February 19

ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY ~ FEBRUARY 19

 1932 - William Faulkner completes his novel "Light in August"
 1933 - Prussian minister Goering bans all Catholic newspapers
 1934 - US contract air mail service canceled, replaced by US army for 6 mos
 1935 - Clifford Odets' "Awake & Sing," premieres in NYC
 1936 - Manuel Azaña becomes Spanish premier
 1938 - Soviet arctic ice research station North Pole 1 evacuated, Denmark
 1941 - Nazi police attacks & driven away from Koco Amsterdam (by young Jews)
 1941 - Nazi raid Amsterdam & round up 429 young Jews for deportation
 1942 - About 150 Japanese warplanes attacked the Australian city of Darwin
 1942 - Bill Longson beats Managoff & Sandor Szabo, to become wrestling champ
 1942 - Dutch actors protest obligatory membership of Culture Chamber
 1942 - FDR orders detention & internment of all west-coast Japanese-Americans
 1942 - Japanese troop land on Timor

 1942 - Tommy Dorsey & his orchestra recorded "I'll Take Tallulah"
 1942 - NY Yankees annouce 5,000 uniformed soldiers admitted free at each of their upcoming home games
 1943 - German tanks under brig gen Buelowius attack Kasserine Pass Tunesia
 1944 - 823 British bombers attack Berlin
 1944 - U-264 sinks off Ireland
 1945 - 30,000 US Marines land on Iwo Jima

 1945 - 900 Japanese soldiers reportedly killed by crocodiles in 2 days
 1945 - Brotherhood Day-1st celebrated
 1945 - US 5th Fleet launches invasion of Iwo Jima against the Japanese
 1946 - Giants outfielder Danny Gardella is 1st major leaguer to announce he is jumping to the "outlaw" Mexican League
 1947 - CBS radio premiere of Villa-Lobos' "Bachianas Brasilieras No 3"
 1949 - "Inside USA" closes at Century Theater NYC after 339 performances
 Poet Ezra Pound 1949 - 1st Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Ezra Pound
 1949 - Mass arrests of communists in India
 1952 - French offensive at Hanoi
 1953 - Georgia approves US 1st literature censorship board
 1953 - Ted Williams safely crash-lands his damaged Panther jet
 1953 - William Inge's "Picnic," premieres in NYC
 1954 - WAST (now WNYT) TV channel 13 in Albany-Troy, NY (NBC) 1st broadcast
 1955 - South East Asia Collective Defense Treaty goes into effect
 1956 - Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA St Petersburg Golf Open
 1958 - Carl Perkins leaves Sun Records for Columbia Records
 1959 - Britain, Turkey & Greece sign agreement granting Cyprus independence
 1959 - Gabon adopts its constitution
 1959 - USAF rocket-powered rail sled attains Mach 4.1 (4970 kph), NM
 1960 - Bil Keane's "Family Circus" cartoon strip debuts

 1960 - Protest strike in Poznan Poland
 1961 - Albania disavows Chinese "Revisionism"
 1961 - Henk van der Grift (Neth) becomes world champ all-round skater
 1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
 1963 - Robert Frost wins Bollingen Prize
 US President John F. Kennedy 1963 - USSR informs JFK it's withdrawing several thousand troops from Cuba
 1964 - UK flies ½ ton of The Beatles wigs to the US
 1965 - NFL adds 6th official
 1967 - Stien Kaiser becomes world champion lady's skater
 1968 - 1st US Teachers strike (Florida)
 1969 - 1st Test flight of Boeing 747 jumbo jet
 1970 - AL Cy Young winner Denny McLain suspended for bookmaking
 1970 - USSR launches Sputnik 52 & Molniya 1-13 communications satellite
 1971 - Paul McCartney releases "Another Day" in UK
 1971 - Walt Wesley becomes 1st Cleve Cavalier to score 50 pts in a game
 1972 - Glenn Turner carries his bat for 223* v WI at Kingston
 1972 - The Asama-Sanso hostage standoff begins in Japan.
 1974 - 1st American Music Award:
 1976 - Frente Polisario forms Democratic Republic of Sahara
 1977 - 19th Grammy Awards: This Masquerade, Starland Vocal Band
 Pop Singer & Beatle Paul McCartney

Starland Vocal Band

 1977 - A's sell pitcher Paul Lindblad to the Rangers for $400,000
 1977 - Doug Walters scores 250 v NZ, 217 stand for 7th wicket w/Gilmour
 1977 - Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" album released

 1977 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
 1977 - Shuttle Enterprise makes 1st Test flight atop a 747 jetliner
 1978 - "On the 20th Century" opens at St James Theater NYC for 460 perfs
 1978 - Brigitte Kraus runs world record 1000 m indoor (2:34.8)
 1978 - Coleman, Comden & Green's musical premieres in NYC
 1980 - Botham a century & 13 wickets in Jubilee Test Cricket at Bombay
 1980 - Eric Heiden skates Olympic record 1000m in 1:15.18
 1981 - George Harrison is ordered to pay ABKCO Music $587,000 for "subconscious plagiarism" "My Sweet Lord" with "He's So Fine"
 1982 - Hanneke Jagersma installed as Neth's 1st Communist mayor
 1982 - Sharie Langford, California, sets women's bowling series record of 853
 1982 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
 1983 - Fernando Valenzuela wins his salary arbitration of $1 million
 1983 - Vladimir Salnikov (USSR) sets 400 m free style swimming record
 1984 - "Doonesbury" closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 104 performances
 1984 - 14th winter Olympic games close at Sarajevo, Yugoslavia
 1984 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
 1984 - 1st brother combo to win Gold & Silver in same event at Olympics (Phil & Steve Mahre-Slalom)
 1985 - 150 killed when a Spanish jetliner crashed approaching Bilbao, Spain
 1985 - ADM of Amsterdam declares bankruptcy
 1985 - Canned & bottled Cherry Coke introduced by Coca-Cola
 1985 - Mickey Mouse welcomed in China

 1985 - William Schroeder is 1st artificial heart patient to leave hospital He spent 15 minutes outside Humana Hospital in Louisville, Ky
 1986 - Jordanian King Hussein severs ties with PLO
 1986 - US Senate ratifies UN's anti-genocide convention 37 years later
 1986 - USSR launches Mir space station into Earth orbit
 1987 - "Stardust" opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 102 performances
 1987 - Anti-smoking ad airs for 1st time on TV, featuring Yul Brynner
 1987 - Less than a month after re-signing, A's pitcher Vida Blue retires
 1987 - Minn sheriff office arrest FBI most wanted, Thomas G Harrelson
 1987 - Reagan lifts trade boycott against Poland
 1988 - Helga Arendt, Silke-Beate Knoll, Mechthild Kluth, Gisela Kinzel walk indoor female world record 4x200m (1:32.55)
 1989 - "Legs Diamond" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 64 perfs
 1989 - Edgar Bowers wins Bollingen Prize
 1990 - Police kill 8 demonstrators for multi party system in Nepal
 1990 - Soyuz TM-9 lands