Historical Events and Current Affairs on February 18

1129: Jerusalem taken by Emperor Frederik II
1503: Henry Tudor created Prince of Wales (later Henry VIII)
1536: France & Turkey sign milt/trade agreement against King Karel
1563: Huguenot Jean Poltrot de M‚r‚ shoots gen Fran‡ois De Guise
1574: Zeeland falls to Dutch rebels
1634: Ferdinand II orders commander Albrecht von Wallenstein, execution
1678: John Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" is published
1688: Quakers conduct 1st formal protest of slavery in Germantown, Pa
1713: French invade under Jacques Cassard on Cura‡ao
1735: 1st opera performed in America, "Flora," in Charleston, SC
1745: Bonnie Prince Charlies troops occupy Inverness Scotland
1787: Austrian emperor Jozef II bans children under 8 from labor
1804: 1st US land-grant college, Ohio University, Athens Ohio, chartered
1828: More than 100 vessels destroyed in a storm, Gibraltar
1834: 1st US labor newspaper, "The Man," published, NYC
1839: Detroit Boat Club forms (& still exists)
1841: 1st continuous filibuster in US Senate began, lasting until March 11
1849: 1st regular steamboat service to California starts (or 02/28)
1850: Calif Legislature creates 9 Bay Area counties
1856: American (Know-Nothing) Party abolishes secrecy
1857: Insurrection of Chinese in Sarawak, Borneo
1861: Confederate President Jefferson Davis inaugurated at Montgomery Ala
1861: King Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia becomes 1st king of Italy
1865: Battle of Ft Moultrie, SC occupied by Federals
1865: Evacuation of Charleston, SC; Sherman's troops burn city
1865: Union troops force Confederates to abandon Ft Anderson, NC
1876: Direct telegraph link established between Britain & NZ
1879: Arabs capture Egyptian premier Nabar Pasha
1884: General Charles Gordon arrives in Khartoum
1884: Police seize all copies of Tolstoy's "What I Believe In"
1885: Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," published
1891: Capt Archinard's army fights with Nyamina of Niger in West-Sudan
1896: Cave of Winds at Niagara Falls goes almost dry for 1st time in 50 yrs
1899: 80øF in SF
1899: SF named as a port of dispatch for Army transports
1899: Stanley Cup: Mont Shamrocks sweep Queens U (Kingston Ont) in 2 games
1900: Ajax soccer team forms in Amsterdam
1900: Battle at Paardeberg, 1,270 British killed/injured
1900: British troops occupy Monte Christo Natal
1901: H Cecil Booth patented a dust removing suction cleaner
1902: Opera "Hunchback of Notre Dame," premieres in Monte Carlo
1903: Kuyper govt launches anti strike laws
1905: Frank Wedekind's "Hidada, oder Sein und Haben," premieres in Munich
1906: Vincent d'Indy's "Jour D'‚t‚ … La Montagne," premieres in Paris
1908: 1st US postage stamps in rolls issued
1909: Boston Red Sox trade Cy Young, at 41, to Cleveland Naps
1913: French painting "Nude Descending a Staircase" displayed in NYC
1915: Germany begins a blockade of England
1919: Cy Denneny of NHL Ottawa Senators scores record 52nd goals
1921: British troops occupy Dublin
1922: Kenesaw Mountain Landis resigns his judgeship to work for baseball
1922: WOC-AM in Davenport IA begins radio transmissions
1923: Belgium: Borinage-mine workers strike for higher wages
1924: US female Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld Blanchard
1924: US male Figure Skating championship won by Sherwin Badger
1924: US, min of marine Edwin Denby ends term due to Teapot Dome-scandal
1927: 1st US radio broadcast of "Cities Service Concerts"
1927: US & Canada begin diplomatic relations
1930: Cow flown & milked, milk sealed in paper containers & parachuted
1930: Luigi Pirandello's "Come Tu Mi Vuoi," premieres in Milan
1930: Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart's "Simple Simon," premieres in NYC
1930: US astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto
1932: Japan declares Manchuria Independent
1932: Sonja Henie wins her 6th straight World Women's figure skating title
1936: NHL record 32 points scored, NY Americans (28) & Mont Maroons (24)
1939: Golden Gate International Exposition opens on Treasure Island
1942: Japanese troop land on Bali
1942: L Oterma discovers asteroids #1758 Naantali, #2828 Iku-Turso & #2912
1943: 1st edition of Dutch resistance newspaper "Trouw"
1943: Augusto Pinochet Ugarte (Chilean gen/dictator) marries Lucia Hiriart
1943: Munich resistance group "White Rose" captured by Nazis
