What Happened in February 2019

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• Feb 1 January 2019 was Australia's hottest month on record according to the Bureau of Meteorology

• Feb 2 More than 40 mummies from 323-30 BC found at a burial site at Tuna el-Gebel archaeological site south of Cairo, Egypt
• Feb 2 Virginia Governor Ralph Northam admits to wearing blackface in 1984 but says he's not in a photo of men wearing blackface and a Ku Klux Klan robe on a yearbook page
• Feb 3 Dam in Townsville, Australia, deliberately opened flooding 20,000 homes after city receives record 3.3ft of rain in a week

• Feb 3 Rapper 21 Savage arrested by US immigration for overstaying his visa
• Feb 3 Super Bowl LIII, Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Atlanta, GA: New England Patriots beat Los Angeles Rams, 13-3; MVP: Julian Edelman, NE Patriots, WR; Patriots' 6th SB victory
• Feb 3 Wreckage from light aircraft carrying EPL team Cardiff City's record signing Emiliano Sala is discovered on seabed of the English Channel; cause of death, head and trunk injuries

• Feb 5 China’s first science fiction blockbuster, “The Wandering Earth” premieres, directed by Frant Gwo, based on a story by Liu Cixin
• Feb 5 Pierre Davis is the first transgender designer to show at New York Fashion Week with label No Sesso
• Feb 5 Pope Francis admits for the first time that clerics have sexually abused nuns
• Feb 6 2018 named the 4th warmest year on record according to NOAA and NASA, after 2016, 2015, and 2017

• Feb 6 Honeybees are able to add and subtract and understand concept of zero according to research from RMIT University in Australia
• Feb 6 Quadriga, Canada's biggest cryptocurrency exchange is unable to get to $145 million of bitcoin assets after its CEO dies with its access passwords
• Feb 6 US President Donald Trump makes presidential State of Union address to Congress a week later than usual due to government shutdown
• Feb 7 First reports of poisonous homemade alcohol killing people in the Indian states of Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh, will go on to kill about 100
• Feb 7 France recalls its Italian ambassador from Rome after Italian deputy PM Luigi Di Maio met with yellow vest protesters
• Feb 7 Measles cases in Europe highest in a decade, tripling in a year to 82,596 according to WHO
• Feb 7 Measles outbreak declared in the Philippines with 1,813 cases and 26 deaths
• Feb 7 New kangaroo fossil research published from Riversleigh, Australia, show Kangaroos learned to hop 20 million years ago, much earlier than first thought
• Feb 7 Sierra Leone President Julius Maada Bio declares national emergency over rape and sexual assault violence after instances double
• Feb 8 Amazon founder Jeff Bezos accuses The National Enquirer and its owner, American Media Inc, of blackmail over private messages detailing an extramarital affair
• Feb 8 Fire at Ninho de Urubu football training center for Flamengo football club, Rio de Janeiro, kills 10
• Feb 8 Thai King Vajiralongkorn issues royal decree calling Princess Ubolratana 's candidacy for Prime Minister for Thai Raksa Chart political party “improper and highly inappropriate”
• Feb 8 Washington's Governor Jay Inslee declares a state emergency after heavy snowfall

• Feb 10 Insect populations are collapsing worldwide threatening a“catastrophic collapse of nature’s ecosystems” according to a global review saying 40% declining, 30% endangered
• Feb 10 Mine collapse at an illegal gold mine in north-eastern Liberia traps about 40 people underground
• Feb 10 Minnesota senator Amy Klobuchar announces her 2020 presidential campaign
• Feb 10 Number of women alleging sexual assault by former Costa Rica President Óscar Arias Sánchez grows to nine
• Feb 10 Sexual abuse investigation into US Southern Baptist churches reveals 400 church members implicated with over 700 victims, according to The Houston Chronicle and the San Antonio Express-News
• Feb 10 The eight centrally owned and operated team Alliance of American Football gets underway; Orlando Apollos beat Atlanta Legends, 40-6 at Spectrum Stadium, Orlando, FL
• Feb 11 Artificial Intelligence system meant to assist diagnosis in the future, pitted against physicians in test to diagnose 600,000 patients in results published in "Nature Medicine", A.I. won, just
• Feb 12 24 hour general strike in Belgium forces all fights to be cancelled and schools shut
• Feb 12 Australian government loses historic vote on own bill with amendment to allow offshore sick refugees access to healthcare, first loss in 78 years
• Feb 12 Hotel fire in New Delhi, India, kills 17

