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Acontecimientos (51)

  1. 3102 a. C.Kali Yuga, the fourth and final yuga of Hinduism, starts with the death of Krishna.
  2. 1229The 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.
  3. 1268The Battle of Wesenberg is fought between the Livonian Order and Dovmont of Pskov.
  4. 1332Amda Seyon I, Emperor of Ethiopia begins his campaigns in the southern Muslim provinces.
  5. 1637Eighty Years' War: Off the coast of Cornwall, England, a Spanish fleet intercepts an important Anglo-Dutch merchant convoy of 44 vessels escorted by six warships, destroying or capturing 20 of them.
  6. 1735The ballad opera called Flora, or Hob in the Well went down in history as the first opera of any kind to be produced in North America (Charleston, S.C.)
  7. 1781Fourth Anglo-Dutch War: Captain Thomas Shirley opens his expedition against Dutch colonial outposts on the Gold Coast of Africa (present-day Ghana).
  8. 1791Congress passes a law admitting the state of Vermont to the Union, effective 4 March, after that state had existed for 14 years as a de facto independent largely unrecognized state.
  9. 1797French Revolutionary Wars: Sir Ralph Abercromby and a fleet of 18 British warships invade Trinidad.
  10. 1814Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Montereau.
  11. 1861In Montgomery, Alabama, Jefferson Davis is inaugurated as the provisional President of the Confederate States of America.
  12. 1861With Italian unification almost complete, Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont, Savoy and Sardinia assumes the title of King of Italy.
  13. 1873Bulgarian revolutionary leader Vasil Levski is executed by hanging in Sofia by the Ottoman authorities.
  14. 1878John Tunstall is murdered by outlaw Jesse Evans, sparking the Lincoln County War in Lincoln County, New Mexico.
  15. 1885Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is published in the United States.
  16. 1900Second Boer War: Imperial forces suffer their worst single-day loss of life on Bloody Sunday, the first day of the Battle of Paardeberg.
  17. 1906Édouard de Laveleye forms the Belgian Olympic Committee in Brussels.
  18. 1911The 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 away.
  19. 1915U-boat Campaign: The Imperial German Navy institutes unrestricted submarine warfare in the waters around Great Britain and Ireland.
  20. 1930While studying photographs taken in January, Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto.
  21. 1930Elm Farm Ollie becomes the first cow to fly in a fixed-wing aircraft and also the first cow to be milked in an aircraft.
  22. 1932The 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 Puyi as Chief Executive of the State.
  23. 1938Second 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.
  24. 1942World War II: The Imperial Japanese Army begins the systematic extermination of perceived hostile elements among the Chinese in Singapore.
  25. 1943World War II: The Nazis arrest the members of the White Rose movement.
  26. 1943World War II: Joseph Goebbels delivers his Sportpalast speech.
  27. 1945World War II: American and Brazilian troops kick off Operation Encore in Northern Italy, a successful limited action in the Northern Apennines that prepares for the western portion of the Allied Spring offensive.
