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What happend on 18. February in History
In our data base we found 355 events happened on 18. February:
• 806: Tarasius, Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 730) [category: Deaths]
• 814: Angilbert, Frankish monk and confidant of Charlemagne [category: Deaths]
• 901: Thabit ibn Qurra, Arab astronomer and mathematician (b. 826) [category: Deaths]
• 999: Pope Gregory V (b. 972) [category: Deaths]
• 1139: Prince Yaropolk II of Kiev (b. 1082) [category: Deaths]
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• 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. [category: Events]
• 1268: The Livonian Brothers of the Sword are defeated by Dovmont of Pskov in the Battle of Rakvere. [category: Events]
• 1294: Kublai Khan, Mongol Emperor (b. 1215) [category: Deaths]
• 1332: Amda Seyon I, Emperor of Ethiopia begins his campaigns in the southern Muslim provinces. [category: Events]
• 1374: Saint Jadwiga of Poland, queen of Poland (d. 1399) [category: Births]
• 1379: Albert II of Mecklenburg (b. 1318) [category: Deaths]
• 1404: Leon Battista Alberti, Italian painter and philosopher (d. 1472) [category: Births]
• 1405: Tamerlane, Mongol Emperor (b. 1336) [category: Deaths]
• 1455: Fra Angelico, Italian artist (b. 1395) [category: Deaths]
• 1478: George, Duke of Clarence, brother of Kings Edward IV of England and Richard III of England (b. 1449) [category: Deaths]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1486: Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Bengali yogi (d. 1534) [category: Births]
• 1516: Queen Mary I of England (d. 1558) [category: Births]
• 1530: Uesugi Kenshin, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1578) [category: Births]
• 1535: Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, astrologer and alchemist (b. 1486) [category: Deaths]
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• 1543: Charles III, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1608) [category: Births]
• 1546: Martin Luther, German religious reformer (b. 1483) [category: Deaths]
• 1559: Isaac Casaubon, French classical scholar (d. 1614) [category: Births]
• 1564: Michelangelo, Italian artist and sculptor (b. 1475) [category: Deaths]
• 1583: Antonio Francesco Grazzini, Italian writer (b. 1503) [category: Deaths]
• 1602: Per Brahe, Swedish soldier (d. 1680) [category: Births]
• 1609: Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, English historian (d. 1674) [category: Births]
• 1632: Giovanni Battista Vitali, Italian composer and violinist (d. 1692) [category: Births]
• 1635: Johan Göransson Gyllenstierna, Swedish statesman (d. 1680) [category: Births]
• 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 6 warships, destroying or capturing 20 of them. [category: Events]
• 1642: Marie Champmeslé, French actress (d. 1698) [category: Births]
• 1654: Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac, French writer (b. 1594) [category: Deaths]
• 1658: Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre, French writer (d. 1743) [category: Births]
• 1683: Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem, Dutch painter (b. 1620) [category: Deaths]
• 1712: Louis, duc de Bourgogne, heir to the throne of France (b. 1682) [category: Deaths]
• 1718: Pierre Antoine Motteux, French-born English dramatist (b. 1663) [category: Deaths]
• 1732: Johann Christian Kittel, German organist, composer, and teacher (d. 1809) [category: Births]
• 1743: Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici, last of the Medicis (b. 1667) [category: Deaths]
• 1745: Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist (d. 1827) [category: Births]
• 1745: The city of Surakarta, Central Java is founded on the banks of Bengawan Solo River, and becomes the capital of the Kingdom of Surakarta. [category: Events]
• 1748: Otto Ferdinand von Abensberg und Traun, Austrian field marshal (b. 1677) [category: Deaths]
• 1772: Johann Hartwig Ernst, Count von Bernstorff, Danish statesman (b. 1712) [category: Deaths]
• 1778: Joseph Marie Terray, French statesman (b. 1715) [category: Deaths]
• 1780: Kristijonas Donelaitis, Lithuanian poet (b. 1714) [category: Deaths]
