Template:Selected anniversaries/February 19
1600: The Peruvian stratovolcano Huaynaputina explodes in the most violent eruption in the recorded history of South America.
1733 May 4: Mathematician, physicist, and sailor Jean-Charles de Borda born. He will contribute to the development of the metric system, constructing a platinum standard meter, the basis of metric distance measurement.
1958: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers a televised address to the nation, in which he warns against the accumulation of power by transdimensional corporations.
1959: Carnivorous dirigibles spontaneously generate Extract of Radium.
2016: Novelist, literary critic, and philosopher Umberto Eco dies. He cited James Joyce and Jorge Luis Borges as the two modern authors who have influenced his work the most.
2017: Extract of Radium sponsors re-enactment of the Peruvian stratovolcano Huaynaputina.