  28. 1946Sailors of the Royal Indian Navy mutiny in Bombay harbour, from where the action spreads throughout the Provinces of British India, involving 78 ships, twenty shore establishments and 20,000 sailors
  29. 1947First Indochina War: The French gain complete control of Hanoi after forcing the Viet Minh to withdraw to the mountains.
  30. 1954The first Church of Scientology is established in Los Angeles.
  31. 1955Operation Teapot: Teapot test shot "Wasp" is successfully detonated at the Nevada Test Site with a yield of 1.2 kilotons. Wasp is the first of fourteen shots in the Teapot series.
  32. 1957Kenyan rebel leader Dedan Kimathi is executed by the British colonial government.
  33. 1957Walter James Bolton becomes the last person legally executed in New Zealand.
  34. 1965The Gambia becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
  35. 1970The Chicago Seven are found not guilty of conspiring to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
  36. 1972The California Supreme Court in the case of People v. Anderson, (6 Cal.3d 628) invalidates the state's death penalty and commutes the sentences of all death row inmates to life imprisonment.
  37. 1977The Xinjiang 61st Regiment Farm fire started during Chinese New Year when a firecracker ignited memorial wreaths of the late Mao Zedong, killing 694 personnel. It remains the deadliest fireworks accident in the world.
  38. 1977A thousand armed soldiers raid Kalakuta Republic, the commune of Nigerian singer Fela Kuti, leading to the death of Funmilayo Anikulapo Kuti.
  39. 1977The Space Shuttle Enterprise test vehicle is carried on its maiden "flight" on top of a Boeing 747.
  40. 1979Richard Petty wins a then-record sixth Daytona 500 after leaders Donnie Allison and Cale Yarborough crash on the final lap of the first NASCAR race televised live flag-to-flag.
  41. 1983Thirteen people die and one is seriously injured in the Wah Mee massacre in Seattle. It is said to be the largest robbery-motivated mass-murder in U.S. history.
  42. 1991The IRA explodes bombs in the early morning at Paddington station and Victoria station in London.
  43. 2001FBI agent Robert Hanssen is arrested for spying for the Soviet Union. He is ultimately convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.
  44. 2001Sampit conflict: Inter-ethnic violence between Dayaks and Madurese breaks out in Sampit, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, ultimately resulting in more than 500 deaths and 100,000 Madurese displaced from their homes.
  45. 2003192 people die when an arsonist sets fire to a subway train in Daegu, South Korea.
  46. 2004Up to 295 people, 182 of which being rescue workers, die near Nishapur, Iran, when a runaway freight train carrying sulfur, petrol and fertilizer catches fire and explodes.
  47. 2010WikiLeaks publishes the first of hundreds of thousands of classified documents disclosed by the soldier now known as Chelsea Manning.
  48. 2013Armed robbers steal a haul of diamonds worth $50 million during a raid at Brussels Airport in Belgium.
  49. 2014Revolution of Dignity: At least 76 people are killed and hundreds are injured in clashes between riot police and demonstrators in Kyiv, Ukraine.
  50. 2018Iran Aseman Airlines Flight 3704 crashes in the Dena sub-range in the Zagros Mountains of Iran, Resulting in 66 Deaths
  51. 2021Perseverance, a Mars rover designed to explore Jezero crater on Mars, as part of NASA's Mars 2020 mission, lands successfully.

