Page 3: Historical Events In February - 19

1831  On this day in history first practical US coal-burning locomotive makes it's trial run in Pennsylvania   

1831  1st practical US coal-burning locomotive makes 1st trial run, Penn on this day in history.   

1841  On February - 19 felipe Pedrell, composer   

1843  Adelina Patti, Madrid Spain, opera soprano (Lucio) on this day in history.   

1846  Texas state government formally installed in Austin on this day in history.   

1846  Texas state govt formally installed in Austin on this day in history.   

1852  The Phi Kappa Psi fraternity is founded at Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania on this day in history.   

1856  On February - 19 tin-type camera patented by Hamilton Smith, Gambier OH   

1856  Tin-type camera patented by Hamilton Smith, Gambier, Ohio on this day in history.   

1858  On this day in history alois Basil Nikolaus Tomasini, composer, dies at 78   

1859  Dan Sickles is acquitted of murder on grounds of temporary insanity first time this defense is successfully used on this day in history.   

1859  Dan Sickles is acquitted of murder on grounds of temporary insanity 1st time this defense is successfully used on February - 19.   

1859  On February - 19 svante August Arhenius, Swedish physicist/chemist (Nobel 1903)   

1861  Russian Tsar Alexander II abolishes serfdom on this day in history.   

1861  On this day in history russian Tsar Alexander II abolishes serfdom [NS=Mar 3]   

1863  On this day in history emanuel Moor, composer   

1864  Knights of Pythias form first lodge in Washington DC (12 members) on February - 19.   

1864  On February - 19 knights of Pythias form 1st lodge in Wash DC (12 members)   

1864  Aritius S Talma, Dutch minister of Agriculture (Work Law of 1911) on this day in history.   

1864  On February - 19 william Edwin Baldwin, US Confederate brig-general, dies   

1865  Adrian van Oordt, Dutch writer (neo-romantic) on February - 19.   

1869  On February - 19 uS Assay Office in Boise ID authorized   

1869  US Assay Office in Boise, Idaho authorized on this day in history.   

1875  Jean B Vuillaume, French violin maker (octobas), dies at 76 on February - 19.   

1877  Else Berg, German/Dutch painter on this day in history.   

1878  Thomas Edison patents the phonograph on this day in history.   

1878  Thomas Edison receives a patent for his cylinder-playing music player (forerunner of the "modern day" phonograph) on February - 19.   

1878  Thomas Alva Edison patents gramophone (phonograph) on February - 19.   

1878  On this day in history charles F Daubigny, French restaurateur/painter, dies at 61   

1880  On February - 19 arthur Shepherd, composer   

1881  On this day in history kansas becomes first state to prohibit all alcoholic beverages   

1881  On this day in history kansas becomes 1st state to prohibit all alcoholic beverages   

1881  Armin Knab, German composer (Eichendorff-cycle) on February - 19.   

1884  Tornadoes in Mississippi, Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky &Indiana kill 800 people on February - 19.   

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1473  Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish mathematician and astronomer (d. 1543) was born on February - 19.   

1526  On this day in history birth of charles de L'Ecluse, Flemish botanist (d. 1609)   

1552  On February - 19 birth of melchior Klesl, Austrian cardinal and statesman (d. 1630)   

1588  On this day in history birth of pieter de Carpentier, Flemish gov-gen of Dutch East-Indies   

1611  Andries de Graeff, mayor of Amsterdam (1657..71) was born on this day in history.   

1616  On this day in history birth of jacques de Saint-Luc, composer   

1630  Shivaji, founder of the Maratha Empire (d. 1680) was born on this day in history.   

1660  On this day in history birth of friedrich Hoffmann, German physician and chemist (d. 1742)   

0197  D Clodius Septimus Albinus, Roman bequest in England, dies in battle on February - 19.   

0440  On this day in history death of mesrop Mashtots, Armenian monk, theologian and linguist (b. 361/362)   

1133  Death of Irene Ducaena, wife of Alexius I Comnenus (b. 1066) on this day in history.   

1260  On February - 19 boniface, of Lausanne, Belgian bishop/saint, dies   

1401  Death of William Sawtree, 1st English religious martyr, burned in London on this day in history.   

1414  On this day in history thomas Arundel, archbishop of Canterbury/chancellor of England, dies   

1545  Death of Pierre Brully, [Peter Brulius], calvinist minister, burned to death on this day in history.   

1553  On this day in history erasmus Reinhold, German mathematician, dies at 41