| 19231 | February 19 | Event | 1942 – World War II: Nearly 250 Japanese warplanes attack the northern Australian city of Darwin killing 243 people. |
| 19232 | February 19 | Event | 1942 – World War II: United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the executive order 9066, allowing the United States military to relocate Japanese Americans to internment camps. |
| 19233 | February 19 | Event | 1943 – World War II: Battle of Kasserine Pass in Tunisia begins. |
| 19234 | February 19 | Event | 1945 – World War II: Battle of Iwo Jima: About 30,000 United States Marines land on the island of Iwo Jima. |
| 19235 | February 19 | Event | 1948 – The Conference of Youth and Students of Southeast Asia Fighting for Freedom and Independence convenes in Calcutta. |
| 19236 | February 19 | Event | 1949 – Ezra Pound is awarded the first Bollingen Prize in poetry by the Bollingen Foundation and Yale University. |
| 19237 | February 19 | Event | 1953 – Censorship: Georgia approves the first literature censorship board in the United States. |
| 19238 | February 19 | Event | 1959 – The United Kingdom grants Cyprus independence, which is then formally proclaimed on August 16, 1960. |
| 19239 | February 19 | Event | 1960 – China successfully launches the T-7, its first sounding rocket. |
| 19240 | February 19 | Event | 1963 – The publication of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique reawakens the feminist movement in the United States as women's organizations and consciousness raising groups spread. |
| 19241 | February 19 | Event | 1965 – Colonel Phạm Ngọc Thảo of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam, and a communist spy of the North Vietnamese Viet Minh, along with Generals Lâm Văn Phát and Trần Thiện Khiêm attempted a coup against the military junta of Nguyễn Khánh. |
| 19242 | February 19 | Event | 1972 – The Asama-Sansō hostage standoff begins in Japan. |
| 19243 | February 19 | Event | 1976 – Executive Order 9066, which led to the relocation of Japanese Americans to internment camps, is rescinded by President Gerald R. Ford's Proclamation 4417 |
| 19244 | February 19 | Event | 1978 – Egyptian forces raid Larnaca International Airport in an attempt to intervene in a hijacking, without authorisation from the Republic of Cyprus authorities. The Cypriot National Guard and Police forces kill 15 Egyptian commandos and destroy the Egy |
| 19245 | February 19 | Event | 1985 – William J. Schroeder becomes the first recipient of an artificial heart to leave hospital. |
| 19246 | February 19 | Event | 1985 – Iberia Airlines Boeing 727 crashes into Mount Oiz in Spain, killing 148. |
| 19247 | February 19 | Event | 1985 – EastEnders, BBC's flagship soap opera, broadcasts for the first time. |
| 19248 | February 19 | Event | 1986 – Akkaraipattu massacre: the Sri Lankan Army massacres 80 Tamil farm workers in the eastern province of Sri Lanka. |
| 19249 | February 19 | Event | 2001 – The Oklahoma City bombing museum is dedicated at the Oklahoma City National Memorial. |
| 19250 | February 19 | Event | 2002 – NASA's Mars Odyssey space probe begins to map the surface of Mars using its thermal emission imaging system. |
| 19251 | February 19 | Event | 2003 – An Ilyushin Il-76 military aircraft crashes near Kerman, Iran, killing 275. |
| 19252 | February 19 | Event | 2006 – A methane explosion in a coal mine near Nueva Rosita, Mexico, kills 65 miners. |
| 19253 | February 19 | Event | 2011 – The debut exhibition of the Belitung shipwreck, containing the largest collection of Tang dynasty artefacts found in one location, begins in Singapore. |
| 19254 | February 19 | Event | 2012 – Forty-four people are killed in a prison brawl in Apodaca, Nuevo León, Mexico. |
| 19255 | February 19 | Birth | 1473 – Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish mathematician and astronomer (d. 1543) |
| 19256 | February 19 | Birth | 1526 – Carolus Clusius, Flemish botanist and academic (d. 1609) |
| 19257 | February 19 | Birth | 1552 – Melchior Klesl, Austrian cardinal (d. 1630) |
| 19258 | February 19 | Birth | 1630 – Chhatrapati Shivaji, founder of the Maratha Empire (d. 1680) |
| 19259 | February 19 | Birth | 1660 – Friedrich Hoffmann, German physician and chemist (d. 1742) |
| 19260 | February 19 | Birth | 1717 – David Garrick, English actor, playwright, and producer (d. 1779) |