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On this day: February 19

Published On: Feb 18 2013 06:31:49 PM CST Updated On: Feb 19 2013 01:00:00 AM CST

Rescuers reach the Donner Party, Edison patents the phonograph, the Soviet Union launches the Mir space station, and Fidel Castro resigns as Cuban president, all on this day.

OTD February 19 - Copernicus — 1 / 32

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1473: Mathematician and astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus, who formulated a comprehensive heliocentric model which placed the Sun, rather than the Earth, at the center of the universe, is born in Torun, Royal Prussia, Kingdom of Poland.

OTD February 19 - Copernicus

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OTD February 19 - Sickles Trial

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OTD February 19 - Pedro Lascurain

OTD February 19 - Lee Marvin

OTD February 19 - John Frankenheimer

OTD February 19 - Smokey Robinson

OTD February 19 - Japanese internment camps

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OTD February 19 - Jeff Daniels

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OTD February 19 - The Feminine Mystique

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OTD February 19 - Justine Bateman

OTD February 19 - Benicio del Toro

OTD February 19 - All in the Family

OTD February 19 - Gerald Ford

OTD February 19 - Bon Scott

OTD February 19 - My Sweet Lord

OTD February 19 - Ozzy Osbourne

OTD February 19 - artificial heart

OTD February 19 - Cherry Coke

OTD February 19 - Mir

OTD February 19 - Victoria Justice

OTD February 19 - Charlie Finley

OTD February 19 - Stanley Kramer

OTD February 19 - Johnny Paycheck

OTD February 19 - Fidel Castro

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