February 19
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1856 - The tintype photographic process was patented by Professor Hamilton L. Smith of Gambier, OH.1864 - The Fraternal Order of Knights of Pythias was founded in Washington, DC on this day. A dozen members formed what became Lodge No. 1.
1878 - Thomas Alva Edison, famed inventor, patented a music player at his laboratory in Menlo Park, NJ. (This music device is the one we know as the phonograph.) Here’s the real skinny on the story: Edison paid his assistant $18 to make the device from a sketch Edison had drawn. Originally, Edison had set out to invent a telegraph repeater, but came up with the phonograph or, as he called it, the speaking machine.
1910 - At a New York dinner party, millionaire railroad tycoon Diamond Jim Brady amazed (not to mention, grossed out) his guests by eating five helpings of roast beef, gallons of stewed fruit, 84 oysters -- and three gallons of orange juice to wash it all down! Whoa... Nellie!
1922 - Ed Wynn became the first big-name vaudeville talent to sign on as a radio talent. Previously, top talent had not considered radio a respectable medium. For those of us who have worked in it for many years, we can attest to that fact.
1942 - If there was ever such a thing as a jam session, surely, this one was it: Tommy Dorsey and his orchestra recorded I’ll Take Tallulah (Victor Records). Some other musical heavyweights were in the studio too, including Frank Sinatra, Jo Stafford and the Pied Pipers, Ziggy Elman and drummer extraordinaire, Buddy Rich.
1942 - U.S. President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, giving the secretary of war powers to exclude persons from military areas. This legislation was directed at the Japanese-American population, which had faced growing public hostility since Pearl Harbor. The U.S. Army subsequently removed 11,000 Japanese-Americans from the Pacific coast to camps in Arkansas and Texas for the war’s duration (there were fears that they would aid a Japanese attack on the West Coast). Not a single Japanese-American, however, was convicted of spying for Tokyo during the war.
1945 - Some 30,000 U.S. Marines landed on the Japanese-held Western Pacific island of Iwo Jima. The U.S. troops encountered ferocious resistance from Japanese forces. The Americans took control of the strategically important island after a month-long battle. AP photographer Joe Rosenthal shot the most memorable image of WWII: five Marines and a Navy medical corpsman raising the U.S. flag at Iwo Jima.
1949 - Thanks to the Bollingen Foundation and Yale University, starving poets have the opportunity to win thousands of dollars. The first Bollingen Prize in poetry ($5,000) was awarded to Ezra Pound on this day. Mr. Pound was presented with the prize for his poetry collection, The Pisan Cantos. The Bollingen Prize was presented annually through 1963 when Robert Frost was the recipient, after which it became a biennial award. The $5,000 award was upped to $10,000 in 1989 when Edgar Bowers was the prize winner, and to $25,000 in 1995. The $25,000 award went to poet, Kenneth Koch.
1951 - André Paul-Guillaume Gide, French novelist and critic, died. He was 81 years old. Gide’s novels include The Immoralist, Straight is the Gate, Lafcadio’s Adventures, Corydon, The Counterfeiters, If It Die: An Autobiography.
1953 - William Inge’s Picnic premiered at the Music Box Theatre in New York City.
1955 - Dot Records launched Two Hearts, Two Kisses, One Love, the first single by Pat Boone.
1958 - Motown released its first Miracles single, Got a Job b/w My Mama Done Told Me.
1963 - The Soviet Union informed U.S. President John F. Kennedy that it would withdraw “several thousand” of an estimated 17,000 Soviet troops in Cuba.
1972 - A Horse With No Name, by America, entered the U.S. charts on its way to number one. The group, formed by three sons of American servicemen stationed in Great Britain, was discovered by Jeff Dexter, a deejay for a British underground radio station.
1974 - Dick Clark staged the first American Music Awards. The awards became a big favorite with those fans and established some competition for the industry-dominated Grammy Awards.
1976 - Iceland broke off diplomatic relations with Great Britain after the two countries failed to agree on fishing rights in disputed waters. The dispute became known as the ‘Cod War’.
1978 - The Tony Award-winning musical, On the Twentieth Century, debuted at the St. James Theatre on Broadway. The show won Tonys for Best Book, Original Score and Drama Desk Outstanding Music and ran for 460 performances.
