Today In History. What Happened This Day In History
A Timeline Of Events That Occurred On This Day In History
A chronological timetable of historical events that occurred on this day in history. Historical facts of the day in the areas of military, politics, science, music, sports, arts, entertainment and more. Discover what happened today in history.
February 18
| 1478 | George, the Duke of Clarence, who had opposed his brother Edward IV, is murdered in the Tower of London. | |
| 1688 | Quakers in Germantown, Pa. adopt the fist 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. | |
| 1861 | Jefferson F. Davis is inaugurated as the Confederacy's provisional president at a ceremony held in Montgomery, Ala. | |
| 1865 | Union troops force the Confederates to abandon Fort Anderson, N.C. | |
| 1878 | The bitter and bloody Lincoln County War begins with the murder of Billy the Kid's mentor, Englishman rancher John Tunstall. | |
| 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. | |
| 1954 | East and West Berlin drop thousands of propaganda leaflets on each other after the end of a month long truce. | |
| 1962 | Robert F. Kennedy says that U.S. troops will stay in Vietnam until Communism is defeated. | |
| 1964 | The United States cuts military aid to five nations in reprisal for having trade relations with Cuba. | |
| 1967 | The National Art Gallery in Washington agrees to buy a 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. | |
| 1974 | Randolph Hearst is to give $2 million in free food for the poor in order to open talks for his daughter Patty. | |
| 1982 | Mexico devalues the peso by 30 percent to fight an economic slide. | |
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Born on February 18 |
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| 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 | Shalom Aleichem, Yiddish author. | |
| 1862 | Charles M. Schwab, "Boy Wonder" of the steel industry. President of both U.S. Steel and Bethlehem Steel. | |
| 1892 | Wendell Wilke, Presidential candidate against President 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 (The Bluest Eye, Beloved). | |
| 1934 | Audre Lord, poet. | |
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