Nacimientos (145)

  1. 1201Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, Persian scientist and writer (died 1274)
  2. 1372Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, Egyptian jurist and scholar (died 1448)
  3. 1486Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Indian monk and saint (died 1534)
  4. 1516Mary I, Queen of England (died 1558)
  5. 1530Uesugi Kenshin, Japanese daimyō (died 1578)
  6. 1543Charles III, Duke of Lorraine (died 1608)
  7. 1547Bahāʾ al-dīn al-ʿĀmilī, founder of Isfahan School of Islamic Philosophy (died 1621) fecha discutida
  8. 1559Isaac Casaubon, Swiss philologist and scholar (died 1614)
  9. 1589Henry Vane the Elder, English politician (died 1655)
  10. 1589Maarten Gerritsz Vries, Dutch explorer (died 1646) juliano y gregoriano
  11. 1602Per Brahe the Younger, Swedish soldier and politician, Governor-General of Finland (died 1680)
  12. 1602Michelangelo Cerquozzi, Italian painter (died 1660)
  13. 1609Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, English historian and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (died 1674)
  14. 1626Francesco Redi, Italian physician (died 1697)
  15. 1632Giovanni Battista Vitali, Italian violinist and composer (died 1692)
  16. 1642Marie Champmeslé, French actress (died 1698)
  17. 1658Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre, French philosopher and author (died 1743)
  18. 1732Johann Christian Kittel, German organist and composer (died 1809)
  19. 1745Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist, invented the battery (died 1827)
  20. 1754Emanuel Granberg, Finnish church painter (died 1797)
  21. 1817Lewis Armistead, American general (died 1863)
  22. 1818John O'Shanassy, Irish-Australian politician, 2nd Premier of Victoria (died 1883) las demás fuentes: 1 ene 1818
  23. 1818Konstanty Schmidt-Ciążyński, Polish collector and art connoisseur who donated a large collection to the National Museum in Kraków (died 1889)
  24. 1836Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, Indian mystic and yogi (died 1886)
  25. 1838Ernst Mach, Austrian physicist and philosopher (died 1916)
  26. 1848Louis Comfort Tiffany, American stained glass artist (died 1933)
  27. 1849Alexander Kielland, Norwegian author, playwright, and politician (died 1906)
  28. 1850George Henschel, German-English singer-songwriter, pianist, and conductor (died 1934)
  29. 1855Jean Jules Jusserand, French historian, author, and diplomat, French Ambassador to the United States (died 1932)
  30. 1860Anders Zorn, Swedish artist (died 1920)
  31. 1862Charles M. Schwab, American businessman, co-founded Bethlehem Steel (died 1939)
  32. 1867Hedwig Courths-Mahler, German writer (died 1950)
  33. 1871Harry Brearley, English inventor (died 1948)
  34. 1883Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek philosopher, author, and playwright (died 1957) juliano y gregoriano
  35. 1885Henri Laurens, French sculptor and illustrator (died 1954)
  36. 1890Edward Arnold, American actor (died 1956)
  37. 1890Adolphe Menjou, American actor (died 1963)
  38. 1892Wendell Willkie, American captain, lawyer, and politician (died 1944)
  39. 1893Maksim Haretski, Belarusian prose writer, journalist and activist (died 1938)
  40. 1896Li Linsi, Chinese educator and diplomat (died 1970)
  41. 1898Luis Muñoz Marín, Puerto Rican poet and politician, 1st Governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (died 1980)
  42. 1899Arthur Bryant, English historian and journalist (died 1985)
  43. 1903Nikolai Podgorny, Ukrainian engineer and politician (died 1983)
  44. 1906Hans Asperger, Austrian pediatrician and academic (died 1980)
  45. 1909Wallace Stegner, American novelist, short story writer, and essayist (died 1993)
  46. 1914Pee Wee King, American singer-songwriter and fiddler (died 2000)
  47. 1915Phyllis Calvert, English actress (died 2002)
  48. 1915Joe Gordon, American baseball player and manager (died 1978)
  49. 1919Jack Palance, American boxer and actor (died 2006)
  50. 1920Rolande Falcinelli, French organist, pianist, composer, and pedagogue (died 2006)
  51. 1921Mary Amdur, American toxicologist and public health researcher (died 1998)
  52. 1921Oscar Feltsman, Ukrainian-Russian pianist and composer (died 2013)
  53. 1922Eric Gairy, Grenadan politician, 1st Prime Minister of Grenada (died 1997)
  54. 1922Helen Gurley Brown, American journalist and author (died 2012)
  55. 1922Connie Wisniewski, American baseball player (died 1995)
  56. 1925George Kennedy, American actor (died 2016)
  57. 1926Wallace Berman, American painter and illustrator (died 1976)
  58. 1927Fazal Mahmood, Pakistani cricketer (died 2005)
  59. 1929Len Deighton, English historian and author (died 2026)
  60. 1929André Mathieu, Canadian pianist and composer (died 1968)
