February 19th

The February 19th is the 50e Jour of the Année of the Gregorian Calendrier. There remain 315 days before the end of the year (316 so bissextile).

Events

1 with 1900

197: Beginning of the Battle of Lugdunum, current town of Lyon, which had embraced the cause of Clodius Albinus.
356: The Roman Emperor Constance II imposes the closing of the pagan temples .
1184 : Second battle of Uji to the Japan.
1350 : France: Marriage of Jean II the Good and of the widow of Philippe of Burgundy, Jeanne of Auvergne.
1416 : Erection of the Duchy of Savoy.
1493 : Florence makes alliance with the France for a division of Milan.
1578 : The army of the duke of Anjou invades the south of the Netherlands.
1652 : At the request of the Republic of Venice, the Venetian Pietro Ottoboni (future Pope Alexandre VIII) is created Cardinal by the Pape Innocent X.
1701 : Philippe V makes a solemn entry in Madrid.
1783 : England: The second Pitt, William, is named Prime Minister at the twenty-four years age. Supported by the party of the Tories, it is the first of the Prime Ministers which is not only responsible in front of the king, but also in front of the Communes.
1790 : Paris: The marquis de Favras is carried out by hanging. It pays its life an intrigue carried out by Mirabeau and the duke of Orleans organizing the escape of the king and envisaging the lifting of a royal army.
1795 : Europe: The France and the Toscane sign a peace treaty. The large-duke Ferdinand III had adhered to the First coalition.
1796 : The boards with Assignat S are burned in Place Vendôme.
1797 : By the Treated of Tolentino, Pie VI yields Avignon, the Romagna, Bologna, Ferrare and the Comtat Venaissin with the France, while the army of Bonaparte walk on Vienna, while passing by the the Tyrol.
1800 : Bonaparte, first Consul, settles with the Tuileries.
1803 : Vote Acte of mediation, in virtue of which the Swiss Cantons recover their independence and almost completely restores the thirteen cantons of before 1798, less Geneva and Mulhouse. Six new cantons are created. The Constitution is federalistic, the cantons having a federal Diète for the foreign policy.
1807 :

the English fleet crosses the Dardanelles to support the Russian in their war against the Turkey.
the Spain adheres to the continental blockade.

1814 : the town of Borough, Ain, is taken again by the French troops and the Ordonneau general is wounded with the leg.
1836 : Execution of Giuseppe Fieschi, Pierre Morey and Theodore Pip to have perpetrated the attack of Fieschi.
1853 : The Austria and the Prussia sign a commercial treaty one twelve years duration.
1858 : Hardening of the imperial mode of Napoleon III by the adoption of law of general security which makes it possible to intern or to off-set any person having already undergone political judgments. Approximately two thousand French are worried and a few hundreds off-set in Algérie.
1883 : France: Villiers of Isle-Adam publishes his cruel Contes , precursors of symbolism.

20th century

1906 : The American doctor John Harvey Kellogg and its brother the contractor Will Keith Kellogg creates the Battle Creek Cornflake Company.
1909 : First appearance of Mistinguett to the theater in " the ass of Buridan " , of Flers and Caillaret.
1910 : Presentation of Don Quichotte opera in five acts of Jules Massenet with Monte Carlo.
1915 : Offensive of the Dardanelles.
1918 : The Soviet Russia abolishes by decree the private property of the ground, water and other natural resources.
1919 : Attack against Georges Clémenceau by the anarchist Eugene Cottin.
1921 : The goods of Landru are dispersed with the biddings.
1924 : Inversion of the Shah Ahmad, in Persian (today the Iran).
1928 :

a fire with the gold mines Hollinger with Timmins, in Ontario, made thirty-nine dead.
Fine of the II^ème Olympic Games of winter to Saint-Moritz.

1931 : A crowd is delirious about it accommodates Charlie Chaplin with London.
1932 :

France: Paul Painlevé becomes president of the Council and directs the policy on the left.
France: Continuation of the waltz of the ministries: André Tardieu resigns.
Proclamation of a Manchu State independent with at its head the emperor Puyi.

1936 : in Spain, formation of a new government by Manual Azaña.
1939 : The deputy Oscar Drouin, presents to the legislative Parliament Québécois a bill allowing Québécois to make their entry with the Bar. The deputies William Tremblay , and Maurice Duplessis express themselves clearly in favor of the bill.
1941 :

Left the Kenya, of the British forces penetrates in Italian Somalia.
Creation of Deutsches Afrika Korps (in summary Afrika Korps, Afrikakorps or DAK) directed by Rommel and formed after the decision to send a task force in Libya to support the troops of Mussolini.

