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Year | Name |
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2014 | At least 76 people are killed and hundreds are injured in clashes between riot police and demonstrators in Kiev, Ukraine. |
2013 | Armed robbers steal a haul of diamonds worth $50 million during a raid at Brussels Airport in Belgium. |
2010 | WikiLeaks publishes the first of hundreds of thousands of classified documents disclosed by the soldier now known as Chelsea Manning. |
2007 | Samjhauta Express bombings occurred around midnight in Diwana near the Indian city of Panipat, 80 kilometres (50 mi) north of New Delhi, India. |
2004 | Up to 295 people, including nearly 200 rescue workers, die near Nishapur, Iran when a runaway freight train carrying sulfur, petrol and fertilizer catches fire and explodes. |
2003 | Nearly 200 people die in the Daegu subway fire in South Korea. |
2001 | FBI agent Robert Hanssen is arrested for spying for the Soviet Union. He is ultimately convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment. |
2001 | Sampit conflict: Inter-ethnic violence between Dayaks and Madurese breaks out in Sampit, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, ultimately resulting in more than 500 deaths and 100,000 Madurese displaced from their homes. |
1991 | The IRA explodes bombs in the early morning at Paddington station and Victoria station in London. |
1983 | Thirteen people die and one is seriously injured in the Wah Mee massacre in Seattle. It is said to be the largest robbery-motivated mass-murder in U.S. history. |
1979 | Richard Petty wins a then-record sixth Daytona 500 after leaders Donnie Allison and Cale Yarborough crash on the final lap of the first NASCAR race televised live flag-to-flag. |
1977 | The Space Shuttle Enterprise test vehicle is carried on its maiden "flight" on top of a Boeing 747. |
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 imprisonment. |
1970 | The Chicago Seven are found not guilty of conspiring to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. |
1965 | The Gambia becomes independent from the United Kingdom. |
1957 | Kenyan rebel leader Dedan Kimathi is executed by the British colonial government. |
1957 | Walter James Bolton becomes the last person legally executed in New Zealand. |
1955 | Operation Teapot: Teapot test shot "Wasp" is successfully detonated at the Nevada Test Site with a yield of 1.2 kilotons. Wasp is the first of fourteen shots in the Teapot series. |
1954 | The first Church of Scientology is established in Los Angeles. |
1947 | First Indochina War: The French gain complete control of Hanoi after forcing the Viet Minh to withdraw to mountains. |
1946 | Sailors of the Royal Indian Navy mutiny in Bombay harbour, from where the action spreads throughout the Provinces of British India, involving 78 ships, twenty shore establishments and 20,000 sailors |
1943 | World War II: The Nazis arrest the members of the White Rose movement. |
1943 | World War II: Joseph Goebbels delivers his Sportpalast speech. |
1942 | World War II: The Imperial Japanese Army begins the systematic extermination of perceived hostile elements among the Chinese in Singapore. |
1938 | Second Sino-Japanese War: During the Nanking Massacre the Nanking Safety Zone International Committee is renamed "Nanking International Rescue Committee" and the safety zone in place for refugees falls apart. |
1932 | The Empire of Japan declares a puppet state of Manzhouguo (the obsolete Chinese name for Manchuria) independent from the Republic of China and installed former Chinese Emperor Aisin Gioro Puyi as Chief Executive of the State. |
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. |
1911 | The first official flight with airmail takes place from Allahabad, United Provinces, British India (now India), when Henri Pequet, a 23-year-old pilot, delivers 6,500 letters to Naini, about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) away. |
1906 | ÿdouard de Laveleye forms the Belgian Olympic Committee in Brussels. |
1900 | Second Boer War: Imperial forces suffer their worst single-day loss of life on Bloody Sunday, the first day of the Battle of Paardeberg. |
1885 | Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is published in the United States. |
1878 | John Tunstall is murdered by outlaw Jesse Evans, sparking the Lincoln County War in Lincoln County, New Mexico. |
1873 | Bulgarian revolutionary leader Vasil Levski is executed by hanging in Sofia by the Ottoman authorities. |
1865 | American Civil War: Union forces under Major General William T. Sherman set the South Carolina State House on fire during the burning of Columbia. |
1861 | In Montgomery, Alabama, Jefferson Davis is inaugurated as the provisional President of the Confederate States of America. |
1861 | With Italian unification almost complete, Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont, Savoy and Sardinia assumes the title of King of Italy. |
1814 | Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Montereau. |
1797 | French Revolutionary Wars: Sir Ralph Abercromby and a fleet of 18 British warships invade Trinidad. |
1791 | Congress passes a law admitting the state of Vermont to the Union, effective 4 March, after that state had existed for 14 years as a de facto independent largely unrecognized state. |
1781 | Fourth Anglo-Dutch War: Captain Thomas Shirley opens his expedition against Dutch colonial outposts on the Gold Coast of Africa (present-day Ghana). |
1637 | Eighty Years' War: Off the coast of Cornwall, England, a Spanish fleet intercepts an important Anglo-Dutch merchant convoy of 44 vessels escorted by six warships, destroying or capturing 20 of them. |
1478 | George, Duke of Clarence, convicted of treason against his older brother Edward IV of England, is executed in private at the Tower of London. |
1332 | Amda Seyon I, Emperor of Ethiopia begins his campaigns in the southern Muslim provinces. |
1268 | Battle of Wesenberg between the Livonian Order and Dovmont of Pskov. |
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. |
Here is a random list who born on February 18. For full list please click on the link above.
Year | Name |
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1927 | Luis Arroyo, Puerto Rican-American baseball player, manager, and scout (d. 2016) |
1945 | Judy Rankin, American golfer and sportscaster |
1867 | Hedwig Courths-Mahler, German writer (d. 1950) |
1978 | Josip ŠimuniĿ, Croatian footballer |
1972 | Fabian Picardo, Gibraltarian lawyer and politician, 7th Chief Minister of Gibraltar |
1883 | Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek philosopher, author, and playwright (d. 1957) |
1589 | Henry Vane the Elder, English politician (d. 1655) |
1936 | Jean M. Auel, American author |
1547 | Bahāʾ al-dīn al-ʿĿmilī, founder of Isfahan School of Islamic Philosophy (d. 1621) |
1948 | Sinéad Cusack, Irish actress |
Here is a list of some famous peope who died on February 18. For full list please click on the link above.
Date | Name |
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1976 | Wallace Berman, American painter and illustrator (b. 1926) |
2012 | George Brizan, Grenadian politician, 9th Prime Minister of Grenada (b. 1942) |
1225 | Hugh Bigod, 3rd Earl of Norfolk, Norman nobleman |
1478 | George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence, English nobleman (b. 1449) |
2013 | Jerry Buss, American chemist and businessman (b. 1933) |
2001 | Eddie Mathews, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1931) |
2008 | Alain Robbe-Grillet, French director, screenwriter, and novelist (b. 1922) |
2015 | Jerome Kersey, American basketball player and coach (b. 1962) |
2014 | Nikhil Baran Sengupta, Indian art director and production designer (b. 1943) |
2016 | Abdul Rashid Khan, Indian singer-songwriter (b. 1908) |