February 19, 2025

This Day in History

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Shimla, Dec. 31

This Day in History

2019

The World Health Organization first learned of “viral pneumonia” cases in Wuhan, China; the disease was later determined to be COVID-19, which became a global pandemic the following year.

2004

Taipei 101, then the tallest building in the world, reaching a height of 1,667 feet (508 metres), opened in Taipei, Taiwan.

1999

The United States officially handed over control of the Panama Canal to Panama.

1991

The Soviet Union legally ceased to exist, Russia and other former Soviet republics having declared themselves independent and having founded the Commonwealth of Independent States on December 21, 1991.

1972

Baseball great Roberto Clemente died in an airplane crash en route to Nicaragua with relief supplies collected for earthquake survivors.

1880

George C. Marshall, the U.S. Army chief of staff during World War II (1939–45), U.S secretary of state (1947–49) and of defense (1950–51), architect of the Marshall Plan for European recovery, and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1953, was born.

1869

Henri Matisse, the artist often regarded as the most important French painter of the 20th century, was born.

1775

American troops under General Richard Montgomery and Colonel Benedict Arnold were defeated by the British in the Battle of Quebec.

1600

The East India Company, formed for the exploitation of trade with East and Southeast Asia and India, was incorporated by English royal charter.

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