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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