The February 18th is the 49e Jour of the Année of the Gregorian Calendrier. There remain 316 days before the end of the year (317 so bissextile).

Events

1 with 1900

  •    535: Creation of the Strait of the Probe between the Islands of Java and Sumatra by the titanic explosion of the Krakatoa, heard to thousands of kilometers to the round.

  • 1145 : Dedication of the pope Eugene {{III}}.
  • 1519 : Hernán the Cortes ventures with the Mexico. It leaves Cuba with a small troop of soldiers. Against the opinion of the Spanish government of the island, it gains the coast of the Mexico with the idea to conquer the mysterious kingdoms which are there. It is the beginning of the European penetration on the American continent.
  • 1563 : François de Guise, which prepares the catch of Orleans, is mortally wounded by bullets by Poltrot de Méré, a Protestant.
  • 1685 : The French explorer Rene Robert Cavelier of the Room establishes the first colony with the Texas.
  • 1813 : The tsar Alexandre {{Ier}} enters the town of Warsaw.
  • 1846 : Galicie: In the Polish areas submitted to the Austrians, the peasants arm themselves and raise themselves. The town of Cracow is released during four days, but yields quickly in front of the Russian and Austrian troops. The November 6th, it will be annexed by the Austria.
  • 1853 : The king of Burma Pagan Min is constrained to abdicate in favor of his half-brother Mindon Min
  • 1858: Bernadette Soubirous intends the Vierge to say to him: " I promise to you to go happy, not in this world, but in the other ".
  • 1859 : Occupation of Saigon by the French.
  • 1871 : The governor Pierre Denfert-Rochereau makes evacuate Belfort in front of the Prussian invasion.
  • 1879 :
  • 1882 : The football team of England crushes that of Northern Ireland 13 to 0.
  • 1884: The forces of the general Gordon reach Khartoum (Sudan), but the Mahdi refuses to negotiate.
  • 1890 : Loreley , action romantic in three acts of Alfredo Catalani, is presented Théâtre Regio of Turin.
  • 1987 : Fall of the Royaume of Benign in front of the British army.
  • 1899 : Emile Loubet becomes the 8th president of the 3rd French Republic while succeeding Felix Faure.

20th century

  • 1902 : the Juggler of Notre-Dame , opera in three acts of Jules Massenet is presented to Monte Carlo.

