Friday 18 February 2011

On This Day - 18th February


1848 - Louis Comfort Tiffany born
1859 - Sholem Aleichem born
1920 - Bill Cullen and Jack Palance born
1921 - The worlds first Helicopter flies
1922 - Helen Gurley Brown born
1925 - George Kennedy born
1930 - Planet Neptune is discovered and Gahan Wilson born
1931 - Toni Morrison born
1932 - Milos Forman born
1933 - Yoko Ono born
1949 - Keith Rule born
1950 - Cybill Shepherd and John Hughes born
1954 - The Secretary of the US army orders two generals subpoenaed by anti-Communist senator Joseph McCarthy to ignore the summons and John Travolta born
1957 - Vanna White born
1964 - Matt Dillon born
1965 - Dr. Dre born
1968 - Molly Ringwald born
1969 - Hundreds of people clamour to see the marriage of popstars Lulu and Maurice Gibb of the Bee Gees in a Buckinghamshire church.
1978 - Police in Northern Ireland arrest at least 20 people in connection with the La Mon restaurant bomb.
1981 - Mrs Thatcher's Conservative Government withdraws plans to close 23 pits in its first major U-turn since coming to power two years ago.
1996 - Three people are feared dead after a bomb explodes on a London bus, nine days after the IRA ended its ceasefire.
2005 - Hunting with dogs in England and Wales becomes illegal as the ban on the activity passes into law.

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