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| Birthday February 18, 1516 Queen Mary I, (Bloody Mary) (1553-58) -- 1st reigning queen of GB |
| Birthday February 18, 1745 Alessandro G. A. Anastasio Volta, Count--invented battery |
| Birthday February 18, 1795 George Peabody, American merchant & philanthropist |
| Birthday February 18, 1817 Lewis Armistead born |
| Birthday February 18, 1848 Louis Comfort Tiffany, glassmaker |
| Birthday February 18, 1859 Sholem Aleichem (Solomon Rabinowitz), author (Jewish Mark Twain) |
| Birthday February 18, 1892 Wendell Wilke, presidential candidate |
| Birthday February 18, 1894 Andres Segovia, guitarist |
| Birthday February 18, 1909 Wallace Stegner, novelist & critic |
| Birthday February 18, 1920 Bill Cullen, TV gameshow host |
| Birthday February 18, 1920 Jack Palance, Actor (Ripley's Believe It or Not) |
| Birthday February 18, 1922 Helen Gurley Brown, author & publisher (Cosmopolitan) in Portland Me |
| Birthday February 18, 1926 Len Ford, NFL end (Cleveland Browns & Green Bay Packers) |
| Birthday February 18, 1933 Mary Ure |
| Birthday February 18, 1933 Yoko Ono, aka Mrs John Lennon in Tokyo Japan |
| Birthday February 18, 1933 Kim Novak, in Chicago Illinois |
| Birthday February 18, 1950 Cybill Shepherd, in Memphis Tenn (Moonlighting) |
| Birthday February 18, 1954 John Travolta, Actor (Saturday Night Fever) |
| Birthday February 18, 1957 Vanna White, in SC--Wheel of Fortune's hostess |
| Birthday February 18, 1968 Molly Ringwald, in Los Angeles California -- Pretty in Pink |
| History February 18, 1776 Lord Dunmore dispatches note of inexpressible mortification |
| History February 18, 1856 Know-Nothings convene in Philadelphia |
| History February 18, 1861 Davis becomes provisional president of the Confederacy |
| History February 18, 1878 Murder ignites Lincoln County War |
| History February 18, 1913 Raymond Poincare becomes president of France |
| History February 18, 1929 First Academy Awards announced |
| History February 18, 1930 Pluto discovered |
| History February 18, 1931 Toni Morrison's birthday |
| History February 18, 1943 Nazis arrest White Rose resistance leaders |
| History February 18, 1948 De Valera resigns |
| History February 18, 1959 Ray Charles records What'd I Say at Atlantic Records |
| History February 18, 1964 United States punishes nations for trading with Cuba |
| History February 18, 1965 Avalanche kills 26 in British Columbia |
| History February 18, 1965 United States warns of forthcoming bombing operations |
| History February 18, 1967 J. Robert Oppenheimer dies |
| History February 18, 1979 Richard Petty wins Daytona 500 after last-lap crash |
| History February 18, 2001 Dale Earnhardt killed in crash |
| History February 18, 2003 Arsonist sets fire in South Korean subway |
| History February 18, 2011 Green River serial killer pleads guilty to 49th murder |