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Events on the 18th of February in history

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18 Feb 1129 Jerusalem taken by Emperor Frederik II
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18 Feb 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.
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18 Feb 1268 The Livonian Order is defeated by Dovmont of Pskov in the Battle of Rakvere.
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18 Feb 1332 Amda Seyon I, Emperor of Ethiopia begins his campaigns in the southern Muslim provinces.
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18 Feb 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.
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18 Feb 1503 Henry Tudor created Prince of Wales (later Henry VIII)
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18 Feb 1536 France & Turkey sign military/trade agreement against King Karel
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18 Feb 1563 Huguenot Jean Poltrot de M
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18 Feb 1574 Zeeland falls to Dutch rebels
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18 Feb 1634 Ferdinand II orders commander Albrecht von Wallenstein, execution
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18 Feb 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.
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18 Feb 1678 John Bunyan's "The Pilgrim's Progress" is published
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18 Feb 1688 Quakers conduct 1st formal protest of slavery in Germantown, Pennsylvania
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18 Feb 1713 French invade under Jacques Cassard on Curacao
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18 Feb 1735 1st opera performed in America, "Flora, " in Charleston, South Carolina
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18 Feb 1735 1st opera performed in America, "Flora", in Charleston SC
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18 Feb 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.
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18 Feb 1745 Bonnie Prince Charlie's troops occupy Inverness Scotland
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18 Feb 1766 A mutiny by captive Malagasy begins at sea on the slave ship Meermin, leading to the ship's destruction on Cape Agulhas in present-day South Africa and the recapture of the instigators.
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18 Feb 1781 Fourth Anglo-Dutch War: Captain Thomas Shirley opens his expedition against Dutch colonial outposts on the Gold Coast of Africa (present-day Ghana).
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18 Feb 1787 Austrian emperor Jozef II bans children under 8 from labor
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18 Feb 1791 Congress passes a law admitting the state of Vermont to the Union, effective 4 March 1791, after that state had existed for 14 years as a de-facto independent largely unrecognized state.
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18 Feb 1797 French Revolutionary Wars: Sir Ralph Abercromby and a fleet of 18 British warships invade Trinidad.
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18 Feb 1804 1st US land-grant college, Ohio University, Athens OH, chartered
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18 Feb 1814 Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Montereau.
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18 Feb 1815 Treaty of peace with Great Britain proclaimed
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18 Feb 1828 More than 100 vessels destroyed in a storm, Gibraltar
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18 Feb 1834 1st US labor newspaper, "The Man, " published, New York City
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18 Feb 1834 1st US labor newspaper, "The Man", published, New York NY
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18 Feb 1839 Detroit Boat Club forms
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18 Feb 1839 Detroit Boat Club forms (still exists today)
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18 Feb 1841 1st continuous filibuster in US Senate began, lasting until March 11
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18 Feb 1849 1st regular steamboat service to California starts (or 02 / 28)
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18 Feb 1849 1st regular steamboat service to San Francisco CA starts: gold rush prospectors from east coast
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18 Feb 1850 California Legislature creates 9 Bay Area counties
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18 Feb 1856 American (Know-Nothing) Party abolishes secrecy
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18 Feb 1857 Insurrection of Chinese in Sarawak, Borneo
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18 Feb 1861 With Italian unification almost complete, Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont, Savoy and Sardinia assumes the title of King of Italy.
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18 Feb 1861 In Montgomery, Alabama, Jefferson Davis is inaugurated as the provisional President of the Confederate States of America.
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18 Feb 1861 Confederate President Jefferson Davis inaugurated at Montgomery AL
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18 Feb 1861 King Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia becomes 1st king of Italy
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18 Feb 1865 Union troops force Confederates to abandon Ft Anderson, North Carolina
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18 Feb 1865 American Civil War: Union forces under Major General William T. Sherman set the South Carolina State House on fire during the burning of Columbia.
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18 Feb 1865 Evacuation of Charleston SC; Sherman's troops burn the city
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18 Feb 1865 Battle of Ft Moultrie SC occupied by Federals
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18 Feb 1873 Bulgarian revolutionary leader Vasil Levski is executed by hanging in Sofia by the Ottoman authorities.
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18 Feb 1876 Direct telegraph link established between Britain & New Zealand
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18 Feb 1878 John Tunstall is murdered by outlaw Jesse Evans, sparking the Lincoln County War in Lincoln County, New Mexico.
