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February 18
'''February 18''' in history:
* 1685, Fort St. Louis is established by a Frenchman at Matagorda Bay thus forming the basis for France's claim to [[Directory:Texas|Texas]]
* 1841, the first ongoing filibuster in the [[Directory:United States of America|United States]] Senate begins and lasts until [[March 11]]
* 1885, Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published for the first time
* 1901, Winston Churchill makes his maiden speech in the British House of Commons
* 1911, the first official flight with air mail takes place in Allahabad, British [[Directory:India|India]], when Henri Pequet, a 23-year-old pilot, delivers 6,500 letters to Naini, about 10 km away
* 1930, while studying photographs taken in [[January]], Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto.
* 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
* 1970, the Chicago Seven are found not guilty of conspiring to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic Party national convention. Five were convicted of violating the Anti-Riot Act of 1968. (Those convictions were later reversed)
* 1972, the [[Directory:California|California]] Supreme Court in the case of People v. Anderson, 6 Cal.3d 628 invalidates the state's death penalty and commutes the sentences of all death row inmates to life in prison
* 1977, the Space Shuttle Enterprise test vehicle goes on its maiden "flight" while sitting on top of a Boeing 747
* 1979, snow fell in the Sahara Desert in southern Algeria for the first and only recorded time in history
* 1983, 13 people die and one is seriously injured in the Wah Mee Massacre in Seattle, [[Directory:Washington|Washington]], said to be the largest robbery-motivated mass-murder in American history
* 1998, two white separatists are arrested in [[Directory:Nevada|Nevada]] and accused of plotting a biological attack on New York City subways
* 2001, FBI agent Robert Hanssen is arrested for spying for the Soviet Union. He was ultimately convicted and sentenced to life in prison.
* 2001, Dale Earnhardt is killed in a crash during the final lap of the Daytona 500, which was won by Michael Waltrip, driving in a car that Earnhardt owned. His son, Dale Earnhardt, Jr. finished second
* 2003, nearly 200 people die in the Daegu subway fire in [[Directory:South Korea|South Korea]]
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