About February 18
February 18, 2024 is the 49th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 317 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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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 346 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On February 18
- 1229 –The Sixth Crusade: Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor signs a ten-year truce with al-Kamil, regaining Jerusalem, Nazareth, and Bethlehem with neither military engagements nor support from the papacy.
- 1332 –Amda Seyon I, Emperor of Ethiopia begins his campaigns in the southern Muslim provinces.
- 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.
- 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 6 warships, destroying or capturing 20 of them.
- 1797 –French Revolutionary Wars: Sir Ralph Abercromby and a fleet of 18 British warships invade Trinidad.
- 1861 –In Montgomery, Alabama, Jefferson Davis is inaugurated as the provisional President of the Confederate States of America.
- 1878 –John Tunstall is murdered by outlaw Jesse Evans, sparking the Lincoln County War in Lincoln County, New Mexico.
- 1900 –Second Boer War: Imperial forces suffer their worst single-day loss of life on Bloody Sunday, the first day of the Battle of Paardeberg.
- 1906 –Edouard de Laveleye forms the Belgian Olympic Committee in Brussels.
- 1943 –Joseph Goebbels delivers his Sportpalast speech.
- 1965 –The Gambia becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
- 1969 –Hawthorne Nevada Airlines Flight 708 crashes into Mount Whitney killing all on board.
- 1977 –The Space Shuttle Enterprise test vehicle is carried on its maiden “flight” on top of a Boeing 747.
- 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.
- 1983 –Thirteen people die and one is seriously injured in the Wah Mee Massacre in Seattle, Washington. It is said to be the largest robbery-motivated mass-murder in U.S. history.
- 1991 –The IRA explodes bombs in the early morning at Paddington station and Victoria station in London.
- 2003 –Nearly 200 people die in the Daegu subway fire in South Korea.
- 2007 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Pig in Chinese astrology.
- 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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