About February 18
February 18, 2025 is the 49th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 316 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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Aquarius is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Amethyst is the modern birthstone for this month. Bloodstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 364 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On February 18
- 1332 –Amda Seyon I, Emperor of Ethiopia begins his campaigns in the southern Muslim provinces.
- 1478 –George, Duke of Clarence, convicted of treason against his older brother Edward IV of England, is executed in private at the Tower of London.
- 1745 –The city of Surakarta, Central Java is founded on the banks of Bengawan Solo River, and becomes the capital of the Kingdom of Surakarta.
- 1797 –French Revolutionary Wars: Sir Ralph Abercromby and a fleet of 18 British warships invade Trinidad.
- 1814 –Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Montereau.
- 1846 –Beginning of the Galician peasant revolt.
- 1873 –Bulgarian revolutionary leader Vasil Levski is executed by hanging in Sofia by the Ottoman authorities.
- 1878 –John Tunstall is murdered by outlaw Jesse Evans, sparking the Lincoln County War in Lincoln County, New Mexico.
- 1911 –The first official flight with air mail takes place in Allahabad, British India, when Henri Pequet, a 23-year-old pilot, delivers 6,500 letters to Naini, about 10 km away.
- 1912 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Rat in Chinese astrology.
- 1930 –Elm Farm Ollie becomes the first cow to fly in a fixed-wing aircraft and also the first cow to be milked in an aircraft.
- 1946 –Sailors of the Royal Indian Navy mutinied in Mumbai harbour, from where it would spread throughout British India and involve 78 ships, 20 shore establishments and 20,000 sailors
- 1955 –Operation Teapot: Teapot test shot “Wasp” is successfully detonated at the Nevada Test Site with a yield of 1.2 kilotons. Wasp is the first of fourteen shots of the Teapot series.
- 1965 –The Gambia becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
- 1969 –Hawthorne Nevada Airlines Flight 708 crashes into Mount Whitney killing all on board.
- 1978 –The first Ironman Triathlon competition takes place on the island of Oahu, won by Gordon Haller.
- 1979 –Snow falls in the Sahara Desert in southern Algeria for the only time in recorded history.
- 2003 –Nearly 200 people die in the Daegu subway fire in South Korea.
- 2004 –Up to 295 people, including nearly 200 rescue workers, die near Neyshabur in Iran when a runaway freight train carrying sulfur, petrol and fertilizer catches fire and explodes.
- 2007 –Terrorist bombs explode on the Samjhauta Express in Panipat, Haryana, India, killing 68 people.
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