Today in History - History - February 19th

1971Paul McCartney releases "Another Day" in UK

1736George Frideric Handel's "Alexander's Feast," premieres

197Lucius Septimius Severus' army beats Clodius Albinus at Lyon

1963USSR informs JFK it is withdrawing several thousand troops from Cuba

19491st Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Ezra Pound

1942FDR orders detention & internment of all west-coast Japanese-Americans

1963Robert Frost wins Bollingen Prize

1878Thomas Alva Edison patents gramophone (phonograph)

1932William Faulkner completes his novel "Light in August"

1981George Harrison is ordered to pay ABKCO Music $587,000 for "subconscious plagiarism" "My Sweet Lord" with "He's So Fine"

1962Hana Mandlikova, Prague Czechoslovakia, tennis player (1985 US Open)

1924Lee Marvin, NYC, actor (Paint Your Wagon, Cat Ballou)

1959Roger Goodell, Jamestown New York, American NFL Commissioner

1473Nicolaus Copernicus, Toruń Royal Prussia, Polish mathematician and astronomer (d. 1543)

1934US entertainer Bob Hope & fellow enteratiner Dolores DeFina marry

1964Actor Peter Sellers (38) weds actress Britt Ekland in London, England

1997Deng Xiaoping, head (Chinese Communist Party), dies at 92

1951Andre Gide, French writer (Nobel 1947), dies of pneumonia at 81