February 18 in recent years
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2007 (Sunday)
2006 (Saturday)
2005 (Friday)
2004 (Wednesday)
2003 (Tuesday)
2002 (Monday)
2001 (Sunday)
2000 (Friday)
February 18 is the 49th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar . There are 316 days remaining until the end of the year (317 in leap years ).
Events [ ]
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.
1229 - The Sixth Crusade : Frederick II signs a ten-year truce with al-Kamil , regaining Jerusalem , Nazareth , and Bethlehem with neither military engagements nor support from the papacy .
1268 - The Livonian Brothers of the Sword are defeated by Dovmont of Pskov in the Battle of Rakovor .
1332 (or 1329 ) - Amda Seyon I , Emperor of Ethiopia begins his campaigns in the southern Muslim provinces.
1478 - George , Duke of Clarence , convicted of treason against his older brother Edward IV of England , is privately executed in the Tower of London .
1587 - Mary I of Scotland , queen of Scots , is executed at Fotheringhay Castle , Northamptonshire , England , after being convicted of high treason .
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 to nominate their first Presidential candidate, former President Millard Fillmore .
1861 - In Montgomery , 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 - Union forces under Major General William T. Sherman set the South Carolina State House on fire during the burning of Columbia .
1878 - The Lincoln County War begins in Lincoln County .
1885 - Mark Twain 's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published for the first time.
1901 - Winston Churchill makes his maiden speech in the British House of Commons .
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 a fixed-wing aircraft and also the first cow to be milked in an aircraft.
1932 - The Empire of Japan declares Manzhouguo (obsolete Chinese name for Manchuria ) independent from the Republic of 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.
1954 - The first Church of Scientology is established in Los Angeles , California .
1957 - Dedan Kimathi , a Kenyan rebel leader is executed by the British colonial government.
1965 - The Gambia becomes independent from the United Kingdom .
1969 - Hawthorne Nevada Airlines Flight 708 disaster kills all on board.
1970 - The Chicago Seven are found not guilty of conspiring to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic Party national convention.
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.
1977 - The Space Shuttle Enterprise test vehicle goes on its maiden "flight" while sitting on top of a Boeing 747 .
1979 - Snow fell in the Sahara Desert in southern Algeria for the first and only recorded time in history.
1983 - Thirteen people die and one is seriously injured in the Wah Mee Massacre in Seattle , said to be the largest robbery-motivated mass-murder in American history.
1991 - The IRA explodes bombs in the early morning at both Paddington station and Victoria station in London .
1998 - Two white separatists are arrested in Nevada and accused of plotting a biological attack on New York City subways .
2000 - Stjepan Mesić becomes the second president of Croatia .
2001 - FBI agent Robert Hanssen is arrested for spying for the Soviet Union . He was ultimately convicted and sentenced to life in prison .
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 finished second.
2003 - Nearly 200 people die in the Daegu subway fire in South Korea
2003 - Comet C/2002 V1 makes perihelion, seen by SOHO.
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 [ ]
1374 - Saint Jadwiga of Poland , queen of Poland (d. 1399 )
1486 - Chaitanya Mahaprabhu , Bengali saint, bhakti yoga developer
1516 - Queen Mary I of England (d. 1558 )
1530 - Uesugi Kenshin , Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1578 )
1543 - Charles III (d. 1608 )
1559 - Isaac Casaubon , French classical scholar (d. 1614 )
1602 - Per Brahe , Swedish soldier (d. 1680 )
1609 - Edward Hyde , English 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 )
1814 - Samuel Fenton Cary , U. S. Congressman (d. 1900 )
1836 - Sri Ramakrishna , Bengali saint, guru of Swami Vivekananda (d. 1886 )
1838 - Ernst Mach , Austrian physicist (d. 1916 )
