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18 Feb 1219
Jerusalem re-taken by the Christian Crusader kingdom in a peace treaty between Holy Roman Emperor Frederik II and Egyptian ruler Al-Kamil
18 Feb 1268
The Livonian Brothers of the Sword are defeated by Dovmont of Pskov in the Battle of Rakovor.
18 Feb 1332
Amda Seyon I Emperor of Ethiopia begins his campaigns in the southern Muslim provinces.
18 Feb 1478
George Duke of Clarence convicted of treason against his older brother Edward IV of England is privately executed in the Tower of London (allegedly by being drowned in a butt of Malmsey wine).
18 Feb 1536
France & Turkey sign militarytrade agreement against King Karel
18 Feb 1563
Huguenot Jean Poltrot de Mere shoots gen Francois De Guise
18 Feb 1634
Ferdinand II orders commander Albrecht von Wallensteins execution
18 Feb 1678
John Bunyans Pilgrims Progress is published in Holborn London by Nathaniel Ponder
18 Feb 1685
Fort St. Louis is established by a Frenchman at Matagorda Bay thus forming the basis for Frances claim to Texas.
18 Feb 1688
Quakers conduct 1st formal protest of slavery in Germantown Pa
18 Feb 1713
French invade under Jacques Cassard on Curacao
18 Feb 1735
1st opera performed in America Flora in Charleston South Carolina
18 Feb 1745
Bonnie Prince Charlies troops occupy Inverness Scotland
18 Feb 1787
Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II bans children under 8 from labor
18 Feb 1797
Trinidad is surrendered to a British fleet under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby
18 Feb 1804
1st US land-grant college Ohio University Athens Ohio chartered
18 Feb 1828
More than 100 vessels destroyed in a storm Gibraltar
18 Feb 1834
1st US labor newspaper The Man published NYC
18 Feb 1849
1st regular steamboat service to California starts (or 0228)
18 Feb 1850
California Legislature creates nine Bay Area counties
18 Feb 1865
Battle of Fort Moultrie SC occupied by Federals
18 Feb 1865
Union troops force Confederates to abandon Ft Anderson NC
18 Feb 1876
Direct telegraph link established between Britain & New Zealand
18 Feb 1878
John Tunstall is murdered by outlaw Jessie Evans sparking the Lincoln County War in Lincoln County New Mexico.
18 Feb 1891
Capt Archinards army fights with Nyamina of Niger in West-Sudan
18 Feb 1896
Cave of Winds at Niagara Falls goes almost dry for first time in 50 yrs
18 Feb 1899
San Francisco named as a port of dispatch for Army transports
18 Feb 1899
Stanley Cup Mont Shamrocks sweep Queens U (Kingston Ont) in 2 games
18 Feb 1900
Battle at Paardeberg 1270 British killedinjured
18 Feb 1901
H Cecil Booth patented a dust removing suction cleaner
18 Feb 1902
Opera Hunchback of Notre Dame premieres in Monte Carlo
18 Feb 1905
Frank Wedekinds Hidada oder Sein und Haben premieres in Munich
18 Feb 1906
Vincent dIndys Jour Dt La Montagne premieres in Paris
18 Feb 1908
The American ambassador to Japan is given a note by the Japanese in which they agree to restrict Japanese emigration to the US this becomes known as the Gentlemens Agreement
18 Feb 1911
The first official flight with air mail takes place in Allahabad British India when Henri Pequet a 23-year-old pilot delivers 6500 letters to Naini about 10 km away.