  • 1906 :
  • 1908 : The president Roosevelt obtains, this day, a reaffirmation by the Japanese of a limitation of their immigration.
  • 1913 :
  • 1915 : the Germany makes the blockade of the the United Kingdom and intensifies the underwater war.
  • 1920: Beginning of the mandate of president of the 3rd Republic of Paul Deschanel.
  • 1921 : The French Etienne Œhmichen makes take off a Hélicoptère for the first time.
  • 1926 : Five cities Mayas are discovered with the Yucatán (Mexico).
  • 1927 : Opening of the cabaret “the Lido” with Paris.
  • 1930 : The dwarf planet Pluton is discovered by the American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh.
  • 1932 : Moukden: Since September 1931, the Company of the Nations request to the Japan to withdraw its troops of Mandchourie and sends a board of inquiry to chair by Lord Lytton.
  • 1933 : The Coca-Cola is imported in France. The consumption of this fizzy drink explodes with the unloading of the American soldiers in 1944 and of the factories of Coca-Cola are built in several countries of Europe.
  • 1941 : Sir Frederick Banting, Co-discoverer of the Insulin, perishes in the crushing of the plane on board of which it went in England.
  • 1942 : Run up by an American trading vessel, the French submarine Surcouf runs in the Gulf of Mexico.
  • 1945 :
  • 1952 : the Greece and the Turkey enter NATO.
  • 1960 : Beginning of the {{VIIe}} Winter Olympics with Squaw Valley.
  • 1962 : Marielle Goitschel is compound world champion (ski).
  • 1964 : Earthquake in the east of the the Azores: the boats must face a sea dismounted to evacuate the population of the island of San Jorge.
  • 1965 : The Gambia, old English colony of Africa, becomes independent within the framework of the the British Commonwealth.
  • 1968 : End of the {{Xe}} Winter Olympics to Grenoble.
  • 1974 : The Arab countries, except for the Libya and of the Syria, raise their oil embargo against the the United States.
  • 1975 : Coluche gives its first spectacle in the high-speed motorboat to the Olympia, it is a success.
  • 1979 : The Soviet Union puts the China keeps some against a continuation of the conflict with the Vietnam, " before it is too tard".
  • 1984 : The Italy and the the Vatican sign an agreement under the terms of which Catholicism ceases being religion of State.
  • 1985 : First trial flight of a American Missile Cruise , in Alberta.
  • 1986 : First Clerc's Office of an artificial heart to the Parisian hospital Broussais.
  • 1988 : Beginning of the Armenian demonstrations with Erevan.
  • 1989 : Foundation in Algeria of the Islamic front of the Hello.
  • 1990 : Eric Geboers, sportsman Belgian, gains the Enduro motocross of the Touquet.
  • 1994 : Joined together under the aegis of UNO, a hundred and thirty countries note that it is necessary to reduce the emission of Gaz to greenhouse effect.
  • 1996 : Frank Fredericks carries the world records indoor of the 200 m to 19 S 92.
  • 1997:
    • Steven Spielberg undertakes the turning of the first film which it carries out for the studio Dreamworks. Amistad tells the history of a revolt on board a transporting ship of the slaves.
    • the Vraquier Albion makes shipwreck with broad Brest with 114 tons of carburizes calcium , product which, mixed with sea water, can produce Acétylène, flammable gas. Site of the CEDAR more on the oil slicks.
  • 1998 : The former president and father of the independence of the Zambia, Kenneth Kaunda, is shown in connection with an attempt at Putsch.
  • 2000 :
    • Roland Dumas, Christine Deviers-Joncour, her former friend, and Loïk Le Floch-Prigent, former chairman of the oil group Elf is returned by the judges Eva Joly and Laurence Vichnievsky in front of the magistrates' court of Paris within the framework of the file Elf.
    • the Iranian reformers largely gain the first turn of the legislative elections, and obtain the absolute majority at the Parliament.
    • Vis-a-vis an outcry, in France, the group Axa gives up doubling the premiums of family insurance of the handicapped people.
    • Fleeing the combat in Chetchnia, more than three thousand people takes refuge in Ingouchie close.
    • Seven police officers were killed in the State of Andhra Pradesh (India), at the time of the attack of a police station. 22 other police officer will be killed the 20.
    • the Inter-American Court of the Human rights condemns the the United States, estimating that those deprive the foreign prisoners of their right to a fair trial, in violation of the international treaties.
    • Left the film " Pitch Black " of David Twohy.
    • Of the thousands of Japanese tries to be connected on Internet site of Sony to order the new game console: the PlayStation 2. They then paralyze the site during two hours.
    • the agents of the customs of Point-with-Clown in Guadeloupe seize 243 kg of Cocaïne on board container ships flying Cypriot flag .

21e century

  • 2001 :

