FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2021

1913 ― Mexican General V Huerta takes power with U.S. support

1919 ― Pan-African Congress, organized by W E B Du Bois (Paris)

1920 ― Netherlands joins League of Nations

1936 ― Manuel Azana becomes Spanish premier

1942 ― FDR orders detention & internment of all west-coast Japanese-Americans

1942 ― About 150 Japanese warplanes attacked the Australian city of Darwin

1942 ― Japanese troop land on Timor

1944-823 British bombers attack Berlin

1949 ― Mass arrests of communists in India

1952 ― French offensive at Hanoi

1985 ― Mickey Mouse welcomed in China

1986 ― U.S. Senate ratifies U.N.'s anti-genocide convention 37 years later

1986 ― USSR launches Mir space station into Earth orbit