18 Feb 1913
President Francisco Madero of Mexico is overthrown
18 Feb 1916
The last German garrison in the German colony of Cameroons surrenders
18 Feb 1917
1st major strike of the Russian February Revolution starts at the giant Putilov factory in Petrograd [NSMar 3]
18 Feb 1918
Germany renews its offensive against the Russians making dramatic gains against disorganized and dispirited Russian troops
18 Feb 1922
Kenesaw Mountain Landis resigns his judgeship to work for baseball
18 Feb 1922
WOC-AM in Davenport IA begins radio transmissions
18 Feb 1922
The Capper-Volstead Act allows farmers to buy and sell co-operatively without the risk of prosecution under antitrust laws
18 Feb 1923
Belgium Borinage-mine workers strike for higher wages
18 Feb 1924
US Secretary of the Navy Edwin Denby resigns due to Teapot Dome scandal
18 Feb 1927
1st US radio broadcast of Cities Service Concerts
18 Feb 1928
Sonja Henie of Norway wins the womens figure skating gold medal at the St. Moritz Winter Olympic Games her first of 3 consecutive titles in the event
18 Feb 1928
USA 2 beats USA 1 by 0.5s for the 5-man bobsleigh gold medal at the St. Moritz Winter Olympics Germany 2 takes bronze
18 Feb 1928
Johan Grttumsbrten of Norway wins the Nordic combined gold at the St. Moritz Winter Olympics doubles up with the 18k cross country gold the previous day
18 Feb 1928
Norway goes 1-2 in the ski jumping at the St. Moritz Winter Olympics with Alf Andersen taking gold ahead of Sigmund Ruud
18 Feb 1930
Cow flown & milked milk sealed in paper containers & parachuted
18 Feb 1930
Luigi Pirandellos Come Tu Mi Vuoi premieres in Milan
18 Feb 1930
Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Harts Simple Simon premieres in NYC
18 Feb 1932
Sonja Henie wins her 6th straight World Womens figure skating title
18 Feb 1932
Japan proclaims and names Manchukuo state in north east China
18 Feb 1936
NHL record 32 points scored NY Americans (28) & Mont Maroons (24)
18 Feb 1939
Golden Gate International Exposition opens on Treasure Island
18 Feb 1943
1st edition of Dutch resistance newspaper Trouw
18 Feb 1943
Munich resistance group White Rose captured by Nazis
18 Feb 1943
German Propaganda Minister Josef Goebbells demands total war from German citizens in speech at Berlin Sportpalast
18 Feb 1944
Maastricht resistance fighter JAJ Janssen arrested
18 Feb 1944
Youngest baseball player Cincinnati Reds sign 15 year old Joe Nuxhall
18 Feb 1947
24 die in a train crash in Gallitzin Pennsylvania
18 Feb 1947
Gian Carlo Menottis opera Telephone premieres in NYC
18 Feb 1950
Dance Me a Song closes at Royale Theater NYC after 35 performances
18 Feb 1951
3 City College of NY basketball players admit to accepting bribes
18 Feb 1952
4th Emmy Awards first time awards presented based on nationwide basis The Red Skelton Show Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca win
18 Feb 1952
Norwegian speed skater Hjalmar Anderson wins his 3rd gold medal of the Oslo Winter Olympics when he claims the 10000m in Olympic record 1645.8 also wins gold in 1500m and 5000m
18 Feb 1953
Maggie opens at National Theater NYC for 5 performances
18 Feb 1953
KOLN TV channel 10 in Lincoln NB (CBS) begins broadcasting
18 Feb 1954
The first Church of Scientology is established in Los Angeles California
18 Feb 1955
Baghdad Pact signed making Turkey & Iraq a defense alliance
18 Feb 1957
Dedan Kimathi a Kenyan freedom fighter is executed by the British colonial government.
18 Feb 1960
VIII Winter Olympic Games open in Squaw Valley California
18 Feb 1960
Walter OMalley LA Dodger owner purchases Chavez Ravine for 494000
18 Feb 1961
Henk van der Grift becomes world champion skater
18 Feb 1962
France & Algerian Muslims negotiate truce to end 7 year war
18 Feb 1962
4th Daytona 500 Fireball Roberts wins (152.529 MPH)
18 Feb 1964
Muriel Resniks Any Wednesday premieres in NYC
18 Feb 1965
Fade Out-Fade In opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 72 performances
18 Feb 1965
27 copper miners die in avalanche Granduc Mountain British Columbia
18 Feb 1965
Frank Gifford announces his retirement from football for broadcasting
18 Feb 1965
The Gambia becomes independent from the United Kingdom
18 Feb 1967
Softball pitcher Eddie Feigner strikes out 6 straight major leaguers
18 Feb 1968
Thousands of people in West Berlin demonstrate against US involvement in the Vietnam War
18 Feb 1968
X Winter Olympic Games close in Grenoble France
18 Feb 1968
Britain commences a trial of year-round daylight saving time (BST - British Standard Time one hour ahead of GMT)
