418 Historic Events for February 18
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| 1850 |
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Calif Legislature creates 9 Bay Area counties
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| 1853 |
Birth |
August Belmont Jr, breeder (Man 'O War)/founder (NY Jockey Club)
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| 1856 |
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American (Know-Nothing) Party abolishes secrecy
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| 1857 |
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Max Klinger, German graphic artist/painter/sculptor
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| 1857 |
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Insurrection of Chinese in Sarawak, Borneo
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| 1858 |
Birth |
Louise M A, princess of Belgium
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| 1859 |
Birth |
Sholem Aleichem, [Solomon Rabinowitz], author (Fiddler on the Roof)
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| 1860 |
Birth |
Anders Zorn, Swedish painter/etcher/sculptor (Gustavus Vasa)
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| 1861 |
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Confederate President Jefferson Davis inaugurated at Montgomery Ala
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| 1861 |
Death |
Louis C Luzac, Dutch minister of Internal affairs, dies at 74
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| 1861 |
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King Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia becomes 1st king of Italy
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| 1865 |
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Battle of Ft Moultrie, SC occupied by Federals
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| 1865 |
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Evacuation of Charleston, SC; Sherman's troops burn city
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| 1865 |
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Union troops force Confederates to abandon Ft Anderson, NC
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| 1875 |
Birth |
Walter Andrae, German archaeologist (Babylon, Assur)
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| 1876 |
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Direct telegraph link established between Britain and NZ
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| 1877 |
Birth |
Betsy Ranucci-Beckmann, [Theodora], Dutch author/actress (Dead Water)
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| 1878 |
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Peter D Regout, industrialist (Sphinx, Maastricht), dies at 76
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| 1879 |
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Arabs capture Egyptian premier Nabar Pasha
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| 1880 |
Birth |
Eric De Lamarter, composer
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| 1883 |
Birth |
Tom Walls, Kingsthorpe England, actor/producer (Undercover)
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| 1884 |
Birth |
Burt Mustin, Pitts Pa, actor (All in the Family, Andy Griffith Show)
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| 1884 |
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Police seize all copies of Tolstoy's "What I Believe In"
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| 1884 |
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General Charles Gordon arrives in Khartoum
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| 1885 |
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Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," published
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