1981 - George Harrison was ordered to pay ABKCO Music the sum of $587,000 for “subconscious plagiarism” between his song, My Sweet Lord and the Chiffons early 1960s hit, He’s So Fine. Of all the riffs, chords, melodies, octaves and notes out there, George had to go and pick those in particular. What are the odds of that?
1984 - The XIV Winter Olympic Games ended at Sarajevo, Yugoslavia. The Soviet Union led all countries with 25 medals, the United States captured nine medals to tie for fifth place. Within the shadow of what was the Olympic Stadium, hundreds, maybe thousands, of Bosnians are now buried; the result of the civil war that began in the early 1990s.
1985 - Mickey Mouse was welcomed to China as part of the 30th anniversary of Disneyland. The touring mouse played 30 cities in 30 days. Tough schedule even for a mouse!
1985 - William Schroeder became the first artificial-heart patient to leave the confines of the hospital (where the historic operation was performed). He spent 15 minutes outside the Humana Hospital in Louisville, KY.
1985 - Cherry Coke was introduced by the Coca-Cola Company, not at company headquarters in Atlanta, but in New York City, instead. Many who grew up in the 1950s rushed to buy the canned and/or bottled taste of nostalgia; hoping it would taste the same as they remembered ... when they sat at the corner drug store’s soda fountain and ordered, “A Cherry Coke, please.”
1987 - A controversial anti-smoking ad aired for the first time on television. It featured actor Yul Brynner in a public service announcement that was recorded shortly before his October 1985 death from lung cancer.
1991 - U.S. President George Bush (I) told reporters a Soviet proposal to end the Persian Gulf War fell “well short of what would be required.”
1992 - Crazy for You opened at the Shubert Theater in New York City -- for 1622 performances. The George and Ira Gershwin production won the 1992 Tony Award for Best Musical.
1994 - American speedskater Bonnie Blair won the fourth Olympic gold medal of her career as she won the 500-meter race in Lillehammer, Norway.
1995 - A day after being named the new chairwoman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Myrlie Evers-Williams outlined her plans for revitalizing the civil rights organization, saying she intended to take the group back to its roots.
1997 - Deng Xiaoping, the last of China’s major Communist revolutionaries, died at age 93. He had ruled China from 1978 until he retired in 1990, but his influence remained strong until his death.
1998 - At the Nagano Olympics, Austrian Hermann Maier won the men’s giant slalom while Hilde Gerg of Germany won the women’s slalom.
1999 - These movies debuted in the U.S.: Jawbreaker, with Rose Mcgowan Rebecca Gayheart; and October Sky, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Chris Cooper and Laura Dern.
2000 - Texas Governor George W. Bush defeated Arizona Senator John McCain in the South Carolina Republican presidential primary.
2001 - U.S. President George Bush (II) opened a museum commemorating the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
2001 - Stanley Kramer, Hollywood film producer and director, died in Woodland Hills, CA. He was 87 years old. His work included High Noon, The Caine Mutiny, The Defiant Ones, On the Beach, Judgment at Nuremberg, It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World and Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner.
2002 - The U.S. Supreme Court approved peer grading in schools -- allowing students to score each other’s tests and call out the grades. The Court ruled peer grading does not violate the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA).
2004 - One Perfect Day opened in U.S. theatres. The drama stars Dan Spielman, Leanna Walsman, Kerry Armstrong, Abbie Cornish, Rory Williamson, Nathan Phillips, Syd Brisbane, Frank Gallacher and Alex Menglet.
2004 - Philip Anschutz, Denver billionaire and founder of Qwest Communications, purchased the Fang newspapers including the San Francisco Examiner for $20 million.
2005 - The USS Jimmy Carter entered the Navy’s fleet as the most heavily armed submarine ever built. The $3.2-billion submarine was also the last of the Seawolf Class of attack subs that the Pentagon had ordered during the Cold War’s final years.
2006 - A methane explosion and tunnel collapse trapped -- and killed -- 65 coal miners three hundred meters (984 feet) underground in Pasta de Conchos mine near Nueva Rosita, Coahuila, Mexico.
