18 Februar

The 18t o Februar is the 49t day o the year in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 316 days ti come (317 in lowp years).

 Events 
 1791 - Unitit States Congress  passes a law admittin Vermont as the 14t state on 4 Mairch.
 1861 - Inauguration o Jefferson Davis as Preses o the Confederatit States o  Americae.
 1861 - Victor Emmanuel II o Italy becomes King.
 1885 - Mark Twain's "Adventures o Huckleberry Finn" is furthset.
 1930 - Discovery o the dwarf planet Pluto bi Clyde Tombaugh.
 1952 - Greece an Turkey jyn NATO.
 1960 - The 1960 Winter Olympic Gemmes in Squaw Valley, Californie, stairt.
 1965 - The Gambie gains unthirldom frae the Unitit Kinrick.
 1977 - The Space Shuttle Enterprise flies on a Boeing 747 aircraft.
 2003 - Nearly 200 fowk are killt in the Daegu Subway fire in Daegu, Sooth Korea.
 2004 - The Nisharpur train disaster in Iran kills 295 fowk.
 2005 - The ban on tod huntin in Ingland an Wales enters intae force.
 2010 - A coup is staged in Niger, remuivin Preses Mamadou Tandja.
 2014 - Violent clashes occur in central Kiev durin Ukraine's Euromaidan protests; 11 protesters an 7 polis officers are killt.
 2021 - NASA's Perseverance Rover lands on Maurs.

 Births 
 1404 - Leon Battista Alberti, Italian polymath (d. 1472)
 1516 - Queen Mary I o Ingland (d. 1558)
 1860 - Anders Zorn, Swadish penter (d. 1920)
 1898 - Enzo Ferrari, Italian racin driver an entrepreneur (d. 1988)
 1919 - Jack Palance, American actor (d. 2006)
 1931 - Toni Morrison, American writer (d. 2019)
 1954 - John Travolta, American actor
 1957 - Bruce Rauner, American politeecian
 1964 - Matt Dillon, American actor
 1965 - Dr. Dre, American record producer, rapper an entrepreneur
 1967 - Roberto Baggio, Italian fitbawer
 1983 - Roberta Vinci, Italian tennis player

 Daiths 
 1294 - Kublai Khan, Mongol emperor (b. 1215)
 1405 - Timur, Mongol ruler (b. 1336)
 1546 - Martin Luther, German religious reformer (b. 1483)
 1564 - Michelangelo, Italian airtist (b. 1475)
 1712 - Louis, Duke o Burgundy, Dauphin o Fraunce (b. 1682)
 2001 - Dale Earnhardt, American racin driver (b. 1951)
 2017 - Ivan Koloff, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1942)

 Halidays 
 Independence Day (The Gambie)
 Internaitional Asperger's Syndrome Day

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Category:Days o the year