History News Desk !!! Today is a very special day in terms of space science. 19 February 1473 was the day when the great mathematician and astronomer ‘Nicholas Kopranikus’ (‘Nicholas Copernicus’ was born. Nicholas Copernicus was the first person to tell this universal truth that the Earth revolves around the Sun. He did not write it because he was afraid that the church would be against him. Fear because by that time people believed that ‘Earth is stable and the Sun revolves around it.’ Later, Galileo Galiley was born on 15 February 1564, 21 years after Copernicus’s death. He wrote a book called ‘Dialogue’. In this book, Galileo wrote and claimed that the Earth revolves around the Sun. In the second part of history, we will talk about technical reforms. On 19 February 1986, passengers were given computerized railway tickets for the first time. This service was started from New Delhi railway station.
Important events of February 19
1389 – Sultan Gaisuddin Tughlaq II of Delhi was killed. 1570 – Duke of Anjau attacked Southern Netherlands with the help of the French Army. 1618 – Venice and Australia’s war ends under Venice Peace Treaty. 1630 – Shivaji was born in Junner. 1674 – British troops withdrew from Dutch war. 1719 – Killing of Mughal ruler Farrukh Sier. 1807 – British soldiers arrive to help Russia in the war with Türkiye. 1891 – Amrit Bazar Patrika is published as daily. 1895 – Munshi Navalkishore, a well -known Hindi publisher, passed away. 1915 – Death of Gopal Krishna Gokhale. 1942 – 243 people were killed in a Japanese fighter jets attack on the northern Australian city of Darwin during World War II. 1959 – There was an agreement between Greece, Türkiye and Britain about Cyprus’s freedom. 1963 – Soviet Union agreed to remove a lot of soldiers from Cuba. 1978 – Famous singer Pankaj Malik passed away. 1986 – For the first time in the country, the railway reservation ticket started. 1989 – Muslim and Christian leaders go to Kuwait to talk to the Arab League with the aim of ending the civil war in Lebanon. 1991 – Protesters demanded the resignation of Romania President Ian Ianuofu. 1993 – A ship with 1500 passengers drowned in the sea near Hato. 1997 – Chinese politics’s peak Purush Deng Thyon Fing died. 1999 – Denmark scientist Dr. Len Westerguard succeeded in slowing down the speed of light in Washington. 2001 – Riots in Brazil jails, 8 dead, 7000 people were taken hostage by prisoners, ready to extradition of Taliban Laden. 2000 – Tuvalu becomes the 189th member of the United Nations. 2003 – In the general election to be held in June 2004, the Parliament of Indonesia gave a provision of giving 30 per cent ticket to the female candidate in the general election to be held in June 2004. The United Arab Emirates handed over Dawood’s brother Iqbal Sheikh and his colleague Ejaz Pathan to India. 2004 – Approval of the Stockholm Treaty that banned pesticides and industrial chemicals by more than 50 countries in the world. 2006 – Pakistan tests the Hatf II (Abdali) missile. 2007 – It is agreed to fight terrorism in India -Bangladesh. 68 passengers were killed in a fire after the explosion at the train number 9001 Up Attari Special Samjhauta Express. 2008- Sanskrit poet Swami Sriramabhadracharya was awarded the Vachaspati Samman for his Mahakavya Shri Bharvaradhaviyam. In the general election held in Pakistan, President Pervez Musharraf received a crushing defeat. Fidel Castro left the post of President of Cuba and the post of military chief. 2009- The Central Government decided to abolish the bill in which arrangements were made to keep 47 outstanding educational institutions out of the purview of reservation. 2012 – 44 people were killed in the prison riots of Newvo Leon in Mexico.
Person born on February 19
1473 – Nicholas Copernicus – Famous European astronomer and mathematician. 1630 – Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, the greatest Maratha ruler and the birth donor of the guerrilla war. 1717 – David Garrick – English actor and stage director. 1930 – K. Vishwanath – South Indian film director. 1925 – Ram V. Sutar – is the well -known craftsman of India. 1964 Sonu Walia – Film Actress 1922 – Beant Singh – Was an former Chief Minister of Punjab. 1900 – Balwantrai Mehta – Indian politician and second Chief Minister of Gujarat. 1898 – Gokulbhai Bhatt – famous revolutionary and social worker of Rajasthan. 1892 – Indira Raje – was the princess of Baroda.
Died on February 19
1915 – Gopal Krishna Gokhale, freedom fighter, social worker, thinker and reformer 1956 – Narendra Dev – Famous scholar, socialist, thinker, educationist and patriot of India. 1978 – Pankaj Malik – famous singer, musician and actor of Bangla and Hindi films. 1992 – Narayan Sridhar Bendre – was a famous Indian painter. 1999 – Khumar Barabankvi – was an Indian poet. His real name was Mohammad Haider Khan. 2010 – Nirmal Pandey – Film actor. 2017 – Altamas Kabir – Was the former 39th Chief Justice of India. 2019 – Namwar Singh – Famous Hindi poet and major contemporary critic.