  61. 1931Johnny Hart, American cartoonist, co-created The Wizard of Id (died 2007)
  62. 1931Toni Morrison, American novelist and editor, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2019).
  63. 1932Miloš Forman, Czech-American actor, director, and screenwriter (died 2018)
  64. 1933Yoko Ono, Japanese-American multimedia artist and musician
  65. 1933Bobby Robson, English footballer and manager (died 2009)
  66. 1933Mary Ure, Scottish-English actress (died 1975)
  67. 1934Audre Lorde, American writer and activist (died 1992)
  68. 1936Jean M. Auel, American author
  69. 1939Claude Ake, Nigerian political scientist and academic (died 1996)
  70. 1940Fabrizio De André, Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1999)
  71. 1941Irma Thomas, American singer-songwriter
  72. 1944Elizabeth Nunez, American novelist (died 2024)
  73. 1946Michael Buerk, English journalist
  74. 1946Jess Walton, American actress
  75. 1947Dennis DeYoung, American musician, singer, and songwriter
  76. 1947Eliot Engel, American politician (died 2026)
  77. 1950Nana Amba Eyiaba I, Ghanaian queen mother and advocate
  78. 1950John Hughes, American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2009)
  79. 1950Cybill Shepherd, American actress
  80. 1951Queen Komal of Nepal
  81. 1951Isabel Preysler, Filipino-Spanish journalist
  82. 1952Randy Crawford, American jazz and R&B singer
  83. 1952Maurice Lucas, American basketball player (died 2010)
  84. 1952Juice Newton, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
  85. 1954John Travolta, American actor, singer and producer
  86. 1955Lisa See, American writer and novelist
  87. 1957Marita Koch, German sprinter
  88. 1957Vanna White, American television personality
  89. 1959Jayne Atkinson, English-American actress
  90. 1960Andy Moog, Canadian ice hockey player
  91. 1960Greta Scacchi, Italian-Australian actress
  92. 1961Douglas Rushkoff, American media and cultural theorist, author, and documentarian
  93. 1964Matt Dillon, American actor
  94. 1965Dr. Dre, American rapper, record producer, and entrepreneur
  95. 1966Phillip DeFreitas, Dominican-English cricketer
  96. 1966Ryan Wesley Routh, American attempted assassin of Donald Trump
  97. 1967Roberto Baggio, Italian footballer
  98. 1967Colin Jackson, Welsh sprinter and hurdler
  99. 1968Molly Ringwald, American actress
  100. 1968Tommy Tallarico, American video game music composer
  101. 1969Alexander Mogilny, Russian ice hockey player
  102. 1971Thomas Bjørn, Danish golfer
  103. 1974Carrie Ann Baade, American painter and academic
  104. 1974Radek Černý, Czech footballer
  105. 1974Julia Butterfly Hill, American environmentalist and author
  106. 1974Jillian Michaels, American personal trainer and television personality
  107. 1975Gary Neville, English footballer
  108. 1977Ike Barinholtz, American actor and comedian
  109. 1977Kristoffer Polaha, American actor
  110. 1980Nik Antropov, Kazakhstani-Canadian ice hockey player
  111. 1980Regina Spektor, Russian-American musician and songwriter
  112. 1981Andrei Kirilenko, Russian-American basketball player
  113. 1981Alex Ríos, American baseball player
  114. 1982Christian Tiffert, German footballer
  115. 1983Kara Braxton, American basketball player (died 2026)
  116. 1983Jermaine Jenas, English footballer
  117. 1983Jason Maxiell, American basketball player
  118. 1984Carlos Kameni, Cameroonian footballer
  119. 1986Kyle Weaver, American basketball player
  120. 1988Roman Neustädter, German-Russian footballer
  121. 1988Sarah Sutherland, American actress
  122. 1988Maiara Walsh, American-Brazilian actress
  123. 1989Sonja Vasić, Serbian basketball player
  124. 1990Monica Aksamit, American saber fencer
  125. 1990Didi Gregorius, Dutch baseball player
  126. 1990Cody Hodgson, Canadian ice hockey player
  127. 1990Bryan Oviedo, Costa Rican footballer
  128. 1991Sebastian Neumann, German footballer
  129. 1992Le'Veon Bell, American football player
  130. 1992Martin Marinčin, Slovak ice hockey player
  131. 1992Logan Miller, American actor
  132. 1993Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, American basketball player
  133. 1994J-Hope, South Korean rapper, singer-songwriter, dancer, and record producer
  134. 1994Paul Zipser, German basketball player
  135. 1995Nathan Aké, Dutch footballer
  136. 1996Tyler Dorsey, American-Greek basketball player
  137. 1997DK, South Korean singer
  138. 1997Odysseas Adam, Greek volleyball player
  139. 1997Brandon Jones, American racing driver
  140. 1998Vernon, South Korean and American rapper, singer and songwriter
  141. 2000Zakaria Aboukhlal, Moroccan footballer
  142. 2000Giacomo Raspadori, Italian footballer
  143. 2001Tanguy Coulibaly, French footballer
  144. 2001Jaime Jaquez Jr., American basketball player
  145. 2002Manu Bhaker, Indian sports shooter

