Page 3: Historical Events In February - 19

1831  On February - 19 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  Felipe Pedrell, composer on February - 19.   

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

1846  On this day in history texas state government formally installed in Austin   

1846  On this day in history texas state govt formally installed in Austin   

1852  On February - 19 the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity is founded at Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania.   

1856  On this day in history tin-type camera patented by Hamilton Smith, Gambier OH   

1856  Tin-type camera patented by Hamilton Smith, Gambier, Ohio on February - 19.   

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 February - 19.   

1859  Dan Sickles is acquitted of murder on grounds of temporary insanity 1st time this defense is successfully used on this day in history.   

1859  On this day in history svante August Arhenius, Swedish physicist/chemist (Nobel 1903)   

1861  Russian Tsar Alexander II abolishes serfdom on February - 19.   

1861  Russian Tsar Alexander II abolishes serfdom [NS=Mar 3] on this day in history.   

1863  Emanuel Moor, composer on February - 19.   

1864  On February - 19 knights of Pythias form first lodge in Washington DC (12 members)   

1864  Knights of Pythias form 1st lodge in Wash DC (12 members) on February - 19.   

1864  On February - 19 aritius S Talma, Dutch minister of Agriculture (Work Law of 1911)   

1864  On this day in history william Edwin Baldwin, US Confederate brig-general, dies   

1865  On February - 19 adrian van Oordt, Dutch writer (neo-romantic)   

1869  US Assay Office in Boise ID authorized on February - 19.   

1869  On February - 19 uS Assay Office in Boise, Idaho authorized   

1875  On February - 19 jean B Vuillaume, French violin maker (octobas), dies at 76   

1877  On February - 19 else Berg, German/Dutch painter   

1878  On February - 19 thomas Edison patents the phonograph   

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

1878  Thomas Alva Edison patents gramophone (phonograph) on this day in history.   

1878  Charles F Daubigny, French restaurateur/painter, dies at 61 on February - 19.   

1880  On this day in history arthur Shepherd, composer   

1881  On February - 19 kansas becomes first state to prohibit all alcoholic beverages   

1881  Kansas becomes 1st state to prohibit all alcoholic beverages on this day in history.   

1881  On February - 19 armin Knab, German composer (Eichendorff-cycle)   

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

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1473  On this day in history birth of nicolaus Copernicus, Polish mathematician and astronomer (d. 1543)   

1526  Charles de L'Ecluse, Flemish botanist (d. 1609) was born on February - 19.   

1552  Melchior Klesl, Austrian cardinal and statesman (d. 1630) was born on this day in history.   

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

1611  On February - 19 birth of andries de Graeff, mayor of Amsterdam (1657..71)   

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  Friedrich Hoffmann, German physician and chemist (d. 1742) was born on February - 19.   

0197  On this day in history d Clodius Septimus Albinus, Roman bequest in England, dies in battle   

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 February - 19.   

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  Erasmus Reinhold, German mathematician, dies at 41 on this day in history.