On This Day: Cuban leader Fidel Castro retired after 49 years in power in 2008
Following are some of the major events to have occurred on February 19:1951 - Andre Gide, French novelist, died. He won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1947.1997 - Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping died at 93. He ruled from 1978 until retiring from his last official post in 1990, but his influence rema
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