What events happened on February 18?
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🌏 Battery Day.
🌏 Pluto Day.
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇮🇶 Iraq – Kurdish Student Union Day.
🇹🇲 Turkmenistan – Diplomatic Service Day.
🇸🇱 Sierra Leone – Armed Forces Day.
🇬🇲 Gambia – Independence Day.
🇳🇵 Nepal – Democracy Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– 1268 – Battle of Rakovor, in which the Teutonic Order suffered its greatest defeat since the Battle of Durba.
– 1405 – Amir Temur died in the city of Otrar during his campaign to China.
– 1762 – Peter III abolished torture.
– 1814 – Battle of Montreux.
– 1861 – Victor Emmanuel II became King of Italy.
– 1861 – Jefferson Davis is inaugurated as President of the Confederate States of America.
– 1885 – Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” is published.
– 1911 – A lake forms in the Pamirs.
– 1911 – The first airmail flight in history is made in India.
– 1913 – Frederick Soddy proposes the term “isotope”.
– 1918 – The Kiev railway station in Moscow is opened.
– 1921 – An uprising breaks out in Armenia, the Soviet government is overthrown, and a provisional government is established.
– 1923 – The first issue of “Mushtum” (an appendix to the newspaper “Turkiston”) is printed in 3,000 copies.
– 1929 – The first Oscars are awarded to its first recipients.
– 1930 – Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto, the 9th planet in the Solar System.
– 1960 – The VIII Winter Olympic Games opened in Squaw Valley.
– 1965 – Gambia gained independence.
– 1978 – The first triathlon competition was held, which later became the Ironman.
– 1979 – Snow fell in the Sahara Desert.
– 1992 – Diplomatic relations were established between Uzbekistan and the United Kingdom.
– 1995 – The first founding congress of the Social Democratic Party of Uzbekistan “Adolat” was held in Tashkent. The Party’s Charter and Program were approved.
– 2003 – A fire broke out in the city of Daegu, South Korea.
– 2004 – Explosion of a train carrying dangerous goods near Nishapur (Iran). About 300 people were killed, about five hundred were injured.
– 2014 – A sharp deterioration in the situation on Nezalezhnost Square in Kiev, which led to the death of about 80 people in three days.
– 2015 – The end of the battles for Debaltseve, the establishment of control over the city by the DPR.