Page 8: Historical Events In February - 19

1983  On this day in history alice White, actress (Employees' Entrance), dies at 78 of a stroke   

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

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  150 killed when a Spanish jetliner crashed approaching Bilbao, Spain on this day in history.   

1985  ADM of Amsterdam declares bankruptcy on February - 19.   

1985  Canned &bottled Cherry Coke introduced by Coca-Cola on this day in history.   

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

1985  On this day in history elizabeth Julesberg, author (Dick & Jane), dies   

1986  Jordanian King Hussein severs ties with PLO on this day in history.   

1986  On this day in history the U.S. Senate votes to outlaw genocide, an act that took 37 years to ratify.   

1986  USSR launches Mir space station into Earth orbit on February - 19.   

1986  Adolfo Celi, actor (Thunderball), dies at 63 on February - 19.   

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

1987  On February - 19 minnesota sheriff office arrest FBI most wanted, Thomas G Harrelson   

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 this day in history.   

1990  On this day in history soyuz TM-9 lands   

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

1991  On February - 19 peggy Mondo, actress (Who's Minding the Store), dies at 50   

1992  On February - 19 north and South Korea officially end their 40 year confrontation   

1992  Chet Leaming, dies after brief illness at 66 on February - 19.   

1993  Kenya Moore, 22, (Michigan), crowned 42nd Miss USA on this day in history.   

1993  On this day in history gerhard Gesell, judge (Pentagon Papers), dies of liver cancer at 82   

1994  Derek Jarman, actor/director (Tempest), dies of AIDS at 52 on this day in history.   

1995  Linford Christie runs world record 200 meter indoor (20.25 seconds) on this day in history.   

1995  Calder Willingham, novelist/Scriptwriter, dies at 72 on this day in history.   

1996  Brenda Bruce, actress (December Bride, Nightmare), dies at 77 on this day in history.   

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 this day in history deng Xiaoping, head (Chinese Communist Party), dies at 92   

1998  On this day in history soyuz TM-26 lands   

1998  US hockey team destroys their rooms at Olympics village in Japan on February - 19.   

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

1526  On February - 19 birth of charles de L'Ecluse, Flemish botanist (d. 1609)   

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

1588  On February - 19 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 this day in history birth of jacques de Saint-Luc, composer   

1630  On this day in history birth of shivaji, founder of the Maratha Empire (d. 1680)   

1660  On February - 19 birth of friedrich Hoffmann, German physician and chemist (d. 1742)   

0197  D Clodius Septimus Albinus, Roman bequest in England, dies in battle on this day in history.   

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

1133  On February - 19 death of irene Ducaena, wife of Alexius I Comnenus (b. 1066)   

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

1401  On this day in history death of william Sawtree, 1st English religious martyr, burned in London   

1414  Thomas Arundel, archbishop of Canterbury/chancellor of England, dies on this day in history.   

1545  Death of Pierre Brully, [Peter Brulius], calvinist minister, burned to death on February - 19.   

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