About February 19
February 19, 2025 is the 50th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 315 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
You can browse the full year calendar in case you need it.
Are you looking for a day of the week calculator? Try it on any date like anniversaries, birthday of someone you know, or any other date that is special to you. You can even try it on historical dates. For example: February 19
(Sponsored by DayOfTheWeek.org)
Aquarius is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Amethyst is the modern birthstone for this month. Bloodstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 363 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On February 19
- 197 –Emperor Septimius Severus defeats usurper Clodius Albinus in the Battle of Lugdunum, the bloodiest battle between Roman armies.
- 356 –Emperor Constantius II issues a decree closing all pagan temples in the Roman Empire.
- 1594 –Having already inherited the throne of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth through his mother Catherine Jagellonica of Poland, Sigismund III of the House of Vasa is crowned King of Sweden, succeeding his father John III of Sweden.
- 1600 –The Peruvian stratovolcano Huaynaputina explodes in the most violent eruption in the recorded history of South America.
- 1674 –England and the Netherlands sign the Treaty of Westminster, ending the Third Anglo-Dutch War. A provision of the agreement transfers the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam to England, and it is renamed New York.
- 1847 –The first group of rescuers reaches the Donner Party.
- 1859 –Daniel E. Sickles, a New York Congressman, is acquitted of murder on grounds of temporary insanity. This is the 1st time this defense is successfully used in the United States.
- 1878 –Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.
- 1884 –More than sixty tornadoes strike the Southern United States, one of the largest tornado outbreaks in U.S. history.
- 1943 –World War II: Battle of the Kasserine Pass in Tunisia begins.
- 1949 –Ezra Pound is awarded the first Bollingen Prize in poetry by the Bollingen Foundation and Yale University.
- 1953 –Censorship: Georgia approves the first literature censorship board in the United States.
- 1960 –China successfully launches the T-7, its first sounding rocket.
- 1972 –The Asama-Sansō hostage standoff begins in Japan.
- 1978 –Egyptian forces raid Larnaca International Airport in an attempt to intervene in a hijacking, without authorisation from the Republic of Cyprus authorities. The Cypriot National Guard and Police forces kill 15 Egyptian commandos and destroy the Egyptian C-130 transport plane in open combat.
- 1985 –Iberia Airlines Boeing 727 crashes into Mount Oiz in Spain, killing 148.
- 1986 –Akkaraipattu massacre: the Sri Lankan Army massacres 80 Tamil farm workers the eastern province of Sri Lanka.
- 2001 –The Oklahoma City bombing museum is dedicated at the Oklahoma City National Memorial.
- 2002 –NASA’s Mars Odyssey space probe begins to map the surface of Mars using its thermal emission imaging system.
- 2015 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Sheep in Chinese astrology.
What no one tells you about your first name’s personality. Are there magical powers in your given name? Check out Mattie’s personality today! (Sponsored links)
Share or Link to This Page: