Page 9: Historical Events In February - 18

1979  President Zia ur-Rahmans National Party wins elections in Bangladesh on February - 18.   

1979  On this day in history snow falls in the Sahara Desert   

1980  On February - 18 billy Wyman said he will leave the Rolling Stones in 1983 (Sure!)   

1980  Pierre Elliott Trudeau's Liberal Party wins Canada's elections on this day in history.   

1984  Revised concordat between Italy & the Vatican signed on this day in history.   

1988  On this day in history anthony M. Kennedy is sworn in as the 104th justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.   

1994  On this day in history actor Joe Pantoliano (41) weds model Nancy Sheppard (31)   

1995  Pamela Anderson (Baywatch) & Tommy Lee (Motley Crüe) wed on February - 18.   

1996  On February - 18 tendulkar scores 127 in India's Cricket World Cup win over Kenya   

1999  Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic is warned by the U.S. to make peace with ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, or face military intervention on February - 18.   

2010  On February - 18 the President of Niger, Tandja Mamadou, is overthrown after a group of soldiers storms the presidential palace and form a ruling junta, the Supreme Council for the Restoration of Democracy headed by chef d'escadron Salou Djibo.   

2012  Kateri Tekakwitha canonized as the first native American saint on February - 18.   

2013  15 people are killed by flooding and landslides in Indonesia on this day in history.   

2014  On February - 18 2014 Ukrainian Revolution begins   

2018  On this day in history aseman Airlines flight crashes in the Zagros mountains, Iran, killing all 66 on board   

2018  Syrian government forces begin a new offensive on Eastern Ghouta in Syria's civil war on this day in history.   

2018  60th Daytona 500: Austin Dillon wins in a Chevrolet Camero ZL1 on this day in history.   

2018  On this day in history iran Aseman Airlines Flight 3704 crashes in the Zagros Mountains, en route from Tehran to Yasuj. All 65 passengers and crew members perish.   

2021  NASA's Mars 2020 mission (containing the Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter drone) lands on Mars at Jezero Crater, after seven months of travel on this day in history.   

2023  On February - 18 global financial system is "dysfunctional and unfair" and is "failing developing countries" according to UN Secretary General António Guterres at opening of African Union leaders' summit in Ethiopia [1]   

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1374  On February - 18 birth of saint Jadwiga of Poland, queen of Poland (d. 1399)   

1404  On February - 18 birth of leon B Alberti, Italian humanist/architect (Della Pittura)   

1486  Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Bengali saint, bhakti yoga developer was born on February - 18.   

1516  On this day in history birth of mary I Tudor, [Bloody Mary], Greenwich, queen of England (1553-58)   

1530  Uesugi Kenshin, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1578) was born on February - 18.   

1543  Charles III, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1608) was born on February - 18.   

1559  Isaac Casaubon, naturalized English classical scholar, theologian was born on February - 18.   

1602  On February - 18 birth of per Brahe (the younger), Swedish soldier (d. 1680)   

0814  On February - 18 death of angilbert, Frankish monk and confidant of Charlemagne   

0901  Death of Thabit ibn Qurra, Arab astronomer and mathematician (b. 826) on this day in history.   

0999  Gregory V, [Bruno] 1st German Pope, dies on this day in history.   

1139  Death of Prince Yaropolk II of Kiev (b. 1082) on February - 18.   

1217  On February - 18 alexander Neckum de Sancto Albano, Engl encyclopedist, dies at 59   

1294  Death of Kublai Khan, Mongol Emperor (b. 1215) on this day in history.   

1379  On February - 18 death of albert II of Mecklenburg (b. 1318)   

1397  On February - 18 enguerrand VII, French master of Coucy/count of Soissons, dies at 56