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February 18
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February 18''' is the 49th day of the year in the
Gregorian Calendar. There are 316 days remaining (317 in
leap years).
Events
*
4th millennium BC 3102 BC -
epoch (reference date) Epoch (origin) of the
Kali Yuga-
Krishna Lord Krishna leaves his mortal coil.
*
1229 - The
Sixth Crusade:
Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor signs a ten-year
truce with
al-Kamil, regaining
Jerusalem,
Nazareth, and
Bethlehem with neither military engagements nor support from the
papacy.
*
1478 -
George, Duke of Clarence George,
Duke of Clarence, convicted of
treason against his older brother
Edward IV of England, is privately
execution (legal) executed in the
Tower of London.
*
1685 -
Fort St. Louis is established by a
Frenchman at
Matagorda Bay thus forming the basis for
France's claim to
Texas.
*
1797 -
Trinidad is surrendered to a
British fleet under the command of
Sir Ralph Abercromby.
*
1814 -
Battle of Montereau occurs.
*
1841 - The first ongoing
filibuster (legislative tactic) filibuster in the
United States Senate begins and lasts until
March 11.
*
1856 - The
Know-Nothing movement American Party (''Know-Nothings'') convene in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to nominate their first
President of the United States Presidential candidate, former
President Millard Fillmore.
*
1861 - In
Montgomery, Alabama,
Jefferson Davis is inaugurated as the provisional
President of the
Confederate States of America.
* 1861 - With the
Italian unification almost complete,
Monarch King Victor Emmanuel II of Italy Victor Emmanuel II of
Piedmont,
Savoy and
Sardinia assumes the title of
King of Italy.
*
1865 - In the
U.S.,
Delaware voters reject the
13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and vote to continue the practice of slavery. (Delaware finally ratifies the amendment on
February 12,
1901.)
*
1878 - The
Lincoln County War begins in
Lincoln County, New Mexico.
*
1885 -
Mark Twain's ''
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'' is published for the first time.
*
1911 - The first official flight with
air mail takes place in
Allahabad,
British India, when
Henri Pequet, a 23-year-old pilot, delivers 6,500 letters to
Naini, about 10 km away.
*
1913 -
Raymond Poincaré becomes
President of
France.
*
1929 - First
Academy Awards are announced.
*
1930 - While studying photographs taken in
January,
Clyde Tombaugh discovers
Pluto (planet) Pluto.
* 1930 -
Elm Farm Ollie becomes the first
cattle cow to fly in an
airplane and also the first cow to be milked in an airplane.
*
1932 - The
Empire of Japan declares
Manzhouguo (obsolete
Chinese language Chinese name for
Manchuria) independent from
China.
*
1943 - The
Nazism Nazis arrest the members of the
White Rose movement.
* 1943 -
Joseph Goebbels delivers the
Sportpalast speech.
*
1948 -
Eamon de Valera resigns as
Taoiseach of
Ireland.
*
1953 - The first
3D film, ''
Bwana Devil'', opens.
* 1953 -
Lucille Ball and
Desi Arnaz sign an $8,000,000 contract to continue the ''
I Love Lucy''
television series through
1955.
*
1965 -
The Gambia becomes independent from the
United Kingdom.
*
1970 - The
Chicago Eight are found not guilty of conspiring to incite
riots at the
1968 United States Democratic Party Democratic Party national convention.
*
1972 - The
California Supreme Court invalidates the state's
death penalty and commutes the sentences of all
death row inmates to life in prison.
*
1977 - The
Space Shuttle Enterprise test vehicle goes on its maiden "flight" while sitting on top of a
Boeing 747.
*
1983 - Thirteen people die and one is seriously injured in the
Wah Mee massacre Wah Mee Massacre in
Seattle, Washington, said to be the largest robbery-motivated mass-murder in
United States American history.
*
1991 - The
Provisional Irish Republican Army IRA explodes bombs in the early morning at both
Paddington station and
Victoria station (London) Victoria station in
London.
*
1998 - Two
white separatism white separatists are arrested in
Nevada and accused of plotting a
biological warfare biological attack on
New York City metro subways.
