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National Drink Wine Day February 18 | ||
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National Battery Day February 18 | ||
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National Crab Stuffed Flounder Day February 18 | ||
Also on February 18
🏛️ Public Holidays
Also observed in: Chinese New Year (SG) · Lunar New Year (KR) · Mùng hai Tết Nguyên Đán (VN) · Second day of Lunar New Year (HK) · Tahun Baharu Cina (Hari Kedua) (MY) · 春節 (TW) · 春节 (CN) · 農曆年初二 (HK) · 설날 다음날 (KR)
✡️ Religious Observances
- Jewish: Rosh Chodesh Adar ראש חודש אדר roshchodesh
- Islamic: 1st Day of Ramadan major
- Buddhist: Losar (Tibetan New Year) major
- Christian: Ash Wednesday major
🕰️ On This Day in History
- 2014 — At least 76 people are killed and hundreds are injured in clashes between riot police and demonstrators in Kiev, Ukraine. ↗
- 2013 — Armed robbers steal a haul of diamonds worth $50 million during a raid at Brussels Airport in Belgium. ↗
- 2007 — WikiLeaks publishes the first of hundreds of thousands of classified documents disclosed by the soldier now known as Chelsea Manning. ↗
- 2004 — Up to 295 people, including nearly 200 rescue workers, die near Nishapur, Iran when a runaway freight train carrying sulfur, petrol and... ↗
- 2003 — Nearly 200 people die in the Daegu subway fire in South Korea. ↗
🎂 Notable Births
- 1994 — Jake Trbojevic, Australian rugby league player
- 1991 — Sebastian Neumann, German footballer
- 1991 — Henry Surtees, English race car driver (d. 2009)
- 1990 — Didi Gregorius, Dutch baseball player
- 1990 — Cody Hodgson, Canadian ice hockey player