February 19th Congress overlooks Benedict Arnold for promotion, 1777

THIS DAY IN HISTORY, FEBRUARY 19TH

LEAD STORY

Donner Party rescued,1847

AMERICAN REVOLUTION

Congress overlooks Benedict Arnold for promotion, 1777

AUTOMOTIVE

Yarborough wins fourth Daytona 500, 1984

CIVIL WAR

Yankee General Francis Preston Blair Jr. born,1821

COLD WAR

United States calls situation in El Salvador a communist plot, 1981

CRIME

Angry San Francisco vigilantes take the law into their own hands,1851

DISASTER

Tornadoes strike the Southeast, 1884

GENERAL INTEREST

Copernicus born, 1473

Aaron Burr arrested for treason, 1807

Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066,1942

Solzhenitsyn reunited with family, 1974

HOLLYWOOD

Bob Hope marries Dolores Reade, 1934

LITERARY

Amy Tan's birthday, 1952

MUSIC

Thomas Alva Edison patents the phonograph,1878

OLD WEST

Rescuers reach Donner Party, 1847

PRESIDENTIAL

FDR signs Executive Order 9066, 1942

SPORTS

Patrick Roy gets 300th win as NHL goalie, 1996

Tiger Woods apologizes for extramarital affairs,2010

VIETNAM WAR

South Vietnamese coup unsuccessful, 1965

Chicago Seven sentenced, 1970

WORLD WAR I

British navy bombards Dardanelles, 1915

WORLD WAR II

Marines invade Iwo Jima,1945