February 19, 1998 Grandpa Jones, country comic/banjo wizard (Hee Haw), dies at 84 February 19, 1998 Soyuz TM-26 lands February 19, 1998 U.S. hockey team destroys their rooms at Olympic village in Japan February 19, 1997 Deng Xiaoping, head (Chinese Communist Party), dies at 92 February 19, 1997 FCC makes available 311 for non-emergency calls & 711 for hearing or speech-impaired emergency calls February 19, 1997 Leo Rosten, writer/humourist (Joys of Yiddish), dies at 88 February 19, 1997 Stanley Pearson, footballer, dies at 76 February 19, 1996 Brenda Bruce, actress (December Bride, Nightmare), dies at 77 February 19, 1996 Charles O Finley, baseball owner (Oakland A's), dies at 76 February 19, 1996 Grant Sawyer, U.S. politician, dies at 76 February 19, 1996 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in York PA on WQXA 105.7 FM February 19, 1996 Madhaviah Krishnan, naturalist, dies at 83 February 19, 1995 Calder Willingham, novelist/Scriptwriter, dies at 72 February 19, 1995 Ian Ball, photographer, dies at 80 February 19, 1995 Irina Privalova runs indoor woman's European record 200m (22.10 sec) February 19, 1995 Kenneth Koch wins Bollingen Prize February 19, 1995 Linford Christie runs European record 60m indoor (6.47 sec) February 19, 1995 Linford Christie runs world record 200m indoor (20.25 sec) February 19, 1995 Shlomo Averbach, Israeli ultra-orthodox rabbi, dies at 84 February 19, 1994 Derek Jarman, actor/director (Tempest), dies of AIDS at 52