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February 18: National Drink Wine Day: --
A good annual reason to unwind with a glass or two of your
favorite Cabernet Sauvignon or Chardonnay. Wine has been a staple
in human culture since its invention in 7000 BC. Some ancient
societies enjoyed their wine so much, they even worshiped it!
These days, hundreds of types of wine are produced all over the
world, so there's an endless variety to choose from. While we know
humans have been making wine for thousands of years, no one is
certain who was the first to ferment grapes into the beverage we
now call wine. Evidence of ancient wine production has been found
in China, the Middle East, and Greece, so it appears many
different cultures discovered the process at nearly the same time.
The oldest known winery was found in a cave in Armenia, and is
over 4,000 years old - The vinters there were using a grape still
used to make wine today! Barrels of wine have been found in the
tombs of Egyptian Pharaohs, and the Ancient Greeks used wine in
secret religious ceremonies. Although wine has taken all sorts of
different forms throughout the ages, the process has changed very
little in the thousands of years since its invention. Grapes are
crushed, pressed, and fermented, and the mixture is sealed into
barrels. The mixture is aged, and then bottled. Using these simple
steps, an infinite variety of wines can be created, and different
regions of the world are known for the distinctive vintages they
produce. Things like soil, temperature, and weather all affect the
way wine grapes grow, and make each batch unique. Two bottles of
the same wine from the same vineyard might taste totally different
depending on the year they were produced, and some vintages become
highly sought after as a result. Use this National Drink Wine Day
to try a new bottle, and relax with the knowledge that you're
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Today, February 18, 2026
February 18: National Battery Day: -- An
annual reminder to imagine what our lives would be like without
batteries and how our lives are made better with them. Without
them, we will have had to stay glued to the electric sockets to
enjoy technology. Thankfully, we have batteries that keep us
connected without a direct power source. We can watch T.V., use
our phones and other mobile devices, and light up the bulbs
without relying on a power source. Do you know batteries are what
make our phones mobile? Without them, we wouldn't be able to use
our phones without electricity. You wouldn't be reading this
without batteries. Imagine working on a huge project on a desktop
with a battery. Now, what if there is a brief power outage? Yes,
it is dangerous, if you do not have alternative power for seamless
flow. Batteries have been in use since the 19th century. It was
first created when Italian Scientist Alessandro Volta layered
silver, separated by paper and dipped in salt or acid and zinc to
form the 'voltaic piles' in 1800. These piles generated electric
current. This paved a way for evolution as in 1802, William
Cruickshank designed a battery for mass production. Corrosion
remained a critical impediment until the Daniell cell came along.
It was invented by John Daniell, a chemist who received accolades
for this invention which reduced corrosion when storing batteries.
Afterward, Columbia, the first commercially available battery, was
introduced by the National Carbon company in 1896, birthing the 4D
battery created for flashlights two years later. Batteries were
later introduced to watches and clocks, and are now used for
diverse purposes. Batteries are used in almost anything driven by
electricity. It is found in automobiles, mobile phones, desktops,
televisions, radios, calculators, machinery, solar panels, power
banks, remote controls, and down to your alarm clock. Here are
some tips for using batteries. Ensure you read instructions on
batteries before use. For efficient batteries, keep them at room
temperature or lower. This reduces the rate of chemical activity
within the batteries. Do not store old and new batteries together.
Do not store your batteries in a metal container, and remember to
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February 18, 1930: Pluto Day: -- While
studying photographs taken in January, American astronomer Clyde
Tombaugh discovers Pluto. Pluto Day is celebrated annually to
commemorate this discovery. The planet, known for its
characteristic icy mountains and tiny size, was considered one of
the nine planets in the solar system together with Mercury, Venus,
our current planet of Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and
Neptune. Clyde discovered Pluto at the Lowell Observatory in
Flagstaff, Arizona just 84 years after the discovery of Neptune.
Although Pluto was discovered in 1930, the story of its discovery
started in 1840 after French astronomer Urbain Le Verrier sensed
that there was a planet outside of Uranus due to irregularities in
its orbit. His intuition led him to develop mathematical
calculations to explain the discrepancies of Uranus's orbit in
relation to the laws of planetary motion and gravity, which led to
the eventual discovery of Neptune. After Neptune was discovered,
an event that is widely regarded as a validation of a subset of
the astronomy practice called celestial mechanics. It was then
realized that there was yet another planet disturbing Uranus's
orbit since the irregularity in its orbit continued. This then led
to the search for Pluto - initially called Planet X - being headed
by Percival Lowell, whose death would later see the search for
Pluto passed to Clyde Tombaugh, who eventually discovered it. The
planet, which was named after the Roman god of the Underworld, was
considered one of the nine planets in the solar system up until
2006. The International Astronomical Union reduced its status and
tagged it a 'dwarf' planet due to not meeting the criteria to be
considered a full-sized planet and being two-third of the size of
the earth. It is believed that the first two letters in 'Pluto'
were in honor of Percival Lowell whose belief that there were
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Today, February 18, 2026
February 18, 1516: #BOTD: Mary I Of
England, also known as Mary Tudor, also known as "Bloody
Mary", Queen Of England from July 19, 1553 until her death
(d. November 17, 1558) is #born Mary Tudor at Palace Of Placentia,
Greenwich, also known as Greenwich Palace, a palace which was
demolished by King Charles II in 1660 to make way for a new one
which was never built; Greenwich Hospital, London, a permanent
home for retired sailors of the Royal Navy, was built there 40
years later and operated from 1692 to 1869; ultimately it became
Royal Naval College (now called the Old Royal Naval College) where
the Royal Observatory is now located, which played a major role in
the history of astronomy and navigation, and because the Prime
Meridian passes through it, it gave its name to Greenwich Mean
Time, the precursor to today's Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
Mary I is best known for her vigorous attempt to reverse the
English Reformation, which had begun during the reign of her
father, Henry VIII. Her attempt to restore to the Church the
property confiscated in the previous two reigns was largely
thwarted by parliament, but during her five-year reign, Mary had
over 280 religious dissenters burned at the stake in the Marian
persecutions, which led to her denunciation as "Bloody Mary"
by her Protestant opponents. Mary was the only child of Henry VIII
by his first wife, Catherine Of Aragon, to survive to adulthood.
Her younger half-brother, Edward VI, succeeded their father in
1547 at the age of nine. When Edward became mortally ill in 1553,
he attempted to remove Mary from the line of succession because he
supposed, correctly, that she would reverse the Protestant reforms
that had continued during his reign. Upon his death, leading
politicians proclaimed Lady Jane Grey as queen. Mary speedily
assembled a force in East Anglia and deposed Jane, who was
ultimately beheaded. Mary was-excluding the disputed reigns of
Jane and the Empress Matilda-the first queen regnant of England.
In 1554, Mary married Philip of Spain, becoming queen consort of
Habsburg Spain on his accession in 1556. Mary I Of England died at
the age of 42, possibly from ovarian cysts or uterine cancer, at
St James's Palace, during an influenza epidemic. She is buried in
a vault in the north aisle of Henry VII's Lady Chapel in a coffin,
above which the large monument was later erected. The wooden
effigy carried at her funeral still exists and both head and
unclothed body (having previously been separated) are on view in
the new Queen's Diamond Jubilee Galleries high above the Abbey
floor. Elizabeth I's coffin was later placed on top of Mary's in
the vault. James I erected a large monument above the graves but
this only bears the effigy of Elizabeth on it. Mary is mentioned
in one of the inscriptions, which can be translated: "Partners
both in throne and grave, here rest we two sisters, Elizabeth and
Mary, in the hope of the Resurrection." Mary I Of England was
succeeded to the throne by her younger half-sister Elizabeth I Of
England, who reversed by Mary's re-establishment of Roman
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Today, February 18, 2026
February 18, 1838: #BOTD: #HBD! Ernst
Mach, Austrian/Czech physicist and philosopher who contributed to
the physics of shock waves, of whom the ratio of the speed of a
flow or object to that of sound is named the Mach number in his
honor (d. February 19, 1916) is #born Ernst Waldfried Josef Wenzel
Mach in Chrlice (German: Chirlitz), part of Brno, Moravia,
Austrian Empire (modern Czech Republic). As a philosopher of
science (a philosopher concerned with the foundations, methods,
and implications of science), he was a major influence on logical
positivism (a movement whose central thesis is the verification
principle [the philosophical doctrine that a statement is
meaningful only if it is either empirically verifiable or a truth
of logic]) and American pragmatism (a philosophical tradition that
contends that most philosophical topics -- such as the nature of
knowledge, language, concepts, meaning, belief, and science -- are
all best viewed in terms of their practical uses and successes).