2007 - New Jersey became the third U.S. state to approve civil unions for gay couples.
2008 - 81-year-old Fidel Castro resigned as Cuba’s president after nearly a half-century in power.
2008 - Sharper Image and Lillian Vernon filed for bankruptcy protection. The 184-store Sharper Image chain said it was closing 96 stores across the U.S.
2009 - Barack Obama made his first foreign trip as President -- to Canada where he sought to quell Canadian concerns about U.S. protectionism. The President also planned to discuss Afghanistan and clean energy.
2009 - The Dow Jones Industril Average fell 89.68 to 7465.95, a new 6-year low.
2010 - Movies opening in the U.S.: Happy Tears, starring Demi Moore, Parker Posey, Ellen Barkin and Rip Torn; and director Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island, with Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Michelle Williams, Max von Sydow, Emily Mortimer and Jackie Earle Haley.
2010 - Golf star Tiger Woods faced the world on TV from Ponte Vedra Beach, FL. Woods formally apologized for his infidelity and said part of his rehab would include a return to his Buddhist faith.
2011 - Moammar Gadhafi’s forces fired on mourners in the eastern city of Benghazi, Libya. Gadhafi wiped out a protest encampment and clamped down on Internet service throughout the country as his regime tried to squelch calls for an end to his 42-year grip on power.
2013 - Gaza Strip’s Hamas government said Egypt was flooding cross-border tunnels with sewage water in order to halt a thriving smuggling trade. Egyptian engineers began flooding the tunnels in late January. The smuggling trade had propped up the local economy for the previous five years.
2014 - Facebook paid $19 billion in cash and stock to buy WhatsApp, a mobile text messaging company founded in 2009. It was the most ever paid for a venture-capital-backed company. WhatsApp allows people to send text messages by connecting via their cellphone numbers. But instead of racking up texting fees, WhatsApp sends the actual messages over mobile broadband -- and makes texting particularly cost effective (the service costs $0.99 per year) for communicating with people overseas.
2015 - The website theintercept.com posted documents saying the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) and Britain’s GCHQ had hacked into the networks of Gemalto, a SIM card maker. The government spies then stole codes allowing them to seamlesslessly eavesdrop on mobile phones worldwide.
2016 - Motion pictures making debuts in the U.S. included: the bio-drama, Race, with Stephan James, Jason Sudeikis and Eli Goree; Risen, starring Joseph Fiennes, Tom Felton and María Botto; The Witch, with Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Inesonand Kate Dickie ; and the documentary, Rolling Papers, directed by Mitch Dickman.
2016 - China’s government announced plans to make it easier for foreigners to live and work in the country under new rules for obtaining permanent residency. This, amid efforts to stimulate its flagging economy with more inward investment.
2016 - Spanish police arrested a sixth executive of China’s ICBC bank as part of a money laundering and tax fraud probe. The six testified for more than 14 hours as part of the investigation known as Operation Shadow.
2017 - SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The ship carried out a resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS). The launch marked a new era of private spaceflight at one of Nasa’s most storied bases.
2017 - Hundreds of scientists, environmental activists and their supporters met in Boston to protest increasing threats to science and research in the U.S. by the Trump Administration.
2018 - A top United Nations food agency official said some 224 million people were under-nourished in Africa as climate change and conflicts heightened food insecurity across the continent. Bukar Tijani, FAO’s assistant director general for Africa, said the situation was a “cause of concern” as the continent’s population was expected to reach 1.7 billion by 2030.
2018 - Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court issued a new congressional district map for the state’s 2018 elections. Republicans had held seats in bizarrely contorted districts. Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf, a Democrat, applauded the court-issued map, which he described as an “effort to remedy Pennsylvania’s unfair and unequal congressional elections.”
2019 - An avalanche buried several skiers on the busy slopes of the resort of Crans-Montana in Switzerland. Scores of rescuers worked to dig out survivors. 10 to 12 people were believed to be trapped under the snow. A Frenchman whose job was to check the safety of ski slopes, was one of four people rescued, but soon died rom injuries in the avalanche.
2019 - Catholic religious orders from around the world apologized for having failed to respond when their priests raped children. In a statement issued at the Vatican just before a Pope Francis sex abuse prevention summit, the group acknowledged that Catholic family-like communities had blinded them to sexual abuse and led to misplaced loyalties, denial and cover-ups.
