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What happened on February 18
- February 18, 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."
- February 18, 1268 The Livonian Brothers of the Sword are defeated by Dovmont of Pskov in the Battle of Rakovor.
- February 18, 1332 "Amda Seyon I, Emperor of Ethiopia begins his campaigns in the southern Muslim provinces. (some sources state 1329)"
- February 18, 1478 "George, Duke of Clarence, convicted of treason against his older brother Edward IV of England, is privately executed in the Tower of London."
- February 18, 1503 Henry Tudor created Prince of Wales (later Henry VIII)
- February 18, 1536 France & Turkey sign military/trade agreement against King Karel
- February 18, 1546 "Martin Luther, who started the Lutheran religion, dies in Germany."
- February 18, 1563 Huguenot Jean Poltrot de M‚r‚ shoots General Fran‡ois De Guise
- February 18, 1564 Michelangelo dies in Rome.
- February 18, 1574 Zeeland falls to Dutch rebels
- February 18, 1634 "Ferdinand II orders commander Albrecht von Wallenstein, execution"
- February 18, 1678 "John Bunyan's ""The Pilgrim's Progress"" is published"
- February 18, 1685 Fort St. Louis is established by a Frenchman at Matagorda Bay thus forming the basis for France's claim to Texas.
- February 18, 1688 "First vote against slavery is recorded in the U.S. in Germantown, PA."
- February 18, 1713 French invade under Jacques Cassard on Cura‡ao
- February 18, 1745 Bonnie Prince Charlie's troops occupy Inverness Scotland
- February 18, 1787 Austrian emperor Jozef II bans children under 8 from labor
- February 18, 1797 Trinidad is surrendered to a British fleet under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby.
- February 18, 1814 Battle of Montereau occurs.
- February 18, 1828 "More than 100 vessels destroyed in a storm, near Gibraltar"
- February 18, 1841 "A continuous filibuster in US Senate begins, lasting until March 11"
- February 18, 1841 The first ongoing filibuster in the United States Senate begins and lasts until March 11.
- February 18, 1849 First regular steamboat service to San Francisco CA starts: gold rush prospectors from east coast
- February 18, 1850 California Legislature creates 9 Bay Area counties
- February 18, 1855 "On Feb. 18, 1855, French-Canadian cattle dealer Louis Remme deposited $12,500 in gold in the Sacramento branch of the Adams & Company bank. Shortly afterward he received word that Page, Bacon & Company of St. Louis, the largest financial company west of the Alleghenies, had failed. He returned to the bank but it had already liquidated, depleted by desperate depositors.So Remme jumped on a horse and rode 665 miles north in 143 hours, including 10 hours of sleep and brief stops for food. He arrived in Portland, Ore., on Feb. 26, went straight to the Adams & Company bank, presented his certificate of deposit, and withdrew the $12,500. He had beaten the steamer that carried news of the bank's failure - and Portland had no telegraph."
- February 18, 1856 "The American Party (Know-Nothings) convene in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to nominate their first Presidential candidate, former President Millard Fillmore."
- February 18, 1857 "Insurrection of Chinese in Sarawak, Borneo"
- February 18, 1861 Confederate President Jefferson Davis inaugurated at Montgomery AL
- February 18, 1861 "In Montgomery, Alabama, Jefferson Davis is inaugurated as the provisional President of the Confederate States of America."
- February 18, 1861 King Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia becomes first king of Italy
- February 18, 1861 "With the Italian unification almost complete, King Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont, Savoy and Sardinia assumes the title of King of Italy."
- February 18, 1864 "The Mark Twain classic, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, is published in the U.S."
- February 18, 1865 Battle of Ft Moultrie SC occupied by Federals
- February 18, 1865 Evacuation of Charleston SC; Sherman's troops burn the city
- February 18, 1865 Union forces under Major General William T. Sherman set the South Carolina State House on fire during the burning of Columbia.
- February 18, 1865 Union troops force Confederates to abandon Fort Anderson NC
- February 18, 1876 Direct telegraph link established between Britain & New Zealand
- February 18, 1878 "The Lincoln County War begins in Lincoln County, New Mexico."
- February 18, 1879 Arabs capture Egyptian premier Nabar Pasha
- February 18, 1884 General Charles Gordon arrives in Khartoum
- February 18, 1884 "Police seize all copies of Tolstoy's ""What I Believe In"""
- February 18, 1885 "Mark Twain's ""Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,"" published"
- February 18, 1885 Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published for the first time.
