On this day
February 19
1674 – Charles II of England signed the Treaty of Westminster to end the Third Anglo-Dutch War, confirming English and Dutch sovereignty over New Netherland and Surinam, respectively.
1811 – Peninsular War: Outnumbered French forces under Édouard Mortier routed and nearly destroyed Spanish troops at the Battle of the Gebora near Badajoz, Spain.
1937 – Italian forces began a brutal crackdown on Ethiopians following an attempted assassination of Rodolfo Graziani (pictured), the viceroy of Italian East Africa, in Addis Ababa.
1954 – The Soviet Union transferred the administration of the Crimean Oblast from the Russian SFSR to the Ukrainian SSR, an act that remains controversial today.
2012 – Forty-four inmates died during a riot at a prison in Apodaca, Mexico.
Elizabeth Carter (d. 1806) · Lydia Thompson (b. 1838) · Sócrates (b. 1954)
February 19
1674 – Charles II of England signed the Treaty of Westminster to end the Third Anglo-Dutch War, confirming English and Dutch sovereignty over New Netherland and Surinam, respectively.
1811 – Peninsular War: Outnumbered French forces under Édouard Mortier routed and nearly destroyed Spanish troops at the Battle of the Gebora near Badajoz, Spain.
1937 – Italian forces began a brutal crackdown on Ethiopians following an attempted assassination of Rodolfo Graziani (pictured), the viceroy of Italian East Africa, in Addis Ababa.
1954 – The Soviet Union transferred the administration of the Crimean Oblast from the Russian SFSR to the Ukrainian SSR, an act that remains controversial today.
2012 – Forty-four inmates died during a riot at a prison in Apodaca, Mexico.
Elizabeth Carter (d. 1806) · Lydia Thompson (b. 1838) · Sócrates (b. 1954)
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