02-18-2005, 06:33 AM
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February 18th
1546 ~ Death of Martin Luther, religious reformer.
1745 ~ Birthday of Alessandro Volta, physicist, eponym for the unit of the electric potential.
1838 ~ Birthday of Ernst Mach, Austrian Physicist & Philosopher.
1861 ~ In Montgomery, Alabama Jefferson Davis was inaugurated as the first and only President of the Confederate States of America.
1885 ~ Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was published for the first time.
1930 ~ While studying photographs taken in January, Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto.
1933 ~ Birthday of Yoko Ono, Singer, Artist, wife of John Lennon.
1965 ~ The Gambia became independent from the United Kingdom.
1967 ~ Death of J. Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist.
2005 ~ The United Kingdom law banning fox hunting, hare coursing and other sports which kill wild mammals is enforced from this date.
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