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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