• Feb 12 NASA data shows the world has got greener - 5% more leafier since early 2000s, mostly due to tree planting in China, intensive farming in India
• Feb 12 Rare Black panthers spotted for the first time in nearly 100 years in Laikipia County, Kenya
• Feb 12 Republic of Macedonia officially changes it name to the Republic of North Macedonia to end long dispute with Greece
• Feb 12 Trial of 12 Catalonia independence leaders begins in Madrid
• Feb 12 US national debt tops 22 trillion for the first time according to US Treasury
• Feb 12 Vulcan Inc. announces the rediscovery near the Solomon Islands of World War II aircraft carrier USS Hornet, which sank in 1942 with the loss of 140 lives.
• Feb 13 Flinders River swells to 37 miles wide (60km) creating its own weather system after intense flooding in Queensland, Australia
• Feb 13 Iran marks 40th anniversary of the Islamic revolution with huge street marches and protests against the US

• Feb 13 Suicide attack on bus carrying Iranian military's Revolutionary Guard kills 23 in Sistan-Baluchestan province, separatist group Jaish al-Adl claim responsibility
• Feb 14 Amazon cancels plans to build a corporate campus in Long Island, Queens, New York after widespread opposition
• Feb 14 Colombian Juan Carlos Sánchez Latorre jailed for sexual abuse of 276 children in Barranquilla
• Feb 14 Egyptian parliament approves measures to enable President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to extend his rule till 2034
• Feb 14 Explosive-packed vehicle rams paramilitary convoy in Indian-controlled Kashmir killing at least 40. Islamic group Jaish-e-Mohammad claim responsibility.
• Feb 14 JP Morgan is the first bank to create its own crypto-currency JPM Coin
• Feb 14 OKC guard Russell Westbrook makes a triple-double (44 points, 14 rebounds, 11 assists) in an NBA record 11th consecutive game as the Thunder go down, 131-122 in New Orleans
• Feb 14 Singer Ryan Adams accused of sexual misconduct towards younger upcoming female singers in a report by "The New York Times"
• Feb 14 US Senate confirms William Barr as Attorney General
• Feb 15 A fired employee opens fire at Henry Pratt Company in Aurora, Illinois, killing five and injuring six
• Feb 15 US President Donald Trump declares a national emergency to divert funds to build a border wall, after signing bipartisan spending agreement to avoid another government shutdown
• Feb 16 69th Berlin International Film Festival: Israeli film "Synonyms" wins the Golden Bear
• Feb 16 India's new high-speed train the Vande Bharat Express breaks down on its first return trip on Delhi to Varanasi route
• Feb 16 Needing 78 for an unlikely victory, Sri Lanka's Kusal Perera 153no and Vishwa Fernando 6no put on a record 10th wicket stand for a 1 wicket win vs South Africa in the 1st cricket Test in Durban
• Feb 16 Pope Francis defrocks ex-cardinal and archbishop of Washington Theodore McCarrick for sexually abusing minors and adults. First Cardinal to be removed for sexual abuse.

• Feb 17 Protests continue by thousands in streets of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, against government corruption and inflation
• Feb 18 16 US states, including California and New York, band together to sue President Donald Trump over his use of emergency powers to build a border wall.
• Feb 18 25-year old murder of a woman solved when police in Minnesota run DNA though a genealogy site and find suspect

• Feb 18 British parliamentary committee issues scathing report on Facebook, accusing company of breaking privacy laws, calling for new regulations
• Feb 18 Gun battle in Pulwama, Indian-controlled Kashmir, kills nine with Pakistan-based group Jaish-e-Mohammad held responsible
• Feb 18 Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei says "There's no way the US can crush us" in interview with BBC, saying his daughter's arrest politically motivated

