February 18
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February 18 is the 48th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 316 days remaining after February 18 until the end of the year (317 in leap years).
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[change] Births
- 1374 – Saint Jadwiga of Poland, Queen of Poland (d. 1399)
- 1404 – Leon Battista Alberti, Italian painter and philosopher (d. 1472)
- 1516 – Queen Mary I of England (d. 1558)
- 1732 – Johann Christian Kittel, German organist, composer and teacher (d. 1809)
- 1745 – Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist (d. 1827)
- 1817 – Lewis A. Armistead, American Confederate General (d. 1863)
- 1818 – Pedro Figueredo, Cuban poet, musician and revolutionary (d. 1870)
- 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)
- 1858 – Princess Louise Marie of Belgium (d. 1924)
- 1860 – Anders Zorn, Swedish painter (d. 1920)
- 1892 – Wendell Wilkie, American politician (d. 1944)
- 1897 – Charles Kuentz, German-born French World War I veteran (d. 2005)
- 1898 – Enzo Ferrari, Italian founder of Ferrari (d. 1988)
- 1903 – Nikolai Podgorny, Soviet politician (d. 1983)
- 1906 – Hans Asperger, Austrian physician, after whom Asperger syndrome is named (d. 1980)
- 1919 – Jack Palance, American actor (d. 2006)
- 1920 – Bill Cullen, American game show host (d. 1990)
- 1920 – Eddie Slovik, American soldier (d. 1945)
- 1931 – Toni Morrison, American writer, Nobel Prize winner
- 1932 – Milos Forman, Czech film director
- 1933 – Yoko Ono, Japanese singer and performance artist
- 1933 – Bobby Robson, English footballer and manager (d. 2009)
- 1938 – Sadanoyama Shinmatsu, Japanese sumo wrestler
- 1938 – Istvan Szabo, Hungarian film director
- 1946 – Michael Buerk, British newsreader
- 1946 – Jean-Claude Dreyfus, French actor
- 1947 – Princess Christine of the Netherlands
- 1948 – Sinead Cusack, Irish actress
- 1949 – Gary Ridgway, American serial killer
- 1950 – John Hughes, American film director (d. 2009)
- 1954 – John Travolta, American actor
- 1956 – Ruediger Abramczik, German footballer and manager
- 1959 – Hallgrimur Helgason, Icelandic artist and author
- 1963 – Anders Frisk, Swedish football referee
- 1964 – Matt Dillon, American actor
- 1965 – Dr. Dre, American record producer and rapper
- 1967 – Roberto Baggio, Italian footballer
- 1967 – Colin Jackson, Welsh athlete
- 1973 – Claude Makelele, French footballer
- 1974 – Yevgeny Kafelnikov, Russian tennis player
- 1975 – Keith Gillespie, Irish footballer
- 1975 – Gary Neville, English footballer
- 1977 – Chrissie Wellington, English tri-athlete
- 1978 – Josip Simunic, Croatian footballer
- 1983 – Jermaine Jenas, English footballer
- 1985 – Anton Ferdinand, English footballer
- 1985 – Lee Boyd Malvo, Jamaican-American spree killer
- 1988 – Maiara Walsh, Brazilian-American actress
- 1991 – Henry Surtees, English racing driver (d. 2009)
[change] Deaths
- 999 – Pope Gregory V (b. 972)
- 1294 – Kublai Khan, Mongol ruler (b. 1215)
- 1405 – Tamerlane, Mongol ruler (b. 1336)
- 1455 – Fra Angelico, Italian artist (b. 1395)
- 1478 – George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence (b. 1449)
- 1546 – Martin Luther, German religious reformer (b. 1483)
- 1564 – Michelangelo, Italian artist and sculptor (b. 1475)
- 1780 – Kristijonas Donelaitis, Lithuanian poet (b. 1714)
- 1851 – Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, German mathematician (b. 1804)
- 1873 – Vasil Levski, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1837)
- 1890 – Gyula Andrassy, Hungarian politician and statesman (b. 1823)
- 1899 – Sophus Lie, Norwegian mathematician (b. 1842)
- 1902 – Charles Lewis Tiffany, founder of Tiffany and Co. (b. 1812)
