February 19th, 1954

Born on February 19th, 1954

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What happened on February 19th, 1954?

February 19th, 1954

Transfer of Crimea: The Soviet Politburo of the Soviet Union orders the transfer of the Crimean Oblast from the Russian SFSR to the Ukrainian SSR.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfer_of_Crimea_in_the_Soviet_Union

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.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Intelligence_Agency

What else 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, 1942

World War II: U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, authorizing the forcible relocation of over 112,000 Japanese Americans to internment camps.

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, 2021

Mya Thwe Thwe Khine, a 19-year-old protester, becomes the first known casualty of anti-coup protests that formed in response to the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état.

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

Born on February 19th, 1954

57

Sócrates

Brazilian association football player [1954-2011]

*February 19th, 1954, Belém †December 4th, 2011, São Paulo

70

Francis Buchholz

German bass guitarist

*February 19th, 1954, Hanover

65

Huang Yong Ping

French artist, died 2019

*February 19th, 1954, Xiamen †October 19th, 2019, Ivry-sur-Seine

70

Gunnar Och

German philologist

*February 19th, 1954, Nuremberg

70

Dominique Probst

French composer

*February 19th, 1954, Paris

70

Hans-Hermann Gockel

German television presenter and journalist

*February 19th, 1954, Bielefeld

70

Michael Gira

American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, author and artist

*February 19th, 1954, Los Angeles

25

Christine Böhm

Austrian actress (1954-1979)

*February 19th, 1954, Vienna †August 5th, 1979, Sopraceneri

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71

Barbara Schnitzler

German actress

*February 19th, 1953, East Berlin

46

Malin Arvidsson

Swedish actress and dancer

*February 19th, 1978, El Salvador

71

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner

President of Argentina from 2007-2015, vice president of Argentina since 2019 to 2023

*February 19th, 1953, La Plata

69

Jeff Daniels

American actor, musician and playwright

*February 19th, 1955, Athens

88

Noëlle Ailloud

Badminton player

*February 19th, 1932, Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon †January 6th, 2021, 5th arrondissement of Lyon

28

Mabel

English singer and songwriter

*February 19th, 1996, Alhaurín el Grande

68

Roderick MacKinnon

American neuroscientist

*February 19th, 1956, Burlington

81

Günter Ebert

German journalist and writer (1925-2006)

*February 19th, 1925, Meerane †July 17th, 2006, Berlin

54

Bellamy Young

American actress

*February 19th, 1970, Asheville

66

Stephan Henrik Barratt-Due

Norwegian violinist

*February 19th, 1919, Oslo †November 18th, 1985, Oslo

64

Prince Andrew, Duke of York

Second son and third child of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (born 1960)

*February 19th, 1960, Buckingham Palace

61

Seal

British singer

*February 19th, 1963, Paddington

28

Ashnikko

American rapper and singer

*February 19th, 1996, Oak Ridge

72

Georg Cantor

German mathematician, inventor of set theory (1845–1918)

*February 19th, 1845, Saint Petersburg †January 6th, 1918, Halle (Saale)

60

Jennifer Doudna

American biochemist

*February 19th, 1964, Washington, D.C.

72

Danilo Türk

President of Slovenia from 2007 to 2012

*February 19th, 1952, Maribor

39

Arielle Kebbel

American actress and model

*February 19th, 1985, Winter Park

91

Emil Forrer

Swiss linguist (1894-1986)

*February 19th, 1894, Strasbourg †January 10th, 1986, San Salvador

21

Stephanie Widjaja

Badminton player

*February 19th, 2003, Jakarta

73

Horace Andy

Jamaican roots reggae songwriter and singer

*February 19th, 1951, Kingston

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Born in 1954

69

François Hollande

President of France from 2012 to 2017

*August 12th, 1954, Rouen

69

Angela Merkel

Chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021

*July 17th, 1954, Eimsbüttel

69

Lim Swee Say

Former Singaporean politician

*July 13th, 1954, Singapore

70

Rudolf Simek

Austrian philologist and Germanist

*February 21st, 1954, Eisenstadt

70

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

President of the Republic of Turkey since 2014

*February 26th, 1954, Kasımpaşa

69

Lorraine Bracco

American actress

*October 2nd, 1954, Brooklyn

70

Jackie Chan

Hong Kong actor and martial artist (born 1954)

*April 7th, 1954, Victoria Peak

67

Shinzō Abe

Prime Minister of Japan from 2006–2007 and 2012–2020 (1954-2022)

*September 21st, 1954, Shinjuku †July 8th, 2022, Nara Medical University Hospital

58

Hugo Chávez

President of Venezuela, 1999–2002 and 2002–2013

*July 28th, 1954, Sabaneta †March 5th, 2013, Hospital Militar de Caracas

69

Uli Stielike

German association football player and manager

*November 15th, 1954, Ketsch

69

Karl-Heinz Körbel

German association football player and manager

*December 1st, 1954, Dossenheim

69

Sven-Erik Bucht

Swedish politician

*December 28th, 1954, Karungi

70

Eckhardt Rehberg

German politician

*April 3rd, 1954, Ribnitz-Damgarten

69

Emir Kusturica

Bosnian film director, actor and musician

*November 24th, 1954, Sarajevo

69

Caroline Cossey

English model and actress

*August 31st, 1954, Brooke

69

Kathy Kinney

American actress

*November 3rd, 1954, Stevens Point

69

Petra Uhlig

East German handball player

*July 22nd, 1954, Penig

69

Alexander Lukashenko

President of Belarus since 1994

*August 30th, 1954, Kopyś

70

Isabelle McEwen

Canadian film director

*January 6th, 1954, Montreal

69

Renate Franz

German journalist and sport historian

*November 18th, 1954, Solingen

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