2020 - Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reported the Trump administration completed the fewest cleanups of toxic Superfund sites than any administration since the program’s first years in the 1980s.
2020 - Democratic debate: Candidates were all over New York billionaire Mike Bloomberg. Senator Bernie Sanders got into several sharp exchanges with Bloomberg, saying he doesn’t believe a billionaire should be allowed to “buy an election.” Bloomberg was hesitant in some answers and seemed nervous when answering other pointed questions, many thrown at him by Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren. Former Vice President Joe Biden also went after Bloomberg and his wealth, and took a swipe at Sanders’ Medicare-for-all plan. “When you asked Bernie how much it cost last time he said...‘We’ll find out,’” Biden quipped. “It costs over $35 trillion, let’s get real.”
2020 - Boris Johnson’s government unveiled plans to end what it called Britain’s dependence on “cheap low-skilled labor” and deliver on its pledge to halt freedom of movement from the European Union after Brexit.
2021 - Movies released in the U.S. (theatres and virtual) this day included: The Mauritanian, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Shailene Woodley and Tahar Rahim; Blithe Spirit, with Dan Stevens, Isla Fisher and Aimee-Ffion Edwards; Body Brokers, starring Frank Grillo, Jessica Rothe and Michael Kenneth Williams; The Courier, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Merab Ninidze and Rachel Brosnahan; Days of the Bagnold Summer, with Monica Dolan, Earl Cave and Rob Brydon; Nomadland, starring Frances McDormand, David Strathairn and Linda May; Silk Road, with Nick Robinson, Jennifer Yun and Jimmi Simpson; and The Violent Heart, with Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Lukas Haas and Jovan Adepo.
2021 - Buckingham Palace confirmed that Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, would not be returning to royal duties and that Harry was giving up his honorary military titles.
2021 - The United States officially rejoined the Paris climate accord, 107 days after Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the landmark treaty.
2021 - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson opened the Group of Seven -- virtual -- leaders meeting by calling for a plan to rebuild the global economy after the ravages of the COVID-19 pandemic. G7 leaders released a joint statement following their on-line summit, pledging to help low-income countries gain access to coronavirus vaccines and to “deliver a green transformation” by making environmentally conscious investments during the economic recovery. (The G7 was made up of France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States and the European Union.)
2022 - Australia’s Defense Department reported a Chinese navy vessel had directed a ‘military grade’ laser at an Australian military aircraft in flight over Australia’s northern approaches, illuminating the plane and creating a dangerous situation.
2022 - 75-year-old Jean-Luc Brunel, former head of a French fashion agency who had been under investigation supplying underaged girls to financier Jeffrey Epstein, was found hanged in his prison cell.
2022 - Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov said Ukraine had received a plane load of machine guns, surveillance gear and rifles as part of a Canadian military assistance package.
2023 - At the 65th Daytona 500: Ricky Stenhouse Jr. (for JTG Daugherty Racing) won -- in double overtime -- the longest Daytona 500 over a record 212 laps.
2023 - Turkey ended most rescue efforts, two weeks after the devastating earthquakes that struck in southeastern Turkey and in northern Syria, killing some 45,000 people. This, as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, visiting the earthquake-affected regions, pledged $100 million in aid.
