February 19th, 1851

Born on February 19th, 1851

Age in days, weeks and months
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What happened on February 19th?

February 19th, 2012

Mexican drug war: Forty-four inmates died in a prison riot in Apodaca, Mexico, between members of Los Zetas and the Gulf Cartel.

February 19th, 2011

Items from the Belitung shipwreck, the largest single collection of Tang-dynasty artefacts found in one location, were first exhibited in Singapore.

February 19th, 2006

A methane explosion in a coal mine in Nueva Rosita, Mexico, trapped and killed 65 miners.

February 19th, 1999

U.S. president Bill Clinton issued a posthumous pardon to Henry Ossian Flipper, the first African American graduate of West Point, who had been accused of embezzlement in 1881.

February 19th, 1986

The first module of the Soviet space station Mir was launched, establishing the first long-term research station in space.

February 19th, 1965

Colonel Phạm Ngọc Thảo of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam, along with Generals Lâm Văn Phát and Trần Thiện Khiêm attempted a coup against the military junta of Nguyễn Khánh.

February 19th, 1963

Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique, a non-fiction book credited with sparking the beginning of second-wave feminism in the United States, was first published.

February 19th, 1954

The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency planted a cache of Soviet-made weapons on a beach in Nicaragua, as part of an effort to portray Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz as a Soviet puppet.

February 19th, 1942

A book-burning was held and politicians were arrested in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, as part of a simulated Nazi invasion.

February 19th, 1937

Italian forces began a brutal crackdown on Ethiopians following an attempted assassination of Rodolfo Graziani, the viceroy of Italian East Africa, in Addis Ababa.

February 19th, 1910

Old Trafford, a football stadium in Greater Manchester, England, hosted its inaugural match, between Manchester United and Liverpool.

February 19th, 1811

Peninsular War: Outnumbered French forces under Édouard Mortier routed and nearly destroyed Spanish troops at the Battle of the Gebora near Badajoz, Spain.

February 19th, 1903

A blockade against Venezuela (depicted), caused by President Cipriano Castro's refusal to pay foreign debts, was lifted.

February 19th, 1931

The Socialist Soviet Republic of Abkhazia (flag pictured) was dissolved and reformed as the Abkhaz Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, an autonomous republic of the Soviet Union within Georgia.

February 19th, 2026

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor became the first member of the British royal family to be arrested in 379 years.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on February 19th

Same year
Born in 1851

69

Adalbert Ricken

German Roman Catholic priest and mycologist

*March 18th, 1851, Fulda †March 1st, 1921, Fulda

70

Hugo Zorn von Bulach

French politician (1851-1921)

*February 8th, 1851, Strasbourg †April 20th, 1921, Osthouse

64

Silvanus P. Thompson

British academic physicist (1851-1916)

*June 19th, 1851, York †June 12th, 1916, Greater London

84

Francis Bell

New Zealand politician (1851-1936)

*March 31st, 1851, Nelson †March 13th, 1936, Wellington

75

André Wormser

French composer

*November 1st, 1851, Paris †November 4th, 1926, Paris

82

Dora Montefiore

Suffragette, socialist, writer

*December 20th, 1851, Coulsdon †December 21st, 1933, Hastings

74

Léon Bourgeois

French statesman (1851-1925)

*May 29th, 1851, former 9th arrondissement of Paris †September 29th, 1925, Épernay

69

Emilia Pardo Bazán

Spanish author, editor (1851–1922)

*September 16th, 1851, A Coruña †May 12th, 1921, Madrid

77

Ferdinand Foch

French marchal and military theorist (1851–1929)

*October 2nd, 1851, Tarbes †March 20th, 1929, Paris

90

Arthur Evans

British archaeologist and scholar (1851–1941)

*July 8th, 1851, Nash Mills †July 11th, 1941, Youlbury House

80

Melvil Dewey

American librarian

*December 10th, 1851, Adams Center †December 26th, 1931, Lake Placid

71

Jacobus Kapteyn

Dutch astronomer, best known for his extensive studies of the Milky Way and as the first discoverer of evidence for galactic rotation (1851-1922)

*January 19th, 1851, Barneveld †June 18th, 1922, Amsterdam

73

Aristide Bruant

French cabaret singer, comedian, and nightclub owner (1851–1925)

*May 6th, 1851, Courtenay †February 10th, 1925, 18th arrondissement of Paris

79

Adolf von Harnack

Baltic German theologian and prominent church historian

*May 7th, 1851, Tartu †June 10th, 1930, Heidelberg

79

Vincent d'Indy

French composer and teacher

*March 27th, 1851, Paris †November 30th, 1930, Paris

80

David Starr Jordan

American ichthyologist and educator (1851-1931)

*January 19th, 1851, Gainesville †September 19th, 1931, Stanford

59

Georg Jellinek

German philosopher (1851-1911)

*June 16th, 1851, Leipzig †January 12th, 1911, Heidelberg

58

Clément Cabanettes

Frenchman who settled in Argentina

*August 14th, 1851, Lassouts †July 14th, 1910, Buenos Aires

71

Rosario de Acuña

Spanish writer, poet and playwright

*November 1st, 1851, Madrid †May 5th, 1923, Gijón

75

Giuseppe Allamano

Italian Roman Catholic priest (1851-1926)

*January 21st, 1851, Castelnuovo Don Bosco †February 16th, 1926, Turin

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1851 is a normal year and no leap year.

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