• Today is Wednesday, Feb. 19, the 50th day of 2014. There are 315 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On Feb. 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, clearing the way for the U.S. military to relocate and intern Japanese-Americans during World War II.
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• On this date:
• In 1473, astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus was born in Torun, Poland.
• In 1803, Congress voted to accept Ohio's borders and constitution.
• In 1864, the Order of the Knights of Pythias, an international, non-sectarian fraternal organization, was founded in Washington, D.C.
• In 1881, Kansas prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages.
• In 1934, a blizzard began inundating the northeastern United States, with the heaviest snowfall occurring in Connecticut and Massachusetts.
• In 1945, during World War II, some 30,000 U.S. Marines began landing on Iwo Jima, where they began a successful month-long battle to seize control of the island from Japanese forces.
• In 1959, an agreement was signed by Britain, Turkey and Greece granting Cyprus its independence.
• In 1964, the French movie musical "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg" premiered in France.
• In 1976, calling the issuing of Executive Order 9066 "a sad day in American history," President Gerald R. Ford issued a proclamation confirming that the order had been terminated with the formal cessation of hostilities of World War II.
• In 1984, the Winter Olympics closed in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.
• In 1997, Deng Xiaoping, the last of China's major Communist revolutionaries, died at age 92.
• In 2008, an ailing Fidel Castro resigned the Cuban presidency after nearly a half-century in power; his brother Raul was later named to succeed him.
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• Ten years ago: Former Enron Corp. chief executive Jeffrey Skilling was brought

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