Through his criticism of Newton's theories of space and time, he
foreshadowed Einstein's theory of relativity. Ernst Mach dies of
unspecified causes one day after his 78th birthday in
Vaterstetten, Bavaria, German Empire. He is buried at Nordfriedhof
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Today, February 18, 2026
February 18, 1861: The American Civil War
(The Civil War, The War Between The States): The Confederate
States Of America (CSA) (The Confederate States (C.S.), The
Confederacy): The Presidency Of The Confederate States Of America:
-- Jefferson Davis is inaugurated as the Provisional President of
the Confederate States of America in Montgomery, Alabama. On
February 9, 1861, a Confederate constitutional convention meeting
at Montgomery, Alabama elected Jefferson Davis President of the
CSA, acclaimed by the convention as the "champion of a slave
society and [having] embodied the values of the planter class".
He was inaugurated on February 18. By November 6, 1861, Davis was
elected to a full six-year term as President of the Confederate
States of America. On January 21, 1861, Jefferson Davis, on what
he called "the saddest day of my life", delivered his
farewell address to the United States Senate, resigned from the
U.S. Senate and returned to Mississippi, after having waited
before doing so to receive official notification of Mississippi's
ordinance of secession from the Union passed on January 9. By
1856, the South had lost control of Congress, and was no longer
able to silence calls for an end to slavery, which came mostly
from the more populated, free states of the North. The Republican
Party, founded in 1854, pledged to stop the spread of slavery
beyond those states where it already existed. After Abraham
Lincoln was elected the first Republican president in 1860, seven
cotton states - South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama,
Georgia, Louisiana and Texas respectively - declared their
secession and formed the Confederate States of America before
Lincoln was inaugurated. The United States government, both
outgoing and incoming, refused to recognize the Confederacy, and
when the new Confederate President Jefferson Davis ordered his
troops to open fire on Fort Sumter in April 1861, there was an
overwhelming demand, North and South, for war. Only the state of
Kentucky attempted to remain neutral, but it could only do so
briefly until it chose to remain in the Union. When Lincoln called
for troops to suppress what he referred to as "combinations
too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary" judicial or
martial means, four more states - Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee
and North Carolina - decided to secede and join the Confederacy,
which then moved its capital to Richmond, Virginia. Residents of
the western counties of Virginia did not wish to secede along with
the rest of the state. This section of Virginia was admitted into
the Union as the state of West Virginia on June 20, 1863. Four
slave states decided to stay in the Union: Delaware, Kentucky,
Maryland, and Missouri. Although divided in their loyalties, a
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Today, February 18, 2026
February 18, 1865: The American Civil War
(The Civil War, The War Between The States): The Eastern Theater
Of The American Civil War: The Carolinas Campaign (The Campaign Of
The Carolinas): The Capture Of Columbia: The Burning Of Columbia:
-- The day after Columbia, South Carolina surrendered to Union
forces under Major General William T. Sherman, Union forces were
overwhelmed by throngs of liberated Federal prisoners, emancipated
slaves and their own drunk celebrating soldiers who took advantage
of ample supplies of liquor in the city. Fires broke out in the
city, and high winds spread the flames across a wide area. It
burned down most of the central city, including the old South
Carolina State House, the interior of the incomplete new State
House and The Arsenal Academy. Also among the buildings destroyed
was "Millwood", a large mansion owned by Confederate
general Wade Hampton; his late father's home, the Hampton-Preston
House in downtown Columbia, was spared as it was being used as the
headquarters for Union Maj. Gen. John A. Logan. The only surviving
building is today the South Carolina Governor's Mansion. Municipal
fire companies found it difficult to operate in conjunction with
the invading army, many of whom were also fighting the fire. The
burning of Columbia has engendered controversy ever since, with
some claiming the fires were accidental, a deliberate act of
vengeance, or perhaps set by retreating Confederate soldiers who
lit cotton bales while leaving town. In any event, on February 18,
Sherman's forces deliberately destroyed virtually anything of
military value in Columbia, including railroad depots, warehouses,
arsenals, and machine shops. Legend has it that Columbia's First
Baptist Church narrowly missed being torched by Sherman's troops.
As the story goes, the soldiers marched to the church and asked
the groundskeeper if he could direct them to the location of the
church where the declaration of secession was signed. The loyal
groundskeeper directed the men to another church, a Methodist
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February 18, 1885: First Publications: --
Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is published in the
United States. Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn (or, in more recent
editions, The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn) is a novel by Mark
Twain, first published in the United Kingdom in December 1884 and
in the United States in February 1885. Commonly named among the
Great American Novels, the work is among the first in major
American literature to be written throughout in vernacular
English, characterized by local color regionalism. It is told in
the first person by Huckleberry "Huck" Finn, the
narrator of two other Twain novels (Tom Sawyer Abroad and Tom
Sawyer, Detective) and a friend of Tom Sawyer. It is a direct
sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. The book is noted for its
colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi
River. Set in a Southern antebellum society that had ceased to
exist about 20 years before the work was published, Adventures Of
Huckleberry Finn is an often scathing satire on entrenched
attitudes, particularly racism. Perennially popular with readers,
Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn has also been the continued object
of study by literary critics since its publication. The book was
widely criticized upon release because of its extensive use of
coarse language. Throughout the 20th century, and despite
arguments that the protagonist and the tenor of the book are
anti-racist, criticism of the book continued due to both its
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Today, February 18, 2026
February 18, 1932: China: The History Of
China: The Century Of Humiliation (The Hundred Years Of National
Humiliation) (1838-1945): The Sino-Japanese Wars: The Interwar
Period (The Aftermath Of World War I, The Interbellum, Between The
Wars): The Second Sino-Japanese War (The War Of Resistance Against
Japanese Aggression): The Japanese Invasion Of Manchuria: The
State Of Manchukuo (The State Of Manzhouguo): -- The Empire Of
Japan declares a puppet state of Manzhouguo (the obsolete Chinese
name for Manchuria), independent from the Republic Of China and
installed former Chinese Emperor Aisin Gioro Puyi as Chief
Executive of the State. Manchukuo, located in Northeast China in
what is what is now and historically Manchuria, existed from 1932
until its dissolution in 1945. It was ostensibly founded as a
republic, its territory consisting of the lands seized in the
Japanese invasion of Manchuria; it was later declared to be a
constitutional monarchy in 1934, though very little changed in the
actual functioning of government. Manchukuo received limited
diplomatic recognition, mostly from states aligned with the Axis
powers, with its existence widely seen as illegitimate. The region
now known as Manchuria had historically been the homeland of the
Manchu people, though by the 20th century they had long since
become a minority in the region, with Han Chinese constituting by
far the largest ethnic group. The Manchu-led Qing dynasty, which
had governed China since 17th century, was overthrown with the
permanent abolition of the dynastic system in the 1911 Xinhai
Revolution, with Puyi, the final emperor of China, forced to
abdicate at the age of six. In 1931, Manchuria was invaded and
occupied by the Empire of Japan following the Mukden incident. A
puppet government was set up the following year, with Puyi brought
in by the Japanese to serve as its nominal regent, though he
himself had no actual political power. Japanese officials
ultimately made all pertinent decisions, and exercised total
control over Puyi's court and personal safety. Upon the nominal
transition from republic to empire, Puyi was proclaimed as the
emperor of Manchukuo. The Japanese population of Manchuria
increased dramatically during this period, largely due to Japan's
efforts to resettle young, land-poor farmers from the inner
islands. By 1945, more than a million Japanese people had settled
within Manchukuo. The region's Korean population also increased
during this period. Regions in the western part of the country
with large Mongolian populations were ruled under a slightly
different system, reflecting the distinct traditions extant there.
