1942Also during World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt adopts a controversial policy on the American's Home Front, he gave the US military authority to relocate and detain Japanese-Americans as well as Japanese nationals living in the US. More than four decades later the government apologizes for the policy and pays money to surviving Japanese-Americans. 1473Nicolas Coprenicus, the astronomer who concluded the sun, not the earth is at the center of our solar system is born in Poland. 1997Deng Xiaoping, the last of China’s major Communist revolutionary dies in Beijing, at age 92. His rules are China embrace free economic reforms and the Tiananmen Square Massacre.

And 1940Singer and song writer Smokey Robinson, one of voices who shape the Motown Sound of the 60's, is born in Detroit.

Today in History, February 19th, Brian Thomas, the Associated Press.