Today in History for 19th February 2017:
Historical Events
197 – Lucius Septimius Severus’ army beats Clodius Albinus at Lyon
1910 – Typhoid Mary [Mary Mallon] is freed from her first periods of forced isolation and goes on to cause several further outbreaks of typhoid in the New York area
1945 – US 5th Fleet launches invasion of Iwo Jima against the Japanese with 30,000 US Marines
1950 – Groundbreaking ceremony held for Mississippi Vocational College (later Mississippi Valley State University)
1989 – “Legs Diamond” closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 64 performances
1995 – 1st broadcast of “Woman of Independent Means” on NBC-TV
Famous Birthdays
1841 – Felipe Pedrell, composer
1911 – Merle Oberon, Calcutta India, actress (Assignment Foreign Legion)
1951 – Shaykh-ul-Islam Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri (Db), Pakistani Islamic Sufi Scholar
1953 – Cristina Elisabet Fernández – Argentinian politician
1974 – Danny Doring, American professional wrestler
1985 – Haylie Duff, American singer/actress
Famous Deaths
1663 – Adam Adami, German bishop and diplomat (b. 1603)
1875 – Jean B Vuillaume, French violin maker (octobas), dies at 76
1927 – Robert Fuchs, composer, dies at 80
1936 – Charles Harding Firth, British historian (b. 1857)
1968 – Georg Hackenschmidt, Estonian professional wrestler (b. 1878)
1998 – Grandpa Jones, country comic/banjo wizard (Hee Haw), dies at 84