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What does @Wikipedia say about 19th February through the years 🏛️📜🗓️?
19th February 2021 🗓️ : Event
Mya Thwe Thwe Khine, a 19-year-old protester, becomes the first known casualty of anti-coup protests that formed in response to the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état.
"Mya Thwe Thwe Khine was a young Burmese woman who became the first known casualty of the 2021 Myanmar protests, which formed in the aftermath of the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état...."
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Mya_Thwe_Thwe_Khine
19th February 2016 🗓️ : Death
Harper Lee, American author (born 1926)
"Nelle Harper Lee was an American novelist whose 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and became a classic of modern American literature. She assisted her close friend Truman Capote in his research for the book In Cold Blood (1966). An earlier draft of Mockingbird, set at a later date, Go Set a..."
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harper_Lee
19th February 1976 🗓️ : Event
Executive Order 9066, which led to the relocation of Japanese Americans to internment camps, is rescinded by President Gerald Ford's Proclamation 4417.
"Executive Order 9066 was a United States presidential executive order signed and issued during World War II by United States president Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942. "This order..."
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_9066
19th February 1926 🗓️ : Birth
György Kurtág, Hungarian composer and academic
"György Kurtág is a Hungarian composer of contemporary classical music and pianist. According to Grove Music Online, with a style that draws on "Bartók, Webern and, to a lesser extent, Stravinsky, his work is characterized by compression in scale and forces, and by a particular immediacy of..."
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gy%C3%B6rgy_Kurt%C3%A1g
19th February 1821 🗓️ : Birth
August Schleicher, German linguist and academic (died 1868)
"August Schleicher was a German linguist. Schleicher studied the Proto-Indo-European language and devised theories concerning historical linguistics. His great work was A Compendium of the Comparative Grammar of the Indo-European Languages in which he attempted to reconstruct the..."
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Schleicher
19th February 🗓️ : Holiday
Christian feast day:
Boniface of Brussels
"Boniface of Brussels was a Catholic prelate who served as the Bishop of Lausanne from circa 1231 until 1239 when he resigned after agents of Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II assaulted him. His relics are housed at the Kapellekerk, and at La Cambre where he died...."
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boniface_of_Brussels
