February 19 is the 50th day of the year according to the Gregorian calendar. There are 315 days left until the end of the year. In the 20th and 21st centuries, this day corresponds to February 6 of the Julian calendar.

What a holiday on February 19 / pixabay photo

On this day, the world celebrates the Day of Mixing Different Colors, World Marine Mammal Protection Day or Whale Day, Ornithologist’s Day, International Tug of War Day, Synoptic Map Birthday.

In the USA – Memorial Day of the Battle of Iwo Jima, Women’s Heart Day, Day of Caregivers, Anti-Plagiarism Day, Mint Chocolate Day, Tartar Sauce Day, Eyelash Day, in Armenia – Book Donation Day, in Turkmenistan – Flag Day, in Mexico – Army Day, in India – Shivaji Jayanti holiday, in Nepal – Democracy Day, in Romania – Constantin Brancusi Day, in Kyrgyzstan – Financial Police Day, in Bulgaria – Vasyl Levsky Day.

Commemorative dates of February 19, anniversaries and events

In 1841, on a voyage from Liverpool to New York, the American sailing ship “Governer Fenner” was shipwrecked near England. 122 people died.

February 19, 1855 is the birthday of the synoptic map. The history of the event is as follows: the director of the Paris Observatory, Urbain Leverrier (1811-1877), a theoretical astronomer who amazed the whole world with the discovery in 1846 of the eighth planet of the solar system, Neptune, presented to the Paris Academy of Sciences an operational map of the weather in Europe for the time interval between 9 and 10 o’clock that day. The first synoptic map in the history of science, compiled from weather data sent to Paris by telegraph from a number of European cities, launched the World Weather Service.

Leverier’s work proved that with the help of synoptic cards it is possible to predict the occurrence of natural disasters. On the first map, lines of equal pressure – isobars – were drawn, and it turned out that they have a closed shape and delineate areas of high and low pressure, and it is these that shape the weather. Although the modern synoptic map is very different from its great-grandmother in saturation and clarity, its essence has remained unchanged.

In 2008, Cuban leader Fidel Castro announced his retirement from big politics / photo REUTERS

In 1878, the American inventor Thomas Edison patented the phonograph. This invention marked the beginning of the era of audio recording. The main merit of the device is that the sound recorded on the foil could be reproduced. The first records were indentations on the surface of the foil made by a moving needle. The foil was placed on a cylinder that rotates during sound reproduction. The device cost $18. The public demonstration of the device immediately made Edison famous. To many, sound reproduction seemed like sorcery, so some dubbed Edison the “Wizard of Menlo Park.”

Edison himself was so amazed by the discovery that he said: “I have never been so amazed in my life. I have always been afraid of things that work the first time.” It should be recognized as a great merit of Edison that he guessed to immortalize the speech of the great people of his time by sending the first batch of phonographs to the celebrities of our time. Edison received 1093 patents in the USA and about 3 thousand – in other countries of the world.

He also improved the telegraph, telephone, film equipment, developed one of the first commercially successful versions of the electric incandescent lamp. It was he who suggested using the word “hello” at the beginning of a telephone conversation. In 1928, he was awarded the highest US award – the Congressional Gold Medal. Member of the US National Academy of Sciences.

In 1964, the film “Cherbourg Umbrellas” directed by Jacques Demy, starring Catherine Deneuve, was released on French screens.

In 2008, Cuban leader Fidel Castro announced his retirement from big politics.

What a church holiday today

On February 19, the Orthodox Church honors the memory of Bishop Vukol of Smyrna / Photo ua.depositphotos.com

On February 19, the Orthodox Church honors the memory of Bishop Vukol of Smyrna. The people called the day Vukol Telyatnik or Zhukoly. This is due to the fact that cows often calved during this period.

What can’t be done today

Don’t lend anything. It is also undesirable to make important decisions – you can get into a dead end situation. And it is better to completely abandon various risks and adventures. It is forbidden to stroke the back of a calf that has just been born – it can get sick.

Signs for February 19

Folk signs today / , Viktor Kovalchuk

• the day is warm – March will be cold;
• severe frost – the summer will be dry and hot.

February 19 is the name day

Name days of Anatoly, Varsonofy, Vasyl, Ivan, Alexander, Dorothea, Christina, Dmitry, Iulian, Maxim, Marfa, Maria and Arseny.