Today in History
18 February
Timur Lenk
Michelangelo Buonarotti
Alessandro Volta
Willem Maris - Ducks 1880
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| 1129 Jerusalem taken by Emperor Frederik II | ||
| 1248 Imperial forces under Frederick II were defeated at Parma in Italy. | ||
| 1404 Leon B Alberti, Italian humanist/architect (Della Pittura) was born | ||
| 1405 Timur Lenk, whose violent conquests in the late 14th century ranged from China to the Mediterranean, died while leading an expedition to China. | ||
| 1478 George, Duke of Clarence, convicted of treason against his brother Edward IV, was murdered in the Tower of London. | ||
| 1503 Henry Tudor created Prince of Wales (later Henry VIII) | ||
| 1516 Mary I Tudor, [Bloody Mary], Greenwich, queen of England (1553-58) was born | ||
| 1536 France & Turkey sign milt/trade agreement against King Karel | ||
| 1546 Martin Luther, leader of the 16th century Protestant reformation, died. | ||
| 1564 Michelangelo Buonarotti, Italian painter, sculptor and architect, died; his works included the Sistine Chapel, "The Last Judgment" and the statue of "David." | Timur Lenk |
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| 1563 Huguenot Jean Poltrot de Mer‚ shoots general Francois De Guise | ||
| 1574 Zeeland falls to Dutch rebels | ||
| 1634 Ferdinand II orders commander Albrecht von Wallenstein, execution | ||
| 1685 In America, explorer Renee-Robert Cavelier Sieur de La Salle established a French colony at Fort St Louis in Texas. | ||
| 1688 Quakers conduct 1st formal protest of slavery in Germantown, Pa | ||
| 1713 French invade under Jacques Cassard on Curacao | ||
| 1743 Count Alessandro Volta, Como Italy, physicist was born | ||
| 1745 Bonnie Prince Charlies troops occupy Inverness Scotland | ||
| 1787 Austrian emperor Jozef II bans children under 8 from labor | ||
| 1828 More than 100 vessels destroyed in a storm, Gibraltar |
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| 1844 Willem Maris, Dutch painter (Hague School) was born | ||
| 1856 American (Know-Nothing) Party abolishes secrecy | ||
| 1857 Insurrection of Chinese in Sarawak, Borneo | ||
| 1857 Max Klinger, German graphic artist/painter/sculptor was born | ||
| 1861 King Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia becomes 1st king of Italy | ||
| 1865 In the American Civil War, the Unionist fleet took the town of Charleston, South Carolina. | ||
| 1876 Direct telegraph link established between Britain & NZ | ||
| 1879 Arabs capture Egyptian premier Nabar Pasha | ||
| 1884 British General Charles Gordon arrived at Khartoum in the Sudan in an attempt to end to the rebellion by the Mahdi. | ||
| 1885 Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," published | ||
| 1891 Capt Archinard's army fights with Nyamina of Niger in West-Sudan | Michelangelo Buonarotti |
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| 1896 Cave of Winds at Niagara Falls goes almost dry for 1st time in 50 yrs | ||
| 1900 Ajax soccer team forms in Amsterdam | ||
| 1900 The battle of Paardeberg began in the second Boer War; the Boers under Piet Cronje eventually surrendered on February 27 under the weight of British artillery led by Lord Roberts. | ||
| 1900 British troops occupy Monte Christo Natal | ||
| 1903 Kuyper governament launches anti strike laws | ||
| 1915 Germany began a blockade of England using submarines. | ||
| 1916 The last German soldiers in Cameroon surrendered to the Allies, ending German control of the colony. | ||
| 1918 The German army launched an offensive against Russia and within a week had occupied the Baltic states. | ||
| 1921 British troops occupy Dublin | ||
| 1923 Belgium: Borinage-mine workers strike for higher wages | ||
| 1927 US & Canada begin diplomatic relations | ||
| 1930 Clyde William Tombaugh, working with photographic plates at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff Arizona, discovered the planet Pluto. |
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| 1931 Dieter Schonbach, composer was born | ||
| 1931 Maxwell Thurman, US General was born | ||
| 1931 Swraj Paul, Indian/British industrial/multi-millionaire (Caparo) was born | ||
| 1932 Japan declares Manchuria Independent | ||
| 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition opens on Treasure Island | ||
| 1942 Japanese troop land on Bali | ||
| 1943 Augusto Pinochet Ugarte (Chilean gen/dictator) marries Lucia Hiriart | ||
| 1944 British aircraft bombed Amiens prison in France, allowing 100 prisoners to escape. | ||
| 1944 Maastricht resistance fighter JAJ Janssen arrested | ||
| 1947 24 die in a train crash in Gallitzin Pa | ||
| 1951 In Nepal, a new council of ministers was sworn in, ending century-old Rana domination and starting a new democracy. | ||
| 1955 Baghdad Pact signed, making Turkey & Iraq a defense alliance | ||
| 1956 French composer Gustave Charpentier died | Alessandro Volta |
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| 1960 Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay agreed to set up a Latin American Free Trade Association | ||
| 1962 France & Algerian Moslems negotiate truce to end 7 year war | ||
| 1964 Papandreou Governament takes power in Greece | ||
| 1965 The Gambia became an independent state within the Commonwealth. | ||
| 1967 Robert Oppenheimer, U.S. physicist and father of the atomic bomb, died. | ||
| 1968 10,000 demonstrators against US in Vietnam War in West-Berlin | ||
| 1968 British adopts year-round daylight savings time | ||
| 1970 US president Nixon launches "Nixon-doctrine" | ||
| 1972 California Supreme Court abolishes death penalty | ||
| 1972 Giulio Andreotti sworn in as premier of Italy | ||
| 1974 NASA launches Italian satellite San Marcos C-2 (235/843 km) | ||
| 1974 US ambassador to India Daniel Moynihan present $2,046,700,000 check | ||
| 1975 Italy broadens abortion law | ||
| 1977 Space Shuttle above a Boeing 747 goes on it's maiden flight |
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| 1979 NASA launches space vehicle S-202 | ||
| 1979 Pres Zia ur-Rahmans National Party wins elections in Bangladesh | ||
| 1979 Snow falls in Sahara Desert | ||
| 1980 In Canada, Pierre Trudeau, leader of the Liberal Party, returned to office as prime minister. | ||
| 1981 U.S. President Reagan's first budget proposed the largest tax cuts and spending curbs ever for an administration. | ||
| 1984 Revised concordat between Italy & Vatican signed | ||
| 1989 Steve Garvey marries Candace Thomas while at same time being | ||
| 1991 An IRA bomb exploded in London's Victoria Railway station, killing one and injuring at least 40 people. | ||
| 1996 An IRA explosion ripped apart a bus in London, killing one person and injuring nine others. | ||
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