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Events

• 1229 (797 years ago) The Sixth Crusade: Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, signs a ten-year truce with al-Kamil, regaining Jerusalem, Nazareth, and Bethlehem with neither military engagements nor support from the papacy.
• 1781 (245 years ago) Fourth Anglo-Dutch War: Captain Thomas Shirley opens his expedition against Dutch colonial outposts on the Gold Coast of Africa (present-day Ghana).
• 1873 (153 years ago) Bulgarian revolutionary leader Vasil Levski is executed by hanging in Sofia by the Ottoman authorities.
• 1930 (96 years ago) While studying photographs taken in January, Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto.
• 1942 (84 years ago) World War II: The Imperial Japanese Army begins the systematic extermination of perceived hostile elements among the Chinese in Singapore.
• 1957 (69 years ago) Kenyan rebel leader Dedan Kimathi is executed by the British colonial government.
• 1965 (61 years ago) The Gambia becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
• 2013 (13 years ago) Armed robbers steal a haul of diamonds worth $50 million during a raid at Brussels Airport in Belgium.

Births

• 1516 (510 years ago) Mary I, Queen of England (died 1558)
• 1745 (281 years ago) Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist, invented the battery (died 1827)
• 1836 (190 years ago) Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, Indian mystic and yogi (died 1886)
• 1838 (188 years ago) Ernst Mach, Austrian physicist and philosopher (died 1916)
• 1931 (95 years ago) Toni Morrison, American novelist and editor, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2019).
• 1933 (93 years ago) Yoko Ono, Japanese-American multimedia artist and musician
• 1954 (72 years ago) John Travolta, American actor, singer and producer
• 1965 (61 years ago) Dr. Dre, American rapper, record producer, and entrepreneur

Deaths

• 999 (1027 years ago) Gregory V, pope of the Catholic Church (born 972)
• 1294 (732 years ago) Kublai Khan, Mongol emperor (born 1215)
• 1455 (571 years ago) Fra Angelico, Italian priest and painter (born 1395)
• 1546 (480 years ago) Martin Luther, German priest and theologian, leader of the Protestant Reformation (born 1483)
• 1564 (462 years ago) Michelangelo, Italian sculptor and painter (born 1475)
• 1851 (175 years ago) Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, German mathematician and academic (born 1804)
• 1967 (59 years ago) J. Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist and academic (born 1904)
• 2025 (a year ago) Gene Hackman, award-winning American actor (born 1930)

All 252 events, births and deaths of February 18