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1881, Kansas became the first U.S. state to prohibit all alcoholic beverages
February 19
'''February 19''' in history:
* 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]]
* 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.)
* 1878, Thomas Edison received a U.S. patent for "an improvement in phonograph or speaking machines"
* 1881, [[Directory:Kansas|Kansas]] became the first U.S. state to prohibit all alcoholic beverages
* 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
* 1985, artificial heart recipient William J. Schroeder becomes the first such patient to leave hospital
* 1986, the Soviet Union launches the Mir space station
* 2002, NASA's Mars Odyssey space probe begins to map the surface of Mars using its thermal emission imaging system
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