On This Very Day
February 19th
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- 1856
Hamilton Smith patents the tin-type camera in Gambier, Ohio.
- 1910
'Typhoid Mary' [Mary Mallon] released from isolation, later causes more typhoid outbreaks.
- 1913
First prize inserted into a Cracker Jack box. View Post →
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- 1914
Charlotte May Pierstorff, 4, mailed by train to grandparents in 'child in the post' instance.
- 1942
FDR orders internment of all west-coast Japanese-Americans.
- 1945
980 Japanese soldiers killed by crocodiles in 2 days on Ramree Island, Burma.
- 1977
Manfred Mann's Earth Band's cover of 'Blinded By The Light' hits #1.
- 2008
Fidel Castro resigns as Cuba's president after 49 years in power.
- 1881
Kansas becomes the first state to prohibit all alcoholic beverages.
- 1945
About 30,000 U.S. Marines land on Iwo Jima during World War II.
- 1985
Mickey Mouse tours 30 cities in China for Disneyland's 30th anniversary.
- 1985
Cherry Coke introduced by the Coca-Cola Company.
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