Page 8: Historical Events In February - 19

1983  Alice White, actress (Employees' Entrance), dies at 78 of a stroke on this day in history.   

1984  14th winter Olympics games close at Sarajevo, Yugoslavia on February - 19.   

1984  USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR on February - 19.   

1984  Ina Ray Hutton, orch leader (Ina Ray Hutton Show), dies at 66 on this day in history.   

1985  On this day in history 150 killed when a Spanish jetliner crashed approaching Bilbao, Spain   

1985  ADM of Amsterdam declares bankruptcy on this day in history.   

1985  On February - 19 canned &bottled Cherry Coke introduced by Coca-Cola   

1985  Mickey Mouse welcomed in China on this day in history.   

1985  Elizabeth Julesberg, author (Dick & Jane), dies on this day in history.   

1986  Jordanian King Hussein severs ties with PLO on February - 19.   

1986  On February - 19 the U.S. Senate votes to outlaw genocide, an act that took 37 years to ratify.   

1986  On this day in history uSSR launches Mir space station into Earth orbit   

1986  On February - 19 adolfo Celi, actor (Thunderball), dies at 63   

1987  On this day in history anti-smoking ad airs for first time on TV, featuring Yul Brynner   

1987  Minnesota sheriff office arrest FBI most wanted, Thomas G Harrelson on this day in history.   

1987  Reagan lifts trade boycott against Poland on this day in history.   

1989  Jaap van de Merwe, Dutch journalist/cabareter (Hadjememaar), dies on February - 19.   

1990  Police kill 8 demonstrators for multi party system in Nepal on February - 19.   

1990  Soyuz TM-9 lands on February - 19.   

1990  On this day in history michael Powell, Engl director (Life & Death of Col Blimp), dies at 84   

1991  Peggy Mondo, actress (Who's Minding the Store), dies at 50 on this day in history.   

1992  On this day in history north and South Korea officially end their 40 year confrontation   

1992  On this day in history chet Leaming, dies after brief illness at 66   

1993  On this day in history kenya Moore, 22, (Michigan), crowned 42nd Miss USA   

1993  Gerhard Gesell, judge (Pentagon Papers), dies of liver cancer at 82 on this day in history.   

1994  On this day in history derek Jarman, actor/director (Tempest), dies of AIDS at 52   

1995  Linford Christie runs world record 200 meter indoor (20.25 seconds) on February - 19.   

1995  Calder Willingham, novelist/Scriptwriter, dies at 72 on February - 19.   

1996  Brenda Bruce, actress (December Bride, Nightmare), dies at 77 on February - 19.   

1997  On this day in history chinese Communist revolutionary Deng Xiaoping dies.   

1997  On February - 19 fCC makes available 311 for non-emergency calls &711 for hearing or speech-impaired emergency calls   

1997  On February - 19 deng Xiaoping, head (Chinese Communist Party), dies at 92   

1998  Soyuz TM-26 lands on February - 19.   

1998  US hockey team destroys their rooms at Olympics village in Japan on this day in history.   

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1473  On February - 19 birth of nicolaus Copernicus, Polish mathematician and astronomer (d. 1543)   

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

1552  On this day in history 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  On February - 19 birth of andries de Graeff, mayor of Amsterdam (1657..71)   

1616  Jacques de Saint-Luc, composer was born on February - 19.   

1630  On this day in history 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 February - 19 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 this day in history boniface, of Lausanne, Belgian bishop/saint, dies   

1401  On February - 19 death of william Sawtree, 1st English religious martyr, burned in London   

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

1545  On this day in history death of pierre Brully, [Peter Brulius], calvinist minister, burned to death   

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