History Events on February 19
![Battle of Iwo Jima](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FFebruary_19%2Ffilter0cE9qSfNzYeVm5fVvhk4.jpg?generation=1608799404053173&alt=media)
World War II: Battle of Iwo Jima: About 30,000 United States Marines land on the island of Iwo Jima.
#Battle_of_Iwo_Jima
![T-7 (rocket)](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FFebruary_19%2Ffilter1vD2H3A2Qj7iS9BO0QaG.jpg?generation=1608799404424690&alt=media)
China successfully launches the T-7, its first sounding rocket.
#T-7_(rocket)
![Censorship](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FFebruary_19%2Ffilter2yuc8WcqanlekW7nnQ3N.png?generation=1608799405236739&alt=media)
Censorship: Georgia approves the first literature censorship board in the United States.
#Censorship
![Stratovolcano](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FFebruary_19%2Ffilter4lMcdTpDy2CfWyQlgaHi.jpg?generation=1608799405615230&alt=media)
The Peruvian stratovolcano Huaynaputina explodes in the most violent eruption in the recorded history of South America.
#Stratovolcano
![Pedro Lascuráin](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FFebruary_19%2FfilterB24QybLFP9tHXeqmNZPy.jpg?generation=1608799405965699&alt=media)
Pedro Lascuráin becomes President of Mexico for 45 minutes; this is the shortest term to date of any person as president of any country.
#Pedro_Lascuráin
![Executive Order 9066](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FFebruary_19%2FfilterCgK1iLKagjNPq6wYcAUo.png?generation=1608799406715456&alt=media)
Executive Order 9066, which led to the relocation of Japanese Americans to internment camps, is rescinded by President Gerald Ford's Proclamation 4417.
#Executive_Order_9066
![Thomas Edison](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FFebruary_19%2FfilterEa76l5hVNlkMsaPwulm6.jpg?generation=1608799407079467&alt=media)
Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.
#Thomas_Edison
![Septimius Severus](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FFebruary_19%2FfilterIktzctQKd94D3VeSTHvi.jpg?generation=1608799407455787&alt=media)
Emperor Septimius Severus defeats usurper Clodius Albinus in the Battle of Lugdunum, the bloodiest battle between Roman armies.
#Septimius_Severus
![Vice President of the United States](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FFebruary_19%2FfilterJPLz3xx7H7NbwQUdNIh5.png?generation=1608799408204478&alt=media)
Former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr is arrested for treason in Wakefield, Alabama and confined to Fort Stoddert.
#Vice_President_of_the_United_States
![Franklin D. Roosevelt](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FFebruary_19%2FfilterKjpSww2h7WP9FVwFhPBq.jpg?generation=1608799408584522&alt=media)
World War II: United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs executive order 9066, allowing the United States military to relocate Japanese Americans to internment camps.
#Franklin_D._Roosevelt
The Second Battle of Guararapes takes place, effectively ending Dutch colonization efforts in Brazil.
#Second_Battle_of_Guararapes
![Austin, Texas](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FFebruary_19%2FfilterSZSWbtFmrhAUBoo57QPQ.jpg?generation=1608799409389243&alt=media)
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.
#Austin,_Texas
![Ilyushin Il-76](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FFebruary_19%2FfilterTQFwY9hSvaS25a5LIwWa.jpg?generation=1608799409750045&alt=media)
An Ilyushin Il-76 military aircraft crashes near Kerman, Iran, killing 275.
#Ilyushin_Il-76
![World War II](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FFebruary_19%2FfilterWVupSfbAu3QxU4lA7BeX.jpg?generation=1608799410144089&alt=media)
World War II: Nearly 250 Japanese warplanes attack the northern Australian city of Darwin, killing 243 people.
#World_War_II
![1954 transfer of Crimea](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FFebruary_19%2FfilterYp46w95uJXlWyrHN5Y8M.png?generation=1608799410921525&alt=media)
Transfer of Crimea: The Soviet Politburo of the Soviet Union orders the transfer of the Crimean Oblast from the Russian SFSR to the Ukrainian SSR.
#1954_transfer_of_Crimea
![Donner Party](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FFebruary_19%2FfiltercW72AFgAGdJ3H47lKAuj.jpg?generation=1608799411327299&alt=media)
The first group of rescuers reaches the Donner Party.
#Donner_Party
![Cyprus](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FFebruary_19%2FfiltereIePjyc6DU0ggiFEcYji.png?generation=1608799411692487&alt=media)
The United Kingdom grants Cyprus independence, which is formally proclaimed on August 16, 1960.
#Cyprus
![NASA](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FFebruary_19%2FfilterfEVcgsx23oqZP2ftVMf0.png?generation=1608799412461952&alt=media)
NASA's Mars Odyssey space probe begins to map the surface of Mars using its thermal emission imaging system.
#NASA
![Ezra Pound](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FFebruary_19%2Ffilterfacid0EL6bBUcoaXIbwl.jpg?generation=1608799412826718&alt=media)
Ezra Pound is awarded the first Bollingen Prize in poetry by the Bollingen Foundation and Yale University.
#Ezra_Pound
![Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FFebruary_19%2FfilterfkZ4s1DkG8wZT933oh9C.png?generation=1608799413594802&alt=media)
Having already been elected to the throne of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1587, Sigismund III of the House of Vasa is crowned King of Sweden, having succeeded his father John III of Sweden in 1592.
#Polish-Lithuanian_Commonwealth
![Methane](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FFebruary_19%2FfilterjCZpkwLq3NV0iT9mJa22.png?generation=1608799414096162&alt=media)
A methane explosion in a coal mine near Nueva Rosita, Mexico, kills 65 miners.
#Methane
![Akkaraipattu massacre](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FFebruary_19%2Ffilterk0SghIB9WzIwv49KZ9tJ.jpg?generation=1608799414461395&alt=media)
Akkaraipattu massacre: the Sri Lankan Army massacres 80 Tamil farm workers in eastern Sri Lanka.
#Akkaraipattu_massacre
![Constantius II](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FFebruary_19%2FfilterldA6MNzU1avJlolzPIFC.jpg?generation=1608799414831661&alt=media)
Emperor Constantius II issues a decree closing all pagan temples in the Roman Empire.
#Constantius_II
![World War I](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FFebruary_19%2FfilterllhanuXbcvu2Tw8DnzB4.jpg?generation=1608799415286243&alt=media)
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.
#World_War_I
![Yekatit 12](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FFebruary_19%2Ffiltermrq456Ez7qgUh8vlvNLY.jpg?generation=1608799415686494&alt=media)
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.
#Yekatit_12
![Betty Friedan](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FFebruary_19%2FfilteroRwo4EBwPoZdp3GCTK0Y.jpg?generation=1608799416077737&alt=media)
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_Friedan
![Belitung shipwreck](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FFebruary_19%2FfilterpIbhPZvijwnPBsiOVKR9.jpg?generation=1608799416494394&alt=media)
The debut exhibition of the Belitung shipwreck, containing the largest collection of Tang dynasty artifacts found in one location, begins in Singapore.
#Belitung_shipwreck
![Battle of Kasserine Pass](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FFebruary_19%2FfilterpomRyvpe2oYNKSUOOaWH.jpg?generation=1608799416854722&alt=media)
World War II: Battle of Kasserine Pass in Tunisia begins.
#Battle_of_Kasserine_Pass
![British Empire](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FFebruary_19%2Ffilters4Op46Xcgrf2xF62ukSl.png?generation=1608799417601022&alt=media)
British explorer William Smith discovers the South Shetland Islands and claims them in the name of King George III.
#British_Empire