| 1478 |
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George, the Duke of Clarence, who had opposed his brother Edward IV, is murdered in the Tower of London. |
| 1688 |
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Quakers in Germantown, Pa. adopt the fist formal antislavery resolution in America. |
| 1813 |
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Czar Alexander enters Warsaw at the head of his Army. |
| 1861 |
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Victor Emmanuel II becomes the first King of Italy. |
| 1861 |
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Jefferson F. Davis is inaugurated as the Confederacy’s provisional president at a ceremony held in Montgomery, Ala. |
| 1865 |
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Union troops force the Confederates to abandon Fort Anderson, N.C. |
| 1878 |
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The bitter and bloody Lincoln County War begins with the murder of Billy the Kid’s mentor, Englishman rancher John Tunstall. |
| 1885 |
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, is published in New York. |
| 1907 |
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600,000 tons of grain are sent to Russia to relieve the famine there. |
| 1920 |
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Vuillemin and Chalus complete their first flight over the Sahara Desert. |
| 1932 |
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Manchurian independence is formally declared. |
| 1935 |
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Rome reports sending troops to Italian Somalia. |
| 1939 |
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The Golden Gate Exposition opens in San Francisco. |
| 1943 |
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German General Erwin Rommel takes three towns in Tunisia, North Africa. |
| 1944 |
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The U.S. Army and Marines invade Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific. |
| 1945 |
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U.S. Marines storm ashore at Iwo Jima. |
| 1954 |
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East and West Berlin drop thousands of propaganda leaflets on each other after the end of a month long truce. |
| 1962 |
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Robert F. Kennedy says that U.S. troops will stay in Vietnam until Communism is defeated. |
| 1964 |
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The United States cuts military aid to five nations in reprisal for having trade relations with Cuba. |
| 1967 |
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The National Art Gallery in Washington agrees to buy a Da Vinci for a record $5 million. |
| 1968 |
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Three U.S. pilots that were held by the Vietnamese arrive in Washington. |
| 1972 |
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The California Supreme Court voids the death penalty. |
| 1974 |
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Randolph Hearst is to give $2 million in free food for the poor in order to open talks for his daughter Patty. |
| 1982 |
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Mexico devalues the peso by 30 percent to fight an economic slide. |
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Born on February 18 |
| 1516 |
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Queen Mary I, also known as Bloody Mary for her persecution of Protestants. |
| 1795 |
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George Peabody, U.S. merchant and philanthropist. |
| 1848 |
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Louis Comfort Tiffany, glassware artist and designer. |
| 1859 |
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Shalom Aleichem, Yiddish author. |
| 1862 |
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Charles M. Schwab, "Boy Wonder" of the steel industry. President of both U.S. Steel and Bethlehem Steel. |
| 1892 |
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Wendell Wilke, Presidential candidate against President Franklin Roosevelt. |
| 1909 |
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Wallace Stegner, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist (Angle of Repose). |
| 1922 |
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Helen Gurley Brown, editor of Cosmopolitan magazine. |
| 1929 |
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Len Deighton, English spy writer (The Ipcress File). |
| 1931 |
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Toni Morrison, Nobel laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning author (The Bluest Eye, Beloved). |
| 1934 |
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Audre Lord, poet. |
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