02-19-2005, 12:23 PM
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February 19th
1473 ~ Birthday of Nicolaus Copernicus, Astronomer.
1743 ~ Birthday of Luigi Boccherini, Italian Composer.
1847 ~ The Donner Party was rescued. It was noted that some of the survivors seemed to be remarkably well-fed considering their ordeal.
1861 ~ Serfdom was abolished in Russia.
1878 ~ The phonograph was patented by Thomas Edison.
1915 ~ World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli began.
1942 ~ World War II: About 150 Japanese warplanes attacked Darwin, Australia.
1964 ~ Paul Simon wrote "The Sounds of Silence," the song which, in a year and a half, catapulted him and Art Garfunkel to stardom as Simon & Garfunkel.
1986 ~ The Soviet Union launched the Mir space station.
1997 ~ Death of Deng Xiaoping, Chinese Communist political leader and revolutionary
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