    • with Fréjus, nine hundred and eight Kurdish refugees unload and ask for asylum.
    • an agent of FBI, Robert Philip Hanssen, is stopped with the the United States and is accused for secret information disclosure to the profit of the Soviet Union then of the Russia of 1985 to today.
    • Cinema: The gold Bear of Berlin is given to Intimité of Patrice Chéreau.
    • Rumanian Szabo increases the world records of the 3000 m in room female to 8 minutes 32 seconds 88/100.
    • Chinese climbing with naked hands the highest tower Jinmao , of China, with Shanghai. It is stopped by the police force as of its arrival in top of the 88 stages (420 m).
  • 2002 :
    • the Euro becomes the only currency in circulation in the Hexagone.
    • Launching with Paris and Marseilles of the first free daily newspaper, " Subway ".
    • a commando of the CGT-Filpac destroyed: 50000 specimens of the daily newspaper Subway intended for Marseilles and printed by a concurrent printing works.
    • the chiefs of the diplomacy of the European Union reject the peace plan for the the Middle East proposed by the France, which proposed to begin with the creation of a Palestinian State.
    • For unknown reasons, a colony of one hundred fifty Dauphin S is failed on beaches of the Coast-with Armor; a hundred could be given to water.
    • the French Marina Anissina and Gwendal Peizerat gain the gold medal of dance on ice to the OJ of Salt Lake City.
    • With Houston (the United States), opening of the lawsuit of Andrea Yates, shown coldly to have killed his/her five children (Noah, 7 years, John, 5 years, Paul, 3 years, Luke, 2 years and Mary, six months) by drowning them in his bath-tub the June 20th 2001. Verdict the March 15th 2002.
  • 2003 :
    • a fire of criminal origin devastates two subway trains in a crammed station of Daegu, in South Korea, making more than 120 dead.
    • the passage during four days consecutive on the North-East of the the United States of a violent snowstorm caused the death of fifty-eight people.
    • As for the December 13rd 2002, a Airbus A319 of Crossair coming from Prague and a Hawker of the RMC coming from Stuttgart failed to enter in collision the airspace.
  • 2004 :
    • the direction of the Olympia decides to cancel the spectacle of Dieudonné " Divorce of Patrick " , calling upon many calls of threat, after a sketch discussed of the actor in 2003 on France 3.
    • a train without driver and transporting industrial fuel and chemicals runs off the line in the north of the Iran, causing explosions which make more than 320 dead and destroy five villages.
  • 2005 :
    • the president of the French Polynésie Gaston Flosse is reversed by a motion of censure.
    • the Spain, by the way of a Referendum, approves the project of European Constitution with a majority of 76,73  %. To note the high rate of the abstention (57,68%).
    • agents of tracks of Orly - Western put themselves in strike to protest against the suspension of one their colleagues after the deadly fall of an airline hostess the last with Orly.
    • the humorist Dieudonné raises a new polemic following remarks made with Algiers comparing the commemoration of the Shoah with " mémorielle pornography ".
  • 2007 : Chinese New year, year of the pig.

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Births

Death

Celebrations

  • Festival of independence in Gambia

Festivals (First names)

Bernadette, Flavien (in France), Marie-Bernard, Nadine, Jean-Pierre

Catholic and orthodoxe saints of the day

  • Agapet de Sinaos (4th century), bishop and confessor

  • Angilbert de Saint-Riquier († 814) seventh abbot of the monastery.
  • Colman († 676)
  • Flavien of Constantinople († 449), patriarch abused at the time of the armed robbery of Éphèse, recipient of the volume in Flavien (Western date).
  • Hellade († 632)
  • Leon Large the (3rd century) Pope of Rome (Eastern date)
  • Leon de Patare (3rd century) martyr in Lycie with Holy Parégoire.
  • Maxime d' Ostie († 295), martyr with Ostie, close to Rome
  • Siméon of Jerusalem († 107), bishop and martyr with Jerusalem

Catholic saints of the day

  • Bernadette Soubirous († 1879), virgin, nun in the Sisters of the Charity of Nevers with * Saint-Gildard,

  • Happy Christian († 1310)
  • Happy FRA Angelico (1390 - 1455), Italian, painter, monk in the “Congregation about the Preachers” (Dominican).
  • Happy Gertrude Comensoli (1847 - 1903), nun, founder of the Sisters “Sacramentines de Bergames”
  • Jean-Pierre Néel († 1862), martyr
  • Théotonius of Portugal (1080 - 1160), Spaniard born with Galizia, monk Augustin, Prior of the monastery of the Holy Cross, preacher.

Orthodoxe saints of the day

  • Like Yakhrom († 1492), monk.

See too

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