February 19 in history: • 1600 – Huaynaputina, a stratovolcano in present-day Peru, produced the largest recorded volcanic explosion in South America. → go there • 1931 – The Socialist Soviet Republic of Abkhazia (flag pictured) was dissolved and reformed as the Abkhaz Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, an autonomous republic of the Soviet Union within Georgia. → go there • 1942 – A book-burning was held and politicians were arrested in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, as part of a simulated Nazi invasion. → go there • 2006 – A methane explosion in a coal mine in Nueva Rosita, Mexico, trapped and killed 65 miners. → go there • 2011 – Items from the Belitung shipwreck, the largest single collection of Tang-dynasty artefacts found in one location, were first exhibited in Singapore. → go there • 2026 – Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor became the first member of the British royal family to be arrested in 379 years. → go there Died 1716: Dorothe Engelbretsdatter Wiki link Born 1895: Mary Dilys Glynne Wiki link Born 1926: György Kurtág Wiki link Born 1938: Choekyi Gyaltsen, 10th Panchen Lama Wiki link Pictured: Flag of the [[Socialist Soviet Republic of Abkhazia]].