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ÉVéNEMENTS DU 18 FéVRIER

Airmail

Année: 1911

The first official flight with airmail takes place from Allahabad, United Provinces, British India (now India), when Henri Pequet, a 23-year-old pilot, delivers 6,500 letters to Naini, about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) away.

Édouard de Laveleye

Année: 1906

Édouard de Laveleye forms the Belgian Olympic Committee in Brussels.

Second Boer War

Année: 1900

Second Boer War: Imperial forces suffer their worst single-day loss of life on Bloody Sunday, the first day of the Battle of Paardeberg.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Année: 1885

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is published in the United States.

U-boat campaign

Année: 1915

U-boat Campaign: The Imperial German Navy institutes unrestricted submarine warfare in the waters around Great Britain and Ireland.

Elm Farm Ollie

Année: 1930

Elm Farm Ollie becomes the first cow to fly in a fixed-wing aircraft and also the first cow to be milked in an aircraft.

Joseph Goebbels

Année: 1943

World War II: Joseph Goebbels delivers his Sportpalast speech.

World War II

Année: 1942

World War II: The Imperial Japanese Army begins the systematic extermination of perceived hostile elements among the Chinese in Singapore.

Second Sino-Japanese War

Année: 1938

Second Sino-Japanese War: During the Nanking Massacre, the Nanking Safety Zone International Committee is renamed "Nanking International Rescue Committee", and the safety zone in place for refugees falls apart.

Empire of Japan

Année: 1932

The Empire of Japan creates the independent state of Manzhouguo (the obsolete Chinese name for Manchuria) free from the Republic of China and installed former Chinese Emperor Aisin Gioro Puyi as Chief Executive of the State.

NAISSANCES DU 18 FéVRIER

Pee Wee King

Année de naissance: 1914

Pee Wee King, American singer-songwriter and fiddler (died 2000)

Wallace Stegner

Année de naissance: 1909

Wallace Stegner, American novelist, short story writer, and essayist (died 1993)

Hans Asperger

Année de naissance: 1906

Hans Asperger, Austrian pediatrician and academic (died 1980)

Joe Gordon

Année de naissance: 1915

Joe Gordon, American baseball player and manager (died 1978)

Phyllis Calvert

Année de naissance: 1915

Phyllis Calvert, English actress (died 2002)

Rolande Falcinelli

Année de naissance: 1920

Rolande Falcinelli, French organist, pianist, composer, and pedagogue (died 2006)

Jack Palance

Année de naissance: 1919

Jack Palance, American boxer and actor (died 2006)

Nikolai Podgorny

Année de naissance: 1903

Nikolai Podgorny, Ukrainian engineer and politician (died 1983)

Luis Muñoz Marín

Année de naissance: 1898

Luis Muñoz Marín, Puerto Rican poet and politician, 1st Governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (died 1980)

Adolphe Menjou

Année de naissance: 1890

Adolphe Menjou, American actor (died 1963)

DéCèS DU 18 FéVRIER

Louis, Duke of Burgundy

Année de décès: 1712

Louis, Dauphin of France, (born 1682)

Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici

Année de décès: 1743

Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici, Italian noble (born 1667)

William Phips

Année de décès: 1695

William Phips, governor of Massachusetts (born 1650)

Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem

Année de décès: 1683

Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem, Dutch painter (born 1620)

Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac

Année de décès: 1654

Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac, French author (born 1594)

Otto Ferdinand von Abensperg und Traun

Année de décès: 1748

Otto Ferdinand von Abensberg und Traun, Austrian field marshal (born 1677)

Count Johann Hartwig Ernst von Bernstorff

Année de décès: 1772

Count Johann Hartwig Ernst von Bernstorff, Danish politician (born 1712)

Gene Hackman

Année de décès: 2025

Gene Hackman, award-winning American actor (born 1930)

John Whitehurst

Année de décès: 1788

John Whitehurst, English geologist and clockmaker (born 1713)

Kristijonas Donelaitis

Année de décès: 1780

Kristijonas Donelaitis, Lithuanian pastor and poet (born 1714)

JOURS FéRIéS DU 18 FéVRIER

February 18 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Christian feast day: February 18 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Ryukyuan languages

Dialect Day (Amami Islands, Japan)

Public holidays in Nepal

National Democracy Day, celebrates the 1951 overthrow of the Rana dynasty (Nepal)

Bernadette Soubirous

Christian feast day: Bernadette Soubirous (France)

Geltrude Comensoli

Christian feast day: Geltrude Comensoli

Colmán of Lindisfarne

Christian feast day: Colmán of Lindisfarne

Flavian of Constantinople

Christian feast day: Flavian of Constantinople

Public holidays in Iraq

Kurdish Students Union Day (Iraqi Kurdistan)

Simeon of Jerusalem

Christian feast day: Simeon of Jerusalem (Western Christianity)

Public holidays in the Gambia

Independence Day, celebrates the independence of the Gambia from the United Kingdom in 1965

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