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What Happened on February 18th This Day in History

Year	Name
2021	Perseverance, a Mars rover designed to explore Jezero crater on Mars, as part of NASA's Mars 2020 mission, lands successfully.
2014	At least 76 people are killed and hundreds are injured in clashes between riot police and demonstrators in Kyiv, 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.
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	192 people die when an arsonist sets fire to a subway train in Daegu, 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	A thousand armed soldiers raid Kalakuta Republic, the commune of Nigerian singer Fela Kuti, leading to the death of Funmilayo Anikulapo Kuti.
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 creates the independent state of Manzhouguo (the obsolete Chinese name for Manchuria) free 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.
1915	U-boat Campaign: The Imperial German Navy institutes unrestricted submarine warfare in the waters around Great Britain and Ireland.
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	Édouard 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.
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).
1735	The ballad opera called Flora, or Hob in the Well went down in history as the first opera of any kind to be produced in North America (Charleston, S.C.)
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	The Battle of Wesenberg is fought between the Livonian Order and Dovmont of Pskov.
1229	The Sixth Crusade: Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, signs a ten-year truce

Famous People Born on February 18

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Year	Name
1201	Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, Persian scientist and writer (d. 1274)
1846	Wilson Barrett, English actor, playwright, and manager (d. 1904)
1940	Prue Leith, English restaurateur and journalist
1931	Toni Morrison, American novelist and editor, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2019).
1974	Radek Černý, Czech international footballer
1909	Wallace Stegner, American novelist, short story writer, and essayist (d. 1993)
1968	Molly Ringwald, American actress
1745	Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist, invented the battery (d. 1827)
1890	Edward Arnold, American actor (d. 1956)
1602	Per Brahe the Younger, Swedish soldier and politician, Governor-General of Finland (d. 1680)

Famous People Deaths On February 18

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Date	Name
999	Gregory V, pope of the Catholic Church (b. 972)
1654	Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac, French author (b. 1594)
1981	Jack Northrop, American engineer and businessman, founded the Northrop Corporation (b. 1895)
1803	Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim, German poet and educator (b. 1719)
1977	Andy Devine, American actor (b. 1905)
1683	Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem, Dutch painter (b. 1620)
1910	Lucy Stanton, American activist (b. 1831)
1938	David King Udall, American missionary and politician (b. 1851)
2019	Alessandro Mendini, Italian designer and architect (b. 1931)
1880	Nikolay Zinin, Russian organic chemist (b. 1812)