• Feb 18 NHL hockey team Carolina Hurricanes owner Tom Dundon agrees to invest $250 million into the Alliance of American Football; named new chairman of the AAF

• Feb 19 Four-time MLB All-Star at 3B Manny Machado agrees to the biggest free-agent contract in American sports history, a 10 year deal worth $300 million with the San Diego Padres
• Feb 19 New York city bans hair discrimination, to limit racial stereotyping
• Feb 19 Vatican confirms secret church guidelines for children of priests
• Feb 21 Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa-2 touches down on asteroid Ryugu on mission to collect rock samples
• Feb 21 The Lunar Library, a 30 million page digital library launched on board Israel’s Beresheet Lunar Lander, aiming to be stored on the Moon
• Feb 22 Actor Jussie Smollett suspended from US TV show "Empire" after revealed that actor made false claims about racist and homophobic attack
• Feb 22 Musician Peter Frampton announces he has a degenerative muscular disease and his next tour will be his last

• Feb 23 Clashes on Venezuelan border kills two as its country's officials try to stop aid getting in

• Feb 23 Roy Hodgson overtakes Sir Bobby Robson as the oldest man to manage a Premier League football club when at 71 years, 198 days his Crystal Palace beats Leicester City, 4-1
• Feb 23 Sri Lanka becomes first Asian cricket team to clinch a Test series in South Africa chasing down 197 in the 2nd Test in Port Elizabeth; Kusal Mendis 84no, Oshada Fernando 75no

• Feb 24 At least 133 people have died and 200 treated in hospital after drinking toxic bootleg alcohol in Golaghat district, north-eastern India
• Feb 24 Roman Catholic Church summit on paedophilia ends with Pope Francis promising more action and calling those guilty "tools of Satan"
• Feb 25 Caitlin Clark sets the Class 5A state tournament single-game scoring record with 42 points in a game for Dowling Catholic High School against Waukee High School
• Feb 25 Influential film review site Rotten Tomatoes implements changes to its site after internet trolls target "Captain Marvel" film
• Feb 25 James Harden's scoring streak of games with at least 30 points ends at 32 as he scores 28 in the Rockets' 119-111 win over Atlanta in Houston; 2nd longest mark in NBA history
• Feb 26 Catholic Cardinal George Pell convicted of child sexual abuse in Melbourne, Australia. As treasurer at the Vatican, the highest-ranking church official to be convicted; overturned in 2020

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• Feb 1 Clive Swift, British stage, wireless, and screen actor (Frenzy; A Passage to India; Keeping Up Appearances), dies at 82
• Feb 1 Wade Wilson, American NFL quarterback, 1981-1998 (Dallas Cowboys - Super Bowl 1995, Minnesota Vikings - Pro Bowl 1988, and 3 other teams), dies of complications from Type 1 diabetes on his 60th birthday
• Feb 3 Bob Friend, American baseball pitcher (4 x MLB All Star; World Series 1960 Pittsburgh Pirates; MLB wins leader 1958), dies from cardiac arrest at 88
• Feb 3 Carmen Duncan, Australian actress (Another World), dies at 76

• Feb 4 Zbigniew Penherski, Polish composer (Little Music for the End of Century), dies at 84
• Feb 5 Dakshayani 'Gaja Muthassi, elephant 'granny' Indian elephant, oldest in captivity, dies in Kerala at 88
• Feb 5 Guy Webster, American celebrity portrait photographer, album cover artist (The Byrds; The Mamas & the Papas; Taj Mahal; Rolling Stones), and educator, dies of liver cancer and diabetes complications at 79
• Feb 6 Rosamunde Pilcher, English novelist (The Shell Seekers), dies at 94

• Feb 7 John Dingell, American politician (D-Michigan, 1955-2015), dies at 92
• Feb 10 Jan-Michael Vincent, actor (Hooper, Tribes, Buster & Billie), dies of cardiac arrest at 74
• Feb 12 Gordon Banks, English soccer goalkeeper (World Cup 1966, 73 England caps), dies of kidney cancer at 81
• Feb 12 Lyndon LaRouche, American political activist (National Caucus of Labor Committees), dies at 96
• Feb 12 W. E. B. Griffin [William Edmund Butterworth], American best-selling author (Clandestine Operations, The Lieutenants), dies at 89

