🎂 Nicolaus Copernicus is born (1473)
Where: Toruń, Poland
📅 On This Day: February 19
February 19, 1473: Nicolaus Copernicus is born. Nicolaus Copernicus was born in 1473 in Toruń, Poland. In his time people believed the Sun went around the Earth, but he argued that the Earth goes around the Sun. This idea completely changed how people saw the universe.
✨ More events on this day
- 1819 🧭 British sailor William Smith discovered the South Shetland Islands, a chain of icy islands just off the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula.
- 1878 💡 Thomas Edison received a patent for the phonograph, the first machine that could record sounds and play them back again.
- 2002 🚀 NASA's Mars Odyssey began mapping Mars with a heat camera, and it later found signs of lots of water ice hidden under the surface.
🧠 Question of the day
What did Copernicus say goes around what?
- The Earth goes around the Sun
- The Moon goes around Mars
- The Sun goes around the Earth
Show the answer
Answer: The Earth goes around the Sun
🎂 Landmarks that opened on February 19
Questions
What happened on February 19?
February 19, 1473: Nicolaus Copernicus is born. It happened in Toruń, Poland.
Which landmarks opened on February 19?
Hotel del Coronado (opened 1888), Avicii Arena (Globen) (opened 1989).
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