February 18 in history
Events on February 18
Notable events that happened on February 18 in past years.
- 2021
Perseverance, a Mars rover designed to explore Jezero crater on Mars, as part of NASA's Mars 2020 mission, lands successfully.
Wikipedia article: Perseverance (rover) - 2010
WikiLeaks publishes the first of hundreds of thousands of classified documents disclosed by the soldier now known as Chelsea Manning.
Wikipedia article: WikiLeaks - 2001
FBI agent Robert Hanssen is arrested for spying for the Soviet Union. He is ultimately convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.
Wikipedia article: Federal Bureau of Investigation - 1979
Richard Petty wins a then-record sixth Daytona 500 after leaders Donnie Allison and Cale Yarborough crash on the final lap of the first NASCAR race televised live flag-to-flag.
Wikipedia article: Richard Petty - 1977
The Space Shuttle Enterprise test vehicle is carried on its maiden "flight" on top of a Boeing 747.
Wikipedia article: Space Shuttle Enterprise - 1957
Kenyan rebel leader Dedan Kimathi is executed by the British colonial government.
Wikipedia article: Kenya - 1954
The first Church of Scientology is established in Los Angeles.
Wikipedia article: Church of Scientology - 1943
World War II: The Nazis arrest the members of the White Rose movement.
Wikipedia article: Nazism - 1932
The Empire of Japan creates the independent state of Manzhouguo (the obsolete Chinese name for Manchuria) free from the Republic of China and installed former Chinese Emperor Puyi as Chief Executive of the State.
Wikipedia article: Empire of Japan - 1915
U-boat Campaign: The Imperial German Navy institutes unrestricted submarine warfare in the waters around Great Britain and Ireland.
Wikipedia article: U-boat campaign - 1885
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is published in the United States.
Wikipedia article: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - 1861
In Montgomery, Alabama, Jefferson Davis is inaugurated as the provisional President of the Confederate States of America.
Wikipedia article: Montgomery, Alabama - 1791
Congress passes a law admitting the state of Vermont to the Union, effective 4 March, after that state had existed for 14 years as a de facto independent largely unrecognized state.
Wikipedia article: Admission to the Union - 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 six warships, destroying or capturing 20 of them.
- 3102 BC
Kali Yuga, the fourth and final yuga of Hinduism, starts with the death of Krishna.
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