Page 3: Historical Events In February - 19

1831  First practical US coal-burning locomotive makes it's trial run in Pennsylvania on February - 19.   

1831  On this day in history 1st practical US coal-burning locomotive makes 1st trial run, Penn   

1841  On this day in history felipe Pedrell, composer   

1843  On this day in history adelina Patti, Madrid Spain, opera soprano (Lucio)   

1846  On February - 19 texas state government formally installed in Austin   

1846  On this day in history texas state govt formally installed in Austin   

1852  The Phi Kappa Psi fraternity is founded at Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania on this day in history.   

1856  Tin-type camera patented by Hamilton Smith, Gambier OH on February - 19.   

1856  On February - 19 tin-type camera patented by Hamilton Smith, Gambier, Ohio   

1858  On February - 19 alois Basil Nikolaus Tomasini, composer, dies at 78   

1859  Dan Sickles is acquitted of murder on grounds of temporary insanity first time this defense is successfully used on this day in history.   

1859  Dan Sickles is acquitted of murder on grounds of temporary insanity 1st time this defense is successfully used on February - 19.   

1859  Svante August Arhenius, Swedish physicist/chemist (Nobel 1903) on February - 19.   

1861  Russian Tsar Alexander II abolishes serfdom on this day in history.   

1861  On February - 19 russian Tsar Alexander II abolishes serfdom [NS=Mar 3]   

1863  Emanuel Moor, composer on February - 19.   

1864  On this day in history knights of Pythias form first lodge in Washington DC (12 members)   

1864  Knights of Pythias form 1st lodge in Wash DC (12 members) on this day in history.   

1864  Aritius S Talma, Dutch minister of Agriculture (Work Law of 1911) on this day in history.   

1864  On February - 19 william Edwin Baldwin, US Confederate brig-general, dies   

1865  Adrian van Oordt, Dutch writer (neo-romantic) on this day in history.   

1869  On this day in history uS Assay Office in Boise ID authorized   

1869  On February - 19 uS Assay Office in Boise, Idaho authorized   

1875  On February - 19 jean B Vuillaume, French violin maker (octobas), dies at 76   

1877  On February - 19 else Berg, German/Dutch painter   

1878  Thomas Edison patents the phonograph on this day in history.   

1878  Thomas Edison receives a patent for his cylinder-playing music player (forerunner of the "modern day" phonograph) on this day in history.   

1878  On this day in history thomas Alva Edison patents gramophone (phonograph)   

1878  Charles F Daubigny, French restaurateur/painter, dies at 61 on this day in history.   

1880  Arthur Shepherd, composer on this day in history.   

1881  On February - 19 kansas becomes first state to prohibit all alcoholic beverages   

1881  Kansas becomes 1st state to prohibit all alcoholic beverages on this day in history.   

1881  On this day in history armin Knab, German composer (Eichendorff-cycle)   

1884  Tornadoes in Mississippi, Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky &Indiana kill 800 people on February - 19.   

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1473  Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish mathematician and astronomer (d. 1543) was born on this day in history.   

1526  On this day in history birth of charles de L'Ecluse, Flemish botanist (d. 1609)   

1552  Melchior Klesl, Austrian cardinal and statesman (d. 1630) was born on February - 19.   

1588  On February - 19 birth of pieter de Carpentier, Flemish gov-gen of Dutch East-Indies   

1611  On this day in history birth of andries de Graeff, mayor of Amsterdam (1657..71)   

1616  Jacques de Saint-Luc, composer was born on February - 19.   

1630  On February - 19 birth of shivaji, founder of the Maratha Empire (d. 1680)   

1660  On this day in history birth of friedrich Hoffmann, German physician and chemist (d. 1742)   

0197  On this day in history d Clodius Septimus Albinus, Roman bequest in England, dies in battle   

0440  On February - 19 death of mesrop Mashtots, Armenian monk, theologian and linguist (b. 361/362)   

1133  Death of Irene Ducaena, wife of Alexius I Comnenus (b. 1066) on this day in history.   

1260  On this day in history boniface, of Lausanne, Belgian bishop/saint, dies   

1401  On this day in history death of william Sawtree, 1st English religious martyr, burned in London   

1414  On this day in history thomas Arundel, archbishop of Canterbury/chancellor of England, dies   

1545  Death of Pierre Brully, [Peter Brulius], calvinist minister, burned to death on this day in history.   

1553  Erasmus Reinhold, German mathematician, dies at 41 on this day in history.