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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
3102 BC - Epoch (origin) of the Kali Yuga 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 , convicted of treason against his older brother Edward IV of England , is privately 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 in the United States Senate begins and lasts until March 11 .
1856 - The American Party (Know-Nothings ) convene in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to nominate their first 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, King 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 .
1930 - Elm Farm Ollie becomes the first 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 name for Manchuria ) independent from China .
1943 - The 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 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.
1974 - The game show Tattletales debuts in the slot vacated by the long-running soap opera The Secret Storm .
1974 - KISS releases their self-titled debut album.
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 in Seattle, Washington , said to be the largest robbery-motivated mass-murder in American history.
1985 - The legendary "mirror globe" ident, first used in 1969 , is seen for the last time in regular rotation on BBC1 .
1998 - Two white separatists are arrested in Nevada and accused of plotting a biological attack on New York City 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
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 )
1635 - Johan Göransson Gyllenstierna , Swedish statesman (d. 1680 )
1609 - Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon , English statesman and historian (d. 1674 )
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 , 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 )
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 )
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 or and publisher
1922 - Allan Melvin , American actor
1925 - George Kennedy , American actor
1927 - John Warner , United States Senator
1929 - Len Deighton , British author
1930 - Gahan Wilson , American cartoonist
1931 - Johnny Hart , American cartoonist
1931 - Toni Morrison , American writer, Nobel Prize laureate
1931 - Bob St. Clair , American football player
1932 - Milos Forman , Czech film director
1933 - Bobby Robson , English football manager
1933 - Yoko Ono , Japanese-born singer, artist, and wife of John Lennon
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 - Princess Christina of the Netherlands
1947 - Dennis DeYoung , American musician (Styx )
1948 - Sinéad Cusack , Irish actress
1949 - Gary Ridgway , American serial killer
1950 - John Hughes , American director, producer, and writer
1950 - Cybill Shepherd , American actress
1952 - Maurice Lucas , American basketball player
1952 - Juice Newton , American entertainer
1954 - John Travolta , American actor
1957 - Vanna White , American game show presenter
1957 - Marita Koch , German athlete
1959 - Jayne Atkinson, British actress
1960 - Greta Scacchi , Italian actress
1962 - Julie Strain , actress
1964 - Matt Dillon , American actor
1965 - Dr. Dre , American rapper and record producer
1967 - Roberto Baggio , Italian footballer
1968 - Molly Ringwald , American actress
1970 - Susan Egan , American musical actress
1973 - Claude Makelele , French footballer
1975 - Gary Neville , English footballer
1981 - Andrei Kirilenko , Russian basketball player
1981 - Buddy Nielsen , American singer (Senses Fail )
1983 - Jermaine Jenas - English Footballer
1985 - Lee Boyd Malvo , American serial killer
1988 - Rihanna , first female reggae 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
1478 - George, Duke of Clarence , brother of 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 , Itlian 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 )
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
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
1993 - Jacqueline Hill , British actress (b. 1929 )
1997 - Emily Hahn , American writer (b. 1905 )
1998 - Harry Caray , baseball broadcaster (b. 1917 )
1999 - Noam Pitlik , American actor and director (b. 1932 )
2001 - Balthus , French-Polish painter (b. 1908 )
2001 - Dale Earnhardt , American race car driver (b. 1951 )
2001 - Eddie Mathews , baseball player (b. 1931 )
2003 - Isser Harel , Israeli Mossad leader (b. 1912 )
2003 - Johnny PayCheck , American singer (b. 1938 )
2004 - Jean Rouch , French filmmaker and ethnologist (b. 1917 )
Holidays and observances
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