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Today in History: February 18

What Happened This Day In History

Khabarhub

February 18, 2019

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Here’s a chronological timetable of events that occurred on this day in history. Let’s find out what happened today in history.

February 18

1688       Quakers in Germantown, PA adopt the first formal antislavery resolution in America.

1813       Czar Alexander enters Warsaw at the head of his army.

1861       Victor Emmanuel II becomes the first King of Italy.

1865       Union troops force the Confederates to abandon Fort Anderson, NC.

1885       The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, is published in New York.

1907       600,000 tons of grain are sent to Russia to relieve the famine there.

1920       Vuillemin and Chalus complete their first flight over the Sahara Desert.

1932       Manchurian independence is formally declared.

1935       Rome reports sending troops to Italian Somalia.

1939       The Golden Gate Exposition opens in San Francisco.

1943       German General Erwin Rommel takes three towns in Tunisia, North Africa.

1944       The U.S. Army and Marines invade Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific.

1945       U.S. Marines storm ashore at Iwo Jima.

1962       Robert F. Kennedy says that U.S. troops will stay in Vietnam until Communism is defeated.

1967       The National Art Gallery agrees to buy a Leonardo da Vinci for a record $5 million.

1968       Three U.S. pilots that were held by the Vietnamese arrive in Washington.

1972       The California Supreme Court voids the death penalty.

1982       Mexico devalues the peso by 30 percent to fight an economic slide.

Born on February 18

1516       Queen Mary I, also known as Bloody Mary for her persecution of Protestants.

1795       George Peabody, U.S. merchant and philanthropist.

1848       Louis Comfort Tiffany, glassware artist and designer.

1859       Sholem Aleichem, Yiddish author.

1892       Wendell Willkie, Presidential candidate against Franklin Roosevelt.

1909       Wallace Stegner, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist (Angle of Repose).

1922       Helen Gurley Brown, editor of Cosmopolitan magazine.

1929       Len Deighton, English spy writer (The Ipcress File).

1931       Toni Morrison, Nobel laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning author

1934       Audre Lord, poet.

Source: History Net

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