| Date | Text | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100 years anniversary | ||||
| 18 Feb 1924 | US female Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld Blanchard | |||
| 18 Feb 1924 | US male Figure Skating championship won by Sherwin Badger | |||
| 18 Feb 1924 | US, Minister of Marine Edwin Denby ends term due to Teapot Dome-scandal | |||
| 18 Feb 1924 | Sam Rolfe, American screenwriter and producer (d. 1993) | |||
| 18 Feb 1924 | Nicola Rizzuto, Italian-Canadian mob boss (d. 2010) | |||
| 18 Feb 1924 | Humberto Fernández Morán, Venezuelan scientist and academic (d. 1999) | |||
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| 18 Feb 1924 | US female Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld Blanchard | |||
| 18 Feb 1924 | US male Figure Skating championship won by Sherwin Badger | |||
| 18 Feb 1924 | US, Minister of Marine Edwin Denby ends term due to Teapot Dome-scandal | |||
| 75 years anniversary | ||||
| 18 Feb 1949 | Cybill Shepherd: Memphis, Tennessee -- Actress (Moonlighting, Last Picture Show) | |||
| 18 Feb 1949 | Niceto A Zamora y Torres: Premier of Spain (1931-36), dies at 71 | |||
| 18 Feb 1949 | Gary Ridgway, American serial killer | |||
| 18 Feb 1949 | Cybill Shepherd Memphis TN, actress (Moonlighting, Last Picture Show) | |||
| 18 Feb 1949 | Jess Walton actress (Jill Abbott-Young & Restless) | |||
| 18 Feb 1949 | Niceto A Zamora y Torres premier of Spain (1931-36), dies at 71 | |||
| 50 years anniversary | ||||
| 18 Feb 1974 | NASA launches Italian satellite San Marcos C-2 (235 / 843 km) | |||
| 18 Feb 1974 | US ambassador to India Daniel Moynihan present $2,046,700,000 check | |||
| 18 Feb 1974 | Jillian Michaels, American fitness trainer and author | |||
| 18 Feb 1974 | Yevgeny Kafelnikov, Russian tennis player | |||
| 18 Feb 1974 | Julia Butterfly Hill, American environmentalist and author | |||
| 18 Feb 1974 | Ruby Dhalla, Canadian chiropractor and politician | |||
| 18 Feb 1974 | Radek Černý, Czech footballer | |||
| 18 Feb 1974 | Jamey Carroll, American baseball player | |||
| 18 Feb 1974 | Carrie Ann Baade, American painter and academic | |||
| 18 Feb 1974 | Yevgeny Kafelnikov Russia, tennis star | |||
| 18 Feb 1974 | NASA launches Italian satellite San Marcos C-2 (235/843 km) | |||
| 18 Feb 1974 | US ambassador to India Daniel Moynihan presents $2,046,700,000 check | |||
| 20 years anniversary | ||||
| 18 Feb 2004 | Up to 295 people, including nearly 200 rescue workers, die near Nishapur in Iran when a runaway freight train carrying sulfur, petrol and fertilizer catches fire and explodes. | |||
| 18 Feb 2004 | Dido entered a Top 10 of the music world's biggest earners after making £15.8 million ($26.9 million) in 2003. The singer's second album Life For Rent was the previous years biggest selling UK album. The Rolling Stones topped the Heat magazine rich list having earned £55.3 million ($94 million) in 2003. | |||
| 18 Feb 2004 | A court case accusing Marilyn Manson of sexual assault was dismissed after the two sides reached a settlement. Security guard Joshua Keasler had sued Manson after the star allegedly put his legs around Keasler's neck and gyrated against him on stage at a gig in Detroit, Michigan in 2001. Manson was ordered to pay $4,000 (£2,091) in fines and costs in the criminal proceedings. | |||
| 15 years anniversary | ||||
| 18 Feb 2009 | Miika Tenkula, Finnish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Sentenced) (b. 1974) | |||
| 18 Feb 2009 | Tayeb Salih, Sudanese journalist and author (b. 1929) | |||
| 18 Feb 2009 | Welsh songstress Duffy won three trophies at this years Brit awards, taking home Best British Female Solo Artist, British Breakthrough Act and British Album of the Year for her debut Rockferry. Kings of Leon won International Group and International Album for Only By The Night, International Male and Female Solo Artists were Kanye West and Katy Perry. British Male Solo Artist went to Paul Weller, Iron Maiden won British Live Act and Elbow won Best British Group. Outstanding Contribution to Music went to the Pet Shop Boys. | |||
| 18 Feb 2009 | Michael Jackson's management team announced that The King Of Pop was set to auction off his American Music Award for 'Thriller', his Gold and Platinum records, a Rolls Royce limousine, a customized Harley Davidson, a velvet cape given to him by his children for Father's Day in 1998, a pair of rhinestone-trimmed socks from 1981, a basketball signed by Michael Jordan and his own original artwork. | |||
| 10 years anniversary | ||||
| 18 Feb 2014 | At least 76 people are killed and hundreds are injured in clashes between riot police and demonstrators in Kiev, Ukraine. | |||
| 18 Feb 2014 | Maria Franziska von Trapp, Austrian-American singer (b. 1914) | |||
| 18 Feb 2014 | Nikhil Baran Sengupta, Indian art director and production designer (b. 1943) | |||
| 18 Feb 2014 | Kristof Goddaert, Belgian cyclist (b. 1986) | |||
| 18 Feb 2014 | Mavis Gallant, Canadian-French author and playwright (b. 1922) | |||
| 18 Feb 2014 | Viscera, American wrestler and actor (b. 1971) | |||
18 Feb 2014
Forman S. Acton |
death Forman S. Acton Forman S. Acton, 93, American computer scientist, author and academic |
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