*
2003 - Nearly 200 people die in the
Daegu subway fire in
South Korea
*
2004 - Up to 295 people, including nearly 200 rescue workers, die near
Neyshabur in
Iran when a run-away freight
train carrying
sulfur,
petrol and
fertiliser catches fire and explodes.
*
2005 - The
United Kingdom law banning
fox hunting,
hare coursing and other sports which kill wild
mammals is enforced from this date.
Births
*
1486 -
Chaitanya Mahaprabhu,
Bengal Bengali saint,
bhakti yoga developer
*
1516 - Queen
Mary I of England (d.
1558)
*
1530 -
Uesugi Kenshin, Japanese samurai and warlord (d.
1578)
*
1559 -
Isaac Casaubon, French classical scholar (d.
1614)
*
1602 -
Per Brahe (the younger), Swedish soldier and statesman (d.
1680)
*
1609 -
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, English statesman and historian (d.
1674)
*
1635 -
Johan Göransson Gyllenstierna, Swedish statesman (d.
1680)
*
1642 -
Marie Champmeslé, French actress (d.
1698)
*
1658 -
Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre, French writer (d.
1743)
*
1745 -
Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist (d.
1827)
*
1835 -
César Cui, Lithuanian composer (d.
1918)
*
1838 -
Ernst Mach, Austrian physicist and philosopher (d.
1916)
*
1846 -
Wilson Barrett, English actor and playwright (d.
1904)
*
1848 -
Louis Comfort Tiffany, American glass artist (d.
1933)
*
1849 -
Alexander Kielland, Norwegian author (d.
1906)
*
1859 -
Sholom Aleichem, Russian Yiddish humorist and author (d.
1916)
*
1871 -
Harry Brearley, English inventor (d.
1948)
*
1883 -
Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek writer (d.
1957)
*
1884 -
Andrew Watson Myles, Canadian politician (d.
1970)
*
1890 -
Edward Arnold (actor) Edward Arnold, American actor (d.
1956)
* 1890 -
Adolphe Menjou, American actor (d.
1963)
*
1892 -
Wendell Willkie, U.S. Presidential candidate (d.
1944)
*
1896 -
Andre Breton, French writer (d.
1966)
*
1898 -
Enzo Ferrari, Italian race car driver and manufacturer (d.
1988)
* 1898 -
Luis Muñoz MarÃn, Puerto Rican poet, journalist, and politician (d.
1980)
*
1901 -
Reginald Sheffield, British actor (d.
1957)
*
1903 -
Nikolai Podgorny,
President of the Soviet Union (d.
1983)
*
1905 -
Jan Gies, Dutch resistance fighter (d.
1993)
*
1906 -
Hans Asperger, Austrian pediatrician (d.
1980)
*
1909 -
Wallace Stegner, American writer (d.
1993)
*
1915 -
Phyllis Calvert, British actress (d.
2002)
*
1919 -
Jack Palance, American actor
*
1920 -
Bill Cullen, American game show host (d.
1990)
* 1920 -
Eric Gairy, Grenadan politician (d.
1997)
*
1922 -
Helen Gurley Brown, American editor and publisher
* 1922 -
Allan Melvin, American actor
*
1924:
Humberto Fernández Morán,
Venezuelan scientist, inventor of
diamond scalpel (d.
1999).
*
1925 -
George Kennedy, American actor
*
1927 -
John Warner, U.S. Senator
*
1929 -
Len Deighton, British author
*
1930 -
Gahan Wilson, American cartoonist
*
1931 -
Johnny Hart, American cartoonist
* 1931 -
Toni Morrison, American writer,
Nobel Prize in Literature Nobel Prize laureate
* 1931 -
Bob St. Clair, American football player
*
1932 -
Miloš Forman, Czech film director
*
1933 -
Yoko Ono, Japanese-born singer, artist, and wife of
John Lennon
* 1933 -
Bobby Robson, English football manager
* 1933 -
Mary Ure, Scottish actress (d.