18 Feb 1968
After winning mens luge singles Olympic gold medal in Innsbruck (1964) Thomas Khler of Germany teams with Klaus Bonsack to take out the doubles in Grenoble
18 Feb 1969
Doug Walters scores 2nd innings century after 242 in 1st
18 Feb 1970
Chicago 7 defendants found innocent of inciting to riot
18 Feb 1972
California Supreme Court abolishes death penalty
18 Feb 1972
Giulio Andreotti sworn in as premier of Italy for the 1st time
18 Feb 1973
54-kg octopus measuring 7m across captured in Hood Canal Washington
18 Feb 1973
Belgian Emiel Puttemans runs 3000m indoor record 739.2
18 Feb 1973
15th Daytona 500 Richard Petty wins (157.205 MPH)
18 Feb 1974
NASA launches Italian satellite San Marcos C-2 (235843 km)
18 Feb 1974
US ambassador to India Daniel Moynihan present 2046700000 check
18 Feb 1977
Space Shuttle above a Boeing 747 goes on its maiden flight
18 Feb 1977
Test Cricket debuts of Colin Croft & Joel Garner v Pakistan Bridgetown
18 Feb 1977
Kiss play their first concert in their hometown venue of Madison Square Garden in New York City
18 Feb 1978
1st Iron Man Triathlon (swim bike ride marathon) held Kona Hawaii
18 Feb 1979
-52F (-47C) Old Forge New York (state record)
18 Feb 1979
Mini-series Roots Next Generations premieres on ABC TV
18 Feb 1979
President Zia ur-Rahmans National Party wins elections in Bangladesh
18 Feb 1979
21st Daytona 500 Richard Petty wins (143.977 MPH)
18 Feb 1980
Billy Wyman said he will leave Rolling Stones in 1983 (Sure)
18 Feb 1980
Pierre Elliott Trudeaus Liberal Party wins Canadian elections
18 Feb 1980
30th Berlin International Film Festival Heartland and Palermo or Wolfsburg win the Golden Bear (tie)
18 Feb 1980
Soviet figure skater Irina Rodnina wins her 3rd consecutive Olympic pairs title at Lake Placid gold medals with husband Alexander Zaitsev (1976 80) and Alexei Ulanov (1972)
18 Feb 1980
East German cross country skier Barbara Petzold wins first of 2 gold medals at the Lake Placid Winter Olympics in womens 10k also takes gold as part of 4 x 5k relay team
18 Feb 1981
20-year-old Edmonton center Wayne Gretzky becomes first player in NHL history to score 5 career hat-tricks before age 21 scores 5 goals and 2 assists in 9-2 Oilers home win against St. Louis
18 Feb 1983
NBA Indiana Pacers begin a 28 game road losing streak
18 Feb 1983
Right wing Lanny McDonald becomes the first player in NHL franchise Calgary Flames history to score 50 goals in a season in a 5-1 loss to Buffalo Sabres
18 Feb 1983
33rd Berlin International Film Festival Ascendancy and The Beehive win the Golden Bear (tie)
18 Feb 1984
Revised concordat between Italy & Vatican signed
18 Feb 1984
Finnish cross-country skier Marja-Liisa Hmlinen wins the 20k gold medal at the Sarajevo Winter Olympics sweeps all 3 individual events also winning 5k and 10k events
18 Feb 1984
East German figure skater Katarina Witt wins first of 2 consecutive womens singles gold medals at the Sarajevo Winter Olympics also wins gold in Calgary (1988)
18 Feb 1984
Finnish ski jumper Matti Nyknen wins first of 4 career Olympic gold medals in the Large Hill individual event at the Sarajevo Winter Games
18 Feb 1986
San Antonios Alvin Robertson scores NBA 2nd quadruple double-20 pts 11 rebounds 10 assists & 10 steals against Phoenix
18 Feb 1988
Anthony Kennedy sworn in as US Supreme Court Justice
18 Feb 1988
Federal Road Safety Corps is established in Nigeria
18 Feb 1989
Sherri Turner wins LPGA Orix Hawaiian Ladies Golf OpenItoki Pro-Am
18 Feb 1989
A Better Man single released by Clint Black (Billboard Song of the Year )
18 Feb 1990
Jane Crafter wins LPGA Phar-Mor at Inverrary Golf Tournament
18 Feb 1990
32nd Daytona 500 Derrike Cope wins (165.761 MPH)
18 Feb 1993
Howard Sterns radio show begins transmitting to Rochester New York
18 Feb 1994
Dan Jansen skates world record 1000m (112.43)
18 Feb 1995
Barb Thomas Whitehead wins Cup o Noodles Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open
18 Feb 1996
38th Daytona 500 Dale Jarrett wins (154.308 MPH)
18 Feb 1998
Two white separatists are arrested in Nevada and accused of plotting a biological attack on New York City subways.
18 Feb 2000
Stjepan Mesi becomes the second President of Croatia
18 Feb 2001
Crash during Daytona 500 race on last lap claims life of Dale Earnhardt prompting sport to implement new safety procedures
18 Feb 2001
43rd Daytona 500 Michael Waltrip wins (161.783 MPH)
18 Feb 2003
Comet C2002 V1 (NEAT) makes perihelion seen by SOHO.