1846 - Wilson Barrett , English 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 (d. 1916 )
1870 - William Laurel Harris , American mural painter, writer (d. 1924 )
1871 - Harry Brearley , English inventor (d. 1948 )
1883 - Nikos Kazantzakis , Greek author (d. 1957 )
1884 - Andrew Watson Myles , Canadian politician (d. 1970 )
1888 - George Papandreou , Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1968 )
1890 - Edward Arnold , American actor (d. 1956 )
1890 - Adolphe Menjou , American actor (d. 1963 )
1892 - Wendell Willkie , American politician (d. 1944 )
1896 - Andre Breton , French writer (d. 1966 )
1897 - Charles Kuentz , WW1 veteran, changed nationality 5 times (d.2005 )
1898 - Enzo Ferrari , Italian race car driver (d. 1988 )
1898 - Luis Muñoz Marín , Puerto Rican poet (d. 1980 )
1901 - Reginald Sheffield , British actor (d. 1957 )
1901 - Wayne King , saxophonist, bandleader (d. 1985 )
1902 - Walter Herbert , German-born conductor and impresario (d. 1975 )
1903 - Nikolai Podgorny , President of the Soviet Union (d. 1983 )
1906 - Hans Asperger , Austrian pediatrician (d. 1980 )
1907 - Oscar Brodney , American screenwriter
1909 - Wallace Stegner , American writer (d. 1993 )
1914 - Pee Wee King , American country musician and songwriter (d. 2000 )
1915 - Phyllis Calvert , British actress (d. 2002 )
1916 - Jean Drapeau , Quebec politician, mayor of Montreal (d. 1999 )
1919 - Jack Palance , American actor (d. 2006 )
1920 - Bill Cullen , American game show host (d. 1990 )
1920 - Eric Gairy , Grenadan politician (d. 1997 )
1922 - Helen Gurley Brown , American editor
1922 - Allan Melvin , American actor
1922 - Juhan Smuul , Estonian author (d. 1971 )
1924 - Humberto Fernández Morán , Venezuelan scientist (d. 1999 )
1924 - Louis Laberge , Quebec labour union leader (d. 2002 )
1925 - George Kennedy , American actor
1925 - Marcel Barbeau , Quebec artist
1927 - John Warner , American politician
1927 - Luis Arroyo , Puerto Rican baseball player
1928 - Tom Johnson , Canadian ice hockey player
1929 - Len Deighton , British author
1930 - Gahan Wilson , American cartoonist
1931 - Johnny Hart , American cartoonist (d. 2007 )
1931 - Toni Morrison , American writer, Nobel laureate
1931 - Bob St. Clair , American football player
1932 - Miloš Forman , Czech film director
1933 - Yoko Ono , Japanese-born singer
1933 - Sir Bobby Robson , English football manager
1933 - Mary Ure , Scottish actress (d. 1975 )
1935 - Michel Aoun , Lebanese prime minister
1936 - Jean Auel , American writer
1936 - Dick Duff , Canadian ice hockey player
1938 - István Szabó , Hungarian film director
1939 - Dal Maxvill , American baseball player
1939 - Marek Janowski , Polish-born conductor
1941 - Irma Thomas , American singer
1943 - Graeme Garden , Scottish writer
1944 - Pat Bowlen , owner of the Denver Broncos
1945 - Judy Rankin , American golfer
1946 - Michael Buerk , British newsreader
1946 - Jean-Claude Dreyfus , French actor
1947 - Dennis DeYoung , American musician (STYX )
1947 - Princess Christina of the Netherlands
1947 - Carlos Lopes , Portuguese athlete
1947 - Eliot Lance Engel , American politician
1948 - Sinéad Cusack , Irish actress
1948 - Keith Knudsen , American drummer and songwriter (The Doobie Brothers ) (d. 2005 )
1949 - Gary Ridgway , American serial killer
1950 - John Hughes , American director
1950 - Cybill Shepherd , American actress
1950 - Michel Gauthier , Quebec politician
1951 - Isabel Preysler , Spanish socialite
1952 - Maurice Lucas , American basketball player
1952 - Juice Newton , American singer
1953 - Robbie Bachman , Canadian drummer (Bachman-Turner Overdrive )
1954 - John Travolta , American actor
1955 - Miles Tredinnick , English playwright
1955 - Raymond Rougeau , Canadian professional wrestler
1956 - Ted Gärdestad , Swedish singer (d. 1997 )
1957 - Marita Koch , German athlete
1957 - Vanna White , American game show presenter
1958 - Giovanni Lavaggi , Italian racing driver
1958 - Gar Samuelson , American drummer (d. 1999 )
1960 - Carol McGiffin , British TV and radio presenter
1960 - Greta Scacchi , Australian actress
1960 - Andy Moog , Canadian ice hockey player
1962 - Julie Strain , American actress
1964 - Matt Dillon , American actor
1964 - Paul Hanley , British musician (The Fall , Tom Hingley and the Lovers )
