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   Today in History | OnThisDay.com to All   
   Today in History for 19th February 2019   
   19 Feb 19 04:20:31   
   
   From: today.in.history.|.onthisday.com@alt119.net.remove-zqc-this   
      
   Historical Events   
      
   1674 - Netherlands and England sign Peace of Westminster (NYC becomes English)   
      
   1929 - Medical diathermy machine 1st used, Schenectady, NY   
      
   1945 - Brotherhood Day-1st celebrated   
      
   1950 - Groundbreaking  ceremony held for Mississippi Vocational College (later   
   Mississippi Valley State University)   
      
   1961 - Albania disavows Chinese "Revisionism"   
      
   2014 - Death toll in Ukraine reaches 26 after Government crackdown on   
   protesters   
      
   More Historical Events ¯   
   Famous Birthdays   
      
   1891 - J C "Farmer" White, cricketer (Somerset slow lefty 1909-37)   
      
   1916 - Eddie Arcaro, American Racing Hall of Fame jockey (Triple Crown 1941   
   Whirlaway, 1948 Citation), born in Cincinnati, Ohio (d. 1997)   
      
   1924 - Lee Marvin, American actor (Paint Your Wagon, Cat Ballou), born in NYC,   
   New York (d. 1987)   
      
   1950 - Andy Powell, rocker (Wishbone Ash)   
      
   1985 - Arielle Kebbel, American actress   
      
   1986 - Reon Kadena, Japanese model/actress   
      
   More Famous Birthdays ¯   
   Famous Deaths   
      
   1672 - Charles Chauncy, English-born president of Harvard College (b. 1592)   
      
   1790 - Jean-Baptiste Krumpholtz, Czech composer, dies at 47   
      
   1858 - Alois Basil Nikolaus Tomasini, Italian violinist and composer, dies at   
   78   
      
   1968 - Ralph Dunn, actor (Mr Rudge-Norby), dies at 65   
      
   1988 - AndrĂ© F. Cournand, French physician and physiologist (Nobel 1956),   
   dies at 92   
      
   2012 - John Hogan, American research chemist, dies at 92   
      
   More Famous Deaths ¯   
      
   http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/historyorb/todayinhistory/~3/PWs23N5etyQ/19   
      
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