- February 18, 1891 Captain Archinard's army fights with Nyamina of Niger in West-Sudan
- February 18, 1896 Cave of Winds at Niagara Falls goes almost dry for first time in 50 years
- February 18, 1899 "80§ F, San Francisco CA"
- February 18, 1899 San Francisco named as a port of dispatch for Army transports
- February 18, 1900 "Battle at Paardeberg, 1,270 British killed/injured"
- February 18, 1901 H Cecil Booth patented a dust removing suction cleaner
- February 18, 1901 Winston Churchill makes his maiden speech in the British House of Commons.
- February 18, 1902 "Charles F. Tiffany, founder of the jewelry company that bears his name, dies."
- February 18, 1903 Kuyper government launches anti strike laws
- February 18, 1908 US postage stamps in coils issued
- February 18, 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."
- February 18, 1913 "French painting ""Nude Descending a Staircase"" displayed in New York NY"
- February 18, 1913 Raymond Poincar becomes President of France.
- February 18, 1915 Germany begins a blockade of England
- February 18, 1923 Belgium Borinage-mine workers strike for higher wages
- February 18, 1924 "US, Minister of Marine Edwin Denby ends term due to Teapot Dome-scandal"
- February 18, 1927 US & Canada begin diplomatic relations
- February 18, 1929 First Academy Awards are announced.
- February 18, 1930 Elm Farm Ollie becomes the first cow to fly in a fixed-wing aircraft and also the first cow to be milked in an aircraft.
- February 18, 1930 "Pluto, the ninth planet of our solar system, is discovered."
- February 18, 1930 "While studying photographs taken in January, Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto."
- February 18, 1932 Japan declares Manchuria Independent
- February 18, 1932 Sonja Henie wins her 6th straight World Women's figure skating title
- February 18, 1932 The Empire of Japan declares Manzhouguo (obsolete Chinese name for Manchuria) independent from the Republic of China.
- February 18, 1939 The Golden Gate International Exposition opens in San Francisco.
- February 18, 1942 Japanese troop land on Bali
- February 18, 1943 Augusto Pinochet Ugarte (Chilean General/dictator) marries Lucia Hiriart
- February 18, 1943 "First edition of Dutch resistance newspaper ""Trouw"""
- February 18, 1943 Joseph Goebbels delivers the Sportpalast speech.
- February 18, 1943 "Munich resistance group ""White Rose"" captured by Nazis"
- February 18, 1943 The Nazis arrest the members of the White Rose movement.
- February 18, 1944 Maastricht resistance fighter JAJ Janssen arrested
- February 18, 1947 24 die in a train crash in Gallitzin PA
- February 18, 1948 Eamon de Valera resigns as Taoiseach of Ireland.
- February 18, 1951 Nep l becomes a constitutional monarchy
- February 18, 1952 "4th Emmy Awards Red Skelton, Sid Caesar & Imogene Coca win"
- February 18, 1953 "Premiere of first 3-D feature film-""Bwana Devil"" (New York NY)"
- February 18, 1953 "The first 3D film, Bwana Devil, opens."
- February 18, 1954 "The first Church of Scientology is established in Los Angeles, California."
- February 18, 1955 "Baghdad Pact signed, making Turkey & Iraq a defense alliance"
- February 18, 1957 "Dedan Kimathi, a Kenyan rebel leader is executed by the British colonial government."
- February 18, 1960 "U.S. Vice President Nixon opens the Eighth Winter Olympic Games in Squaw Valley, CA."
- February 18, 1961 Henk van der Grift becomes world champion skater
- February 18, 1962 France & Algerian Moslems negotiate truce to end 7 year war
- February 18, 1964 Papandreou government takes power in Greece
- February 18, 1965 "27 copper miners die in avalanche, Granduc Mountain British Columbia"
- February 18, 1965 Gambia gains independence from Britain (National Day)
- February 18, 1965 Number one hit on UK music charts - The Kinks - Tired Of Waiting For You
- February 18, 1965 The Gambia becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
- February 18, 1968 "10,000 demonstrators against US in Vietnam War in West-Berlin"
- February 18, 1968 David Gilmour joins rock group Pink Floyd
- February 18, 1968 "UK hist British Standard Time introduced ? Summer Time became permanent [which I remember thinking was a great idea!], but arguments prevailed and we reverted to GMT in October 1971 :?("
- February 18, 1969 Hawthorne Nevada Airlines Flight 708 disaster kills all on board.