The southern tip of the Liaodong Peninsula, now the city of
Dalian, continued to be ruled directly by Japan as the Kwantung
Leased Territory until the end of the war. The state was
ultimately toppled at the end of World War II with the Soviet
invasion of Manchuria in August 1945; its government was formally
dissolved following the Japanese surrender in September. The
territory was transferred to Chinese administration the following
year. Puyi, of the Manchu Aisin Gioro Clan, commonly known as Pu
Yi, was the last Emperor of China and the twelfth and final ruler
of the Qing dynasty. When a child, he ruled as the Xuantong
Emperor in China and Khevt Yos Khaan in Mongolia from 1908 until
his forced abdication on 12 February 1912, after the successful
Xinhai Revolution, also known as The Chinese Revolution or The
Revolution Of 1911. From July 1-12, 1917, he was briefly restored
to the throne as emperor by the warlord Zhang Xun. In 1932 after
the occupation of Manchuria, the state of Manchukuo was
established by Japan, and he was chosen to become 'Emperor' of the
new state using the era-name of Datong (Ta-tung). In 1934, he was
declared the Kangde Emperor (or Kang-te Emperor) of Manchukuo and
ruled until the end of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1945. After
the People's Republic Of China was established in 1949, Puyi was
imprisoned as a war criminal for 10 years, wrote his memoirs and
became a titular member of the Chinese People's Political
Consultative Conference and the National People's Congress. On
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February 18, 1933: #BOTD: #HBD! Yoko Ono,
Japanese-American multimedia artist, singer, songwriter, peace
activist and beauty who performs in both English and Japanese,
known for her work in performance art and filmmaking, famous for
being the second wife and widow of singer-songwriter John Lennon
of the Beatles, is #born Ono Yoko in Tokyo, Empire Of Japan. Ono
grew up in Tokyo and also spent several formative years in New
York City. She studied at Gakushuin, but withdrew from her course
after two years and moved to New York in 1953 to live with her
family. She spent some time at Sarah Lawrence College and then
became involved in New York City's downtown artists scene, which
included the Fluxus group. She first met Lennon in 1966 at her own
art exhibition in London, and they became a couple in 1968 and wed
the following year. With their performance Bed-Ins for Peace in
Amsterdam and Montreal in 1969, Ono and Lennon famously used their
honeymoon at the Hilton Amsterdam as a stage for public protests
against the Vietnam War. In her music, Ono brought feminism to the
forefront influencing artists as diverse as the B-52s and Meredith
Monk. She achieved commercial and critical acclaim in 1980 with
the chart-topping album Double Fantasy, a collaboration with
Lennon that was released three weeks before his murder. Public
appreciation of Ono's work has shifted over time and was helped by
a retrospective at a Whitney Museum branch in 1989 and the 1992
release of the six-disc box set Onobox. Retrospectives of her
artwork have also been presented at the Japan Society in New York
City in 2001, in Bielefeld, Germany, and the UK in 2008,
Frankfurt, and Bilbao, Spain, in 2013 and MOMA in New York City in
2015. She received a Golden Lion Award for lifetime achievement
from the Venice Biennale in 2009 and the 2012 Oskar Kokoschka
Prize, Austria's highest award for applied contemporary art. As
Lennon's widow, Ono works to preserve his legacy. She funded
Strawberry Fields in Manhattan's Central Park, the Imagine Peace
Tower in Iceland, and the John Lennon Museum in Saitama, Japan
(which closed in 2010). She has made significant philanthropic
contributions to the arts, peace, Philippine and Japan disaster
relief, and other causes. In 2012 Ono received the Dr. Rainer
Hildebrandt Human Rights Award. The award is given annually in
recognition of extraordinary, nonviolent commitment to human
rights. Ono continued her social activism when she inaugurated a
biennial 50K USD LennonOno Grant for Peace in 2002. She also
co-founded the group Artists Against Fracking in 2012. She has a
daughter, Kyoko Chan Cox, from her marriage to Anthony Cox and a
son, Sean Taro Ono Lennon, from her marriage to Lennon. She
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February 18, 1943: World War II: The Home
Front During World War II: The German Home Front During World War
II: The European Civil War: The Second European War (The European
Theater Of World War II): The Total War Speech (German: Die Totale
Kriegsrede (The Sportpalast Speech [German: Die Sportpalastrede):
-- German Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels delivers his Total
War Speech at the Berlin Sportpalast to a large but carefully
selected audience on calling for a total war (German: Totaler
Krieg), as the tide of World War II had turned against Nazi
Germany and its Axis allies. It is considered the most famous of
Joseph Goebbels's speeches. The speech was the first public
admission by the Nazi leadership that Germany faced serious
dangers. Goebbels exhorted the German people to continue the war
even though it would be long and difficult because, as he
asserted, both Germany's survival and the survival of a
non-Bolshevist Europe were at stake. The speech is particularly
notable as Goebbels almost mentions the Holocaust, when he begins
saying "Ausrotten" (using the German word for
extermination), but quickly changes it to "Ausschaltung"
(i.e. exclusion). This was the same word Heinrich Himmler used on
December 18, 1941, when he recorded the outcome of his discussion
with Adolf Hitler on the Final Solution, wherein he wrote "als
Partisanen auszurotten" ("exterminate them as
partisans"). The speech occurred on the same day that the
Nazis arrested the members of the White Rose movement, a
non-violent, intellectual resistance group in Nazi Germany led by
a group of students and a professor at the University of Munich.
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February 18, 1943: World War II: The
Nazis arrest the members of the White Rose movement, a
non-violent, intellectual resistance group in Nazi Germany led by
a group of students and a professor at the University of Munich.
The group conducted an anonymous leaflet and graffiti campaign
which called for active opposition to the Nazi regime. Their
activities started in Munich on June 27th, 1942, and ended with
the arrest of the core group by the Gestapo on February 18th,
1943. They, as well as other members and supporters of the group
who carried on distributing the pamphlets, faced show trials by
the Nazi People's Court, and many of them were sentenced to death
or imprisonment. The group wrote, printed and initially
distributed their pamphlets in the greater Munich region. Later
on, secret carriers brought copies to other cities, mostly in the
southern parts of Germany. In total, the White Rose authored six
leaflets, which were multiplied and spread, in a total of about
15,000 copies. They denounced the Nazi regime's crimes and
oppression, and called for resistance. In their second leaflet,
they openly denounced the persecution and mass murder of the Jews.
By the time of their arrest, the members of the White Rose were
just about to establish contacts with other German resistance
groups like the Kreisau Circle or the Schulze-Boysen/Harnack group
of the Red Orchestra. Today, the White Rose is well-known both
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February 18, 1970: The Aftermath Of World
War II: The Cold War: The Cold War In Asia: The Indochina Wars:
The Vietnam War (The Second Indochina War, The Vietnam Conflict,
The Resistance War Against America): Opposition To United States
Involvement In The Vietnam War: The Chicago Seven (The Chicago
Eight, The Conspiracy Eight, The Conspiracy Seven) -- The Chicago
Seven are found not guilty of conspiring to incite riots at the
1968 Democratic National Convention. The Chicago Seven (originally
Chicago Eight) were seven defendants - Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin,
David Dellinger, Tom Hayden, Rennie Davis, John Froines, and Lee
Weiner - charged by the federal government with conspiracy,
inciting to riot, and other charges related to anti-Vietnam War
and countercultural protests that took place in Chicago, Illinois,
on the occasion of the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Bobby
Seale, the eighth man charged, had his trial severed during the
proceedings, lowering the number of defendants from eight to
seven. Seale was eventually sentenced to four years in prison for
contempt of court, although this ruling was later reversed. After
a federal trial resulting in both acquittals and convictions,
followed by appeals, and reversals, some of the seven defendants
were finally convicted, although all of the convictions were
reversed. The were primary targets during the August 28, 1968
Chicago Police Riot, where around 10,000 protesters were gathered
in Grant Park for the demonstration against the Democratic
National Convention's proceedings in choosing the pro-war
candidate Hubert Humphrey as the party choice for president of the
United States. At approximately 3:30 p.m., a young man lowered the
American flag that was there. The police broke through the crowd
and began beating the young man, while the crowd pelted the police
with food, rocks, and chunks of concrete. Tom Hayden, one of the
leaders of Students for a Democratic Society, encouraged
protesters to move out of the park to ensure that if the police
used tear gas on them, it would have to be done throughout the
city. The amount of tear gas used to suppress the protesters was
so great that it made its way to the Hilton Hotel, where it
disturbed Hubert Humphrey while in his shower. The police sprayed
demonstrators and bystanders with mace and were taunted by some
protesters with chants of "kill, kill, kill". The police
assault in front of the Hilton Hotel the evening of August 28
became the most famous image of the Chicago demonstrations of
1968. The entire event took place live under television lights for
seventeen minutes with the crowd chanting, "The whole world
is watching". In its report Rights in Conflict (better known
as the Walker Report), the Chicago Study Team that investigated
the violent clashes between police and protesters at the
convention stated that the police response was characterized by
"unrestrained and indiscriminate police violence on many
occasions, particularly at night. That violence was made all the
more shocking by the fact that it was often inflicted upon persons
who had broken no law, disobeyed no order, made no threat. These
included peaceful demonstrators, onlookers, and large numbers of
residents who were simply passing through, or happened to live in,
the areas where confrontations were occurring.". Connecticut
Senator Abraham Ribicoff used his nominating speech for George
McGovern to report the violence going on outside the convention
hall. He reportedly said that "With George McGovern as
President of the United States, we wouldn't have to have Gestapo
tactics in the streets of Chicago!". Mayor Daley responded to
his remark with something unintelligible through the television
sound, although lip-readers throughout America claimed to have
observed him shouting, "Fuck you, you Jew son of a bitch."
