Page 9: Historical Events In February - 18

1980  In this year, Pierre Elliott Trudeau's Liberal Party claims Canada's elections   

1984  Revised concordat between Italy and the Vatican signed.   

1988  Anthony M. Kennedy is sworn in as the 104th justice of the U.S. Supreme Court   

1994  Actor Joe Pantoliano (41) weds model Nancy Sheppard (31).   

1996  Tendulkar scores 127 in India's Cricket World Cup win over Kenya   

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

2010  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 inaugural native American saint.   

2013  15 people are killed by flooding and landslides in Indonesia   

2014  2014 Ukrainian Revolution begins.   

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

2018  Syrian government forces begin a new offensive on Eastern Ghouta in Syria's civil war   

2018  In this year, 60th Daytona 500: Austin Dillon claims in a Chevrolet Camero ZL1   

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

2021  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  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]   

2024  77th British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs) "Oppenheimer" Best Film, Christopher Nolan Best Director, Emma Stone , Cillian Murphy acting awards [1]   

2024  Poll by historians' ranks Joe Biden as the 14th best US president, with Donald Trump ranked last [1].   

2025  27th and 28th US military strikes in international waters of the eastern Pacific Ocean sink two suspected drug smuggling vessels and kill five, bringing total deaths in the program to over 100   

2025  Following a constitutional reform, Nicaragua is recorded as becoming a diarchy with spouses Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo as co-presidents.   

2025  Vladimir Putin announces that Russia and the United States have officially agreed to restore diplomatic relations.[68] A four-hour summit between the US and Russia is held in Saudi Arabia.   

2025  Egypt announces the discovery of Thutmose II's tomb by a joint British-Egyptian team, the inaugural royal tomb to be discovered since Tutankhamun's in 1922. It is the 15th and final pharaoh tomb from the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt to have been are discovered by archeologists.   

« Previous Page | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Next Page »

1	2	3	4	5	6	7
8	9	10	11	12	13	14
15	16	17	18	19	20	21
22	23	24	25	26	27	28

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 this day in history.   

1486  Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Bengali saint, bhakti yoga developer was born on this day in history.   

1516  On this day in history birth of mary I Tudor, [Bloody Mary], Greenwich, queen of England (1553-58)   

1530  Uesugi Kenshin, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1578) was born on February - 18.   

1543  Charles III, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1608) was born on February - 18.   

1559  On this day in history 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 this day in history death of angilbert, Frankish monk and confidant of Charlemagne   

0901  Death of Thabit ibn Qurra, Arab astronomer and mathematician (b. 826) on February - 18.   

0999  Gregory V, [Bruno] 1st German Pope, dies on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

1379  On February - 18 death of albert II of Mecklenburg (b. 1318)   

1397  Enguerrand VII, French master of Coucy/count of Soissons, dies at 56 on this day in history.