• Feb 15 Kofi Burbridge, American blues-rock keyboardist and flute player (Derek Trucks Band, 1999-2019; Tedeschi Trucks Band, 2010-2019), dies of heart issues at 57
• Feb 15 Lee Radziwiłł Ross (née Bouvier), American socialite, interior decorator, and hereditary princess-by-marriage, dies at 85
• Feb 16 Don Bragg, American pole vaulter (Olympic gold 1960), dies of a stroke at 83
• Feb 16 Ken Nordine, American voice-over and recording artist (World Jazz), dies at 98
• Feb 16 Theodore Isaac Rubin, American psychiatrist and author credited with popularising psychotherapy, dies at 95
• Feb 17 Ami Maayani, Israeli composer, conductor, and founder of several youth orchestras, dies of cancer at 82
• Feb 17 Ethel Ennis, American jazz singer (If Women Ruled The World), dies of a stroke at 86 [1]
• Feb 18 Bob Van Der Veken, Belgian actor (Alle maten), dies at 90
• Feb 18 Kelly Seymour, South African cricket spin bowler (7 Tests, 9 wickets; Western Province), dies at 83
• Feb 19 Don Newcombe, American baseball pitcher (4 x MLB All Star; World Series 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers; NL MVP & Cy Young Award 1956), dies at 92
• Feb 19 Karl Lagerfeld, German fashion designer (Fendi, Chanel), dies at 85 (age disputed)
• Feb 20 Dominick Argento, American composer (Colonel Jonathan the Saint), dies at 91
• Feb 20 William Broomfield, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Michigan), dies at 96
• Feb 21 Peter Michael Braun, German composer, dies at 82
• Feb 21 Peter Tork [Thorkelson], American rock and folk musician and actor (The Monkees), dies from complications of adenoid cystic carcinoma at 77
• Feb 21 Stanley Donen, American film director and producer (Singin' in the Rain, Bedazzled, Damn Yankees), dies at 94
• Feb 23 Dorothy Masuka, Zimbabwe-born South African jazz singer and activist, dies from complications of a stroke at 83
• Feb 23 Katherine Helmond, American actress and director (Soap, Mona-Who's the Boss), dies at 89
• Feb 24 Donald Keene, American Japanese translator and critic, dies at 96
• Feb 24 Li Xueqin, Chinese eminent historian, archaeologist, and palaeographer, dies at 85
• Feb 24 Malcolm "Mac" Wiseman, American bluegrass singer, dies at 93
• Feb 24 Margaret Scott, South-African ballet dancer and founder (Australian Ballet School), dies at 96
• Feb 25 Hans Kox, Dutch composer (Dorian Gray; Symphony No. 4 - "Tasmanian"), and educator, dies at 88
• Feb 25 Mark Hollis, British synth-pop musician (Talk Talk), dies at 64
• Feb 26 (Clifford) "Andy" Anderson, British session and touring drummer (Steve Hillage; The Cure, 1983-84), dies of cancer at 68
• Feb 26 Charles McCarry, American author and former CIA spy (The Tears of Autumn), dies of a cerebral haemorrhage at 88
• Feb 27 Bill Playle, New Zealand cricket batsman (8 Tests), dies at 80
• Feb 27 Christopher Payne, British police officer (Chief Constable of the Cleveland Constabulary, 1976-90), dies at 89
• Feb 27 Doug Sandom, British drummer (The Who, 1962-64), dies at 89
• Feb 27 France-Albert René, 2nd President of Seychelles (1977-2004), dies at 83
• Feb 27 Nathaniel Taylor, American actor (Rollo-Sanford & Sons), dies at 80
• Feb 28 André Previn [Andreas Priwin], German-American conductor (London Symphony, 1968-79; Pittsburgh Symphony, 1975-85), film score composer (My Fair Lady), and jazz pianist, dies at 89-ish