1854 – Great Britain and Orange Free state sign Convention of Bloemfontein
1952 – Following his Nordic combined gold medal in St. Moritz (1948), Heikki Hasu takes his 2nd Olympic gold as part of Finland’s 4 x 10k cross country relay team at the Olso Winter Games
1963 – Luciano Pavarotti makes his debut at the Vienna State Opera in “La traviata”
1965 – Constance Baker Motley elected Manhattan Borough president
1969 – Groundbreaking TV documentary series “Civilisation” presented by art historian Kenneth Clark premieres on BBC2 in the UK
1971 – George Harrison is fined and his driving license is suspended for 1 year
1979 – George Harrison releases “George Harrison” album
1986 – Nelli Fiere-Cooman runs world record 60 m indoor (7.00 sec)
1993 – Gary Coleman wins $1,280,000 lawsuit against parents for high fees
1999 – Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Öcalan is charged with treason in Ankara, Turkey
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 22nd February 2019
1887 – Union Labor Party organized in Cincinnati
1900 – Battle at Wynne’s Hill, South Africa (Boers vs British army)
1967 – Barbara Garson’s “MacBird” premieres in NYC
1973 – US and China agree to establish liaison offices in Beijing and Washington, D.C.
1989 – US authors demonstrate against Iranian death threats against Salman Rushdee, author of “The Satanic Verses”
1992 – “Park Your Car in Harvard Yard” closes at Music Box NYC
1996 – STS 75 (Columbia 19), launches into orbit
1998 – “King and I” closes at Neil Simon Theater NYC after 781 performances
2014 – After winning the men’s parallel giant slalom at the Sochi Winter Olympics, Russian snowboarder Vic Wild wins his 2nd gold in the parallel slalom
2014 – Viktor Yanukovych is ousted as President of Ukraine by the parliament following the Euromaidan revolution
Historical Events for 21st February 2019
1564 – Philip II routes Cardinal Granvelle to Franche-Comte
1864 – 1st US Catholic parish church for blacks dedicated, Baltimore
1887 – Oregon becomes 1st US state to make Labor Day a holiday
1903 – Cornerstone laid for US army war college, Washington, D.C.
1907 – SS Berlin sinks off the Hook of Holland (142 dead)
1925 – 1st issue of “New Yorker” magazine published
1945 – Operation Veritable: British Army captures Goch from Germany, forcing German retreat away from the Rhineland
1952 – 9th Golden Globes: A Place in the Sun, Fredric March, and Jane Wyman win
1969 – Ted Williams signs 5-year contract to manage Washington Senators
1976 – “Rockabye Hamlet” closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 7 performances
Historical Events for 20th February 2019
1619 – Trial against Johan van Oldenbarnevelt begins in The Hague for alleged crimes against the federal government
1673 – 1st recorded wine auction held in London
1929 – American Samoa organizes as territory of US
1935 – Dane Caroline Mikkelson is 1st woman to land on Antarctica
1941 – 1st transport of Jews to concentration camps leave Plotsk Poland
1947 – Chemical mixing error causes explosion that destroys 42 blocks in LA
1965 – Beatles record “That Means a Lot”
1972 – 14th Daytona 500: A.J. Foyt dominates the race, winning by almost 2 laps over his closest competitor Charlie Glotzbach
1981 – James Sanford equals 50m indoor world record (5.61 sec)
1986 – LA Dodger Orel Hershiser is 1st to win a $1M salary by arbitration
Historical Events for 19th February 2019
197 – Lucius Septimius Severus’ army beats Clodius Albinus at Lyon
1574 – Spanish troops plunder Krommenie, Wormerveer and Jisp, Netherlands
1771 – Messier adds M46-M49 to his catalog (galactic clusters in Puppis and Hydra and galaxy in Virgo)
1831 – 1st practical US coal-burning locomotive makes 1st trial run in Pennsylvania
1933 – Prussian minister Goering bans all Catholic newspapers
1945 – Brotherhood Day-1st celebrated
1949 – Mass arrests of communists in India
1990 – Soyuz TM-9 lands
2007 – Three Salvadoran deputies to the Central American Parliament and their driver are murdered in Guatemala
2012 – 44 people killed in prison brawl in Apocada, Mexico, between two rival drug cartels
Historical Events for 18th February 2019
1634 – Ferdinand II orders commander Albrecht von Wallenstein’s execution