1942 :

Lawsuit of Riom.
Of the Japanese bombers carries out, for the first time, a raid on the Australia: Darwin is touched.
the administration Roosevelt imprisons the Japanese living the west coast.

1945 : American unloads with Iwo Jima, Japan.
1953 : First with New York of the part musical comedy Picnic.
1958 : A one month notice in the event of dismissal becomes obligatory in France.
1959 :

an agreement recognizing the independence of Cyprus is signed with London by the Greece, the Turkey and the Great Britain.
Ilsa Konrads , swimmer, carries the world records of the 800 m with 10 mn 11 S 4

1961: Quebec: Joseph-Alexandre DeSève and Paul the English founds the private station CFTM-TV , channel 10, ancestor of VAT.
1962 :

the Général de Gaulle gives to understand that the France is laid out to meet the three other nuclear powers - the United States, Great Britain and Soviet Union - in order to discuss a destruction of all the nuclear weapons.
Into full Cold war, the Dramaturge Suisse Friedrich Dürrenmatt publishes its part which will become a great classic: “ the Physicists ”.

1963 : The the USSR informs the president of the United States John Fitzgerald Kennedy that several thousands of the 17 000 Soviet soldiers stationed with Cuba would be repatriated.
1964 : Exit of the film Umbrellas of Cherbourg a musical comedy of Jacques Demy, with Catherine Deneuve.
1971 : Exit of the film " the Cry of the cormorant the evening above jonques the " of Michel Audiard, with Michel Serrault, Paul Meurisse and Bertrand Blier. Gerard Depardieu holds its first role to with it.
1977 :

Rugby: The France beats the England and continues its second large slam.
Helena Fibingerová increases the female world records indoor of launched weight to 22 m 50

1978: An Egyptian commando gives the attack, on an airport close to Nicosie, with a plane on board of which Arab Fedayin retained hostages: the hostages are released, but 15 men of the commando are killed.
1983 : With the the United States, countries where the weapons are on sale free, Willie Mak and Benjamin Ng kill 13 people of a ball in the head during an armed robbery in a club of play of the Chinese district of Seattle, the United States.
1984 : During a solemn ceremony on the Place Saint-Pierre, the pope Jean-Paul II béatifie 99 catholic martyrs of the French revolution.
1985 : A Boeing 727 of the company Iberia is crushed close to Bilbao, in Spain, after having run up against a pylon of television drowned in the Brouillard. The catastrophe makes 148 dead.
1986 :

Launching and placing in orbit of the first module of the livable Space station Russian MIR .
Robert Badinter succeeds Daniel Mayer with the presidency of the French Constitutional council.
Bernard Tapie becomes president of the Olympique of Marseilles.
Fine of the first Summit of the Francophonie to Versailles.

1987 : with the Nicaragua, the Canadian journalist Peter Bertie , then with rebels countered, is killed by the army.
1989 : Ottawa concludes that the Satanic Verses is legal; the tax department had blocked the importation of the book a few days, following integrist complaints of Moslems. The mode of Iran also had just called with the murder of the author, Salman Rushdie.
1994 : Mark short Kenny the 50 m in 16 S 93 on the hands , world records.
1995 : Tommy Lee wife on a beach the actress Pamela Anderson; the bride carries a white bikini.
1996 : The curfew founded in Algeria since 1992 in the capital and the center-north of the Algeria, is raised definitively.
1997 : The French government decides that Thomson will be sold private.
1998 :

the Alcan multinational announces construction with Alma, with the Lake-Saint-Jean (Quebec), of what will be its larger alum works, at the cost of 2,2 billion dollars. This new alum works will take the continuation of the Isle-Malignant factory, which is five times smaller.
Daniel Komen carries the world records indoor of the 5000 m with 12 mn 51 S 48.

1999: Assassination with Nadjaf (Iraq), the holy big city Shiite, of the Large Ayatollah Mohammad Sadeq Al-Sadr and of two of its sons.
2000 :

the Dutch archbishop Antonius Jan Glazemaker (old catholic) carries out the ordination of Denise Wyss , first ordered woman priest in Suisse.
Stacy Dragila increases the world records of female jump to the pole in room to 4,61 m

21e century

2001 :

a epizooty of Foot-and-mouth disease appears in England causing the setting in Forty country and demolition of more than two hundred and thousand pigs, cows, sheep and chickens.
the Talibans with the capacity in Afghanistan massacred more than 300 Moslem civilians Chiites in the center of the Afghanistan, affirms the ONG Human Rights Watch in a report/ratio.

