02-19-2006, 06:37 AM
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February 19th
1473 ~ Birthday of Nicolaus Copernicus, Astronomer.
1743 ~ Birthday of Luigi Boccherini, Italian Composer.
1861 ~ Serfdom was abolished in Russia.
1915 ~ The Battle of Gallipoli began.
1942 ~ Some 250 Japanese warplanes attacked Darwin, Australia. The attack killed at least 243 people.
1945 ~ About 30,000 United States Marines land on Iwo Jima.
1964 ~ Paul Simon wrote "The Sounds of Silence”, the song which would take him and Art Garfunkel to stardom.
1980 ~ Bon Scott, the lead singer of the Australian hard rock band AC/DC, died after a night of heavy drinking.
1986 ~ The Soviet Union launched the Mir space station.
1997 ~ Death of Deng Xiaoping, the last of China's major Communist revolutionaries.
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