18 Feb 2003
Nearly 200 people die in the Daegu subway fire in South Korea
18 Feb 2004
Up to 295 people including nearly 200 rescue workers die near Neyshabur in Iran when a run-away freight train carrying sulfur petrol and fertiliser catches fire and explodes.
18 Feb 2007
49th Daytona 500 Kevin Harvick wins (149.333 MPH)
18 Feb 2009
The Directorate General of Budget Accounting and Statistics announced that the Taiwanese economy has contracted an unprecedented 8.36% in the fourth quarter of 2008 thus placing the country in a technical recession
18 Feb 2013
15 people are killed by flooding and landslides in Indonesia
18 Feb 2013
50 million worth of diamonds is stolen in an armed robbery at Brussels Airport Belgium
18 Feb 2014
Police clash with protesters in Bangkok Thailand
18 Feb 2014
Netherlands sweeps the medals in the mens 1000m speed skating at the Sochi Winter Olympics Jorrit Bergsma wins gold ahead of team mates Sven Kramer andBob de Jong
18 Feb 1899
Stanley Cup Montreal Arena Westmount Quebec Montreal Victorias beat Winnipeg Victorias 3-2 to sweep series 2-0 for CAHL
18 Feb 1905
Frank Wedekinds Hidalla oder Sein und Haben (Hidalla or Being and Having) premieres in Munich
18 Feb 1922
Kenesaw Mountain Landis resigns his federal judgeship to give full attention to job as Major League Baseball Commissioner
18 Feb 1943
A syndicate headed by New York lumberman William D Cox buys MLBs Philadelphia Phillies for 850000 33 year-old Cox is youngest owner in baseball
18 Feb 1944
15-year-old Joe Nuxhall signs a contract to play baseball with the Cincinnati Reds just one day after playing in a high school basketball game debuts later that year
18 Feb 1962
4th Daytona 500 Race winner Fireball Roberts dominates the event leading 144 of the 200 laps
18 Feb 1973
15th Daytona 500 Richard Petty wins his 4th Great American Race by more than 2 laps from Bobby Isaac
18 Feb 1977
West Indies cricket fast bowlers Joel Garner (4130) and (Colin Croft 385) debut in drawn 1st Test v Pakistan at Bridgetown Barbados
18 Feb 1979
21st Daytona 500 Richard Petty wins after race leaders Cale Yarborough and Donnie Allison collide with each other on final lap first 500 mile race broadcast from start to finish
18 Feb 1983
Indiana Pacers lose 121-94 in Milwaukee begin a 28 NBA game losing streak on the road
18 Feb 1986
San Antonio guard Alvin Robertson scores NBAs 2nd quadruple double-20 points 11 rebounds 10 assists & 10 steals in 120-114 win over Phoenix Suns
18 Feb 1990
32nd Daytona 500 Derrike Cope wins after Dale Earnhardt shreds right rear tyre on last lap
18 Feb 1994
Shreveport Pirates join Canadian Football League as 4th US-based team fold 1995
18 Feb 1996
38th Daytona 500 Dale Jarrett wins his 2nd Great American race ahead of Dale Earnhardt and Ken Schrader
18 Feb 2001
43rd Daytona 500 Michael Waltrip wins tragic race last lap crash claims life of Dale Earnhardt prompting sport to implement new safety procedures
18 Feb 2007
49th Daytona 500 Kevin Harvick wins by 0.02s over Mark Martin in the closest finish since the first race at Daytona in 1959
18 Feb 2014
Netherlands sweeps the medals in the mens 1000m speed skating at the Sochi Winter Olympics Jorrit Bergsma wins gold ahead of team mates Sven Kramer and Bob de Jong
18 Feb 2014
American snowboarder David Wise wins first of 2 consecutive Olympic halfpipe gold medals in Sochi wins again in Pyeongchang (2018)
18 Feb 2017
67th Berlin International Film Festival Hungarian film On Body and Soul wins the Golden Bear
18 Feb 2018
Frenchman Martin Fourcade wins his 2nd of 3 gold medals at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in the 15k mass start biathlon also wins mens 12.5k pursuit & mixed relay
18 Feb 1876
Direct telegraph link established between Britain and New Zealand
18 Feb 1922
The Capper-Volstead Act allows farmers to buy and sell cooperatively without the risk of prosecution under antitrust laws
18 Feb 2014
Netherlands sweeps the medals in the mens 1000m speed skating at the Sochi Winter Olympics Jorrit Bergsma wins gold ahead of teammates Sven Kramer and Bob de Jong
18 Feb 1903
Dutch government of Abraham Kuyper launches anti-strike laws
18 Feb 1977
Space Shuttle Enterprise takes its maiden flight affixed atop a Boeing 747 Shuttle Aircraft Carrier
18 Feb 1977
American rock band KISS play their first concert in their hometown venue of Madison Square Garden in New York City
18 Feb 1688