1857 – Chinese residents in the fledging state of Sarawak rebel against the “White Rajah” James Brooke
1861 – Confederate President Jefferson Davis inaugurated at Montgomery, Alabama (US Civil War)
1928 – USA 2 beats USA 1 by 0.5s for the 5-man bobsleigh gold medal at the St. Moritz Winter Olympics; Germany 2 takes bronze
1930 – Cow flown and milked, milk sealed in paper containers and parachuted
1943 – Munich resistance group “White Rose” captured by Nazis
1951 – 3 City College of NY basketball players admit to accepting bribes
1973 – Belgian Emiel Puttemans runs 3,000m indoor record 7:39.2
1974 – US ambassador to India Daniel Moynihan present $2,046,700,000 check
1989 – Sherri Turner wins LPGA Orix Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open/Itoki Pro-Am
Historical Events for 17th February 2019
1370 – Battle at Rudau: Germany beats Lithuania
1670 – France and Bavaria sign military assistance treaty
1924 – Johnny Weissmuller sets 100-yard freestyle record (52.4 seconds)
1949 – Men’s Figure Skating Championship in Paris won by Richard Button of the USA
1968 – Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, Springfield, Massachusetts opens
1980 – 22nd Daytona 500: Buddy Baker wins (177.602 MPH)
1982 – Commencement of Sri Lanka’s 1st Test Cricket match, v England
1985 – 27th Daytona 500: Bill Elliott wins (172.265 MPH)
1986 – 1st Francophone Summit convenes at Versailles
2003 – The London Congestion Charge scheme begins.
Historical Events for 16th February 2019
1880 – American Society of Mechanical Engineers forms (NYC)
1899 – President of France Félix Faure dies in office.
1914 – 1st airplane flight from LA to SF
1915 – Frank Home Run Baker, 28, announces retirement following a contract dispute with Connie Mack. He sits out 1915 season
1923 – US Men’s Figure Skating championship won by Sherwin Badger
1927 – Noel Coward’s “Marquise” premieres in London
1950 – Writers fail to elect anyone to Baseball’s Hall of Fame
1968 – Italy completes the bobsleigh double at the Grenoble Winter Olympics with victory in the 4-man; Eugenio Monti and Luciano de Paolis double up for gold winning 2-man earlier
1980 – American speed skater Eric Heiden wins 5,000m in Olympic record 7:02.29; second of record 5 gold medal sweep of events at Lake Placid
1993 – Western Australia’s and Australia’s first woman Premier, Carmen Lawrence, is voted out of office.
Historical Events for 15th February 2019
1745 – Colley Cibbers “Papal Tyranny” premieres in London
1870 – Ground broken for Northern Pacific Railway near Duluth, Minnesota
1882 – SS Dunedin leaves New Zealand for Britain with the first cargo of frozen meat.
1905 – 1st race meet at Oaklawn Park (Hot Springs, Ark)
1942 – World War II: British ruled Singapore surrenders to the Japanese
1950 – WSYR (now WSTM) TV channel 3 in Syracuse, NY (NBC) begins broadcasting
1954 – WRDW TV channel 12 in Augusta, GA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1956 – Urho Kekkonen appointed president of Finland
1996 – 46th Berlin International Film Festival: “Sense and Sensibility” wins the Golden Bear
2004 – 57th British Film and Television Awards (BAFTAS): “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King” Best Film, Peter Weir Best Director
Historical Events for 14th February 2019
842 – Charles II and Louis the German sign treaty
1747 – Astronomer James Bradley presents his discovery of the wobbling motion of the Earth on its axis to the Royal Society, London
1797 – The Battle of Cape St Vincent: British fleet under Admiral Sir John Jervis defeats larger Spanish fleet under Admiral Don José de Córdoba y Ramos near Cape St. Vincent, Portugal. Captain Horatio Nelson distinguishes himself.
1942 – Japanese parachutists land near oil center Palembang, Sumatra
1966 – Russian writers Andrei Sinyavsky and Joey Daniel found guilty under the offense of anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda for publishing their satirical writings abroad
1967 – Latin American nuclear free zone proposal drawn up
1985 – Hostage CNN reporter Jeremy Levin is released in Beirut
1993 – 35th Daytona 500: Dale Jarrett wins (154.972 MPH)
1993 – Fire in Linxi department store in Tangshan China, kills 79
2014 – Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta resigns after less than a year in office