Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 19
February 19: Aashurah in Shi'a Islam (2005)
- 1594 - King Sigismund III of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was crowned King of Sweden.
- 1674 - The Third Anglo-Dutch War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Westminster.
- 1942 - Air raids on Darwin: The capital of Northern Territory, Australia was devastated by 242 bombers and fighters of the Imperial Japanese Navy.
- 1942 - U.S. Executive Order 9066 was signed, authorising the relocation and confinement of over 112,000 Japanese Americans.
- 1986 - The space station Mir of the Soviet space program was launched, establishing the first long-term research station in space.
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