18th February 2011
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Events
1841 – The first filibuster in the US Senate
begins and lasts until March 11. Recently a
similar tactic was used by the House of Lords on
the Bill concerning revising the English voting
procedures.
1885 – Mark Twain's Samuel (Clemens)
“Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” is published.
Huck Finn (Tom Sawyer best friend) first
appeared in “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”
(1876) but this sequel is more serious, focusing
slavery and other aspects of Southern life!
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Events
1901 – Winston Churchill (MP for
Oldham) makes his Commons
maiden speech.
1929 – The Academy Awards
scheme is announced but the
awards are made at a “brunch” on
16th May
1930 – While examining
photographs taken earlier, Clyde
Tombaugh discovers the “dwarf
planet” Pluto. The volume of Pluto
is about 0.6% of earth
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Events
1948 – Eamon de Valera resigns as Irish Taoiseach.
1969: Lulu marries Maurice Gibb (d 12/01.03) of
the Bee Gees (until April 1973).
1979 – For the only recorded occaion snow falls in
the Sahara Desert in southern Algeria.
1991 – The IRA explodes bombs in Paddington and
Victoria railway stations.
1996 – Three people are killed in a bomb (?IRA)
exploding on a London bus.
2005 – The ban on hunting with dogs in England
and Wales becomes illegal as bill passes into law.
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Ins…
1838 – Ernst Mach, Austrian physicist (d. 1916)
1848 – Louis Comfort Tiffany, US glass artist (d.
1933)
1849 – Alexander Kielland, Norwegian author (d.
1906). On 29th March 1980 a North Sea rig named
after him fails and then capsizes killing 123.
.1898 – Enzo Ferrari, founder
of …. (d. 1988)
1933 – Yoko Ono, John
Lennon’s lover, peace activist,
singer and performance
artist.
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Ins…
1933 – Sir Bobby Robson, football player, multitalented manager (Fulham, Ipswich Town, England,
PSV Eindhoven (2), Sporting CP, Porto, Barcelona
& Newcastle. Still a figurehead for a Cancer
research campaign established in his name. (Born,
Sacriston, County Durham, (d. 2009).
1946 – Michael Buerk, newsreader
1948 – Sinéad Cusack, Irish actress and Labour
party supporter (with husband Jeremy Irons)
1948 – Keith Knudsen, American drummer and
songwriter (The Doobie Brothers) (d. 2005)
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Outs…
1294 – Kublai Khan, Mongol Emperor (b. 1215)
1546 – Martin Luther, religious reformer (b. 1483)
1788 – John Whitehurst, English clockmaker and
scientist who studied the oscillations of the
pendulum (b. 1713)
1842 – Thomas Hazlehurst, soap and alkali
manufacturer from Runcorn in Cheshire (b. 1779)
1845 – Johnny Appleseed, American folk
hero/legend, nurseryman and environmentalist (b.
1774). He who introduced apple trees to large
parts of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois.
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Outs…
1967 – J. Robert Oppenheimer, American
physicist “father of the atomic bomb” and
Scientific director of the Manhattan Project at
Los Alamos. At the Trinity test in New Mexico,
when the first atomic bomb was detonated he
famously recalled the Bhagavad Gita:
“If the radiance of a thousand suns
were to burst at once into the sky, that
would be like the splendour of the
mighty one... Now, I am become Death,
the destroyer of worlds.”
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Colonel Leslie R.
Groves and Robert
Oppenheimer at the
“Ground Zero” of
Trinity.
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