Defenders of the mayor would later claim that he was calling
Ribicoff a faker, a charge denied by Daley and refuted by Mike
Royko's reporting. Ribicoff replied: "How hard it is to
accept the truth!" That night, NBC News had been switching
back and forth between images of the violence to the festivities
over Humphrey's victory in the convention hall, highlighting the
division in the Democratic Party. After the Chicago protests, the
demonstrators believed the majority of Americans would side with
them over what had happened in Chicago, especially because of
police behavior. Daley shared he had received 135,000 letters
supporting his actions and only 5,000 condemning them. Public
opinion polls demonstrated that the majority of Americans
supported the Mayor's tactics. It was often commented through the
popular media that on that evening, America decided to vote for
Richard Nixon. After Chicago, the Justice Department meted out
charges of conspiracy and incitement to riot in connection with
the violence at Chicago. This created the Chicago Eight,
consisting of protesters Abbie Hoffman, Tom Hayden, David
Dellinger, Rennie Davis, John Froines, Jerry Rubin, Lee Weiner,
and Bobby Seale. Demonstrations were held daily during the trial,
organized by the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in
Vietnam, the Young Lords, and the local Black Panther Party led by
Chairman Fred Hampton. In February 1970, five of the remaining
seven Chicago Conspiracy defendants (Seale's charges had been
separated from the rest) were convicted on the charge of intent to
incite a riot while crossing state lines, but none were found
guilty of conspiracy. Judge Julius Hoffman sentenced the
defendants and their attorneys to unprecedented prison terms
ranging from two-and-a-half months to four years for contempt of
court. The convictions were eventually reversed on appeal, and the
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Today, February 18, 2026
February 18: National Eat Ice Cream For
Breakfast Day: -- A morning to enjoy frozen delights at sunrise to
honor young fighters, uniting with sweet compassion for a vital
cause. "Life is short, eat dessert first" is a phrase
that has been bandied about by a lot of people for reasons both
flippant and serious. Although it probably sounds like all fun and
games, Eat Ice Cream For Breakfast Day is one of the more serious
embodiments of this phrase, serving to increase awareness about
childhood cancer. For children whose lives may be cut short and
who see every day as a blessing, it only makes sense to indulge in
life's little pleasures. And Eat Ice Cream For Breakfast Day
brings that opportunity to everyone in support of this important
cause! Eat Ice Cream For Breakfast Day was created to commemorate
the nine wonderful years of the bright soul that was Malia Grace,
born on February 18, 2001. Malia, who passed away after a long
fight with cancer on Dec 7, 2010, was an inspiration to everyone
around her. Those who knew her saw that she glowed with the kind
of enthusiasm for life that childhood is made of. She embraced
knowledge and learning every day, getting outside whenever
possible and drinking in her short life with a passion that made
each day a new and exciting adventure of its own. First celebrated
on her birthday in 2013 by a group of close friends of Malia to
commemorate her life and creativity, the event started out small
and was shared with just a few folks on social media. In 2014, the
event went public and opened up to include 55 other families of
children with cancer. Eat Ice Cream For Breakfast Day went on to
become a day to honor all of the children who have battled or are
battling childhood cancer. It didn't take long for the day to
explode onto the scene, with thousands of people from all over the
world taking part and spreading the message to thousands more.
========= But isn't this the wrong date?!? ========= There are
actually two events that are very similar in name but founded for
very different reasons. Today is not to be confused with Ice Cream
For Breakfast Day which takes place on the first Saturday of
February, and was created in the 1960s by housewife Florence
Rappaport from New York.
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Today, February 18, 2026February 18, 1294: #DOTD: #RIP: Kublai
Khan, also known by his temple name as the Emperor Shizu Of Yuan
and his regnal name Setsen Khan, Mongolian emperor, fifth Khagan
(Great Khan) of the Mongol Empire (Ikh Mongol Uls), reigning from
1260 to 1294, founder OF the Yuan dynasty in China as a conquest
dynasty in 1271, and ruler as the first Yuan emperor until his
death (b. September 23, 1215) #dies aged 78 in Khanbaliq, Yuan
China. Two days later, the funeral cortege took his body to the
burial place of the khans in Burkhan Khaldun, Mongolia. Kublai
became increasingly despondent after the deaths of his favorite
wife and his son and chosen heir Zhenjin. The failure of the
military campaigns in Vietnam and Japan also haunted him. Kublai
turned to food and drink for comfort, became grossly overweight,
and suffered gout and diabetes. The emperor overindulged in
alcohol and the traditional meat-rich Mongol diet, which may have
contributed to his gout. Kublai sank into depression due to the
loss of his family, his poor health and advancing age. Kublai
tried every medical treatment available, from Korean shamans to
Vietnamese doctors, and remedies and medicines, but to no avail.
At the end of 1293, the emperor refused to participate in the
traditional New Years' ceremony. Before his death, Kublai passed
the seal of Crown Prince to Zhenjin's son Temur, who would become
the next Khagan of the Mongol Empire and the second ruler of the
Yuan dynasty. Seeking an old companion to comfort him in his final
illness, the palace staff could choose only Bayan, more than 30
years his junior. Kublai weakened steadily until he died. Kublai
Khan was born at an unrecording place with the Mongolian Empire.
Kublai was the fourth son of Tolui and a grandson of Genghis Khan.
He succeeded his older brother Mongke as Khagan in 1260, but had
to defeat his younger brother Ariq Boke in the Toluid Civil War
lasting until 1264. This episode marked the beginning of disunity
in the empire. Kublai' real power was limited to China and
Mongolia, though as Khagan he still had influence in the Ilkhanate
and, to a significantly lesser degree, in the Golden Horde. If one
counts the Mongol Empire at that time as a whole, his realm
reached from the Pacific Ocean to the Black Sea, from Siberia to
what is now Afghanistan: one fifth of the world' inhabited land
area. In 1271, Kublai established the Yuan dynasty, which ruled
over present-day Mongolia, China, Korea, and some adjacent areas,
and assumed the role of Emperor of China. By 1279, the Mongol
conquest of the Song dynasty was completed and Kublai became the
first non-native emperor to conquer all of China.
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Today, February 18, 2026February 18, 1546: #DOTD: Martin Luther,
German monk, priest, theologian, professor, composer, leader of
the Protestant Reformation (b. November 10, 1483) #dies; an
apoplectic stroke deprived him of his speech, and he died shortly
afterwards at 2:45 a.m, aged 62, in Eisleben, the city of his
birth. He is buried in the Schlosskirche in Wittenberg,
Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, in front of the pulpit. He died with Pope
Leo X's excommunication still effective. Martin Luther was born in
Eisleben, County of Mansfeld, SaxonyHoly Roman Empire. Luther was
ordained to the priesthood in 1507. He came to reject several
teachings and practices of the Roman Catholic Church; in
particular, he disputed the view on indulgences. In 1517, Luther
tacked his 95 Theses on the door of Wittenberg's castle church
asserting the Bible should be the sole authority of the church,
and calling for reformation of the Roman Catholic Church. Luther
proposed an academic discussion of the practice and efficacy of
indulgences in his Ninety-five Theses of 1517. His refusal to
renounce all of his writings at the demand of Pope Leo X in 1520
and the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V at the Diet Of Worms in 1521
resulted in his excommunication by the pope and condemnation as an
outlaw by the Holy Roman Emperor. Luther taught that salvation
and, consequently, eternal life are not earned by good deeds but
are received only as the free gift of God's grace through the
believer's faith in Jesus Christ as redeemer from sin. His
theology challenged the authority and office of the Pope by
teaching that the Bible is the only source of divinely revealed
knowledge, and opposed sacerdotalism by considering all baptized
Christians to be a holy priesthood. Those who identify with these,
and all of Luther's wider teachings, are called Lutherans, though
Luther insisted on Christian or Evangelical (German: evangelisch)
as the only acceptable names for individuals who professed Christ.
His translation of the Bible into the German vernacular (instead
of Latin) made it more accessible to the laity, an event that had
a tremendous impact on both the church and German culture. It
fostered the development of a standard version of the German
language, added several principles to the art of translation, and
influenced the writing of an English translation, the Tyndale
Bible. His hymns influenced the development of singing in
Protestant churches. His marriage to Katharina von Bora, a former
nun, set a model for the practice of clerical marriage, allowing
Protestant clergy to marry. In two of his later works, Luther
expressed antagonistic views towards Jews. His anti-Jewish
rhetoric contributed significantly to the development of
antisemitism in Germany, and in the 1930s and 1940s provided an
ideal underpinning for the Nazis' attacks on Jews. His rhetoric
was not directed at Jews alone, but also towards Roman Catholics,
Anabaptists, and nontrinitarian Christians. An apoplectic stroke
deprived him of his speech, and he died shortly afterwards at 2:45
a.m, aged 62, in Eisleben, the city of his birth. He is buried in
the Schlosskirche in Wittenberg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, in front
of the pulpit. He died with Pope Leo X's excommunication still
effective.