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Birthdays on This Day February 19
1473 - Nicolaus Copernicus (Mikolaj Kopernick)
Polish astronomer: the Copernican theory: the sun is the center of our universe; died May 24, 15431717 - David Garrick
Shakespearean actor, playwright; died Jan 20, 17791865 - Sven Anders Hedin
explorer, geographer: Tibetan region; died Nov 26, 19521893 - Sir Cedric (Webster) Hardwicke
actor: The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Stanley and Livingstone, Richard III, The Ten Commandments; died Aug 6, 19641895 - Louis Calhern (Carl Henry Vogt)
actor: The Count of Monte Cristo, Duck Soup, Blackboard Jungle, Prisoner of Zenda, The Student Prince; died May 12, 19561902 - John Bubbles (John William Sublett)
actor: Porgy and Bess [1935 Broadway version], films: Cabin in the Sky, Variety Show, A Song is Born, No Maps on My Taps; dancer: credited with creating ‘rhythm tap’; died May 18, 19861902 - Nydia Westman
actress: Strange Justice, The Velvet Touch, The Ghost and Mr. Chicken, The Reluctant Astronaut; died May 23, 19701908 - Susan Fleming (Marx)
actress: Range Feud, Gold Diggers of 1937; widow of Harpo Marx; died Dec 22, 20021912 - Dick (Richard Walther) Siebert
baseball: Brooklyn Dodgers, SL Cardinals, Philadelphia Athletics [all-star: 1943]; died Dec 9, 19781916 - Eddie (George) Arcaro
only jockey to win two Triple Crowns [1941, 1948]; died Nov 14, 19971917 - Carson McCullers (Smith)
author: The Member of the Wedding, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Reflections in a Golden Eye; died Sep 29, 19671917 - Merle Oberon (Thompson)
actress: Wuthering Heights, Stage Door Canteen, Deep in My Heart, Hotel, The Oscar, Interval; died Nov 23, 19791924 - Lee Marvin
Academy Award-winning Best Actor: Cat Ballou [1965]; The Caine Mutiny, The Dirty Dozen, Delta Force, Ship of Fools; died Aug 29, 19871930 - John Frankenheimer
director: Days of Wine and Roses, Birdman of Alcatraz, The French Connection, The Manchurian Candidate; died July 6, 20021935 - Russ (Russell Eugene) Nixon
baseball: catcher: Cleveland Indians, Boston Red Sox, Minnesota Twins; died Nov 8, 20161935 - Bobby Engemann
singer: group: The Lettermen: When I Fall In Love, Goin’ Out of My Head, Can’t Take My Eyes Off You; died Jan 20, 20131937 - David Margulies
actor: Intervention, Bought and Sold, Celebrity, Melvyn Schmatzman: Freudian Dentist, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective; died Jan 11, 20161940 - Smokey (William) Robinson
Rock ’n’ Roll Hall of Fame singer: group: The Miracles: Shop Around, I Second That Emotion, Tears of a Clown; songwriter: My Guy, My Girl; solo: Cruisin’, Bein’ with You; Motown VP1942 - Paul Krause
Pro Football Hall of Famer: NFL Individual Career Record for interceptions [81] for Washington Redskins & Minnesota Vikings [1964-1979]1942 - Bob Menne
golf: champ: Kemper Open [1974]1943 - Lou Christie (Lugee Alfredo Giovanni Sacco)
singer: Lightnin’ Strikes, Two Faces Have I, The Gypsy Cried, Rhapsody In the Rain, I’m Gonna Make You Mine1947 - Bruce Fairbairn
actor: The Rookies, Vampire Hookers, Cyclone, Nightstick1948 - Tony Iommi
musician: guitar: groups: Black Sabbath: Paranoid; Jethro Tull: Sweet Dream1950 - Scott Paulin
actor: I Am Sam, Captain America, A Soldier’s Story, 24, ER, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation1951 - Stephen Nichols
actor: Days of our Lives, General Hospital, The Young and the Restless, Witchboard, Soapdish, Heaven’s Tears, Cover Me, Phoenix, A Hard Rain1954 - Francis Buchholz
musician: guitar: group: Scorpions: LP: Love at First Sting1955 - Jeff Daniels
actor: Speed, Dumb and Dumber, Radio Days, Something Wild, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Terms of Endearment, Ragtime1957 - Falco (Johann Hölzel)
singer, songwriter: Rock Me Amadeus, The Sound of Musik, All Vienna; died Feb 6, 19981957 - Ray Winstone
actor: Beowulf, The Proposition, Everything, She’s Gone, King Arthur, Cold Mountain, Bouncer, The Martins1958 - Leslie David Baker
