Armed Forces Day (Mexico)
Birthday of Shivaji or Shivaji Jayanti (Maharashtra, India)
Christian Feast Day:
Barbatus of Benevento
Conrad of Piacenza
February 19 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Commemoration of Bulgaria's Apostle of Freedom Vassil Levski (Bulgaria)
Flag Day (Turkmenistan)

Events

1861 – Serfdom is abolished in Russia.
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.
2002 – NASA's Mars Odyssey space probe begins to map the surface of Mars using its thermal emission imaging system.

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