About February 18
February 18, 2021 is the 49th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 316 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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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 348 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.
- 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.
- 1745 –The city of Surakarta, Central Java is founded on the banks of Bengawan Solo River, and becomes the capital of the Kingdom of Surakarta.
- 1797 –French Revolutionary Wars: Sir Ralph Abercromby and a fleet of 18 British warships invade Trinidad.
- 1846 –Beginning of the Galician peasant revolt.
- 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.
- 1943 –The Nazis arrest the members of the White Rose movement.
- 1954 –The first Church of Scientology is established in Los Angeles, California.
- 1955 –Operation Teapot: Teapot test shot “Wasp” is successfully detonated at the Nevada Test Site with a yield of 1.2 kilotons. Wasp is the first of fourteen shots of the Teapot series.
- 1965 –The Gambia becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
- 1969 –Hawthorne Nevada Airlines Flight 708 crashes into Mount Whitney killing all on board.
- 1970 –The Chicago Seven are found not guilty of conspiring to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2003 –Nearly 200 people die in the Daegu subway fire in South Korea.
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