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18 Feb 1879 Arabs capture Egyptian premier Nabar Pasha
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18 Feb 1884 Police seize all copies of Tolstoy's "What I Believe In"
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18 Feb 1884 General Charles Gordon arrives in Khartoum
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18 Feb 1885 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is published in the United States.
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18 Feb 1885 Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" published
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18 Feb 1891 Captain Archinard's army fights with Nyamina of Niger in West-Sudan
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18 Feb 1896 Cave of Winds at Niagara Falls goes almost dry for 1st time in 50 years
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18 Feb 1899 80
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18 Feb 1899 San Francisco named as a port of dispatch for Army transports
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18 Feb 1899 Stanley Cup Montr
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18 Feb 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.
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18 Feb 1900 Ajax soccer team forms in Amsterdam
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18 Feb 1900 Battle at Paardeberg, 1,270 British killed/injured
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18 Feb 1900 British troops occupy Monte Christo Natal
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18 Feb 1901 H Cecil Booth patented a dust removing suction cleaner
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18 Feb 1902 Opera "Hunchback of Notre Dame, " premieres in Monte Carlo
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18 Feb 1902 The opera "Le Jongleur (Hunchback) de Notre Dame" is produced (Monte Carlo)
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18 Feb 1903 Kuyper government launches anti strike laws
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18 Feb 1905 Frank Wedekind's "Hidada, oder Sein und Haben" premieres in Munich
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18 Feb 1906 Édouard de Laveleye forms the Belgian Olympic Committee in Brussels.
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18 Feb 1906 Vincent d'Indy's "Jour D'
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18 Feb 1908 1st US postage stamps in coils issued
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18 Feb 1909 Boston Red Sox trade Cy Young, at 41, to Cleveland Naps
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18 Feb 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.
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18 Feb 1913 French painting "Nude Descending a Staircase" displayed in New York City
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18 Feb 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.
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18 Feb 1913 French painting "Nude Descending a Staircase" by Marcel DuChamp displayed at Armory Show in New York NY
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18 Feb 1915 Germany begins a blockade of England
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18 Feb 1919 Cy Denneny of NHL Ottawa Senators scores record 52nd goals
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18 Feb 1921 British troops occupy Dublin
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18 Feb 1922 Kenesaw Mountain Landis resigns his judgeship to work for baseball
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18 Feb 1922 WOC-AM in Davenport IA begins radio transmissions
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18 Feb 1923 Belgium Borinage-mine workers strike for higher wages
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18 Feb 1924 US female Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld Blanchard
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18 Feb 1924 US male Figure Skating championship won by Sherwin Badger
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18 Feb 1924 US, Minister of Marine Edwin Denby ends term due to Teapot Dome-scandal
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18 Feb 1927 1st US radio broadcast of "Cities Service Concerts"
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18 Feb 1927 US & Canada begin diplomatic relations
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18 Feb 1930 Cow flown and milked, milk sealed in paper containers and parachuted
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18 Feb 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.
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18 Feb 1930 While studying photographs taken in January, Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto.
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18 Feb 1930 Luigi Pirandello's "Come Tu Mi Vuoi" premieres in Milan
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18 Feb 1930 Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart's "Simple Simon" premieres in New York NY
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18 Feb 1930 US astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto
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18 Feb 1932 The Empire of Japan declares Manzhouguo (the obsolete Chinese name for Manchuria) independent from the Republic of China.
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18 Feb 1932 Japan declares Manchuria Independent
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18 Feb 1932 Sonja Henie wins her 6th straight World Women's figure skating title
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18 Feb 1936 NHL record 32 points scored, New York Americans (28) and Mont Maroons (24)
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18 Feb 1938 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.
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18 Feb 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition opens on Treasure Island
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18 Feb 1942 World War II: The Imperial Japanese Army begins the systematic extermination of perceived hostile elements among the Chinese in Singapore.
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18 Feb 1942 Japanese troop land on Bali
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18 Feb 1943 1st edition of Dutch resistance newspaper "Trouw"
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18 Feb 1943 Munich resistance group "White Rose" captured by Nazis
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18 Feb 1943 Joseph Goebbels delivers his Sportpalast speech.
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18 Feb 1943 The Nazis arrest the members of the White Rose movement.
