Ezra Pound won the first annual Bollingen Prize for his poetry.

1933

Nazi Cabinet minister Hermann Göring banned all Catholic newspapers.

1914

Frugal parents mailed their four-year-old child 73 miles from their home to the child's grandparents.

1910

An Irish cook in New York, US, infected 53 people with typhoid.

1906

Kellogg's Foods was founded in Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA.

1881

Alcohol was prohibited in Kansas.

1878

Thomas Edison received a patent for his new invention, the phonograph.

1819

Captain William Smith discovered Williams Point at the far northeast of Livingston in the South Shetlands.

1736

Opera 'Alexander's Feast' by George Frideric Handel premiered in London.