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Today, February 18, 2026February 18, 1564: #DOTD: #RIP:
Michelangelo, Italian sculptor, painter, architect, poet and
genius of the High Renaissance (b. March 6, 1475) #dies in Rome in
1564, at the age of 88. His body was taken from Rome for interment
at the Basilica of Santa Croce, fulfilling the maestro's last
request to be buried in his beloved Florence. He was born in
Caprese, Italy in the Republic of Florence. Michelangelo di
Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, more commonly known by his first name
Michelangelo, exerted an unparalleled influence on the development
of Western art. Considered by some the greatest living artist
during his lifetime, he has since been described as one of the
greatest artists of all time. Despite making few forays beyond the
arts, his artistic versatility was of such a high order that he is
often considered a contender for the title of the archetypal
Renaissance man, along with his rival, the fellow Florentine and
client of the Medici, Leonardo da Vinci. A number of
Michelangelo's works of painting, sculpture and architecture rank
among the most famous in existence. His output in these fields was
prodigious; given the sheer volume of surviving correspondence,
sketches and reminiscences, he is the best-documented artist of
the 16th century. He sculpted two of his best-known works, the
Pieta and David, before the age of thirty. Despite holding a low
opinion of painting, he also created two of the most influential
frescoes in the history of Western art: the scenes from Genesis on
the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome, and The Last Judgment
on its altar wall. His design of the Laurentian Library pioneered
Mannerist architecture. At the age of 74, he succeeded Antonio da
Sangallo the Younger as the architect of St. Peter's Basilica. He
transformed the plan so that the western end was finished to his
design, as was the dome, with some modification, after his death.
Michelangelo was the first Western artist whose biography was
published while he was alive - in fact, two biographies were
published during his lifetime. One of them, by Giorgio Vasari,
proposed that Michelangelo's work transcended that of any artist
living or dead, and was "supreme in not one art alone but in
all three". In his lifetime, Michelangelo was often called Il
Divino ("the divine one"). His contemporaries often
admired his terribilita - his ability to instil a sense of awe.
Attempts by subsequent artists to imitate Michelangelo's
impassioned, highly personal style resulted in Mannerism, the next
major movement in Western art after the High Renaissance.
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Today, February 18, 2026February 18, 1967: #DOTD: #RIP: J. Robert
Oppenheimer, American theoretical physicist and academic, wartime
head of the Los Alamos Laboratory and one among those who are
credited with being the "father of the atomic bomb" for
their role in the Manhattan Project, the World War II undertaking
that developed the first nuclear weapons used in the atomic
bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (b. April 22, 1904) #dies of
throat cancer at his home in Princeton, New Jersey, aged 62. A
memorial service was held a week later at Alexander Hall on the
campus of Princeton University. The service was attended by 600 of
his scientific, political and military associates that included
Bethe, Groves, Kennan, Lilienthal, Rabi, Smyth and Wigner. His
brother Frank and the rest of his family were also there, as was
the historian Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., the novelist John
O'Hara, and George Balanchine, the director of the New York City
Ballet. Bethe, Kennan and Smyth gave brief eulogies. Oppenheimer's
body was cremated and his ashes placed in an urn. His wife took
the ashes to St. John and dropped the urn into the sea, within
sight of the beach house. The first atomic bomb was detonated on
July 16, 1945, in the Trinity test in New Mexico; Oppenheimer
later remarked that it brought to mind words from the Bhagavad
Gita: "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."
Julius Robert Oppenheimer was professor of physics at the
University of California, Berkeley. After the war ended,
Oppenheimer became chairman of the influential General Advisory
Committee of the newly created United States Atomic Energy
Commission. He used that position to lobby for international
control of nuclear power to avert nuclear proliferation and a
nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union. After provoking the ire
of many politicians with his outspoken opinions during the Second
Red Scare, he suffered the revocation of his security clearance in
a much-publicized hearing in 1954, and was effectively stripped of
his direct political influence; he continued to lecture, write and
work in physics. Nine years later, President John F. Kennedy
awarded (and Lyndon B. Johnson presented) him with the Enrico
Fermi Award as a gesture of political rehabilitation.
Oppenheimer's achievements in physics included the
Born-Oppenheimer approximation for molecular wave functions, work
on the theory of electrons and positrons, the Oppenheimer-Phillips
process in nuclear fusion, and the first prediction of quantum
tunneling. With his students he also made important contributions
to the modern theory of neutron stars and black holes, as well as
to quantum mechanics, quantum field theory, and the interactions
of cosmic rays. As a teacher and promoter of science, he is
remembered as a founding father of the American school of
theoretical physics that gained world prominence in the 1930s.
After World War II, he became director of the Institute for
Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.
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Today, February 18, 2026February 18, 1981: #DOTD: #RIP: Jack
Northrop, American businessman, aircraft industrialist and
designer, pioneer of air transportation aircraft and the flying
wing, founder of the Northrop Corporation in 1939 (b. November 10,
1895) #dies of pneumonia on a Wednesday at Verdugo Hills Hospital
in northeastern Los Angeles, California, aged 85. John Knudsen
"Jack" Northrop began his career in 1916 as a draftsman
for Lockheed Aircraft Manufacturing Company (founded 1912). He
joined the Douglas Aircraft Company in 1923, where in time he
became a project engineer. In 1927 he rejoined Lockheed, where he
was a chief engineer on the Lockheed Vega transport. He left in
1929 to found Avion Corporation, which he sold in 1930. Two years
later, he founded the Northrop Corporation. This firm became a
subsidiary of Douglas Aircraft in 1939, so he co-founded a second
company named Northrop. His flying wing designs ultimately led to
the development of the Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit stealth bomber.
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Today, February 18, 2026February 18, 1890: #BOTD: Adolphe Menjou,
American actor whose career spanned radio, silent films and
talkies, pathological anti-communist (d. October 29, 1963) is
#born Adolphe Jean Menjou in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He appeared
in such films as Charlie Chaplin's A Woman of Paris, where he
played the lead role; Stanley Kubrick's Paths of Glory with Kirk
Douglas; Ernst Lubitsch's The Marriage Circle; The Sheik with
Rudolph Valentino; Morocco with Marlene Dietrich and Gary Cooper;
and A Star Is Born with Janet Gaynor and Fredric March, and was
nominated for an Academy Award for The Front Page in 1931. Menjou
was a staunch Republican who equated the Democratic Party with
socialism. He supported the Hoover administration's policies
during the Great Depression. Menjou told a friend that he feared
that if a Democrat won the White House, they "would raise
taxes [and] destroy the value of the dollar," depriving
Menjou of a good portion of his wealth. He took precautions
against this threat: "I've got gold stashed in safety deposit
boxes all over town... They'll never get an ounce from me."
In the 1944 presidential election, he joined other celebrity
Republicans at a rally in the Los Angeles Coliseum, organized by
studio executive David O. Selznick, to support the Dewey-Bricker
ticket and Governor Earl Warren of California, who would be
Dewey's running mate in 1948. The gathering drew 93,000, with
Cecil B. DeMille as the master of ceremonies and short speeches by
Hedda Hopper and Walt Disney. Despite the rally's large turnout,
most Hollywood celebrities who took public positions supported the
Roosevelt-Truman ticket. In 1947, Menjou cooperated with the House
Committee on Un-American Activities saying that Hollywood "is
one of the main centers of Communist activity in America". He
added: "it is the desire and wish of the masters of Moscow to
use this medium for their purposes" which is "the
overthrow of the American government". Menjou was a leading
member of the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of
American Ideals, a group formed to oppose communist influence in
Hollywood, whose other members included John Wayne, Barbara
Stanwyck (with whom Menjou costarred in Forbidden in 1932 and
Golden Boy in 1939) and her husband, actor Robert Taylor. Because
of his political leanings, Menjou came into conflict with actress
Katharine Hepburn, with whom he appeared in Morning Glory, Stage
Door, and State of the Union (also starring Spencer Tracy).
Hepburn was strongly opposed to the HUAC hearings, and their
clashes were reportedly instant and mutually cutting. During a
government deposition, Menjou said, "Scratch a do-gooder,
like Hepburn, and they'll yell, 'Pravda'." To this, Hepburn
called Menjou "wisecracking, witty - a flag-waving
super-patriot who invested his American dollars in Canadian bonds
and had a thing about Communists." In his book Kate, Hepburn
biographer William Mann said that during the filming of State of
the Union, she and Menjou spoke to each other only while acting.
Adolphe Menjou died of hepatitis in Beverly Hills, California,
aged 73. He is interred beside his third and final wife Verree
Teasdale at Hollywood Forever Cemetery.
