FEBRUARY 19
1942:Less than three months after the United States entered World War II,
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066, which would
ultimately authorize the internment of about 120,000 Japanese nationals and Japanese Americans, confining them to camps without formal charge or evidence.
1963: Betty Friedan's The Feminist Mystique, an examination of American women's domestic life, is published. The seminal work probes the social conditions that cause many women to feel unhappy at home and sparks the modern feminism movement in the United States.
1984: Phil and Steve Mahre are the first twins to win gold and silver medals in the same event in a single Olympic games. Phil has an especially golden day in Sarajevo, Bosnia, as he stands atop the podium after their 1-2 sweep in the slalom; only an hour earlier, his wife had given birth to their first child.
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