Today
Thursday February 19 2026
- Day of the year
- 50/ 365
- Week
- 82,026
- Days left
- 31514%
- Moon
- 6%Waxing crescent
Today is Thursday, February 19, 2026. It is day 50 of 2026, a year of 365 days: 315 remain, and 14% of the year has gone. Under ISO 8601 this date falls in week 8.
What's celebrated on this date
No United Nations international day falls on this date.
Coming up
- February 20World Day of Social Justice
- February 21International Mother Language Day
- March 3World Wildlife Day
Saints and name days
Saints whose feast falls on this date, most widely known first.
- Beatus of LiébanaSpanish saint and theologian
- QuodvultdeusBishop of Carthage, saint
- Philothei of AthensGreek saint
- Conrad of PiacenzaItalian Franciscan tertiary and hermit
- Boniface of BrusselsRoman Catholic bishop
Sources : Wikidata (P841) · CC0 1.0
Astronomy
New York
- Sunrise
- 06:44
- Sunset
- 17:35
- Length of day
- 10h 51m+3 min vs yesterday
- Solar noon
- 12:10
Times shown for America/New_York
Season
Winter
began on December 21, 2025
Next season
Spring — 29 days, March 20, 2026 (March equinox)
Public holidays — United States
Not a public holiday in the United States.
Next public holiday : Memorial Day — May 25, 2026
National holidays only. Regions, provinces and Länder add their own.
Moon
Waxing crescent
Illumination : 6%
Moon age : 2.2 days
- Next full moon
- March 3, 2026
- Next new moon
- March 19, 2026
Astrology
Today's zodiac sign
Pisces
until March 21, 2026 — Aries
Zodiac dates are an astrological convention, not the Sun's actual position among the constellations. The astronomy above is measured; this is not.
On this day in history
197
Emperor Septimius Severus defeats usurper Clodius Albinus in the Battle of Lugdunum, the bloodiest battle between Roman armies. Wikipedia
1594
Having already been elected to the throne of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1587, Sigismund III of the House of Vasa is crowned King of Sweden, having succeeded his father John III of Sweden in 1592. Wikipedia
1600
The Peruvian stratovolcano Huaynaputina explodes in the most violent eruption in the recorded history of South America. Wikipedia
1878
Thomas Edison patents the phonograph. Wikipedia
1937
Yekatit 12: During a public ceremony at the Viceregal Palace (the former Imperial residence) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, two Ethiopian nationalists of Eritrean origin attempt to kill viceroy Rodolfo Graziani with a number of grenades. Wikipedia
1942
World War II: United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs executive order 9066, allowing the United States military to relocate Japanese Americans to internment camps. Wikipedia
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1942
World War II: Nearly 250 Japanese warplanes attack the northern Australian city of Darwin, killing 243 people. Wikipedia
1945
World War II: Battle of Iwo Jima: About 30,000 United States Marines land on the island of Iwo Jima. Wikipedia
1959
The United Kingdom grants Cyprus independence, which is formally proclaimed on August 16, 1960. Wikipedia
1985
A Boeing 727 operating as Iberia Flight 610 crashes Mount Oiz in Spain, killing 148; it is the deadliest accident to occur in Iberia's history and the deadliest to occur in Basque County. Wikipedia
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Births and deaths
Born on this day February 19
- 1473Nicolaus Copernicus, Prussian mathematician and astronomer (died 1543)
- 1833Élie Ducommun, Swiss journalist and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1906)
- 1859Svante Arrhenius, Swedish physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1927)
- 1880Álvaro Obregón, Mexican general and politician, 39th President of Mexico (died 1928)
- 1940Saparmyrat Nyýazow, Turkmen engineer and politician, 1st President of Turkmenistan (died 2006)
- 1943Tim Hunt, English biochemist and academic, Nobel laureateturns 83 years
- 1953Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Argentine lawyer and politician, President of Argentina and Vice President of Argentinaturns 73 years
- 1960Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, second son of Elizabeth IIturns 66 years
Died on this day February 19
- 1709Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, Japanese shōgun (born 1646)aged 63 years
- 1837Georg Büchner, German-Swiss poet and playwright (born 1813)aged 24 years
- 1897Karl Weierstrass, German mathematician and academic (born 1815)aged 82 years
- 1916Ernst Mach, Austrian-Czech physicist and philosopher (born 1838)aged 78 years
- 1951André Gide, French novelist, essayist, and dramatist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1869)aged 82 years
- 1952Knut Hamsun, Norwegian novelist, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1859)aged 93 years
- 1988André Frédéric Cournand, French-American physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1895)aged 93 years
- 1997Deng Xiaoping, Chinese politician, paramount leader and 1st Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China (born 1904)aged 93 years
Sources : Wikipedia (en) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Data imported on 2026-08-26
The day in words
In New York the sun rises at 06:44 and sets at 17:35, giving 10h 51m of daylight — 3 minutes more than yesterday. It has been winter since December 21, 2025; spring opens in 29 days, on March 20, 2026 (March equinox).
The moon is a waxing crescent, 6% illuminated. The next full moon falls on March 3, 2026 and the next new moon on March 19, 2026.
The saints' calendar attaches February 19 to Beatus of Liébana, Quodvultdeus and Philothei of Athens.
No United Nations international day falls on February 19. The next one on the calendar is World Day of Social Justice, on February 20.
It is not a public holiday in the United States.
On this day in history: Emperor Septimius Severus defeats usurper Clodius Albinus in the Battle of Lugdunum, the bloodiest battle between Roman armies (197); Having already been elected to the throne of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1587, Sigismund III of the House of Vasa is crowned King of Sweden, having succeeded his father John III of Sweden in 1592 (1594). English Wikipedia records 10 events for this date.
Nicolaus Copernicus was born on February 19, 1473; Tokugawa Tsunayoshi died on February 19, 1709.
309 days remain until Christmas and 316 until New Year's Day.
In astrology — kept separate from the measured astronomy above, deliberately — February 19 falls under the sign of Pisces.
Calendar
By the numbers
- 14%
- of the year elapsed
- 309
- until Christmas
- 316
- until New Year
- 740
- until the next 29 February
2026 — Common year (365 days)
Work with dates
Sources
Every block on this page names where its data comes from. Nothing here is generated when the source is silent.
- United Nations — International Days— What's celebrated today
- Wikidata (P841)— Saints and name days · CC0 1.0
- Wikipedia (en)— On this day in history · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Data imported on 2026-08-26