Calendar for February 19th, 2013

2001: Washington's Birthday (observed)

2001: Sexagesima

2001: Family Day (Alta., Ont., Sask.)

Born 1473: Nicolaus Copernicus (astronomer)

Born 1743: Luigi Boccherini (composer)

1831: First practical U.S. coal-burning locomotive (York) tested, York, Pennsylvania

Born 1843: Adelina Patti (opera singer; namesake of the song You're the Flower of My Heart Sweet Adeline)

1864: Knights of Pythias founded

1878: Patent for the first gramophone awarded to Thomas Edison

1881: Kansas approved an act to prohibit alcohol

Born 1916: Eddie Arcaro (jockey)

Born 1930: John Frankenheimer (director of film)

Born 1940: Smokey Robinson (singer)

1945: U.S. Marines invaded Iwo Jima (WW II)

Born 1955: Jeff Daniels (actor)

1962: U.S. Senator Carl Hayden was honored for completing 50 years of Congressional service

Born 1963: Seal (singer)

Born 1966: Justine Bateman (actress)

Born 1985: Haylie Duff (actress)

Died 1998: Grandpa Jones (country musician)

1999: The world's largest snowman was completed in Bethel, Maine. He stood 113 feet, 7.5 inches tall and weighed about nine million pounds.

Died 2004: Jose Lopez Portillo (as president of Mexico from 1976-1982, brought the nation to the brink of economic collapse)