2002 :

Belgium: Refusal of Louis Michel, Deputy Prime Minister, to grant the right to vote the abroads, for the local elections.
Saparmyrat Nyýazow, life president of the Turkménistan, issues that all its compatriots reaching the 62 years age (the age to which the prophet Mahomet is deceased) obtain a three days leave and a premium allowing them to sacrifice a white ram.
the distributive firm Metro France assigns in Swedish justice International Metro, which has just launched to Paris and Marseilles the free daily newspaper Metro , in front of the Court of Bankruptcy of Paris for " contrefaçon".
Vonetta Flowers, becomes the first black athlete to gain a gold medal with the Winter Olympics. With Jill Bakken, it gained the race of Bobsleigh to two female. The member of CIO however did everything to prevent that since there are only two African present at these OJ
Two women (homosexual) were condemned to died under the terms of the criminal Code derived from the Islamic law, the Charia, for " behavior against nature" with Bossasso , Somalia.

2003 :

the Morrocan Mounir el Motassadeq, shown membership of an terrorist cell implied in the attacks of the September 11th 2001, is condemned to a 15 years sorrow of reclusion by the court of Hamburg.
a military aircraft Iran IEN with on its board two hundred and seventy-five Gardiens of the Revolution is crushed in the south of the Iran: no survivor.
Attribution of the notes of the Gault-Millau, Bernard Loiseau passes from 19 to 17… out of 20… It " will leave the table " 24.

2004: The Front Polisario, which militates since 1974 against the Morocco for the independence of the Sahara-Westerner, releases 100 Moroccan soldiers considered by the international organizations as " oldest prisoners of war to the monde".
2005 :

a series of attacks aiming for the majority of faithful the Chiites are perpetrated in Iraq during these the last two days, making nearly 60 dead.
the Israeli cabinet approves with a vast majority the withdrawal of the Gaza Strip and four colonies of the West Bank.

2007 :

Opening of the lawsuit of the catastrophe of the Tunnel of Mont Blanc.
In India, several bombs make 66 dead in Samjhauta Express, one of the two lines which connect this country to the Pakistan.

Births

1473 : Nicolas Copernic, Canon, doctor and astronomer Polish. († May 24th 1543)
1532: Jean Antoine de Baïf, French poet. († September 19th 1589)
1743: Luigi Boccherini, violoncellist and Italian type-setter. († May 28th 1805)
1792: Roderick Murchison, British geologist .
1798 : Auguste Count, French.
1803 : Tanneguy Duchâtel, politician French.
1817 : Guillaume III, king of Holland.
1859 : Svante August Arrhenius, chemist Swedish. († October 2nd 1927)
1869: Camille de Morlhon, scenario writer and scenario writer French of the period of the Silent film.
1873 : Constantin Brancusi, Rumanian sculptor († 1957).
1877 : Louis Aubert, Type-setter French. († January 9th 1968).
1880 : Álvaro Obregón, president of the Mexico of 1920 with 1924.
1888 : John G. Adolfi, American realizer .
1896 : André Breton, writer French.
1899 : Pierre-Rene Wolf, French journalist (+ 1972).
1914 : Jacques Dufilho, actor French.
1924 : David Bronstein, international Large-Master of failures, writer.
1928 : Nicolas Hayek, Swiss businessman
1929: Jacques Deray (Jacques Desrayaud), realizer French.
1930 : John Frankenheimer, American scenario writer († July 6th 2002).
1932 :

Joseph Kerwin, American astronaut
Christian Zuber, animalist scenario writer French

1938: Rika Zaraï (Rika Gossman) (or 1940?), Israeli singer , born in Jerusalem
1940: Saparmyrat Nyýazow, dictator turkmene (Mr. December 21st 2006)
1946: Alain Manoukian, dressmaker French
1948: Byron K. Lichtenberg, American astronaut
1952:

Rodolfo Neri Calved, spationaut Mexican
Ryū Murakami, writer Japan board
Barbara Schnitzler, actress German.
Christiane Reiff, German actress .

1955 :

Margaux Hemingway, actress of American cinema E.
Jeff Daniels, American actor

1956: G. David Low, American astronaut
1960:

Holly Johnson, British musician of the group Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Prince Andrew of the United Kingdom, Duke of York, wire of the Queen Elizabeth II.