1975)
*
1936 -
Jean Auel, American writer
*
1938 -
István Szabó, Hungarian film director
*
1943 -
Graeme Garden, Scottish writer, comedian, and actor
*
1945 -
Judy Rankin, American golfer
*
1947 -
Dennis DeYoung, vocalist pianist/keyboardist of
Styx (band) STYX
* 1947 -
Princess Christina of the Netherlands
* 1947 -
Carlos Lopes, Portuguese Olympic athlete
*
1948 -
Sinéad Cusack, Irish actress
*
1949 -
Gary Ridgway, American serial killer
*
1950 -
John Hughes (film director) John Hughes, American director, producer, and writer
* 1950 -
Cybill Shepherd, American actress
*
1952 -
Maurice Lucas, American basketball player
* 1952 -
Juice Newton, American country singer
*
1953 -
Robbie Bachman, Canadian drummer (
Bachman-Turner Overdrive)
*
1954 -
John Travolta, American actor
*
1956 -
Ted Gärdestad, Swedish singer (d.
1997)
*
1957 -
Marita Koch, German athlete
* 1957 -
Vanna White, American game show presenter
*
1960 -
Greta Scacchi, Australian actress
*
1962 -
Julie Strain, American actress
*
1964 -
Matt Dillon, American actor
*
1965 -
Dr. Dre, American rapper and record producer
*
1967 -
Roberto Baggio, Italian footballer
*
1968 -
Molly Ringwald, American actress
*
1969 -
Alexander Mogilny, Russian
ice hockey player
*
1970 -
Raine Maida, Canadian rock musician (
Our Lady Peace)
* 1970 -
Susan Egan, American musical actress
*
1973 -
Claude Makelele, French footballer
*
1974 -
Jamey Carroll, baseball player
*
1975 -
Keith Gillespie, Northern Irish footballer
* 1975 -
Gary Neville, English footballer (
Manchester United)
*
1981 -
Andrei Kirilenko (basketball) Andrei Kirilenko, Russian basketball player
* 1981 -
Buddy Nielsen, American singer (
Senses Fail)
* 1981 -
Ivan Sproule, Northern Irish footballer
*
1982 -
Juelz Santana, American rapper
*
1983 -
Jermaine Jenas, English footballer
*
1985 -
Lee Boyd Malvo, American serial killer
* 1985 -
Anton Ferdinand, English footballer
*
1988 -
Rihanna, West Indian singer
Deaths
*
806 -
Tarasius, Patriarch of Constantinople (b.
1866)
*
814 -
Angilbert, Frankish monk and confidant of
Charlemagne
*
901 -
Thabit ibn Qurra, Arab astronomer and mathematician (b.
826)
*
999 -
Pope Gregory V
*
1139 - Prince
Yaropolk II of Kiev (b.
1082)
*
1294 -
Kublai Khan of the Mongol Empire (b.
1215)
*
1379 -
Albert II of Mecklenburg
*
1405 -
Tamerlane of the Mongol Empire
*
1455 -
Fra Angelico, Italian artist (b.
1395)
*
1478 -
George, Duke of Clarence, brother of
Edward IV of England Edward IV and
Richard III of England (executed) (b.
1449)
*
1535 -
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, astrologer and alchemist (b.
1486)
*
1546 -
Martin Luther, German religious reformer (b.
1483)
*
1564 -
Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian artist (b.
1475)
*
1583 -
Antonio Francesco Grazzini, Italian writer (b.
1503)
*
1654 -
Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac, French writer (b.
1594)
*
1683 -
Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem, Dutch painter (b.
1620)
*
1712 -
Louis, Duke of Burgundy, heir to the throne of France (b.
1682)
*
1718 -
Pierre Antoine Motteux, French-born English dramatist (b.
1663)
*
1743 -
Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici, last of the Medicis (b.
1667)
*
1748 -
Otto Ferdinand Graf von Abensperg und Traun, Austrian field marshal (b.
1677)
*
1772 -
Johann Hartwig Ernst, Count von Bernstorff, Danish statesman (b.
1712)
*
1778 -
Joseph Marie Terray, French statesman (b.
1715)
*
1780 -
Kristijonas Donelaitis, Lithuanian poet (b.
1714)
*
1788 -
John Whitehurst, English clockmaker and scientist (b.