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Today, February 18, 2026February 18, 1890: #BOTD: #HBD! Edward
Arnold, American actor and star of radio and film (d. April 26,
1956) is #born Gunther Edward Arnold Schneider in the Lower East
Side of New York City, the son of German immigrants Elizabeth
(Ohse) and Carl Schneider. His schooling came at the East Side
Settlement House. Interested in acting since his youth (he made
his first stage appearance at the age of 12 as Lorenzo in The
Merchant of Venice), Arnold made his professional stage debut in
1907. He found work as an extra for Essanay Studios and World
Studios, before landing his first significant role in 1916's The
Misleading Lady. In 1919, he left film for a return to the stage,
and did not appear again in movies until he made his talkie debut
in Okay America! (1932). He recreated one of his stage roles in
one of his early films, Whistling in the Dark (1933). He starred
in the 1934 American political drama film The President Vanishes,
which was named by the National Legion of Decency - an
organization of the United States Catholic Church - as one of
Hollywood's problematic and "immoral" films. It was his
role in the 1935 film Diamond Jim that boosted him to stardom. He
reprised the role of Diamond Jim Brady in the 1940 film Lillian
Russell. He also played a similar role in The Toast of New York
(1937), another fictionalized version of real-life business
chicanery, for which he was billed above Cary Grant in the posters
with his name in much larger letters. Arnold appeared in over 150
movies. Although he was labeled "box office poison" in
1938 by an exhibitor publication (he shared this dubious
distinction with Joan Crawford, Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, Mae
West, Fred Astaire and Katharine Hepburn), he never lacked for
work. Rather than continue in leading man roles, he gave up losing
weight and went after character parts instead. Arnold was quoted
as saying, "The bigger I got, the better character roles I
received." He was such a sought-after actor, he often worked
on two pictures at the same time. Arnold was an expert at playing
rogues and authority figures, and superb at combining the two as
powerful villains quietly pulling strings. He was best known for
his roles in Come and Get It (1936), Sutter's Gold (1936), the
aforementioned The Toast of New York (1937), You Can't Take It
with You (1938), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), Meet John
Doe (1941), and The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941). He was the
first actor to portray Rex Stout's famous detective Nero Wolfe,
starring in Meet Nero Wolfe (1936), the film based on the first
novel in the series. He played blind detective Duncan Maclain in
two movies based on the novels by Baynard Kendrick, Eyes in the
Night (1942) and The Hidden Eye (1945). Arnold made a posthumous
cameo in the 1984 film Gremlins as the deceased husband (visible
in a large framed photograph) of Mrs. Deagle, a character much
like the rich, heartless characters Arnold was known for. Director
Joe Dante mentioned that they received permission from Arnold's
family to use his image. From 1947 to 1953, Arnold starred in the
ABC radio program Mr. President. He also played a lawyer, "Mr.
Reynolds," in The Charlotte Greenwood Show. In 1953, he was
host of Spotlight Story on Mutual. Arnold was host for Your Star
Showcase, a series of 52 half-hour television dramas released by
Television Programs of America." The series was launched
January 1, 1954, to run in 1950 cities. He also co-starred in
"Ever Since the Day," an episode of Ford Theatre on NBC.
Arnold was married three times: Harriet Marshall (1917-1927), with
whom he had three children: Elizabeth, Jane and William (who had a
short movie career as Edward Arnold Jr.); Olive Emerson
(1929-1948) and Cleo McLain (1951 until his death). Midwestern
University awarded Arnold an honorary Doctor of Letters degree on
May 24, 1951.Edward Arnold died at his home in Encino, California,
at age 66 from a cerebral hemorrhage associated with atrial
fibrillation. He is interred in the San Fernando Mission Cemetery
located in the Mission Hills community of the San Fernando Valley
of Los Angeles. Arnold has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
located at 6225 Hollywood Blvd.
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Today, February 18, 2026February 18, 1903: #BOTD: #HBD! George
Givot, Russian Empire-born Ukrainian American comedian and actor
on Broadway and in vaudeville, movies, television and radio (d.
June 7, 1984) is #born George David Givot in Ekaterinoslav,
Russian Empire (now Dnipro, Ukraine). George Givot was known for
speaking in a comedic fake Greek dialect and was styled the "Greek
Ambassador Of Good Will". His best known movie role may be as
the voice of Tony in the Disney film Lady and the Tramp. George
Givot died of a heart attack in Palm Springs, California, aged 81.
His burial details unknown beyond that fact that he was interred
in somewhere in California.
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Today, February 18, 2026February 18, 1919: #BOTD: #HBD! Jack
Palance, American boxer and actor (d. November 10, 2006) is #born
Volodymyr Palahniuk in Lattimer Mines, Pennsylvania into a family
of Ukrainian immigrants. Known for playing tough guys and
villains, he was nominated for three Academy Awards, all for Best
Actor in a Supporting Role, receiving nominations for his roles in
Sudden Fear (1952) and Shane (1953) and winning almost 40 years
later for his role in City Slickers (1991). Palance served in the
United States Army Air Forces during World War II. He went on to
briefly attend Stanford University before pursuing a career in the
theatre. He made his film acting debut in Panic in the Streets
(1950). Following his roles in Sudden Fear and Shane, Palance
starred as Count Dracula in the 1974 television film Bram Stoker's
Dracula, and played crime lord Yves Perret in Tango & Cash
(1989). He also served as the host of the ABC television series
Ripley's Believe It or Not! (1982-1986). Jack Palance died of
natural causes surrounded by family at his daughter Holly's home
in Montecito, California, aged 87.
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Today, February 18, 2026February 18, 1926: #BOTD: #HBD! Wallace
Berman, American experimental filmmaker, assemblage and collage
artist and a crucial figure in the history of post-war California
art (d. February 18, 1978) is #born in Staten Island, New York. In
the 1930s his family moved to Boyle Heights, Los Angeles. Berman
was discharged from high school for gambling in the early 1940s
and became involved in the West Coast jazz scene. Berman wrote a
song with Jimmy Witherspoon. He attended classes at Jepson Art
Institute and Chouinard Art Institute in the 1940s. For a few
years from 1949 he worked in a factory finishing furniture. It was
at the factory where he began creating sculptures from wood
scraps. This led to him becoming a full-time artist by the early
1950s, and an involvement in the Beat Movement. He married Shirley
Morand and together they had a son Tosh in 1954. He moved from Los
Angeles to San Francisco in late 1957 where he mostly focused on
his magazine Semina, which consisted of poetry, photographs,
texts, drawings and images assembled by Berman. In 1961, he came
back to L.A., then moved to Topanga Canyon in 1965. He started
creating his series of Verifax Collages in 1963 or 1964. Director
Dennis Hopper, a collector of Berman's work, gave Berman a small
role in his 1969 film Easy Rider. He produced work until his
sudden death in a car accident caused by a drunk driver. Berman
created Verifax collages, which consist of photocopies of images
from magazines and newspapers, mounted onto a flat surface in
collage fashion, mixed with occasional solid areas of acrylic
paint. To make them, Berman used a Verifax copier (Kodak) machine
to copy images which he often juxtaposed in a grid format. Berman
was influenced by jazz music, rock music, poetry of his Beat
circle, Surrealism, Dada, as well as the Kabbalah. Though he was
not religious, the influence of the Kabbalah and Jewish mysticism
is seen in his collages that included Hebrew letters. These
letters also appear in his only film, Aleph. His involvement with
the jazz scene allowed him opportunities to work with jazz
musicians, creating bebop album covers for Charlie Parker. In 1957
Berman had his first exhibition of his artworks at the newly
opened Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles. His friends were the
curators/owners of the gallery, Ed Kienholz, Robert Alexander and
Walter Hopps. After the opening, the L.A. vice squad got a
telephone tip from an anonymous caller and during the raid they
found what was deemed to be a pornographic image by Cameron
Parsons titled Peyote Vision at the bottom of one of Berman's
assemblage works called Temple. He later was convicted of
displaying lewd and obscene materials. At the summation in the
courtroom, Berman wrote on the blackboard "There is no
justice, only revenge". His actor-friend Dean Stockwell paid
the 150 JSD fine to release Berman. Ferus was the last showing in
a public gallery for Berman during his life. His mail art
publication Semina was a series of folio packages that were
limited edition and sent or given to his friends. Semina consisted
of collages mixed with poetry by writers Michael McClure, Philip
Lamantia, David Meltzer, Charles Bukowski, William S. Burroughs,
Allen Ginsberg, Jean Cocteau, John Kelly Reed] and Berman, which
he published under the pseudonym Pantale Xantos. Semina was
published from 1955 to 1964. Berman created a 6 minute 8mm silent
experimental film entitled Aleph that he worked on from 1958 to
1976. Berman began work on Aleph soon after the release of the
first issues of Semina, and the film incorporated techniques
carried over from collage and painting. The film includes hand
coloring, Letraset symbols, and collage portraits of pop-culture
icons, which Berman superimposed on images of a Sony transistor
radio. After Berman's death, filmmaker Stan Brakhage salvaged the
film and enlarged it to 16mm for public screening. The film was
named Aleph by Berman's son Tosh, after the first letter of the
Hebrew alphabet which had been adopted by his father as a
monogram. Berman's likeness appears on the album cover of the
Beatles' 1967 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. The portrait
is from a photograph taken by Dean Stockwell. It is directly above
John Lennon, two rows up, next to Tony Curtis. Wallace Berman died
in Topanga Canyon, California in a car accident caused by a drunk
driver; Berman had said to his mother as a child he would die on
his 50th birthday, and indeed he died February 18, 1976, his
fiftieth birthday. His burial details are not publicly disclosed.
