About February 18
February 18, 2023 is the 49th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 316 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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Aquarius is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Amethyst is the modern birthstone for this month. Bloodstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 357 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On February 18
- 1478 –George, Duke of Clarence, convicted of treason against his older brother Edward IV of England, is executed in private at the Tower of London.
- 1814 –Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Montereau.
- 1846 –Beginning of the Galician peasant revolt.
- 1861 –In Montgomery, Alabama, Jefferson Davis is inaugurated as the provisional President of the Confederate States of America.
- 1865 –Union forces under Major General William T. Sherman set the South Carolina State House on fire during the burning of Columbia.
- 1906 –Edouard de Laveleye forms the Belgian Olympic Committee in Brussels.
- 1912 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Rat in Chinese astrology.
- 1930 –Elm Farm Ollie becomes the first cow to fly in a fixed-wing aircraft and also the first cow to be milked in an aircraft.
- 1930 –While studying photographs taken in January, Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto.
- 1932 –The Empire of Japan declares Manzhouguo (the obsolete Chinese name for Manchuria) independent from the Republic of China.
- 1943 –The Nazis arrest the members of the White Rose movement.
- 1957 –Walter James Bolton becomes the last person legally executed in New Zealand.
- 1970 –The Chicago Seven are found not guilty of conspiring to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
- 1972 –The California Supreme Court in the case of People v. Anderson, 6 Cal.3d 628 invalidates the state’s death penalty and commutes the sentences of all death row inmates to life imprisonment.
- 1978 –The first Ironman Triathlon competition takes place on the island of Oahu, won by Gordon Haller.
- 1979 –Snow falls in the Sahara Desert in southern Algeria for the only time in recorded history.
- 1991 –The IRA explodes bombs in the early morning at Paddington station and Victoria station in London.
- 2001 –FBI agent Robert Hanssen is arrested for spying for the Soviet Union. He is ultimately convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.
- 2001 –Inter-ethnic violence between Dayaks and Madurese breaks out in Sampit, Indonesia, that will ultimately result in more than 500 deaths and 100,000 Madurese displaced from their homes.
- 2010 –Nigerien rebels attacked the presidential palace in Niamey and replaced President Mamadou Tandja with a ruling junta, the Supreme Council for the Restoration of Democracy.
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