Historical Events In February - 18

1979  On this day in history president Zia ur-Rahmans National Party wins elections in Bangladesh  

1979  On February - 18 snow falls in the Sahara Desert  

1980  On this day in history billy Wyman said he will leave the Rolling Stones in 1983 (Sure!)  

1980  On this day in history pierre Elliott Trudeau's Liberal Party wins Canada's elections  

1984  On this day in history revised concordat between Italy & the Vatican signed  

1988  On February - 18 anthony M. Kennedy is sworn in as the 104th justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.  

1994  On February - 18 actor Joe Pantoliano (41) weds model Nancy Sheppard (31)  

1995  Pamela Anderson (Baywatch) & Tommy Lee (Motley Crüe) wed on this day in history.  

1996  Tendulkar scores 127 in India's Cricket World Cup win over Kenya on February - 18.  

1999  Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic is warned by the U.S. to make peace with ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, or face military intervention on this day in history.  

2010  On February - 18 the President of Niger, Tandja Mamadou, is overthrown after a group of soldiers storms the presidential palace and form a ruling junta, the Supreme Council for the Restoration of Democracy headed by chef d'escadron Salou Djibo.  

2012  Kateri Tekakwitha canonized as the first native American saint on February - 18.  

2013  On February - 18 15 people are killed by flooding and landslides in Indonesia  

2014  2014 Ukrainian Revolution begins on February - 18.  

2018  Aseman Airlines flight crashes in the Zagros mountains, Iran, killing all 66 on board on this day in history.  

2018  On this day in history syrian government forces begin a new offensive on Eastern Ghouta in Syria's civil war  

2018  60th Daytona 500: Austin Dillon wins in a Chevrolet Camero ZL1 on February - 18.  

2018  On February - 18 iran Aseman Airlines Flight 3704 crashes in the Zagros Mountains, en route from Tehran to Yasuj. All 65 passengers and crew members perish.  

2021  On February - 18 nASA's Mars 2020 mission (containing the Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter drone) lands on Mars at Jezero Crater, after seven months of travel.  

2023  On February - 18 global financial system is "dysfunctional and unfair" and is "failing developing countries" according to UN Secretary General António Guterres at opening of African Union leaders' summit in Ethiopia [1]  

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1374  On February - 18 birth of saint Jadwiga of Poland, queen of Poland (d. 1399)  

1404  Leon B Alberti, Italian humanist/architect (Della Pittura) was born on February - 18.  

1486  On this day in history birth of chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Bengali saint, bhakti yoga developer  

1516  Mary I Tudor, [Bloody Mary], Greenwich, queen of England (1553-58) was born on February - 18.  

1530  On this day in history birth of uesugi Kenshin, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1578)  

1543  On this day in history birth of charles III, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1608)  

1559  On February - 18 birth of isaac Casaubon, naturalized English classical scholar, theologian  

1602  On this day in history birth of per Brahe (the younger), Swedish soldier (d. 1680)  

0814  On February - 18 death of angilbert, Frankish monk and confidant of Charlemagne  

0901  On February - 18 death of thabit ibn Qurra, Arab astronomer and mathematician (b. 826)  

0999  Gregory V, [Bruno] 1st German Pope, dies on February - 18.  

1139  On this day in history death of prince Yaropolk II of Kiev (b. 1082)  

1217  Alexander Neckum de Sancto Albano, Engl encyclopedist, dies at 59 on February - 18.  

1294  Death of Kublai Khan, Mongol Emperor (b. 1215) on February - 18.  

1379  Death of Albert II of Mecklenburg (b. 1318) on this day in history.  

1397  On this day in history enguerrand VII, French master of Coucy/count of Soissons, dies at 56