In 1992 Berman's papers were donated to the Archives of American
Art by his son Tosh Berman.
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Today, February 18, 2026February 18, 1976: #DOTD: #RIP: Wallace
Berman, American experimental filmmaker, assemblage and collage
artist and a crucial figure in the history of post-war California
art (b. February 18, 1926) #dies in Topanga Canyon, California in
a car accident caused by a drunk driver; Berman had said to his
mother as a child he would die on his 50th birthday, and indeed he
died February 18, 1976, his fiftieth birthday. His burial details
are not publicly disclosed. Wallace Berman was born in Staten
Island, New York. Iin the 1930s his family moved to Boyle Heights,
Los Angeles. Berman was discharged from high school for gambling
in the early 1940s and became involved in the West Coast jazz
scene. Berman wrote a song with Jimmy Witherspoon. He attended
classes at Jepson Art Institute and Chouinard Art Institute in the
1940s. For a few years from 1949 he worked in a factory finishing
furniture. It was at the factory where he began creating
sculptures from wood scraps. This led to him becoming a full-time
artist by the early 1950s, and an involvement in the Beat
Movement. He married Shirley Morand and together they had a son
Tosh in 1954. He moved from Los Angeles to San Francisco in late
1957 where he mostly focused on his magazine Semina, which
consisted of poetry, photographs, texts, drawings and images
assembled by Berman. In 1961, he came back to L.A., then moved to
Topanga Canyon in 1965. He started creating his series of Verifax
Collages in 1963 or 1964. Director Dennis Hopper, a collector of
Berman's work, gave Berman a small role in his 1969 film Easy
Rider. He produced work until his sudden death in a car accident
caused by a drunk driver. Berman created Verifax collages, which
consist of photocopies of images from magazines and newspapers,
mounted onto a flat surface in collage fashion, mixed with
occasional solid areas of acrylic paint. To make them, Berman used
a Verifax copier (Kodak) machine to copy images which he often
juxtaposed in a grid format. Berman was influenced by jazz music,
rock music, poetry of his Beat circle, Surrealism, Dada, as well
as the Kabbalah. Though he was not religious, the influence of the
Kabbalah and Jewish mysticism is seen in his collages that
included Hebrew letters. These letters also appear in his only
film, Aleph. His involvement with the jazz scene allowed him
opportunities to work with jazz musicians, creating bebop album
covers for Charlie Parker. In 1957 Berman had his first exhibition
of his artworks at the newly opened Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles.
His friends were the curators/owners of the gallery, Ed Kienholz,
Robert Alexander and Walter Hopps. After the opening, the L.A.
vice squad got a telephone tip from an anonymous caller and during
the raid they found what was deemed to be a pornographic image by
Cameron Parsons titled Peyote Vision at the bottom of one of
Berman's assemblage works called Temple. He later was convicted of
displaying lewd and obscene materials. At the summation in the
courtroom, Berman wrote on the blackboard "There is no
justice, only revenge". His actor-friend Dean Stockwell paid
the 150 JSD fine to release Berman. Ferus was the last showing in
a public gallery for Berman during his life. His mail art
publication Semina was a series of folio packages that were
limited edition and sent or given to his friends. Semina consisted
of collages mixed with poetry by writers Michael McClure, Philip
Lamantia, David Meltzer, Charles Bukowski, William S. Burroughs,
Allen Ginsberg, Jean Cocteau, John Kelly Reed] and Berman, which
he published under the pseudonym Pantale Xantos. Semina was
published from 1955 to 1964. Berman created a 6 minute 8mm silent
experimental film entitled Aleph that he worked on from 1958 to
1976. Berman began work on Aleph soon after the release of the
first issues of Semina, and the film incorporated techniques
carried over from collage and painting. The film includes hand
coloring, Letraset symbols, and collage portraits of pop-culture
icons, which Berman superimposed on images of a Sony transistor
radio. After Berman's death, filmmaker Stan Brakhage salvaged the
film and enlarged it to 16mm for public screening. The film was
named Aleph by Berman's son Tosh, after the first letter of the
Hebrew alphabet which had been adopted by his father as a
monogram. Berman's likeness appears on the album cover of the
Beatles' 1967 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. The portrait
is from a photograph taken by Dean Stockwell. It is directly above
John Lennon, two rows up, next to Tony Curtis. In 1992 Berman's
papers were donated to the Archives of American Art by his son
Tosh Berman.
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Today, February 18, 2026February 18, 2006: #DOTD: #RIP: Bill
Cowsill, American singer, musician, songwriter, and record
producer, lead singer and guitarist of The Cowsills (b. January 9,
1948) #dies aged 58 at his Calgary, Alberta, Canada home, survived
by his two sons; Family members learned of his death while holding
a memorial service the next day, in Newport, Rhode Island, for his
brother Barry, who was a victim of Hurricane Katrina (his body had
not been found and identified until January 2006), In the latter
years of his life, Cowsill was in declining health, suffering from
emphysema, Cushing syndrome and osteoporosis. His health went into
serious decline in 2004. He needed a cane to walk and underwent
hip replacement surgery and three back surgeries, one of which
left him with a permanently collapsed lung. That year, a benefit
concert for Cowsill was held in Los Angeles, featuring The
Cowsills, Peter Tork, Susanna Hoffs and Shirley Jones, among
others. Bill Cowsill was cremated, and his ashes later scattered
in Newport, Rhode Island. At the time of Cowsill's death, his last
album with the Co-Dependents, Live at the Mecca Cafe, Volume 2,
was the top-selling independent album in Alberta. On April 20,
2006, a tribute concert in memory of Billy Cowsill was held at The
Railway Club in Vancouver. On May 18, 2006, a memorial service for
and musical tribute to Cowsill was held at Knox United Church in
Calgary. In 2009, Cowsill's last residence, at 1723 9th Street SW,
Calgary, was designated a 'municipal historic resource' by the
city of Calgary. Bill Cowsill was born William Joseph Cowsill Jr.
in Middletown, Rhode Island. The Cowsills had three top-10 singles
in the late 1960s: "The Rain, The Park & Other Things"
(1967), "Indian Lake" (1968) and "Hair"
(1969). His siblings often called Barry the most musically
talented of the family. The Cowsills were noted for their ability
to sing multiple-part harmonies with remarkable accuracy and were
one of most popular musical acts in America. They made 200
television appearances a year, including The Ed Sullivan Show, The
Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, American Bandstand, The Mike
Douglas Show, Playboy After Dark, Kraft Music Hall, and The Johnny
Cash Show. This led to Columbia Pictures division Screen Gems
considering a sitcom based on their story and starring most of the
members of the band; the deal was abandoned when the producers of
the show wanted to replace Barbara in the cast. The show would
later become The Partridge Family, with David Cassidy playing the
lead singer and with his mother Shirley Jones as the mother in the
show. It was commonly thought that Cowsill's involvement with the
family band came to an abrupt end in 1969 when Bud caught him
smoking marijuana. In fact, Cowsill's dismissal occurred after he
and his father got into a drunken brawl in the lounge of the
Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas, when Bud insulted Bill's friends,
particularly guitarist Waddy Wachtel. Police had to be called to
break up the fight; Bill was dismissed, or quit, the next day.
According to Bob Cowsill, Bill's dismissal was the beginning of
the end of the Cowsills as a group, because no other sibling could
assume his leadership role. After the band's break-up in 1972, it
was discovered that most of their wealth had been lost through Bud
Cowsill's financial mismanagement. Cowsill had no qualms about
leaving the family band, later saying that he "hated"
the life and the lack of musical control. From Las Vegas, he went
directly to Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he began playing in bars, "for
ten bucks a night and all the whiskey you could drink." He
was able to sit in with Harry Nilsson, J.J. Cale and Carl Wilson,
co-founder of The Beach Boys. This led to Bill being considered as
the replacement for Brian Wilson in The Beach Boys' live
performances. Instead, Cowsill stayed in Tulsa and, in late 1970,
released his solo album, Nervous Breakthrough. From the mid-1970s
until his death, he was a successful alt-country artist and
producer in Canada.
