On This Day for February 19 - Iwo Jima invaded by U.S. Marines, Nicolaus Copernicus is featured, and more

Created: 2020-02-19 11:02 Updated: 2020-02-19 11:02 Notebook: On this Day in History

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February 19

FEATURED BIOGRAPHY

1473

Nicolaus Copernicus

FEATURED EVENT

1945

Iwo Jima invaded by U.S. Marines

MORE EVENTS ON THIS DAY

2016: American author Harper Lee —who was nationally acclaimed and revered for her first novel, To Kill a Mockingbird (1960), which movingly depicts small-town life and racial prejudice—died in Monroeville, Alabama.

2008: Fidel Castro formally resigned as president of Cuba; he was succeeded by his brother Raúl .

1997: Deng Xiaoping, who introduced economic reforms to China in 1978, died in Beijing.

1942: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the executive order allowing the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.

1881: Kansas became the first U.S. state to include the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in its state constitution.

1878: American inventor Thomas Edison patented the phonograph .

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ALSO BORN ON THIS DAY

1630

Shivaji
Indian king

1924

Lee Marvin
American actor

1953

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
president of Argentina

1959

Roger Goodell
American sports commissioner

1911

Merle Oberon
British-American actress

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