On February 19, 1807, former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr was arrested for treason and confined to Fort Stoddert. He would later be acquitted.
In 1861, on this day in February, serfdom was abolished in Russia.
More than 60 tornadoes struck the Southern United States, on February 19, 1884, one of the largest tornado outbreaks in U.S. history. It must have been due to global warming.