📜 This Day in History

February 19

• 1600Huaynaputina, a stratovolcano in present-day Peru, produced the largest recorded volcanic explosion in South America.
• 1910Old Trafford, a football stadium in Greater Manchester, England, hosted its inaugural match, between Manchester United and Liverpool.
• 1942World War II: U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, authorizing the forcible relocation of over 112,000 Japanese Americans to internment camps.
• 1948The Southeast Asian Youth Conference, which is believed to have inspired armed communist rebellions in different Asian countries, opened in Calcutta, India.
• 2006A methane explosion in a coal mine in Nueva Rosita, Mexico, trapped and killed 65 miners.
• 2026Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor became the first member of the British royal family to be arrested in 379 years.

Born on this day

• 1473Nicolaus Copernicus, Prussian mathematician and astronomer (died 1543)
• 1859Svante Arrhenius, Swedish physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1927)
• 1940Saparmyrat Nyýazow, Turkmen engineer and politician, 1st President of Turkmenistan (died 2006)
• 1953Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Argentine lawyer and politician, President of Argentina and Vice President of Argentina