actor: The Office1959 - Roger Goodell
NFL commissioner [2006- ]1960 - Prince Andrew (Duke of York)
British royalty1963 - Seal (Sealhenry Olumide Samuel)
singer: Kiss from a Rose, Prayer for the Dying, Waiting for You, Loneliest Star, Love’s Divine, Crazy, Human Beings1964 - Doug Aldrich
musician: guitar: group: Whitesnake: Still of the Night, Here I Go Again, Is This Love, Love Ain’t No Stranger, Looking for Love, Now You’re Gone, Slide It In1966 - Justine Bateman
actress: A Century of Women, Primary Motive, The Fatal Image, Family Ties, Men Behaving Badly1967 - Benicio Del Toro
actor: 21 Grams, The Hunted, The Pledge, Traffic, Snatch, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Joyride1968 - Rob DiMaio
hockey [right wing]: New York Islanders, Tampa Bay Lightning, Philadelphia Flyers, Boston Bruins, New York Rangers, Carolina Hurricanes, Dallas Stars1970 - Bellamy Young
actress: Scandal, Criminal Minds, Pound of Flesh, The Freebie, Mask of the Ninja, Trust Me, Mission: Impossible III, Larceny, We Were Soldiers; more1971 - Miguel Batista
baseball [pitcher]: Pittsburgh Pirates, Florida Marlins, Chicago Cubs, Montreal Expos, Kansas City Royals, Arizona Diamondbacks, Toronto Blue Jays1971 - William Henderson
football [fullback]: Univ of North Carolina; NFL: Green Bay Packers1971 - Jeff Kinney
writer: Diary of a Wimpy Kid book series1973 - Eric Lange
actor: Victorious, Lost, You Don’t Know Jack, Secretariat, Weeds, The Bridge, Narcos1975 - Daniel Adair
musician: drums: groups: 3 Doors Down, Nickelback1975 - Vladimir Guerrero
baseball [right fielder, designated hitter]: Montreal Expos [1996–2003]; Anaheim/Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim [2004–2009]; Texas Rangers [2010]; Baltimore Orioles [2011]; 449 career home runs1980 - Dwight Freeney
football [defensive end]: Syracuse Univ; NFL: Indianapolis Colts [2002–2012]: 2007 Super Bowl XLI champs; San Diego Chargers [2013–2014]; Arizona Cardinals [2015]; Atlanta Falcons [2016]; Seattle Seahawks [2017]; Detroit Lions [2017]1980 - Mike Miller
basketball: Univ of Florida; NBA: Orlando Magic [2001 Rookie of the Year], Memphis Grizzlies, Minnesota Timberwolves, Washington Wizards, Miami Heat [2012 NBA title]1985 - Haylie Duff
actress: 7th Heaven, Napoleon Dynamite, Love Takes Wing, Love Finds a Home; sister of actress Hilary Duff1985 - Arielle Kebbel
actress: John Tucker Must Die, American Pie presents: Band Camp, Aquamarine, Vampires Suck, Gilmore Girls, The Vampire Diaries, Life Unexpected, Reeker, The Grudge 2, The Uninvited1985 - Sanya Richards-Ross
Olympic track and field champ: 4×400 meters relay gold medalist in three consecutive Olympic Games: Athens [2004], Beijing [2008], London [2012]; 400m individual gold medal, London [2012]; 400m individual bronze medal Beijing [2008]; world champ: 400m gold medal at World Championships in Berlin [2009]1986 - Jayde Nicole
model, Playboy Playmate of the Month [January 2007], Playmate of the Year [2008]1991 - Trevor Bayne
race car driver: won 2011 Daytona 500 [youngest driver to win that race: 20 years, 1 day]1993 - Victoria Justice
singer, songwriter, actress: Zoey 101, Victorious, iCarly, The Boy Who Cried Werewolf1998 - Alice Pagani
actress: Baby, Loro, Ricordi?, The Poison Rose, The Croods: A New Age, Non mi uccidere2001 - David Mazouz
actor: Gotham, Touch, The Games Maker, The Darkness, The Birthday Cake, Dear Dumb Diary2004 - Millie Bobby Brown
actress, producer: Stranger Things, Enola Holmes, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, NCIS; featured [at 14 years of age] in the 2018 "TIME 100" list of the world’s most; 2018 UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador [youngest person selected for this position]
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Hit Music on This Day February 19
1944Besame Mucho (facts) - The Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra (vocal: Bob Eberly & Kitty Kallen
My Heart Tells Me (facts) - The Glen Gray Orchestra (vocal: Eugenie Baird)
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