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Events on February 19

• 1825 King Ottokar's Fortune and End, a tragedy in five acts by Franz Grillparzer, premieres at the Vienna Burgtheater after a two-year delay due to Metternich's censorship.
• 1878 Thomas Alva Edison patents the phonograph.
• 1919 Marie Juchacz delivers a speech before the Weimar National Assembly as the first woman in a German parliament.
• 1931 In Berlin, the film The Threepenny Opera, directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst, premieres after a settlement. Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill had pursued civil litigation in the Threepenny Trial against the nature of the film adaptation.
• 1942 U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066, authorizing the internment of Americans of Japanese ancestry in internment camps.
• 1945 With the landing of U.S. troops on the volcanic island of Iwo Jima, the Battle of Iwo Jima begins, one of the bloodiest of the Pacific War, lasting until March 26.
• 1946 The first edition of the East German DEFA newsreel Der Augenzeuge is released in cinemas.
• 1958 In Marburg, Rudolf Zenker performs the first open-heart surgery using a heart-lung machine in Germany.
• 1960 German Nordic combined skier Georg Thoma wins the gold medal in the Nordic combined at the VIII Olympic Winter Games in Squaw Valley as the first non-Scandinavian.
• 1982 The twin-jet airliner Boeing 757 completes its maiden flight.
• 1986 The launch of the core module of the Mir space station takes place from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.
• 2020 In the Hessian city of Hanau, nine people are murdered in a right-wing extremist attack.

Born on February 19

• 1876 Constantin Brâncuși, Romanian sculptor
• 1901 Hans Grundig, German painter and graphic artist
• 1911 Merle Oberon, Anglo-Indian actress
• 1920 Jaan Kross, Estonian writer
• 1930 John Frankenheimer, American director and producer
• 1940 Smokey Robinson, American singer
• 1952 Amy Tan, Chinese-American writer
• 1960 Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, British officer and nobleman
• 1981 Beth Ditto, American singer
• 1990 Juliane Seyfarth, German ski jumper

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „19. Februar“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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