SomeFacts | February 18

On this day - February 18

Kali Yuga, the fourth and final yuga of Hinduism, starts with the ...

1229 — The Sixth Crusade: Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, signs a ...

1268 — The Battle of Wesenberg is fought between the Livonian Order ...

1332 — Amda Seyon I, Emperor of Ethiopia begins his campaigns in the ...

1637 — Eighty Years' War: Off the coast of Cornwall, England, a ...

1735 — The ballad opera called Flora, or Hob in the Well went down in ...

1781 — Fourth Anglo-Dutch War: Captain Thomas Shirley opens his ...

1791 — Congress passes a law admitting the state of Vermont to the ...

1797 — French Revolutionary Wars: Sir Ralph Abercromby and a fleet of ...

1814 — Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Montereau.

1861 — With Italian unification almost complete, Victor Emmanuel II ...

1861 — In Montgomery, Alabama, Jefferson Davis is inaugurated as the ...

1873 — Bulgarian revolutionary leader Vasil Levski is executed by ...

1878 — John Tunstall is murdered by outlaw Jesse Evans, sparking the ...

1885 — Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is published in ...

1900 — Second Boer War: Imperial forces suffer their worst single-day ...

1906 — Édouard de Laveleye forms the Belgian Olympic Committee in ...

1911 — The first official flight with airmail takes place from ...

1915 — U-boat Campaign: The Imperial German Navy institutes ...

1930 — Elm Farm Ollie becomes the first cow to fly in a fixed-wing ...

1930 — While studying photographs taken in January, Clyde Tombaugh ...

1932 — The Empire of Japan creates the independent state of ...

1938 — Second Sino-Japanese War: During the Nanking Massacre, the ...

1942 — World War II: The Imperial Japanese Army begins the systematic ...

1943 — World War II: Joseph Goebbels delivers his Sportpalast speech.

1943 — World War II: The Nazis arrest the members of the White Rose ...

1945 — World War II: American and Brazilian troops kick off Operation ...

1946 — Sailors of the Royal Indian Navy mutiny in Bombay harbour, ...

1947 — First Indochina War: The French gain complete control of Hanoi ...

1954 — The first Church of Scientology is established in Los Angeles.

1955 — Operation Teapot: Teapot test shot "Wasp" is ...

1957 — Walter James Bolton becomes the last person legally executed ...

1957 — Kenyan rebel leader Dedan Kimathi is executed by the British ...

1965 — The Gambia becomes independent from the United Kingdom.

1970 — The Chicago Seven are found not guilty of conspiring to incite ...

1972 — The California Supreme Court in the case of People v. ...

1977 — The Space Shuttle Enterprise test vehicle is carried on its ...

1977 — A thousand armed soldiers raid Kalakuta Republic, the commune ...

1977 — The Xinjiang 61st Regiment Farm fire started during Chinese ...

1979 — Richard Petty wins a then-record sixth Daytona 500 after ...

1983 — Thirteen people die and one is seriously injured in the Wah ...

1991 — The IRA explodes bombs in the early morning at Paddington ...

2001 — Sampit conflict: Inter-ethnic violence between Dayaks and ...

2001 — FBI agent Robert Hanssen is arrested for spying for the Soviet ...

2003 — 192 people die when an arsonist sets fire to a subway train in ...

2004 — Up to 295 people, 182 of which being rescue workers, die near ...

2010 — WikiLeaks publishes the first of hundreds of thousands of ...

2013 — Armed robbers steal a haul of diamonds worth $50 million ...

2014 — Revolution of Dignity: At least 76 people are killed and ...

2018 — Iran Aseman Airlines Flight 3704 crashes in the Dena sub-range ...

2021 — Perseverance, a Mars rover designed to explore Jezero crater ...