1943: William D Cox buys Phila Phillies
1944: Maastricht resistance fighter JAJ Janssen arrested
1944: Youngest baseball player, Cin Reds sign 15 year old Joe Nuxhall
1947: 24 die in a train crash in Gallitzin Pa
1947: Gian Carlo Menotti's opera "Telephone," premieres in NYC
1950: "Dance Me a Song" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 35 performances
1951: 3 City College of NY basketball players admit to accepting bribes
1951: Nep l becomes a constitutional monarchy
1951: Netherlands Radio School forms
1952: 4th Emmy Awards: Red Skelton, Sid Caesar & Imogene Coca wins
1953: "Bwana Devil," the 1st 3-D movie, opened in New York
1953: "Maggie" opens at National Theater NYC for 5 performances
1953: KOLN TV channel 10 in Lincoln, NB (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953: Premiere of 1st 3-D feature film-"Bwana Devil" (NYC)
1955: Baghdad Pact signed, making Turkey & Iraq a defense alliance
1960: 8th Winter Olympic games open in Squaw Valley, Colo
1960: Walter O'Malley, LA Dodger owner, purchases Chavez Ravine for $494,000
1961: Henk van der Grift becomes world champion skater
1962: France & Algerian Moslems negotiate truce to end 7 year war
1964: Muriel Resnik's "Any Wednesday," premieres in NYC
1964: Papandreou Govt takes power in Greece
1965: "Fade Out-Fade In" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 72 perfs
1965: 27 copper miners die in avalanche, Granduc Mountain, BC
1965: Frank Gifford announces his retirement from football for broadcasting
1965: Gambia gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1967: Bob Seagren sets pole vault record at 17'3"
1967: Softball pitcher Eddie Feigner strikes out 6 straight major leaguers
1968: 10,000 demonstrators against US in Vietnam War in West-Berlin
1968: 10th Winter Olympic games close at Grenoble, France
1968: British adopts year-round daylight savings time
1968: David Gilmour joins rock group Pink Floyd
1969: Doug Walters scores 2nd innings century after 242 in 1st
1969: PLO-attack El-Al plane in Zurich Switzerland
1970: Chicago 7 defendants found innocent of inciting to riot
1970: US president Nixon launches "Nixon-doctrine"
1972: Calif Supreme Court abolishes death penalty
1972: Giulio Andreotti sworn in as premier of Italy
1972: John & Yoko end a week of co-hosting Mike Douglas Show
1973: 54-kg octopus measuring 7m across captured in Hood Canal, Wash
1973: Belgian Emiel Puttemans runs 3000m indoor record 7:39.2
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: 2nd American Music Award:
1975: Italy broadens abortion law
1977: #2924 Mitake-mura, #3249 Musashino, #3391 Sinon, #3607 Naniwa
1977: #4186 Tamashima, #4812 Hakuhou, #4963 Kanroku, #5017 Tenchi,
1977: #5082 Nihonsyoki, #7104, #7105, #7627 & #8133
1977: George Harrison releases "True Love"
1977: H Kosai & K Hurukawa discover asteroids #2330 Ontake, #2960 Ohtaki,
1977: Space Shuttle above a Boeing 747 goes on it's maiden flight
1978: 1st Iron Man Triathlon (swim, bike ride, marathon) held, Kona, Hawaii
1979: -52øF (-47øC), Old Forge, New York (state record)
1979: Miniseries "Roots: Next Generations" premieres on ABC TV
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: Billy Wyman said he will leave Rolling Stones in 1983 (Sure!)
1980: Pierre Elliott Trudeau's Liberal Party wins Canada's elections
1983: NBA Indiana Pacers begin a 28 game road losing streak
1984: Revised concordat between Italy & Vatican signed
1986: pts, 11 rebounds, 10 assists & 10 steals against Phoenix
1986: San Antonio's Alvin Robertson scores NBA 2nd quadruple double-20
1988: Anthony M Kennedy, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice
1989: accused of fathering children by 2 other women
1989: Steve Garvey marries Candace Thomas while at same time being
1991: Edmonton Oiler goalie Grant Fuhr returns to NHL after season-long
1991: suspension for substance abuse & shuts out NJ Devils 4-0
1993: Howard Stern's radio show begins transmitting to Rochester NY
1994: Actor Joe Pantoliano (41) weds model Nancy Sheppard (31)
1994: Dan Jansen skates world record 1000m (1:12.43)
1994: Shreveport Pirates join CFL as 4th US team
1995: Angela Kennedy swims world record 100m butterfly
1995: Pamela Anderson (Baywatch) & Tommy Lee (Motley Cre) wed
1995: Warnecke swims world record 50m freestyle
1996: Daytona 500 race
1998: NY Rangers fire head coach Colin Campbell

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