1965 - Dr. Dre , American rapper
1965 - Gregory Scott Johnson , American murderer (d. 2005 )
1966 - Guy Ferland , American television director
1967 - Roberto Baggio , Italian footballer
1968 - Molly Ringwald , American actress
1968 - Tommy Scott , British musician (Space )
1969 - Alexander Mogilny , Russian ice hockey player
1969 - Jason Sutter , American drummer (Smash Mouth , American Hi-Fi )
1970 - Raine Maida , Canadian musician (Our Lady Peace )
1970 - Susan Egan , American actress
1971 - Constantin Popa , Romanian-Israeli basketball player
1973 - Claude Makélélé , French footballer
1974 - Jamey Carroll , American baseball player
1974 - Yevgeny Kafelnikov , Russian tennis player
1975 - Keith Gillespie , Irish footballer
1975 - Gary Neville , English footballer
1976 - Leilani Munter , American race car driver
1977 - Kátia , Brazilian footballer
1977 - Sean Watkins , American guitarist and songwriter
1978 - Josip Simunic , Croatian footballer
1980 - Regina Spektor , Russian-born singer and songwriter
1980 - Nikolai Antropov , Kazakh ice hockey player
1981 - Andrei Kirilenko , Russian basketball player
1981 - Ivan Sproule , Irish footballer
1981 - Kim Jae Won , South Korean actor
1981 - Alex Rios , American baseball player
1983 - Juelz Santana , American rapper
1983 - Jermaine Jenas , English footballer
1983 - Jason Maxiell , American basketball player
1984 - Buddy Nielsen , American singer (Senses Fail )
1985 - Lee Boyd Malvo , American serial killer
1985 - Anton Ferdinand , English footballer
1986 - Marc Torrejón , Spanish footballer
1988 - Maiara Walsh , American actress
Deaths [ ]
806 - Tarasius , Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 730 )
814 - Angilbert , Frankish monk and confidant of Charlemagne
901 - Thabit ibn Qurra , Arab astronomer and mathematician (b. 826 )
999 - Pope Gregory V (b. 972 )
1139 - Prince Yaropolk II of Kiev (b. 1082 )
1294 - Kublai Khan , Mongol Emperor (b. 1215 )
1379 - Albert II of Mecklenburg (b. 1318 )
1405 - Tamerlane , Mongol Emperor (b. 1336 )
1455 - Fra Angelico , Italian artist (b. 1395 )
1478 - George , brother of Kings Edward IV of England 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, duc de Bourgogne , 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 , 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 )
1842 - Thomas Hazlehurst , English soap and alkali manufacturer (b. 1779 )
1851 - Carl Gustav Jakob Jacobi , German mathematician (b. 1804 )
1893 - Serranus Clinton Hastings , American politician (b. 1814 )
1895 - Karl Abs , German professional wrestler (b. 1851 )
1900 - Clinton L. Merriam , American politician (b. 1824 )
1902 - Charles Lewis Tiffany , American founder of Tiffany & Co. (b. 1812 )
1906 - John Batterson Stetson , American manufacturer (b. 1830 )
1911 - Billy Murdoch , Australian cricketer (b. 1854 )
1931 - Milan Šufflay , 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 )
1945 - Ivan Chernyakhovsky , Russian general (b. 1906 )
1956 - Gustave Charpentier , French composer (b. 1860 )
1957 - Dedan Kimathi , Kenyan rebel leader (b. 1920 )
1957 - Henry Norris Russell , American astronomer (b. 1877 )
1964 - Joseph-Armand Bombardier , Quebec inventor and industrialist (b. 1907 )
1966 - Robert Rossen , American screenwriter, producer, and director (b. 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 manufacturer (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 )
1995 - Bob Stinson , American guitarist (b.1959 )
1997 - Emily Hahn , American writer (b. 1905 )
1998 - Harry Caray , American baseball broadcaster (b. 1914 )
1999 - Noam Pitlik , American actor and director (b. 1932 )
2000 - Willy Maltaite , Belgian comics creator (b. 1927
2001 - Balthus , Polish-born painter (b. 1908 )
2001 - Dale Earnhardt , American race car driver (b. 1951 )
2001 - Eddie Mathews , American baseball player (b. 1931 )
2003 - Isser Harel , Israeli Mossad leader (b. 1912 )
2003 - Johnny Paycheck , American country singer/songwriter (b. 1938 )
2004 - Jean Rouch , French filmmaker and ethnologist (b. 1917 )
2006 - Richard Bright , American actor (b. 1937 )
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136 Familypedia people were born on February 18
157 Familypedia people died on February 18
130 Familypedia people were first married on February 18