• 1781: Fourth Anglo-Dutch War: Captain Thomas Shirley opened his expedition against Dutch colonial outposts on the Gold Coast of Africa (present-day Ghana). [category: Events]
• 1788: John Whitehurst, English clockmaker and scientist (b. 1713) [category: Deaths]
• 1797: French Revolutionary Wars: Sir Ralph Abercromby and a fleet of 18 British warships invade Trinidad. [category: Events]
• 1803: Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim, German poet (b. 1719) [category: Deaths]
• 1814: Samuel Fenton Cary, American-born U. S. Congressman (d. 1900) [category: Births]
• 1814: Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Montereau. [category: Events]
• 1817: Lewis A. Armistead, American Confederate general (d. 1863) [category: Births]
• 1818: Pedro Figueredo, Cuban poet, musician, revolutionary (d. 1870) [category: Births]
• 1836: Sri Ramakrishna, Indian Bengali guru of Swami Vivekananda (d. 1886) [category: Births]
• 1838: Ernst Mach, Austrian physicist (d. 1916) [category: Births]
• 1841: Gergely Luthár, Hungarian Slovene writer (d. 1925) [category: Births]
• 1842: Thomas Hazlehurst, English soap and alkali manufacturer (b. 1779) [category: Deaths]
• 1846: Wilson Barrett, English playwright (d. 1904) [category: Births]
• 1846: Beginning of the Galician peasant revolt. [category: Events]
• 1848: Louis Comfort Tiffany, American glass artist (d. 1933) [category: Births]
• 1849: Alexander Kielland, Norwegian author (d. 1906) [category: Births]
• 1850: George Henschel, German-British baritone, conductor, composer (d. 1934) [category: Births]
• 1851: Carl Gustav Jakob Jacobi, German mathematician (b. 1804) [category: Deaths]
• 1859: Sholom Aleichem, Russian Yiddish humorist (d. 1916) [category: Births]
• 1861: In Montgomery, Alabama, Jefferson Davis is inaugurated as the provisional President of the Confederate States of America. [category: Events]
• 1861: With the Italian unification almost complete, Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont, Savoy and Sardinia assumes the title of King of Italy. [category: Events]
• 1862: Charles M. Schwab, American steel magnate (d. 1939) [category: Births]
• 1865: Union forces under Major General William T. Sherman set the South Carolina State House on fire during the burning of Columbia. [category: Events]
• 1870: William Laurel Harris, American mural painter and writer (d. 1924) [category: Births]
• 1871: Harry Brearley, English inventor (d. 1948) [category: Births]
• 1873: Vasil Levski, Bulgarian Revolutionist (b. 1837) [category: Deaths]
• 1873: Bulgarian revolutionary leader Vasil Levski is executed by hanging in Sofia by the Ottoman authorities. [category: Events]
• 1878: Harriet Bosse, Swedish–Norwegian actress (d. 1961) [category: Births]
• 1878: John Tunstall is murdered by outlaw Jesse Evans, sparking the Lincoln County War in Lincoln County, New Mexico. [category: Events]
• 1883: Madan Lal Dhingra, Indian Revolutionary (d. 1909) [category: Births]
• 1883: Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek author (d. 1957) [category: Births]
• 1884: Andrew Watson Myles, Canadian politician (d. 1970) [category: Births]
• 1889: Jerónimo Espejo, Argentine General (b. 1801) [category: Deaths]
• 1890: Adolphe Menjou, American actor (d. 1963) [category: Births]
• 1890: Edward Arnold, American actor (d. 1956) [category: Births]
• 1892: Wendell Willkie, American politician (d. 1944) [category: Births]
• 1893: Serranus Clinton Hastings, American politician (b. 1814) [category: Deaths]
• 1895: Karl Abs, German professional wrestler (b. 1851) [category: Deaths]
• 1897: Charles Kuentz, German-born French WW1 veteran and centenarian (d. 2005) [category: Births]
• 1898: Enzo Ferrari, founder of Ferrari (d. 1988) [category: Births]
• 1898: Luis Muñoz Marín, Puerto Rican poet (d. 1980) [category: Births]
• 1899: Sir Arthur Bryant, British historian (d. 1985) [category: Births]
• 1900: Clinton L. Merriam, American politician (b. 1824) [category: Deaths]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1901: Reginald Sheffield, British actor (d. 1957) [category: Births]
• 1902: Walter Herbert, German-born conductor and impresario (d. 1975) [category: Births]
• 1902: Charles Lewis Tiffany, American founder of Tiffany & Co. (b. 1812) [category: Deaths]