- 1957 – Dedan Kimathi, Kenyan rebel leader (b. 1920)
- 1967 – Dragisa Cvetkovic, Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1893)
- 1967 – J. Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist (b. 1904)
- 1981 – John Knudsen Northrop, American aircraft manufacturer (b. 1895)
- 2001 – Dale Earnhardt, American racing driver (b. 1951)
- 2001 – Balthus, Polish-French painter (b. 1908)
- 2003 – Isser Harel, Israeli Mossad leader (b. 1912)
- 2004 – Jean Rouch, French filmmaker and ethnologist (b. 1917)
- 2008 – Alain Robbe-Grillet, French writer and filmmaker (b. 1922)
- 2009 – Kamila Skolimowska, Polish hammer thrower (b. 1982)
- 2009 – At-Tayyib Salih, Sudanese writer (b. 1929)
- 2010 – John Babcock, Canadian World War I veteran (b. 1900)
- 2010 – Ariel Ramirez, Argentine composer (b. 1921)
- 2012 – Roald Aas, Norwegian speed skater and cyclist (b. 1928)
[change] Events
- 1268 – The Livonian Brothers of the Sword are defeated by Dovmont of Pskov in the Battle of Rakvere.
- 1478 – George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence is executed in the Tower of London after being convicted of treason against his older brother, King Edward IV of England.
- 1861 – Victor Emmanuel II of Savoy assumes the title of King of Italy.
- 1861 – In Montgomery, Alabama Jefferson Davis is inaugurated as provisional President of the Confederate States of America.
- 1873 – Bulgarian revolutionary Vasil Levski is executed by hanging in Sofia by the Ottoman authorities.
- 1900 – Boer War: British forces suffer their worst single-day loss of life of the war on the first day of the Battle of Paardeberg.
- 1910 – The future-World Governing body for the sport of Skiing is founded in Kristiania, present-day Oslo, in Norway.
- 1930 – From photographs taken in January, Clyde Tombaugh discovers the dwarf planet Pluto.
- 1932 – The Empire of Japan declares Manzhougou (Manchuria) independent of the Republic of China.
- 1943 – Members of the White Rose Resistance Movement are arrested by the Nazis.
- 1952 – Greece and Turkey join NATO.
- 1954 – The first Church of Scientology is established in Los Angeles, California.
- 1957 – Kenyan rebel leader Dedan Kimathi is executed by the British colonial government.
- 1960 – The Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley, California, begin.
- 1963 – The eruption of the Agung volcano on Bali kills around 1,500 people.
- 1965 – The Gambia becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
- 1977 – The Space Shuttle Enterprise makes its first flight, on a Boeing 747.
- 1978 – The first Ironman triathlon takes place on the island of Oahu, Hawaii.
- 1979 – Snow falls in the Sahara desert of southern Algeria for the only time in recorded history.
- 1983 – 13 people die in the Wah Mee massacre in Seattle. It is believed to be the worst robbery-motivated killing in US history.
- 1988 – Anthony Kennedy becomes a member of the Supreme Court of the United States.
- 2001 – Dale Earnhardt dies on a crash on the last lap of the last turn on the Datona 500.
- 2001 – FBI agent Robert Hanssen is arrested for spying for the Soviet Union.
- 2003 – Nearly 200 people die in the Daegu subway fire in South Korea.
- 2004 – Up to 295 people, including around 200 rescue workers, are killed in Iran, when a freight train carrying sulfur, petrol and fertiliser catches fire and explodes.
- 2005 – A ban on Fox Hunting in the United Kingdom enters effect.
- 2007 – Terrorist bombings occur on the Samjhauta Express in Panipat, Haryana, India, killing 68 people.
- 2010 – A coup takes place in Niamey, Niger. President Mamadou Tandja is replaced by a ruling junta, the Supreme Council for the Restoration of Democracy.
[change] Observances
- Independence Day (the Gambia)
- International Asperger's Day