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18 Feb 1943 Augusto Pinochet Ugarte (Chilean General/dictator) marries Lucia Hiriart
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18 Feb 1943 William D Cox buys Philadelphia Phillies
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18 Feb 1944 Youngest baseball player, Cin Reds sign 15 year old Joe Nuxhall
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18 Feb 1944 Cincinnati Reds sign youngest baseball player, 15 year old Joe Nuxhall
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18 Feb 1944 Maastricht resistance fighter JAJ Janssen arrested
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18 Feb 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
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18 Feb 1947 24 die in a train crash in Gallitzin, Pennsylvania
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18 Feb 1947 First Indochina War: The French gain complete control of Hanoi after forcing the Viet Minh to withdraw to mountains.
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18 Feb 1947 Gian Carlo Menotti's opera "Telephone" premieres in New York NY
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18 Feb 1950 "Dance Me a Song" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 35 performances
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18 Feb 1951 Nep l becomes a constitutional monarchy
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18 Feb 1951 3 City College of New York basketball players admit to accepting bribes
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18 Feb 1951 Nep
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18 Feb 1951 Netherlands Radio School forms
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18 Feb 1952 4th Emmy Awards: Red Skelton, Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca wins
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18 Feb 1953 "Bwana Devil, " the 1st 3-D movie, opened in New York
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18 Feb 1953 "Maggie" opens at National Theater NYC for 5 performances
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18 Feb 1953 Premiere of 1st 3-D feature film-"Bwana Devil" (NYC)
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18 Feb 1953 Premiere of 1st 3-D feature film-"Bwana Devil" (New York NY)
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18 Feb 1953 KOLN TV channel 10 in Lincoln NB (CBS) begins broadcasting
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18 Feb 1954 The first Church of Scientology is established in Los Angeles.
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18 Feb 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.
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18 Feb 1955 Baghdad Pact signed, making Turkey & Iraq a defense alliance
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18 Feb 1957 Walter James Bolton becomes the last person legally executed in New Zealand.
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18 Feb 1957 Kenyan rebel leader Dedan Kimathi is executed by the British colonial government.
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18 Feb 1960 8th Winter Olympic games open in Squaw Valley, Colorado
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18 Feb 1960 Walter O'Malley, Los Angeles Dodger owner, purchases Chavez Ravine for $494,000
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18 Feb 1961 Henk van der Grift becomes world champion skater
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18 Feb 1962 France & Algerian Moslems negotiate truce to end 7 year war
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18 Feb 1962 Louise Suggs wins LPGA St Petersburg Golf Open
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18 Feb 1964 Muriel Resnik's "Any Wednesday" premieres in New York NY
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18 Feb 1964 Papandreou government takes power in Greece
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18 Feb 1965 "Fade Out-Fade In" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 72 performances
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18 Feb 1965 The Gambia becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
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18 Feb 1965 27 copper miners die in avalanche, Granduc Mountain British Columbia
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18 Feb 1965 Frank Gifford announces his retirement from football for broadcasting
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18 Feb 1965 Gambia gains independence from Britain (National Day)
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18 Feb 1967 Bob Seagren sets pole vault record at 17'3"
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18 Feb 1967 Softball pitcher Eddie Feigner strikes out 6 straight major leaguers
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18 Feb 1968 British adopt year-round daylight savings time
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18 Feb 1968 David Gilmour joins rock group Pink Floyd
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18 Feb 1968 10,000 demonstrators against US in Vietnam War in West-Berlin
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18 Feb 1968 10th Winter Olympics games close at Grenoble, France
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18 Feb 1969 Hawthorne Nevada Airlines Flight 708 crashes into Mount Whitney killing all on board.
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18 Feb 1969 Doug Walters scores 2nd innings century after 242 in 1st
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18 Feb 1969 PLO-attack El-Al plane in Zurich Switzerland
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18 Feb 1970 US President Nixon launches "Nixon-doctrine"
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18 Feb 1970 The Chicago Seven are found not guilty of conspiring to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
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18 Feb 1970 Chicago 7 defendants found innocent of inciting to riot
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18 Feb 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.
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18 Feb 1972 John & Yoko end a week of co-hosting Mike Douglas Show
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18 Feb 1972 California Supreme Court abolishes death penalty
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18 Feb 1972 Giulio Andreotti sworn in as premier of Italy
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18 Feb 1973 54-kg octopus measuring 7 meter across captured in Hood Canal, Washington
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18 Feb 1973 Belgian Emile Puttemans runs 3000 meter indoor record 7 39.2
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18 Feb 1973 Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Pompano Beach Golf Classic
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18 Feb 1974 NASA launches Italian satellite San Marcos C-2 (235/843 km)
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18 Feb 1974 US ambassador to India Daniel Moynihan presents $2,046,700,000 check
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18 Feb 1975 2nd American Music Award
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18 Feb 1975 Italy broadens abortion law
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18 Feb 1977 George Harrison releases "True Love"
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18 Feb 1977 The Space Shuttle Enterprise test vehicle is carried on its maiden "flight" on top of a Boeing 747.
