February 19: Significance, Events, and How to Celebrate Natural Disasters & Epidemics

1919  Pan-African Congress, organized by W E B Du Bois (Paris)   

1920  Netherlands joins League of Nations.   

1920  Frances K Bairstow, educator/labor relations consultant.   

1921  Andries Treurnicht, [Dr No], founder (S Afr Conservative Party).   

1922  Ed Wynn is recorded as becoming 1st talent to sign as a radio entertainer   

1922  Beant Singh, politiician.   

1923  Jean Sibelius' 6th Symphony, premieres.   

1923  Donald Lybbert, composer   

1923  Jeronimo Gimenez y Bellido, composer, dies at 68   

1924  Lee Marvin, American actor is born   

1924  Bruce Norris, NHL owner (Detroit Red Wings).   

1925  Jindrich Feld, composer.   

1926  Gyorgy Kurtag, composer   

1927  General strike against British occupiers in Shanghai   

1927  Rene Firino-Martell, cognac manufacturer.   

1927  Georg Brandes, [Cohen], Danish literary-historian/critic, dies at 85   

1928  2nd Winter Olympics games close at St Moritz, Switzerland.   

1928  In this year, Canadian hockey team claims 3rd consecutive gold medal   

1928  2nd Winter Olympic games close at St Moritz, Switzerland.   

1929  Medical diathermy machine 1st used, Schenectady, NY   

1930  John Frankenheimer, NYC, director (Birdman of Alcatraz).   

1932  William Faulkner completes his novel "Light in August"   

1932  Jean-Pierre Ponnele, Paris France, opera director (Carmina Burana)   

1933  Prussian minister Goering bans all Catholic newspapers   

1933  Arnold Ludwig Mendelssohn, composer, dies at 77.   

1934  Bob and Dolores Hope marry   

1934  US contract air mail service canceled, replaced by US army for 6 months   

1935  Clifford Odets' "Awake and Sing," premieres in NYC   

1936  Manuel Azaña is recorded as becoming Spanish premier.   

1938  Soviet arctic ice research station North Pole 1 evacuated, Denmark.   

1941  Nazis raid Koco Amsterdam and round up 429 young Jews for deportation   

1941  Nazi police attacks and driven away from Koco Amsterdam (by young Jews).   

1941  Alexander Josiah Webbe, English cricket keeper (v Aus 1879), dies   

1942  About 150 Japanese warplanes attacked the Australian city of Darwin.   

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