Wednesday, February 19, 2014

19 February - History and Importance of the Day


356 Emperor Constantius II shuts all heathen temples

1634 - Battle of Smolensk: King Wladyslaw IV of Poland beats Russians
1878 - Thomas Alva Edison patents gramophone (phonograph)
1942 - About 150 Japanese warplanes attacked the Australian city of Darwin
1945 - Brotherhood Day-1st celebrated


Birthdays

Astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543). Considered the founder of modern astronomy, he theorized that the sun, not the earth, was the center of the solar system.


19 February Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

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