1816 – Dutch regain Suriname from the French after the defeat of Napoleon
1872 – Charlotte Ray, 1st African American woman lawyer in USA, graduates from Howard University
1874 – Baseball 1st played in England at Lord’s Cricket Ground
1879 – Constantine Fahlberg discovers saccharin (artificial sweetener)
1912 – Lord Kitchener opens Khartoum-El Obeid (Nyala) railway
1965 – Dutch Marijnen government resigns
1967 – Antigua and St Christopher-Nevis become associated states of UK
1973 – Pope Paul VI publishes constitution motu proprio Quo aptius
1990 – Exxon Corp and Exxon Shipping are indicted on 5 criminal counts (Valdez)
2018 – Barbra Streisand reveals she has cloned her dog twice
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 26th February 2019
1893 – 2 Clydesdale horses set record by pulling 48 tons on a sledge, Mich
1938 – US male Figure Skating championship won by Robin Lee
1940 – US Air Defense Command forms at Mitchel Field, LI, NY
1953 – 10th Golden Globes: “The Greatest Show on Earth”, Gary Cooper, and Shirley Booth win
1955 – 1st aviator to bail out at supersonic speed-GF Smith
1967 – Verne Gagne beats Mad Dog Vachon in St Paul, to become NWA champ
1989 – Dallas Cowboys fire coach Tom Landry after a 29-year career
1991 – Coalition planes bomb Iraqi forces retreating from Kuwait during the Gulf War, killing hundreds and creating the so-called ‘Highway of Death’
2012 – 61st NBA All-Star Game, Amway Centre, Orlando, FL: West beats East, 152-149; MVP: Kevin Durant, OKC Thunder, F
2017 – 89th Academy Awards: Best Picture “Moonlight” (after mix-up), Best Director Damien Chazelle, Best Actor Casey Affleck, Best Actress Emma Stone
Historical Events for 25th February 2019
1643 – Dutch US colonists kill Algonquin-indians
1751 – 1st performing monkey exhibited in America, NYC (admission 1 cent)
1830 – Victor Hugo’s “Hernani” premieres in Paris
1921 – The Living Buddha, Hutuktu, is crowned King of Mongolia as the country declares independence from China
1969 – Beatles begin recording Abbey Road album
1969 – Mariner 6 launched for fly-by of Mars
1986 – 28th Grammy Awards: We Are the World, Sade, Phil Collins wins
1995 – Bomb attack on train in Assam India (27 soldiers killed)
2018 – XXIII Winter Olympic Games close in Pyeongchang, Korea; Norway wins a record 39 medals, 14 gold
2018 – 68th Berlin International Film Festival: Romanian film “Touch Me Not” wins the Golden Bear
Historical Events for 24th February 2019
1793 – French troops conquer Breda
1857 – LA Vineyard Society organized
1881 – China and Russia sign the Sino-Russian Ili Treaty.
1894 – Nicaragua captures Tegucigalpa, Honduras
1918 – Estonia declares independence from Russia
1944 – Minister of War Juan Perón leads a coup in Argentina
1945 – Egyptian Premier Ahmed Maher Pasha is killed in Parliament after reading a decree
1970 – 29 Swiss Army officers die in avalanche (Reckingen, Switzerland)
1987 – LA Laker Kareem Abdul-Jabbar scores his 36,000th NBA point
1995 – The Corona reconnaissance satellite program, in existence from 1959 to 1972, is declassified.
Historical Events for 23rd February 2019
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
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