February 18 Events |
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| February 18th, 3102 (February 18 3102) | Event | Epoch (origin) of the Kali Yuga. | |
| February 18th, 2004 (February 18 2004) | Event | 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 18th, 2003 (February 18 2003) | Event | Nearly 200 people die in the Daegu subway fire in South Korea. | |
| February 18th, 2003 (February 18 2003) | Event | Comet C/2002 V1 (NEAT) makes perihelion, seen by SOHO. | |
| February 18th, 2001 (February 18 2001) | Event | FBI agent Robert Hanssen is arrested for spying for the Soviet Union. He was ultimately convicted and sentenced to life in prison. | |
| February 18th, 2000 (February 18 2000) | Event | Stjepan Mesic becomes the second president of Croatia. | |
| February 18th, 1998 (February 18 1998) | Event | Two white separatists are arrested in Nevada and accused of plotting a biological attack on New York City subways. | |
| February 18th, 1991 (February 18 1991) | Event | The IRA explodes bombs in the early morning at both Paddington station and Victoria station in London. | |
| February 18th, 1983 (February 18 1983) | Event | Thirteen people die and one is seriously injured in the Wah Mee Massacre in Seattle, Washington. It is said to be the largest robbery-motivated mass-murder in U.S. history. | |
| February 18th, 1979 (February 18 1979) | Event | Snow fell in the Sahara Desert in southern Algeria for the first and only recorded time in history. | |
| February 18th, 1977 (February 18 1977) | Event | The Space Shuttle Enterprise test vehicle goes on its maiden "flight" while sitting on top of a Boeing 747. | |
| February 18th, 1972 (February 18 1972) | Event | 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 18th, 1970 (February 18 1970) | Event | The Chicago Seven are found not guilty of conspiring to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. | |
| February 18th, 1969 (February 18 1969) | Event | The Hawthorne Nevada Airlines Flight 708 disaster occurs, killing all on board. | |
| February 18th, 1965 (February 18 1965) | Event | The Gambia becomes independent from the United Kingdom. | |
| February 18th, 1957 (February 18 1957) | Event | Dedan Kimathi, a Kenyan rebel leader is executed by the British colonial government. | |
| February 18th, 1955 (February 18 1955) | Event | The Shot Teapot-Wasp is successfully detonated at the Nevada Test Site with a yield of 1.2 kilotons. Wasp would be the first of fourteen shots of the Teapot series. | |
| February 18th, 1954 (February 18 1954) | Event | The first Church of Scientology is established in Los Angeles, California. | |
| February 18th, 1948 (February 18 1948) | Event | Eamon de Valera resigns as Taoiseach of Ireland. | |
| February 18th, 1943 (February 18 1943) | Event | The Nazis arrest the members of the White Rose movement. | |
| February 18th, 1943 (February 18 1943) | Event | Joseph Goebbels delivers the Sportpalast speech. | Joseph Goebbels Quotes |
| February 18th, 1932 (February 18 1932) | Event | The Empire of Japan declares Manzhouguo (obsolete Chinese name for Manchuria) independent from the Republic of China. | |
| February 18th, 1930 (February 18 1930) | Event | While studying photographs taken in January, Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto. | |
| February 18th, 1930 (February 18 1930) | Event | 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 18th, 1929 (February 18 1929) | Event | The first Academy Awards are announced. | |
| February 18th, 1913 (February 18 1913) | Event | Raymond Poincare becomes President of France. | |
| February 18th, 1911 (February 18 1911) | Event | 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 18th, 1901 (February 18 1901) | Event | Winston Churchill makes his maiden speech in the British House of Commons. | Winston Churchill Quotes |
| February 18th, 1885 (February 18 1885) | Event | Mark Twain s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published for the first time. | Mark Twain Quotes |
| February 18th, 1878 (February 18 1878) | Event | John Tunstall is murdered by outlaw Jessie Evans, sparking the Lincoln County War in Lincoln County, New Mexico. | Evans Quotes |
| February 18th, 1865 (February 18 1865) | Event | Union forces under Major General William T. Sherman set the South Carolina State House on fire during the burning of Columbia. | |
| February 18th, 1861 (February 18 1861) | Event | In Montgomery, Alabama, Jefferson Davis is inaugurated as the provisional President of the Confederate States of America. | |
| February 18th, 1861 (February 18 1861) | Event | With the Italian unification almost complete, King Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont, Savoy and Sardinia assumes the title of King of Italy. | |
| February 18th, 1856 (February 18 1856) | Event | The American Party (Know-Nothings) convene in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to nominate their first Presidential candidate, former President Millard Fillmore. | Millard Fillmore Quotes |
| February 18th, 1841 (February 18 1841) | Event | The first ongoing filibuster in the United States Senate begins and lasts until March 11. | |
| February 18th, 1814 (February 18 1814) | Event | The Battle of Montereau occurs. | |
| February 18th, 1797 (February 18 1797) | Event | Trinidad is surrendered to a British fleet under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby. | |
| February 18th, 1685 (February 18 1685) | Event | Fort St. Louis is established by a Frenchman at Matagorda Bay thus forming the basis for France s claim to Texas. | |
| February 18th, 1478 (February 18 1478) | Event | George, Duke of Clarence, convicted of treason against his older brother Edward IV of England, is privately executed in the Tower of London. | |
| February 18th, 1268 (February 18 1268) | Event | The Livonian Brothers of the Sword are defeated by Dovmont of Pskov in the Battle of Rakovor. | |
| February 18th, 1229 (February 18 1229) | Event | 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. | |