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18 Feb 1977 George Harrison releases "True Love"
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18 Feb 1977 Space Shuttle above a Boeing 747 goes on it's maiden flight
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18 Feb 1977 Test Cricket debuts of Colin Croft & Joel Garner vs Pakistan Bridgetown
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18 Feb 1978 1st Iron Man Triathlon (swim, bike ride, marathon) held, Kona, Hawaii
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18 Feb 1978 The first Ironman Triathlon competition takes place on the island of Oahu and is won by Gordon Haller.
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18 Feb 1979 Miniseries "Roots: Next Generations" premieres on ABC TV
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18 Feb 1979 Snow falls in the Sahara Desert in southern Algeria for the only time in recorded history.
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18 Feb 1979 -52
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18 Feb 1979 NASA launches space vehicle S-202
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18 Feb 1979 Snow falls in the Sahara Desert
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18 Feb 1979 Amy Alcott wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic
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18 Feb 1979 President Zia ur-Rahmans National Party wins elections in Bangladesh
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18 Feb 1980 Billy Wyman said he will leave the Rolling Stones in 1983 (Sure!)
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18 Feb 1980 Pierre Elliott Trudeau's Liberal Party wins Canada's elections
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18 Feb 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.
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18 Feb 1983 NBA Indiana Pacers begin a 28 game road losing streak
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18 Feb 1984 Revised concordat between Italy & the Vatican signed
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18 Feb 1986 San Antonio's Alvin Robertson scores NBA 2nd quadruple double-20 points, 11 rebounds, 10 assists & 10 steals against Phoenix
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18 Feb 1988 Anthony M Kennedy, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice
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18 Feb 1989 Steve Garvey marries Candace Thomas while at the same time being accused of fathering children by 2 other women
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18 Feb 1989 Sherri Turner wins LPGA Orix Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open/Itoki Pro-Am
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18 Feb 1990 Jane Crafter wins LPGA Phar-Mor at Inverrary Golf Tournament
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18 Feb 1991 The IRA explodes bombs in the early morning at Paddington station and Victoria station in London.
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18 Feb 1991 Edmonton Oiler goalie Grant Fuhr returns to NHL after season-long suspension for substance abuse & shuts out New Jersey Devils 4-0
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18 Feb 1993 Howard Stern's radio show begins transmitting to Rochester NY
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18 Feb 1994 Actor Joe Pantoliano (41) weds model Nancy Sheppard (31)
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18 Feb 1994 Dan Jansen skates world record 1000 meter (1:12.43)
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18 Feb 1994 Shreveport Pirates join CFL as 4th US team
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18 Feb 1995 Angela Kennedy swims world record 100 meter butterfly
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18 Feb 1995 Barb Thomas Whitehead wins Cup o' Noodles Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open
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18 Feb 1995 Pamela Anderson (Baywatch) & Tommy Lee (Motley Cr
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18 Feb 1995 Warnecke swims world record 50 meter freestyle
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18 Feb 1996 Daytona 500 race
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18 Feb 1996 Tendulkar scores 127 in India's Cricket World Cup win over Kenya
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18 Feb 1998 New York Rangers fire head coach Colin Campbell
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18 Feb 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.
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18 Feb 2001 Seven-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion Dale Earnhardt dies in an accident during the Daytona 500.
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18 Feb 2001 FBI agent Robert Hanssen is arrested for spying for the Soviet Union. He is ultimately convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.
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18 Feb 2003 Nearly 200 people die in the Daegu subway fire in South Korea.
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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.
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18 Feb 2007 Terrorist bombs explode on the Samjhauta Express in Panipat, Haryana, India, killing 68 people.
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18 Feb 2013 Armed robbers steal a haul of diamonds worth $50 million during a raid at Brussels Airport in Belgium.
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18 Feb 2014 At least 76 people are killed and hundreds are injured in clashes between riot police and demonstrators in Kiev, Ukraine.
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18 Feb 3102 -BC- Origin of Kali Era (India)
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