• 1903: Nikolai Podgorny, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (d. 1983) [category: Births]
• 1905: Queenie Leonard, American actress (d. 2002) [category: Births]
• 1906: Hans Asperger, Austrian pediatrician (d. 1980) [category: Births]
• 1906: John Batterson Stetson, American manufacturer (b. 1830) [category: Deaths]
• 1906: Edouard de Laveleye forms the Belgian Olympic Committee in Brussels. [category: Events]
• 1907: Oscar Brodney, American screenwriter (d. 2008) [category: Births]
• 1909: Tuppy Owen-Smith, South African cricketer and English rugby union player (d. 1990) [category: Births]
• 1909: Wallace Stegner, American writer (d. 1993) [category: Births]
• 1911: Billy Murdoch, Australian cricketer (b. 1854) [category: Deaths]
• 1911: The first official flight with air mail 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. [category: Events]
• 1913: Pedro Lascuráin becomes President of Mexico for 45 minutes; this is the shortest term to date of any person as president of any country. [category: Events]
• 1914: Pee Wee King, American country musician and songwriter (d. 2000) [category: Births]
• 1915: Phyllis Calvert, British actress (d. 2002) [category: Births]
• 1916: Jean Drapeau, Canadian politician, Mayor of Montreal (d. 1999) [category: Births]
• 1917: José Curbelo, Cuban-American pianist and manager (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1918: Jane Loevinger, American psychologist (d. 2008) [category: Births]
• 1919: Jack Palance, American actor (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1920: Bill Cullen, American game show host (d. 1990) [category: Births]
• 1920: Eric Gairy, Grenadan politician (d. 1997) [category: Births]
• 1922: Allan Melvin, American actor (d. 2008) [category: Births]
• 1922: Connie Wisniewski, American baseball player [AAGPBL] (d. 1995) [category: Births]
• 1922: Helen Gurley Brown, American editor (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1922: Joe Tipton, American baseball player (d. 1994) [category: Births]
• 1922: Juhan Smuul, Estonian author (d. 1971) [category: Births]
• 1923: Alois Rašín, Czechoslovak politician, Minister of Finance (b. 1867) [category: Deaths]
• 1924: Humberto Fernández Morán, Venezuelan scientist (d. 1999) [category: Births]
• 1924: Louis Laberge, Canadian labour union leader (d. 2002) [category: Births]
• 1924: Nicolo Rizzuto, Sicilian-born Canadian organized crime figure (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1924: Sam Rolfe, American screenwriter (d. 1993) [category: Births]
• 1925: George Kennedy, American actor [category: Births]
• 1925: Marcel Barbeau, Canadian artist [category: Births]
• 1926: Nalini Jaywant, Indian actress (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1926: Wallace Berman, American artist [category: Births]
• 1927: John Warner, American politician, 61st United States Secretary of the Navy and American politician [category: Births]
• 1927: Luis Arroyo, Puerto Rican baseball player [category: Births]
• 1927: Peter Fryer English Marxist writer and journalist (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1928: Tom Johnson, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1929: André Mathieu, Canadian composer (d. 1968) [category: Births]
• 1929: Len Deighton, British author [category: Births]
• 1930: Gahan Wilson, American cartoonist [category: Births]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1930: While studying photographs taken in January, Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto. [category: Events]
• 1931: Bob St. Clair, American football player [category: Births]
• 1931: Johnny Hart, American cartoonist (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1931: Toni Morrison, American writer, Nobel laureate [category: Births]
• 1931: Milan Šufflay, Croatian politician (b. 1879) [category: Deaths]
• 1932: Miloš Forman, Czech film director [category: Births]
• 1932: The Empire of Japan declares Manzhouguo (the obsolete Chinese name for Manchuria) independent from the Republic of China. [category: Events]
• 1933: Mary Ure, Scottish actress (d. 1975) [category: Births]
• 1933: Sir Bobby Robson, English football player and manager (d. 2009) [category: Births]
• 1933: Yoko Ono, Japanese-born American singer and performance artist [category: Births]