- February 18, 1969 PLO-attack El-Al plane in Zurich Switzerland
- February 18, 1970 The Chicago Seven are found innocent of conspiring to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic national convention.
- February 18, 1970 "US President Nixon launches ""Nixon-doctrine"""
- February 18, 1972 California Supreme Court abolishes death penalty
- February 18, 1972 Giulio Andreotti sworn in as premier of Italy
- February 18, 1972 John & Yoko end a week of co-hosting Mike Douglas Show
- February 18, 1972 "The California Supreme Court in the case of People v. Anderson, 6 Cal.3d 628 invalidates the state's death penalty and commutes the sentences of all death row inmates to life in prison."
- February 18, 1973 "54-kg octopus measuring 7 meter across captured in Hood Canal, Washington"
- February 18, 1974 NASA launches Italian satellite San Marcos C-2 (235/843 km)
- February 18, 1975 2nd American Music Award
- February 18, 1975 Italy broadens abortion law
- February 18, 1977 "The first space shuttle, Enterprise, makes its maiden flight (carried atop a Boeing 747), over the Mojave Desert."
- February 18, 1978 Number one hit on UK music charts - Abba - Take A Chance On Me
- February 18, 1978 "The first Iron Man Triathlon (swim, bike ride, marathon) held, Kona HI"
- February 18, 1979 "-52§ F (-47§ C), Old Forge NY (state record)"
- February 18, 1979 "Miniseries ""Roots The Next Generations"" premieres on ABC TV"
- February 18, 1979 President Zia ur-Rahmans National Party wins elections in Bangladesh
- February 18, 1979 Snow fell in the Sahara Desert in southern Algeria for the first and only recorded time in history.
- February 18, 1980 Billy Wyman said he will leave the Rolling Stones in 1983 (Sure!)
- February 18, 1982 Late Pope John Paul ll visited Nigeria.
- February 18, 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."
- February 18, 1984 Revised concordat between Italy & the Vatican signed
- February 18, 1988 Anthony M. Kennedy is sworn in as the 104th justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
- February 18, 1991 The IRA explodes bombs in the early morning at both Paddington station and Victoria station in London.
- February 18, 1994 Actor Joe Pantoliano (41) weds model Nancy Sheppard (31)
- February 18, 1995 Pamela Anderson (Baywatch) & Tommy Lee (Motley Crue) wed
- February 18, 1996 Tendulkar scores 127 in India's Cricket World Cup win over Kenya
- February 18, 1998 Two white separatists are arrested in Nevada and accused of plotting a biological attack on New York City subways.
- February 18, 1999 "Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic is warned by the U.S. to make peace with ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, or face military intervention."
- February 18, 2000 Stjepan Mesi becomes the second president of Croatia.
- February 18, 2001 "Dale Earnhardt is killed in a crash during the final lap of the Daytona 500, which was won by Michael Waltrip, driving in a car that Earnhardt owned. His son, Dale Earnhardt, Jr. finished second."
- February 18, 2001 FBI agent Robert Hanssen is arrested for spying for the Soviet Union. He was ultimately convicted and sentenced to life in prison.
- February 18, 2003 "Comet C/2002 V1 (NEAT) makes perihelion, seen by SOHO."
- February 18, 2003 Nearly 200 people die in the Daegu subway fire in South Korea
- February 18, 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."
- February 18, 2005 "The United Kingdom law banning fox hunting, hare coursing and other sports which kill wild mammals is enforced from this date."
- February 18, 2010 Joseph Stack flies his plane into the side of an Austin Texas Internal Revenue Service building. He was killed. - USA
- February 18, 2010 "NORTH RICHLAND HILLS Texas -Eric Frias, 24, of Fort Worth led police on a chase in a car with a dead woman inside, died after he was shot while pointing a pistol at officers. Police found the body of Martha Martinez, 22. of Fort Worth in the car. - USA"
- February 18, 3102 BC - Epoch (origin) of the Kali Yuga- Lord Krishna is believed by Hare Krishnas and Hindus to have left the planet on this day.
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