About February 18
February 18, 2020 is the 49th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 317 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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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 360 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.
- 1268 –The Livonian Brothers of the Sword are defeated by Dovmont of Pskov in the Battle of Rakvere.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 –The Nazis arrest the members of the White Rose movement.
- 1946 –Sailors of the Royal Indian Navy mutinied in Mumbai harbour, from where it would spread throughout British India and involve 78 ships, 20 shore establishments and 20,000 sailors
- 1957 –Kenyan rebel leader Dedan Kimathi is executed by the British colonial government.
- 1957 –Walter James Bolton becomes the last person legally executed in New Zealand.
- 1965 –The Gambia becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
- 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.
- 1977 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Snake in Chinese astrology.
- 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.
- 2001 –FBI agent Robert Hanssen is arrested for spying for the Soviet Union. He is ultimately convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.
- 2004 –Up to 295 people, including nearly 200 rescue workers, die near Neyshabur in Iran when a runaway freight train carrying sulfur, petrol and fertilizer catches fire and explodes.
- 2007 –Terrorist bombs explode on the Samjhauta Express in Panipat, Haryana, India, killing 68 people.
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