• 1933: James J. Corbett, American boxer (b. 1866) [category: Deaths]
• 1934: Audre Lorde, Caribbean poet and activist (d. 1992) [category: Births]
• 1934: Heini Müller, German footballer [category: Births]
• 1934: Paco Rabanne, Spanish fashion designer [category: Births]
• 1935: Janette Oke, Canadian writer [category: Births]
• 1935: Michel Aoun, Lebanese prime minister [category: Births]
• 1936: Ab McDonald, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1936: Dick Duff, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1936: Jean Auel, American writer [category: Births]
• 1938: István Szabó, Hungarian film director [category: Births]
• 1938: Manny Mota, Dominican baseball player [category: Births]
• 1938: Sadanoyama Shinmatsu, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 50th Yokozuna [category: Births]
• 1938: David King Udall, American politician (b. 1851) [category: Deaths]
• 1938: During the Nanking Massacre Nanking Safety Zone International Committee renamed "Nanking International Rescue Committee" and safety zone in place for refugees falls apart. [category: Events]
• 1939: Claude Ake, Nigerian political scientist [category: Births]
• 1939: Dal Maxvill, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1939: Marek Janowski, Polish-born conductor [category: Births]
• 1940: Fabrizio De André, Italian singer-songwriter (d. 1999) [category: Births]
• 1941: Herman Santiago, American singer and songwriter (The Teenagers) [category: Births]
• 1941: Irma Thomas, American singer [category: Births]
• 1942: Albert Payson Terhune, American author (b. 1872) [category: Deaths]
• 1942: World War II: The Imperial Japanese Army begins the systematic extermination of perceived hostile elements among the Chinese in Singapore. [category: Events]
• 1943: Graeme Garden, Scottish writer [category: Births]
• 1943: Joseph Goebbels delivers his Sportpalast speech. [category: Events]
• 1943: The Nazis arrest the members of the White Rose movement. [category: Events]
• 1944: Pat Bowlen, American sports team owner (Denver Broncos) [category: Births]
• 1945: Judy Rankin, American golfer [category: Births]
• 1945: Ivan Chernyakhovsky, Russian general (b. 1906) [category: Deaths]
• 1946: Jean-Claude Dreyfus, French actor [category: Births]
• 1946: Michael Buerk, British newsreader [category: Births]
• 1946: Sailors of the Royal Indian Navy mutinied in Bombay harbour, from where the action spread throughout the Provinces of British India, involving 78 ships, twenty shore establishments and 20,000 sailors [category: Events]
• 1947: Carlos Lopes, Portuguese athlete [category: Births]
• 1947: Dennis DeYoung, American musician (Styx) [category: Births]
• 1947: Eliot Lance Engel, American politician [category: Births]
• 1947: Princess Christina of the Netherlands [category: Births]
• 1948: Georg Brunnhuber, German politician [category: Births]
• 1948: Gilbert Sicotte, Canadian actor [category: Births]
• 1948: Keith Knudsen, American drummer and songwriter (The Doobie Brothers) (d. 2005) [category: Births]
• 1948: Sinéad Cusack, Irish actress [category: Births]
• 1949: Gary Ridgway, American serial killer [category: Births]
• 1950: Cybill Shepherd, American actress [category: Births]
• 1950: John Hughes, American film director (d. 2009) [category: Births]
• 1950: Michel Gauthier, Canadian politician [category: Births]
• 1951: Isabel Preysler, Filipino-born Spanish socialite [category: Births]
• 1952: Juice Newton, American singer [category: Births]
• 1952: Maurice Lucas, American basketball player (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1952: Randy Crawford, American jazz and R&B singer [category: Births]
• 1953: Robbie Bachman, Canadian drummer (Bachman–Turner Overdrive) [category: Births]
• 1954: Charlie Fowler, American mountaineer (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1954: John Travolta, American actor [category: Births]
• 1954: The first Church of Scientology is established in Los Angeles, California. [category: Events]
• 1955: Miles Tredinnick, English playwright [category: Births]
• 1955: Raymond Rougeau, Canadian wrestler [category: Births]
• 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 of the Teapot series. [category: Events]