Quakers consider drafting formal protest of slavery in Germantown Pennsylvania
18 Feb 1943
Members of student non-violent resistance group White Rose arrested by Nazis after distributing pamphlets in Munich Germany
18 Feb 1992
American amateur astronomer Peter Collins discovers Nova Cygni observed from Boulder Colorado
18 Feb 1804
Ohio legislature approves establishment of Ohio University at Athens as the 1st university in Ohio first classes are held in 1809
18 Feb 1917
First major strike of the Russian February Revolution starts at the giant Putilov factory in Petrograd [NSMar 3]
18 Feb 1957
Kenyan freedom fighter Dedan Kimathi executed by hanging by the British colonial government
18 Feb 1219
Jerusalem re-taken by the Christian Crusader kingdom in a peace treaty between Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II and Egyptian ruler Al-Kamil
18 Feb 1536
Francis I King of France and Suleiman I of the Ottoman Empire sign military and trade agreement against King Charles V Holy Roman Emperor
18 Feb 1804
Ohio University in Athens Ohio becomes the first U.S. land-grant college when it is chartered
18 Feb 1930
American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto
18 Feb 1932
Japan proclaims and names Manchukuo in Manchuria China as an independent state
18 Feb 1932
Norways Sonja Henie wins her 6th straight World Womens figure skating title
18 Feb 2018
60th Daytona 500 Austin Dillon wins after multi-car wreck sends race into overtime (207 laps) ahead of rookie Darrell Wallace Jr
18 Feb 2018
After taking out the mens combined gold medal Austrian alpine skier Marcel Hirscher wins the giant slalom at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics
18 Feb 2018
Aseman Airlines flight crashes in the Zagros mountains Iran killing all 66 on board
18 Feb 2018
Syrian government forces begin a new offensive on Eastern Ghouta in Syrias civil war
18 Feb 2019
25-year old murder of a woman solved when police in Minnesota run DNA though a genealogy site and find suspect
18 Feb 2019
British parliamentary committee issues scathing report on Facebook accusing company of breaking privacy laws calling for new regulations
18 Feb 1219
Jerusalem is retaken by the Christian Crusader kingdom in a peace treaty between Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II and Egyptian ruler Al-Kamil
18 Feb 1268
Battle of Wesenberg Livonian Brothers of the Sword fight the forces of Novgorod and Pskov led by Dmitry of Pereslavl near Rakvere in modern-day Estonia both sides claim victory
18 Feb 1332
Emperor of Ethiopia Amda Seyon I begins his campaigns in the southern Muslim provinces
18 Feb 1358
Treaty of Zadar The Venetian Republic loses influence over Dalmatia in exchange for ending hostilities with the King of Hungary and Croatia Louis I
18 Feb 1563
Huguenot Jean de Poltrot assassinates French General Duke Franois de Guise with a shot from his pistol
18 Feb 1685
Fort St. Louis is established by a Frenchman at Matagorda Bay forming the basis for Frances claim to Texas
18 Feb 1735
First opera performed in America Flora in Charleston South Carolina
18 Feb 1849
First regular steamboat service to California starts (or Feb 28)
18 Feb 1834
US labor newspaper The Man begins publishing as a daily in NYC
18 Feb 1884
British General Charles Gordon arrives in Khartoum
18 Feb 1896
Cave of the Winds at Niagara Falls goes almost dry for the first time in 50 years
18 Feb 1911
The first official flight with airmail takes place in Allahabad British India when Henri Pequet a 23-year-old pilot delivers 6500 letters to Naini about 10 km away
18 Feb 1930
American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovers the dwarf planet Pluto
18 Feb 1930
Cow is flown and milked milk is sealed in paper containers and parachuted
18 Feb 1978
1st Iron Man Triathlon (swim bike ride and run marathon) held beginning and ending at the Aloha Tower in Honolulu Harbor of Oahu Hawaii
18 Feb 1981
Jeff Erlanger (10) a spinal tumor survivor and quadriplegic appears on childrens television program Mister Rogers Neighborhood discusses his disability and demonstrates his electric wheelchair
18 Feb 1984
Revised Concordat between Italy and Vatican is signed
18 Feb 1998
Two white separatists are arrested in Nevada and accused of plotting a biological attack on NYC subways
18 Feb 2004
A runaway freight train carrying sulfur petrol and fertilizer catches fire and explodes near Neyshabur in Iran killing 295 people including 182 rescue workers