1713)
*
1803 -
Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim, German poet (b.
1719)
*
1931 -
Milan Sufflay, Croatian politician (b.
1879)
*
1933 -
James J. Corbett, American boxer (b.
1866)
*
1938 -
David King Udall, American politician (b.
1851)
*
1942 -
Albert Payson Terhune, American author (b.
1872)
*
1956 -
Gustave Charpentier, French composer (b.
1860)
*
1957 -
Henry Norris Russell, American astronomer (b.
1877)
*
1966 -
Robert Rossen, American screenwriter, producer, and director (d.
1908
*
1967 -
J. Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist (b.
1904)
*
1973 -
Frank Costello, Italian-born gangster (b.
1891)
*
1977 -
Andy Devine, American actor (b.
1905)
*
1978 -
Maggie McNamara, American actress (b.
1928)
*
1981 -
John Knudsen Northrop, American aircraft designer (b.
1895)
*
1982 -
Ngaio Marsh, New Zealand author (b.
1895)
*
1993 -
Kerry Von Erich, American professional wrestler (b.
1960)
* 1993 -
Jacqueline Hill, British actress (b.
1929)
*
1997 -
Emily Hahn, American writer (b.
1905)
*
1998 -
Harry Caray, baseball broadcaster (b.
1914)
*
1999 -
Noam Pitlik, American actor and director (b.
1932)
*
2001 -
Balthus, French-Polish painter (b.
1908)
* 2001 -
Charles Trenet, French singer (b.
1913)
* 2001 -
Dale Earnhardt, American race car driver (b.
1951)
* 2001 -
Eddie Mathews, baseball player (b.
1931)
*
2003 -
Isser Harel, Israeli Mossad leader (b.
1912)
*
2004 -
Jean Rouch, French filmmaker and ethnologist (b.
1917)
*
2006 -
Richard Bright (actor) Richard Bright, American actor (b.
1937)
Holidays and observances
*
Independence Day in
The Gambia (
1965)
External links
-
BBC: On This Day
-
''The New York Times'': On This Day
-
On This Day in Canada
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February 17 -
February 19 -
January 18 -
March 18 --
Historical anniversaries listing of all days
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ar:18 Ù?براير
an:18 de frebero
ast:18 de febreru
be:18 лютага
bs:18. februar
bg:18 февруари
ca:18 de febrer
cv:Ð?арăÑ?, 18
ceb:Pebrero 18
cs:18. únor
co:18 di frivaghju
cy:18 Chwefror
da:18. februar
de:18. Februar
et:18. veebruar
el:18 ΦεβÏ?ουαÏ?ίου
es:18 de febrero
eo:18-a de februaro
eu:Otsailaren 18
fo:18. februar
fr:18 février
fy:18 febrewaris
ga:18 Feabhra
gl:18 de febreiro
ko:2ì›” 18ì?¼
hr:18. veljaÄ?e
io:18 di februaro
ilo:Febrero 18
id:18 Februari
ia:18 de februario
is:18. febrúar
it:18 febbraio
he:18 בפברו×?ר
jv:18 Februari
ka:18 თებერვ�ლი
csb:18 gromicznika
ku:18'ê reşemiyê
la:18 Februarii
lb:18. Februar
lt:Vasario 18
hu:Február 18
mk:18 февруари
ms:18 Februari
nl:18 februari
ja:2月18日
nap:18 'e frevaro
no:18. februar
nn:18. februar
oc:18 de febrièr
pam:Pebreru 18
pl:18 lutego
pt:18 de Fevereiro
ro:18 februarie
ru:18 февралÑ?
war:Pebrero 18
se:Guovvamánu 18.
sco:18 Februar
sq:18 Shkurt
scn:18 di frivaru
simple:February 18
sk:18. február
sl:18. februar
sr:18. фебруар
fi:18. helmikuuta
sv:18 februari
tl:Pebrero 18
tt:18. Febräl
te:ఫిబ�రవరి 18
th:18 �ุมภาพันธ์
vi:18 tháng 2
tr:18 Åžubat
uk:18 лютого
wa:18 di fevrî
zh:2月18日
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