On This Day, Feb. 19: Iranian military plane crashes, killing 275


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1/7 On February 19, 2003, all 275 people aboard an Iranian military transport plane, similar to the one pictured, were killed when it crashed in a mountainous region of southeastern Iran. File Photo by Waka77/Wikimedia Feb. 19 (UPI) -- On this date in history: In 1878, Thomas Edison patented the first gramophone. Advertisement In 1922, vaudeville star Ed Wynn became the first big name in show business to sign for a regular radio show. In 1942, as a security measure during World War II, the U.S. government began relocating Japanese-Americans living in coastal Pacific areas to internment camps in remote...