• 1956: Bidzina Ivanishvili, Georgian politician [category: Births]
• 1956: Paul Reed Smith, American luthier [category: Births]
• 1956: Ted Gärdestad, Swedish singer (d. 1997) [category: Births]
• 1956: Gustave Charpentier, French composer (b. 1860) [category: Deaths]
• 1957: Marita Koch, German athlete [category: Births]
• 1957: Vanna White, American game show presenter [category: Births]
• 1957: Dedan Kimathi, Kenyan rebel leader (b. 1920) [category: Deaths]
• 1957: Henry Norris Russell, American astronomer (b. 1877) [category: Deaths]
• 1957: Kenyan rebel leader Dedan Kimathi is executed by the British colonial government. [category: Events]
• 1957: Walter James Bolton becomes the last person legally executed in New Zealand. [category: Events]
• 1958: Gar Samuelson, American drummer (Megadeth) (d. 1999) [category: Births]
• 1958: Giovanni Lavaggi, Italian racing driver [category: Births]
• 1958: Lucie Visser, Dutch actress and model [category: Births]
• 1960: Andy Moog, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1960: Carol McGiffin, British TV and radio presenter [category: Births]
• 1960: Greta Scacchi, Australian actress [category: Births]
• 1960: Tony Anselmo, American animator [category: Births]
• 1961: Cosmo Wilson, American concert lighting designer [category: Births]
• 1961: Hironobu Kageyama, Japanese singer [category: Births]
• 1962: Julie Strain, American actress [category: Births]
• 1962: Moe Lemay, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1963: Henry Winter, English football journalist [category: Births]
• 1964: Matt Dillon, American actor [category: Births]
• 1964: Paul Hanley, British musician (The Fall and Tom Hingley and the Lovers) [category: Births]
• 1964: Joseph-Armand Bombardier, Canadian inventor and industrialist (b. 1907) [category: Deaths]
• 1965: Dr. Dre, American record producer and rapper (World Class Wreckin' Cru and N.W.A) [category: Births]
• 1965: Gregory Scott Johnson, American murderer (d. 2005) [category: Births]
• 1965: The Gambia becomes independent from the United Kingdom. [category: Events]
• 1966: Guy Ferland, American television director [category: Births]
• 1966: Robert Rossen, American screenwriter, producer, and director (b. 1908) [category: Deaths]
• 1967: Harry Van Barneveld, Belgian judoka [category: Births]
• 1967: Marco Aurélio, Brazilian footballer [category: Births]
• 1967: Roberto Baggio, Italian footballer [category: Births]
• 1967: Tracey Edmonds, American film and television producer [category: Births]
• 1967: Yongyoot Thongkongtoon, Thai film director and producer [category: Births]
• 1967: Dragiša Cvetković, Kingdom of Yugoslavia prime minister (b. 1893) [category: Deaths]
• 1967: J. Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist (b. 1904) [category: Deaths]
• 1968: Molly Ringwald, American actress [category: Births]
• 1969: Alexander Mogilny, Russian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1969: Jason Sutter, American drummer (Smash Mouth and American Hi-Fi) [category: Births]
• 1969: Tomaž Humar, Slovenian mountaineer (d. 2009) [category: Births]
• 1969: Hawthorne Nevada Airlines Flight 708 crashes into Mount Whitney killing all on board. [category: Events]
• 1970: Andy Williams, British musician (Doves and Sub Sub) [category: Births]
• 1970: Jez Williams, British musician (Doves and Sub Sub) [category: Births]
• 1970: Raine Maida, Canadian musician (Our Lady Peace) [category: Births]
• 1970: Susan Egan, American actress [category: Births]
• 1970: The Chicago Seven are found not guilty of conspiring to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. [category: Events]
• 1971: Constantin Popa, Romanian-born Israeli basketball player [category: Births]
• 1971: Merritt Gant, American thrash metal guitarist (Overkill) [category: Births]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1973: Claude Makélélé, French footballer [category: Births]
• 1973: Shawn Estes, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1973: Frank Costello, Italian-born gangster (b. 1891) [category: Deaths]
• 1974: Carrie Ann Baade, American painter [category: Births]
• 1974: Jamey Carroll, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1974: Jillian Michaels, American fitness trainer [category: Births]
