What happend on 19th February

18.02
20.02
1964

Paul Simon writes "The Sounds of Silence," the song which, in a year and a half, will catapult him and Art Garfunkel to stardom as Simon & Garfunkel.

1959

The United Kingdom grants Cyprus its independence, which is then on formally proclaimed on August 16, 1960.

1953

Censorship: Georgia approves the first literature censorship board in the United States.

1949

Ezra Pound is awarded the first Bollingen Prize in poetry by the Bollingen Foundation and Yale University.

1945

World War II: Battle of Iwo Jima

1943

World War II: Battle of the Kasserine Pass in Tunisia begins.

1942

World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the executive order 9066, allowing the United States military to relocate Japanese-Americans to Japanese internment camps.

1942

World War II: About 150 Japanese warplanes attack Darwin, Australia.

1941

World War II: The Deutsches Afrikakorps, the corps-level headquarters controlling the German Panzer divisions in North Africa, was formed.

1937

During a public ceremony at the Viceregal Palace (the former Imperial residence) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, two Eritrean nationalists attempt to kill viceroy Rodolfo Graziani with a number of grenades. The Italian security guard fire into the crowd of Ethiopian onlookers, and over the passing weeks indiscriminately slaughter native Ethiopians in reprisal.