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

1841  Felipe Pedrell, composer on February - 19.   

1843  Adelina Patti, Madrid Spain, opera soprano (Lucio) on February - 19.   

1846  On February - 19 texas state government formally installed in Austin   

1846  Texas state govt formally installed in Austin on February - 19.   

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

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

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

1858  Alois Basil Nikolaus Tomasini, composer, dies at 78 on February - 19.   

1859  On February - 19 dan Sickles is acquitted of murder on grounds of temporary insanity first time this defense is successfully used   

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

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

1861  On this day in history russian Tsar Alexander II abolishes serfdom   

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

1863  On this day in history emanuel Moor, composer   

1864  Knights of Pythias form first lodge in Washington DC (12 members) on this day in history.   

1864  On this day in history knights of Pythias form 1st lodge in Wash DC (12 members)   

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

1864  William Edwin Baldwin, US Confederate brig-general, dies on February - 19.   

1865  Adrian van Oordt, Dutch writer (neo-romantic) on this day in history.   

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

1878  Thomas Edison patents the phonograph on February - 19.   

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 February - 19 charles F Daubigny, French restaurateur/painter, dies at 61   

1880  Arthur Shepherd, composer on February - 19.   

1881  Kansas becomes first state to prohibit all alcoholic beverages on February - 19.   

1881  On February - 19 kansas becomes 1st state to prohibit all alcoholic beverages   

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

1884  On this day in history tornadoes in Mississippi, Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky &Indiana kill 800 people   

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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 this day in history birth of andries de Graeff, mayor of Amsterdam (1657..71)   

1616  On February - 19 birth of jacques de Saint-Luc, composer   

1630  On February - 19 birth of shivaji, founder of the Maratha Empire (d. 1680)   

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

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

0440  Death of Mesrop Mashtots, Armenian monk, theologian and linguist (b. 361/362) on this day in history.   

1133  On this day in history death of irene Ducaena, wife of Alexius I Comnenus (b. 1066)   

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

1401  Death of William Sawtree, 1st English religious martyr, burned in London on February - 19.   

1414  Thomas Arundel, archbishop of Canterbury/chancellor of England, dies on February - 19.   

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

1553  On February - 19 erasmus Reinhold, German mathematician, dies at 41