WHAT HAPPENED ON 19. FEBRUARY
Want to find out what all happened on 19. February

World War II: Battle of Iwo Jima – about 30,000 United States Marines land on the island of Iwo Jima. (19. February 1945)

The Conference of Youth and Students of Southeast Asia Fighting for Freedom and Independence convenes in Calcutta. (19. February 1948)

Ezra Pound is awarded the first Bollingen Prize in poetry by the Bollingen Foundation and Yale University. (19. February 1949)

Censorship: Georgia approves the first literature censorship board in the United States. (19. February 1953)

The United Kingdom grants Cyprus independence, which is then formally proclaimed on August 16, 1960. (19. February 1959)

China successfully launches the T-7, its first sounding rocket. (19. February 1960)

The publication of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique reawakens the Feminist Movement in the United States as women's organizations and consciousness raising groups spread. (19. February 1963)

Colonel Phạm Ngọc Thảo of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam, and a communist spy of the North Vietnamese Viet Minh, along with Generals Lâm Văn Phát and Trần Thiện Khiêm attempted a coup against the military junta of Nguyễn Khánh. (19. February 1965)

The Asama-Sansō hostage standoff begins in Japan. (19. February 1972)

Executive Order 9066, which led to the relocation of Japanese Americans to internment camps, is rescinded by President Gerald R. Ford's Proclamation 4417 (19. February 1976)

Egyptian forces raid Larnaca International Airport in an attempt to intervene in a hijacking, without authorisation from the Republic of Cyprus authorities. The Cypriot National Guard and Police forces kill 15 Egyptian commandos and destroy the Egyptian C-130 transport plane in open combat. (19. February 1978)

William J. Schroeder becomes the first recipient of an artificial heart to leave hospital. (19. February 1985)

Iberia Airlines Boeing 727 crashes into Mount Oiz in Spain, killing 148. (19. February 1985)

EastEnders BBC's flagship soap opera broadcasts for the first time. (19. February 1985)

Akkaraipattu massacre: the Sri Lankan Army massacres 80 Tamil farm workers the eastern province of Sri Lanka. (19. February 1986)

The Oklahoma City bombing museum is dedicated at the Oklahoma City National Memorial. (19. February 2001)

NASA's Mars Odyssey space probe begins to map the surface of Mars using its thermal emission imaging system. (19. February 2002)

An Ilyushin Il-76 military aircraft crashes near Kerman, Iran, killing 275. (19. February 2003)

A methane explosion in a coal mine near Nueva Rosita, Mexico, kills 65 miners. (19. February 2006)

The debut exhibition of the Belitung shipwreck, containing the largest collection of Tang Dynasty artefacts found in one location, begins in Singapore. (19. February 2011)