1971 : Benoit Montenat, writer French
1975: Javier Cop, Spanish Matador .
1977 : Antonio Ferrera, Spanish Matador .
1980 : Steevy Boulay, French tele chronicler who took part in " Loft Story" "

Death

197 : Clodius Albinus, personality of ancient Rome
1309: Bogusław IV, duke of Poméranie Western.
1345 : Siemovit II, duke of Rawa (° 1283)
1553: Erasmus Reinhold, astronomer and German mathematician (° October 22nd 1511)
1605: Orazio Vecchi, Italian type-setter (° December 6th 1550)
1602: Philippe-Emmanuel of Lorraine, duke of Mercœur and Penthièvre (° September 9th 1558)
1670: Frederic III of Denmark, king de Danemark (° March 18th 1609)
1709: Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, Japanese shogun (° February 23rd 1646)
1794: Etienne-Charles de Loménie de Brienne, philosopher French (° October 9th 1727)
1799: Jean-Charles of Bordered, mathematician French (° May 4th 1733)
1837: Georg Büchner, writer and German playwright (° October 17th 1813).
1873 : Vasil Levski, Bulgarian revolutionist (° July 18th 1837)
1887: Multatuli ( Eduard Douwes Dekker ), Dutch writer, author of the novel Max Havelaar (° March 2nd 1820)
1894: Camillo Sivori, violonist and Italian type-setter (° October 25th, 1815)
1895: John Whitaker Hulke, Surgery N and British geologist (° November 6th 1830)
1897: Karl Weierstrass, German mathematician (° October 31st 1815).
1916 : Ernst Mach, physicist and Austrian Philosopher (° February 18th 1838)
1927: Robert Fuchs, Austrian type-setter (° February 15th 1847)
1936: max Schreck, German actor (° June 11th 1879)
1951: Andre Gide, writer French, Nobel Prize of literature 1947 (° November 22nd 1869)
1952: Knut Hamsun, Norwegian writer , Nobel Prize of literature 1920 (° August 4th 1859)
1957:

Maurice Garin, cyclist French (° March 3rd 1871)
Percy Hobart, military engineer British (° June 14th 1885)

1963: Emile Armand, anarchist French (° March 26th 1872)
1972: John Grierson, British documentarist (° April 26th 1898)
1975: Luigi Dallapiccola, Italian type-setter (° February 3rd 1904)
1980: Good Scott, singer of the group rock'n'roll AC/DC (° July 9th 1946)
1988: ** Andre Frederic Cournand, physiologist states-unien of French origin, Nobel Prize of medicine 1956 (° November 24th 1895)

Rene Tank, French poet, with whom one owes in particular the Feuillets of Hypnos

1994: Derek Jarman, British realizer (° January 31st 1942)
1997: Deng Xiaoping, leader Chinese (° August 22nd 1904)
1999: Mohammad Sadeq Al-Sadr, Large Shiite ayatollah Iraq IEN and two of its sons.
2000 : Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian architect (° December 15th 1928)
2001:

Charles Trenet, singer French (° May 18th 1913)
Stanley Kramer, realizer states-unien (° September 29th 1913)

2004: Jean Rouch, Realizer of cinema and Ethnologist French. (° May 31st 1917)
2007: Alexis Gourvennec, French, creative contractor of Brittany Ferries.

Celebrations

Thailand in Asia celebrates the day of “Makha Bucha”

Pataphysique calendar

Wednesday the 25th Mouth S, Supreme Festival Quad of Holy Marmalade, Inspired.

Festivals (First names)

Gabin, Gabia, Gabien, Gabinia, Gabinien, Gabinienne,
Philothée (with female)
Quodvultdeus

Catholic and orthodoxe saints of the day

Barbat de Bénévent († 682) bishop.
Conon of the Jordan († 555)
Eugene and Macaire (4th S.)
Gabin of Rome († 286), martyr with Rome
Georges de Lodève († 884), bishop of Lodève
Mansuet de Tours († 700), confessor and bishop of Turns
Mesrop the Translator († 439) inventive of the Armenian writing.
Réal († 798)
Quodvultdeus de Carthage († 454), bishop of Carthage
Rabulas of Constantinople († 527) founder of monasteries.
Siméon the Romain or Simon, bishop martyr
Vallier (5th S.)

Catholic saints of the day

Happy Alvarez de Cordoue (1360 - 1430), Dominican
Happy Elisabeth Picenardi, o.s.m.
Boniface of Lausanne († 1265), bishop
Happy Conrad de Plaisance († 1351), minor brother
Happy Lucie Yakichi († 1622), martyrdom with the Japan

Orthodoxe saints of the day

Nicétas Athonite († 1809) néo-martyr.
Philothée of Athens († 1589) néo-martyrdom, owner of Athens.

See too

February 19th in sport
February 19th in the railroads

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