• 1974: Julia Butterfly Hill, American environmental activist [category: Births]
• 1974: Radek Černý, Czech footballer [category: Births]
• 1974: Ruby Dhalla, Canadian politician [category: Births]
• 1974: Yevgeny Kafelnikov, Russian tennis player [category: Births]
• 1975: Gary Neville, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1975: Keith Gillespie, Irish footballer [category: Births]
• 1975: Sarah Brown, American actress [category: Births]
• 1975: Simon Kvamm, Danish singer and comedian (Nephew) [category: Births]
• 1976: Bernadette Sembrano [category: Births]
• 1976: Chanda Rubin, American tennis player [category: Births]
• 1976: Leilani Munter, American race car driver [category: Births]
• 1976: Wallace Berman, American Artist [category: Deaths]
• 1977: Chrissie Wellington, British tri-athlete [category: Births]
• 1977: Ike Barinholtz, American actor [category: Births]
• 1977: Kátia, Brazilian footballer [category: Births]
• 1977: Sean Watkins, American guitarist and songwriter (Nickel Creek, Fiction Family and Works Progress Administration) [category: Births]
• 1977: Andy Devine, American actor (b. 1905) [category: Deaths]
• 1977: The Space Shuttle Enterprise test vehicle is carried on its maiden "flight" on top of a Boeing 747. [category: Events]
• 1978: Josip Šimunić, Croatian footballer [category: Births]
• 1978: Oliver Pocher, German comedian [category: Births]
• 1978: Maggie McNamara, American actress (b. 1928) [category: Deaths]
• 1978: The first Ironman Triathlon competition takes place on the island of Oahu, won by Gordon Haller. [category: Events]
• 1979: Snow falls in the Sahara Desert in southern Algeria for the only time in recorded history. [category: Events]
• 1980: Nikolai Antropov, Kazakh ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1980: Regina Spektor, Russian/American singer and songwriter [category: Births]
• 1981: Alex Ríos, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1981: Andrei Kirilenko, Russian basketball player [category: Births]
• 1981: Ivan Sproule, Irish footballer [category: Births]
• 1981: Kim Jae Won, South Korean actor [category: Births]
• 1981: Larry Sweeney, American professional wrestler [category: Births]
• 1981: John Knudsen Northrop, American aircraft manufacturer (b. 1895) [category: Deaths]
• 1982: Christian Tiffert, German footballer [category: Births]
• 1982: Juelz Santana, American rapper (Skull Gang and The Diplomats) [category: Births]
• 1982: Ngaio Marsh, New Zealand author (b. 1895) [category: Deaths]
• 1983: Jason Maxiell, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1983: Jermaine Jenas, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1983: Joel Huiqui, Mexican footballer [category: Births]
• 1983: Troy Bienemann, American football player [category: Births]
• 1983: 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. [category: Events]
• 1984: Idriss Carlos Kameni, Cameroonian footballer [category: Births]
• 1984: Kathrin Wörle, German tennis player [category: Births]
• 1984: Ricardo Salampessy, Indonesian footballer [category: Births]
• 1984: Stéphanie de Lannoy, Belgian countess [category: Births]
• 1985: Anton Ferdinand, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1985: Chelsea Hobbs, American actress [category: Births]
• 1985: Lee Boyd Malvo, Jamaican spree killer [category: Births]
• 1985: Todd Lasance, Australian actor [category: Births]
• 1986: Marc Torrejón, Spanish footballer [category: Births]
• 1986: Vika Jigulina, Romanian Singer [category: Births]
• 1987: Vicente Guaita, Spanish footballer [category: Births]
• 1988: Maiara Walsh, American actress [category: Births]
• 1988: Max, South Korean singer (TVXQ) [category: Births]
• 1988: Shane Lyons, American actor and chef [category: Births]
• 1989: Vicente, Brazilian footballer [category: Births]
• 1990: Cody Hodgson, Canadian hockey player [category: Births]
• 1990: Park Shin-hye, South Korean actress [category: Births]
• 1991: Henry Surtees, English racing driver (d. 2009) [category: Births]
• 1991: Malese Jow, American actress and singer [category: Births]
• 1991: Sebastian Neumann, German footballer [category: Births]
• 1991: The IRA explodes bombs in the early morning at Paddington station and Victoria station in London. [category: Events]
