February 18 is the 49th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 316 days remaining until the end of the year (317 more in leap years). February 18 is the last day of the zodiac sign --- Aquarius (January 20 to February 18).
264 - The Wei general Zhong Hui enters Chengdu
1607 - Ming Wanli Quang Ninh Mun Incident.
1685 – French explorer Lassalle establishes the first settlement in Texas.
1861 - Vittorio Emanuele II proclaims himself King of Italy as it approaches unification.
1837 - Russian poet Lermontov is arrested.
1885 – Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is first published.
1896 - Chinese educator and diplomat Li Linxiang was born.
1898 - Enzo Ferrari, the founder of the world-famous car brand Ferrari, is born.
1905 - Patriotic students studying in Japan initiated the establishment of the Anti-Russian Iron Blood Society.
1917 – Chen Duxiu advocates a literary revolution.
1918 – The Yellow River in Putai, Shandong Province, is broken by ice blocking the river (the specific date here is yet to be determined, but it is said that February 17).
1919 – Hu Shi's Outline of the History of Chinese Philosophy, vol. 1, is published.
1927 - CBS is founded, initially headquartered in Philadelphia.
1929 - The Ministry of Finance of the Kuomintang government announced the issuance of public bonds for the 1929 military reduction, with a total debt of 50 million yuan.
1930 – A newly discovered planet outside Neptune is named Pluto (excluded from the nine planets of the Solar System in 2006).
1931 – Zhang Jingsheng, a communicator of sexual science, is treated unfairly.
1936 – Red Army crusade.
1938 - The Eighth Route Army breaks the Tongpu and Zhengtai railways.
1938 - Sino-Japanese air battle in Wuhan, five martyrs sacrificed the people of Wuhan to celebrate the victory of the Air Force.
1946 – The Mumbai Sailors' Revolt breaks out.
1951 – The CCP proposed that after the land reform, it should be transferred to production and education as soon as possible.
1965 – The Gambia enters into independence within the Commonwealth.
1977 - The 61st Regiment of the Xinjiang Ili Corps was killed and 161 wounded at a time, the highest number of casualties since the founding of the People's Republic of China.
1978 – The Second Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China is held.
1983 – Massacre in the Indian state of Assam.
1985 - The central government accelerated the opening up of the coastal economy.
1997 - The United Kingdom invents a new generation of computers "simulating patients".
2003 – The Daegu Subway in South Korea is set on fire by a mentally ill person, killing at least 198 people.
2005 – China allowed eligible international development institutions to issue RMB bonds in China.
2005 – German mathematicians discover the 42nd Mersenne prime number through GIMPS.
2008 – 19th-century BC human skeletons are found in Lalima, northwestern Honduras.
2008 – Afghanistan was the first to recognize Kosovo as an independent state, and France, Britain, Germany, Italy, and the United States subsequently declared formal recognition of Kosovo's independence.
2009 – The 24th Winter Universiade opens.
2010 – A magnitude 6.5 earthquake struck on the border between Jilin and Russia, China.
2019 - February 18 Vehicle Collision Accident in Bolivia
2019 - 2.18 Indian truck collision accident
1516 – Queen of England, Mary I, known as the "Bloody Mary", is born.
- 1530 - Uesugi Kenshin, a famous Japanese general of the Warring States, is born.
1745 – Italian physicist and inventor of the volta stack Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anatasio Volta (Volta) is born.
1838 – Austrian-Czech physicist and namer of the velocity quantifier "Mach" is born.
- 1844 - Saito Ichi, captain of the new Samurai Selection Team of Japan, is born.
1931 – Toni Morrison, An American novelist and winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature, is born.
1933: Born Yoko Ono, a Japanese otoko family.
1947 - Taiwanese entertainer Yu Tian was born.
1954 – American film actor John Travolta is born.
1954 - Hong Kong host and singer, nicknamed Fat Ma ma, was born.
1961: Japanese singer Hironobu Kageyama was born.
1967 – Italian star Roberto Baggio is born.
1969 - Chinese singer Sun Nan is born.
1981 - NBA Utah Jazz player
Roberto Baggio Andrei Kirilenko was born.
1982 - Chinese entrepreneur Shi Jiandong was born.
1984 - Born lina thegrace, a Korean entertainer and member of the group Tenchi Jihei thegrace.
1984 - Taiwanese singer and actress Chen Yuhan was born.
1985 – English footballer Anton Ferdinand is born.
1985 - South Korean actor and model Song Zailin is born.
1986 - Japanese entertainer Sakura Ando is born.
1988 - Shin Chang-min, a member of the South Korean boy band Dongfang Shenqi, is born.
1988 - Mainland actor Peng Guanying was born.
1989 – Chinese beach volleyball player Xue Chen is born.
1990 - South Korean entertainer Park Shin-hye is born.
1990 - Korean film actor Kang So-ra is born.
1994 – Jeong-hope, a member of the South Korean boy band Bts, is born.
1996 - Yumi Kumatsu, Japanese actress
1997 - Lee So-min (dk), a member of the South Korean boy band Seventeen, is born.
1998 – Choi Han-il, a member of the South Korean boy band Seventeen, is born.
1294 - Death of Kublai Khan, ancestor of the Yuan Dynasty.
1405 – Timur, founder of the Timurid Empire
1546 – Death of The German reformer Martin Luther.
1564 – Death of The Italian artist Michelangelo Bonairotti.
1855 – Liu Lichuan, leader of the Knife Society Uprising in Shanghai, China (b. 1820)
1938 - Sino-Japanese air battle in Wuhan, China's great victory, five martyrs (Li Guidan, Lü Jichun, Ba Qingzheng, Wang Yizhi, Li Pengxiang) were sacrificed.
1948 – Modern educator and biographer Xu Shousheng is killed in Taipei.
1967 – Robert Oppenheimer, an American theoretical physicist and one of the main leaders of the Manhattan Project, dies.
1984 – Chen Fei Nong, Chinese Cantonese opera actor (b. 1899).
1991 – Zhang Wenjin, a Chinese diplomat and former Chinese ambassador to the United States, dies.
2001 - American nascar driver, known as the god of the car, Dale Enhardt, died in a car accident
2004 – Xu Guanren, the founder of Nuclear Agronomy in China, dies.
2005 - Lam Pak Hsin, Hong Kong entrepreneur (b. 1914).
2008 – Alain Rob-Grillet, the founder of the French "New Novel" genre and a master filmmaker, dies.
2012 – Li Baijian, Hong Kong Barrister, former High Court Judge. (b. 1924)
2013 – Jerry Bath, owner of the Los Angeles Lakers, a professional basketball team in the United States, leads the team to 10 championships.