Fallecimientos (56)

  1. 675Colmán, bishop of Lindisfarne fecha discutida
  2. 814Angilbert, Frankish monk and diplomat (born 760)
  3. 901Thābit ibn Qurra, Arab astronomer and physician (born 826)
  4. 999Gregory V, pope of the Catholic Church (born 972)
  5. 1139Yaropolk II, Grand Prince of Kiev (born 1082)
  6. 1218Berthold V, duke of Zähringen (born 1160)
  7. 1225Hugh Bigod, 3rd Earl of Norfolk, Norman nobleman
  8. 1294Kublai Khan, Mongol emperor (born 1215)
  9. 1379Albert II, duke of Mecklenburg (born 1318)
  10. 1397Enguerrand VII, French nobleman (born 1340)
  11. 1455Fra Angelico, Italian priest and painter (born 1395)
  12. 1478George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence, English nobleman (born 1449; executed)
  13. 1502Hedwig Jagiellon, duchess of Bavaria (born 1457)
  14. 1535Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, German magician, astrologer, and theologian (born 1486)
  15. 1546Martin Luther, German priest and theologian, leader of the Protestant Reformation (born 1483)
  16. 1564Michelangelo, Italian sculptor and painter (born 1475)
  17. 1654Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac, French author (born 1594)
  18. 1658John Villiers, Viscount Purbeck, English courtier (born c. 1591)
  19. 1683Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem, Dutch painter (born 1620)
  20. 1695William Phips, governor of Massachusetts (born 1650)
  21. 1712Louis, Dauphin of France, (born 1682)
  22. 1743Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici, Italian noble (born 1667)
  23. 1748Otto Ferdinand von Abensberg und Traun, Austrian field marshal (born 1677)
  24. 1772Count Johann Hartwig Ernst von Bernstorff, Danish politician (born 1712)
  25. 1778Joseph Marie Terray, French economist and politician, Controller-General of Finances (born 1715)
  26. 1780Kristijonas Donelaitis, Lithuanian pastor and poet (born 1714)
  27. 1788John Whitehurst, English geologist and clockmaker (born 1713)
  28. 1803Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim, German poet and educator (born 1719)
  29. 1851Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, German mathematician and academic (born 1804)
  30. 1873Vasil Levski, Bulgarian activist, founded the Internal Revolutionary Organization (born 1837)
  31. 1880Nikolay Zinin, Russian organic chemist (born 1812)
  32. 1893Serranus Clinton Hastings, American lawyer and politician, 1st Chief Justice of California (born 1814)
  33. 1902Charles Lewis Tiffany, American businessman, founded Tiffany & Co. (born 1812)
  34. 1910Lucy Stanton, American activist (born 1831)
  35. 1915Frank James, American soldier and criminal (born 1843)
  36. 1933James J. Corbett, American boxer and actor (born 1866)
  37. 1938David King Udall, American missionary and politician (born 1851)
  38. 1956Gustave Charpentier, French composer (born 1860)
  39. 1960Gertrude Vanderbilt, American stage actress (born )
  40. 1966Grigory Nelyubov, Soviet pilot and military officer (born 1934)
  41. 1967J. Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist and academic (born 1904)
  42. 1969Dragiša Cvetković, Serbian lawyer and politician, 17th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (born 1893)
  43. 1977Andy Devine, American actor (born 1905)
  44. 1981Jack Northrop, American engineer and businessman, founded the Northrop Corporation (born 1895)
  45. 1982Ngaio Marsh, New Zealand author (born 1895)
  46. 2001Balthus, Polish-Swiss painter and illustrator (born 1908)
  47. 2001Dale Earnhardt, American racer and seven-time NASCAR Cup Series champion (born 1951)
  48. 2014Mavis Gallant, Canadian-French author and playwright (born 1922)
  49. 2014Maria Franziska von Trapp, Austrian-American singer (born 1914)
  50. 2015Elchanan Heilprin, Slovak-born English rabbi (born 1920 or 1922)
  51. 2019Alessandro Mendini, Italian designer and architect (born 1931)
  52. 2020Flavio Bucci, Italian actor and voice actor (born 1947)
  53. 2025Gene Hackman, award-winning American actor (born 1930)
  54. 2025Gerald Ridsdale, Australian laicised Catholic priest and sex offender (born 1934)
  55. 2025Hurricane, American secret service canine (born 2009)
  56. 2026Borislav Paravac, Bosnian Serb politician, 8th Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina (born 1943)

Celebraciones (4)

  1. Dialect Day (Amami Islands, Japan)
  2. Independence Day, celebrates the independence of the Gambia from the United Kingdom in 1965
  3. Kurdish Students Union Day (Iraqi Kurdistan)
  4. National Democracy Day, celebrates the 1951 overthrow of the Rana dynasty (Nepal)

Santoral (6)

  1. Bernadette Soubirous (France)
  2. Colmán of Lindisfarne
  3. Flavian of Constantinople
  4. Geltrude Comensoli
  5. Simeon of Jerusalem (Western Christianity)
  6. February 18 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)