• 1992: Logan Miller, American actor [category: Births]
• 1993: Erwin Thiesies, German rugby player and coach (b. 1908) [category: Deaths]
• 1993: Jacqueline Hill, British actress (b. 1929) [category: Deaths]
• 1993: Kerry Von Erich, American professional wrestler (b. 1960) [category: Deaths]
• 1995: Samantha Crawford, American tennis player [category: Births]
• 1995: Bob Stinson, American guitarist (b. 1959) [category: Deaths]
• 1997: Emily Hahn, American writer (b. 1905) [category: Deaths]
• 1998: Harry Caray, American baseball broadcaster (b. 1914) [category: Deaths]
• 1998: Robbie James, Welsh footballer (b. 1957) [category: Deaths]
• 1999: Noam Pitlik, American actor and director (b. 1932) [category: Deaths]
• 2000: Willy Maltaite, Belgian comics creator (b. 1927) [category: Deaths]
• 2001: Balthus, Polish-born painter (b. 1908) [category: Deaths]
• 2001: Dale Earnhardt, American race car driver (b. 1951) [category: Deaths]
• 2001: Eddie Mathews, American baseball player (b. 1931) [category: Deaths]
• 2001: FBI agent Robert Hanssen is arrested for spying for the Soviet Union. He is ultimately convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment. [category: Events]
• 2001: Inter-ethnic violence between Dayaks and Madurese breaks out in Sampit, Indonesia, that will ultimately result in more than 500 deaths and 100,000 Madurese displaced from their homes. [category: Events]
• 2001: Seven-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion Dale Earnhardt dies in an accident during the Daytona 500. [category: Events]
• 2003: Isser Harel, Israeli Mossad leader (b. 1912) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Nearly 200 people die in the Daegu subway fire in South Korea. [category: Events]
• 2004: Jean Rouch, French filmmaker and ethnologist (b. 1917) [category: Deaths]
• 2004: Up to 295 people, including nearly 200 rescue workers, die near Neyshabur in Iran when a runaway freight train carrying sulfur, petrol and fertilizer catches fire and explodes. [category: Events]
• 2006: Richard Bright, American actor (b. 1937) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Terrorist bombs explode on the Samjhauta Express in Panipat, Haryana, India, killing 68 people. [category: Events]
• 2008: Alain Robbe-Grillet, French writer and filmmaker (b. 1922) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: Mickey Renaud, Canadian professional ice hockey player (b. 1988) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: Mihaela Mitrache, Romanian actress, (b. 1955) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: Sir Richard Knowles, British politician (b. 1917) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: Al-Tayyib Salih, Sudanese novelist and columnist (b. 1929) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: Miika Tenkula, Finnish guitarist (Sentenced) (b. 1974) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: John Babcock, Last known Canadian veteran of World War I (b. 1900) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Cal Murphy, Canadian football coach and general manager (b. 1932) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Matt Lamb, American painter (b. 1932) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Peter Halliday, Welsh actor (b. 1924) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Roald Aas, Norwegian Olympic gold (1960) and bronze (1952) (b. 1928) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Roger Miner, American federal appellate judge (b. 1934) [category: Deaths]
• _: Bernadette Soubirous [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Christian Feast Day: [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Colmán of Lindisfarne [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: February 18 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Flavian of Constantinople [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Independence Day, celebrates the independence of the Gambia from the United Kingdom in 1965. [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Sepandārmazgān or "Women's Day" in Iran [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Simeon of Jerusalem (Western Christianity) [category: Holidays and observances]