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OmniMediaGroup at 16:49, 5 February 2013

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1881, Kansas became the first U.S. state to prohibit all alcoholic beverages

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−	February 19	+	'''February 19''' in history:
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		+	* 1674, England and the Netherlands sign the Peace of Westminster, ending the Third Anglo-Dutch War. A provision of the agreement transfers the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam to England, which renamed it [[Directory:New York\|New York]]
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		+	* 1807, in the [[Directory:Mississippi\|Mississippi]] Territory, in present-day [[Directory:Alabama\|Alabama]], former Vice President of the [[Directory:United States of America\|United States]] Aaron Burr is arrested for treason and confined to Fort Stoddart (Burr was acquitted at trial.)
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		+	* 1878, Thomas Edison received a U.S. patent for "an improvement in phonograph or speaking machines"
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		+	* 1881, [[Directory:Kansas\|Kansas]] became the first U.S. state to prohibit all alcoholic beverages
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		+	* 1945, during World War II: Battle of Iwo Jima, about 30,000 United States Marines land on Iwo Jima, where they commenced a successful monthlong battle to seize control of the island from Japanese forces
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		+	* 1985, artificial heart recipient William J. Schroeder becomes the first such patient to leave hospital
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		+	* 1986, the Soviet Union launches the Mir space station
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		+	* 2002, NASA's Mars Odyssey space probe begins to map the surface of Mars using its thermal emission imaging system
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		+	[[Category:February]] [[Category:Days of the Year]]