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Sunday, February 18, 2024

On This Day in History

February 18

  

Historical Events

1519 Hernán Cortés leaves Cuba for Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula with 11 ships and 500 men. 

1678 John Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" is published in London, by Nathaniel Ponder. 

1885 Mark Twain publishes the "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" in the US. 

1917 First major strike of the Russian "February Revolution" starts at the giant Putilov factory in Petrograd [NS=Mar 3]. 

Clashes in Kiev’s Maidan Square during the 2014 revolution

2014 Ukraine’s “Revolution of Dignity” begins as protesters, riot police and unknown shooters take part in violent events in the capital, Kiev, culminating after five days in the ouster of pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych. 

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Famous Birthdays

Qin Shi Huang
259 - 210 BC

Enzo Ferrari
1898 - 1988

Toni Morrison
1931 - 2019

Yoko Ono
90th Birthday

Also Alessandro Volta, André Breton, John Travolta and Dr. Dre. 

More Famous Birthdays 
  

Famous Deaths

Kublai Khan
1215 - 1294

Robert Oppenheimer
1904 - 1967

More Famous Deaths 
  

Buried at Sea: The Casket That Carried JFK

John F. Kennedy's aides struggling to load the casket containing the slain President aboard Air Force One is an enduring image. But what happened to the casket? 

The Strange Story of JFK’s Casket 

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