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Today is Wednesday, February 19, the 50th day of 2025. It is 315 days left in the year.
Today in history:
On February 19, 1942, during the Second World War, President Franklin D. Roosevelt Executive Order 9066, who cleared the way for the internment of 125,000 people of Japanese descent, including civilians born in the US.
Also on this date:
In 1473 astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus was born in Torun, Poland.
In 1847 the first rescuers of the Donner party, who had been in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in the Sierra Nevada mountains for almost four months.
In 1878, inventor Thomas Edison received a patent for the phonograph.
Operation Detachment started during the Second World War in 1945 when the first wave of American Mariniers landed in Iwo Jima, where they started a successful month of battle to control the island of the Japanese troops.
In 1976, President Gerald R. Ford, who called the issue of the 1942 internment assignment for people of Japanese descent ‘a sad day in American history’, a proclamation that formally confirmed their termination.
In 2003, an Iranian military aircraft with members of the elite revolutionary guards crashed in southeastern Iran, killing all 275 people on board.
In 2008, a distracting Fidel Castro declined the Cuban presidency after almost half a century in power; His brother Raúl was later mentioned to succeed him.
Today’s birthdays:
- Singer Smokey Robinson is 85.
- Rock musician Tony Iommi (Black Sabbath) is 77.
- Author Amy Tan is 73.
- Actor Jeff Daniels is 70.
- Actor Ray Winstone is 68.
- Actor Leslie David Baker is 67.
- NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell is 66.
- Tennis Hall by Famer Hana Mandlíková is 63.
- Singer Seal is 62.
- Actor Benicio del Toro is 58.
- Author cartoonist Jeff Kinney is 54.
- NBA Center Nikola Jokić is 30.
- Singer-songwriter Chappell Roan is 27.
- Actor Millie Bobby Brown is 21.