On This Day: February 19th

Mya Thwe Thwe Khine, a 19-year-old protester, becomes the first known casualty of anti-coup protests that formed in response to the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état.

Nine people are killed in two domestic terrorist shootings in Hanau, Hesse, Germany.

Forty-four people are killed in a prison brawl in Apodaca, Nuevo León, Mexico.

The debut exhibition of the Belitung shipwreck, containing the largest collection of Tang dynasty artifacts found in one location, begins in Singapore.

A methane explosion in a coal mine near Nueva Rosita, Mexico, kills 65 miners.

An Ilyushin Il-76 military aircraft crashes near Kerman, Iran, killing 275.

NASA's Mars Odyssey space probe begins to map the surface of Mars using its thermal emission imaging system.

Flying Tiger Line Flight 066 crashes into a hill near Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport in Malaysia, killing four.

A Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner operating as AVAir Flight 3378 crashes in Cary, North Carolina, killing 12.

Akkaraipattu massacre: the Sri Lankan Army massacres 80 Tamil farm workers in eastern Sri Lanka.