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Today, February 18, 2026February 18, 1892: #BOTD: #HBD! Wendell
Willkie, American captain, lawyer, corporate executive, politician
and the 1940 Republican nominee for President (d. October 8, 1944)
is #born Lewis Wendell Willkie in Elwood, Illinois. He appealed to
many convention delegates as the Republican field's only
interventionist: although the U.S. remained neutral prior to Pearl
Harbor, he favored greater U.S. involvement in World War II to
support Britain and other Allies. His Democratic opponent,
incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt, won the 1940 election
with about 55% of the popular vote and took the electoral college
vote by a wide margin. Willkie was born in Elwood, Indiana, in
1892; both his parents were lawyers, and he also became one. He
served in World War I but was not sent to France until the final
days of the war, and saw no action. Willkie settled in Akron,
Ohio, where he was initially employed by Firestone, but left for a
law firm, becoming one of the leaders of the Akron Bar
Association. Much of his work was representing electric utilities,
and in 1929 Willkie accepted a job in New York City as counsel for
Commonwealth & Southern Corporation, a utility holding
company. He was rapidly promoted, and became corporate president
in 1933. Roosevelt was sworn in as U.S. president soon after
Willkie became head of Commonwealth & Southern, and announced
plans for a Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) that would supply
power in competition with Commonwealth & Southern. Between
1933 and 1939, Willkie fought against the TVA before Congress, in
the courts, and before the public. He was ultimately unsuccessful,
but sold Commonwealth & Southern's property for a good price,
and gained public esteem. A longtime Democratic activist, Willkie
changed his party registration to Republican in late 1939. He did
not run in the 1940 presidential primaries, but positioned himself
as an acceptable choice for a deadlocked convention. He sought
backing from uncommitted delegates, while his supporters, many
youthful, enthusiastically promoted his candidacy. As German
forces advanced through western Europe in 1940, many Republicans
did not wish to nominate an isolationist like Thomas E. Dewey, and
turned to Willkie, who was nominated on the sixth ballot over Ohio
Senator Robert A. Taft. Willkie's support for aid to Britain
removed it as a major factor in his race against Roosevelt, and
Willkie also backed the president on a peacetime draft. Both men
took more isolationist positions towards the end of the race.
Roosevelt won an unprecedented third term, taking 38 of the 48
states. After the election, Willkie made two wartime foreign trips
as Roosevelt's informal envoy, and as nominal leader of the
Republican Party gave the president his full support. This angered
many conservatives, especially as Willkie increasingly advocated
liberal or internationalist causes. Willkie ran for the Republican
nomination in 1944, but bowed out after a disastrous showing in
the Wisconsin primary in April. He and Roosevelt discussed the
possibility of forming, after the war, a liberal political party,
but Willkie died in October 1944 before the idea could bear fruit.
Willkie is remembered for giving Roosevelt vital political
assistance in 1940, which allowed the president to aid Britain in
its time of crisis. Wendell Willkie died of a long and rapid
series of chronic heart attacks at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York
City aged 52. President Franklin Roosevelt, whom Willkie had run
against in the 1940 Presidential Election, released a statement
applauding Willkie's "tremendous courage" which
"prompted him more than once to stand alone ... In this hour
of grave crisis the nation loses a great citizen." War
Secretary Stimson offered to have Willkie buried in Arlington
National Cemetery, but Edith Willkie wanted her husband to be
buried in his native Indiana, at Rushville. His casket was placed
in the center aisle of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church;
60,000 people filed by his casket, and 35,000 crowded around the
church during the service, including many blacks - as, Eleanor
Roosevelt noted in her column, was fitting. Wendell and Edith
Willkie rest together in Rushville's East Hill Cemetery, the
gravesite was marked by a cross, and a book was carved in stone,
designed by sculptor Malvina Hoffman, and inscribed with
quotations from Willkie's book "One World".
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Today, February 18, 2026February 18, 1953: #BOTD: #HBD! Robbie
Bachman, Canadian drummer and the youngest brother of guitarist,
singer and songwriter Randy Bachman. founding member and original
drummer for both the Brave Belt and is successor Bachman-Turner
Overdrive bands, most often credited as "Robbie" or
"Rob" on the liner notes of Brave Belt and BTO albums
(d. January 12, 2023) is #born Robin Peter Kendall Bachman in
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. While growing up, Bachman practised
the drums at home, often playing along with his older brother
Randy. In 1971, Randy offered the Brave Belt drumming job to his
then-18-year-old brother, and Robbie accepted. Other members of
Brave Belt were Chad Allan and Fred Turner. Robbie co-wrote the
song "Summer Soldier" for the 1972 Brave Belt II album.
Later in 1972, another Bachman brother, Tim, joined Brave Belt
after the departure of Allan. When Brave Belt changed their name
to Bachman-Turner Overdrive (BTO) in 1973, Robbie was credited
with designing the BTO "gear" logo. BTO enjoyed a period
of peak popularity between 1973 and 1976, releasing five Top 40
albums, six U.S. Top 40 singles, and eleven Top 40 singles in
Canada. Robbie co-wrote (with Fred Turner) one of Bachman-Turner
Overdrive's biggest hits, "Roll On down the Highway"
(Billboard No. 14 and RPM No. 4 in 1975). He remained with BTO
until late 1979, after their tour supporting the 1979 album Rock
n' Roll Nights had ended. In 1984, Robbie declined to join a
reformation of BTO due to licensing issues with brother Randy. He
also opposed Randy's decision to include Tim Bachman as the second
guitarist, instead of Blair Thornton. He was replaced on that 1984
album and supporting tours by former Guess Who drummer Garry
Peterson. Robbie later rejoined the Not Fragile line up of BTO for
reunion tours lasting from 1988 until 1991, after which Randy
Bachman left the band. Robbie and the rest of the group, with
replacement guitarist/vocalist Randy Murray, toured as BTO until
the end of 2004. The only new material to come from this line-up
is found on the 1996 album Trial By Fire: Greatest & Latest.
In 2009, Fred Turner and Randy Bachman reunited and began
recording a new album, which was released in September 2010 under
the name "Bachman & Turner" to coincide with a world
tour. Robin Bachman and Blair Thornton had brought a lawsuit
against Randy Bachman in an effort to prevent him and Turner from
touring under the Bachman-Turner Overdrive or BTO name.On March
29, 2014, Robbie and the Not Fragile line-up of Bachman-Turner
Overdrive were inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame.
Bachman was the youngest brother of musician Randy Bachman, and
was the uncle to Tal Bachman. He died aged 69 in Vancouver,
British Columbia, Canada. His remains were cremated, and the ashes
were given to his widow Chrissy. His brother Tim died 106 days
later.
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Today, February 18, 2026February 18, 1947: #BOTD: #HBD! Dennis
DeYoung, American singer, songwriter, record producer and
keyboardist, founding member of the rock band Styx who served as
its primary lead vocalist and keyboardist from 1972 until 1999,
the band's most prolific and successful writer, having been
credited as the writer of more Styx songs than any other band
member after having penned seven of the band's eight Billboard top
10 singles (d. February 18, 1947) is #born in Chicago, Illinois.
Within Styx, DeYoung acted as lead vocalist, keyboardist,
accordion player, producer and songwriter. From the start of
Styx's commercial success with the 1973 DeYoung-penned single
"Lady", DeYoung became the creative force behind most of
the band's hit songs. DeYoung wrote and sang lead on seven of the
band's eight top 10 Billboard Hot 100-ranked hits during this
period, with Tommy Shaw's "Too Much Time On My Hands"
(No. 9) being the sole exception. The seven DeYoung
penned-and-performed top 10 Billboard hits, in order of their peak
chart placement are: 1) "Babe", the band's only
Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 hit to date. Also hit No. 1 on Radio and
Records chart; 2) "Mr. Roboto" (No. 3 Billboard, No. 3 R
& R); 3) "Show Me the Way" (No. 3 Billboard, No. 7 R
& R); 4) "The Best of Times" (No. 3 and No. 1 R &
R); 5) "Don't Let It End" (No. 6 Billboard, No. 3 R &
R); 6) "Lady", the band's 1973 breakthrough hit (No. 6
in March 1975 Billboard and No. 7 R & R); and 7) "Come
Sail Away" (No. 8 Billboard, No. 9 R & R). He also wrote
and recorded the solo top 10 single "Desert Moon".
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Today, February 18, 2026February 18, 1965: #BOTD: Dr. Dre,
African American record producer and rapper, founder and CEO of
Aftermath Entertainment and Beats Electronics, co-founder and
president of Death Row Records, member of the World Class Wreckin'
Cru, famous as a member of the gangsta rap group N.W.A. (eye
dialect abbreviation "Niggaz Wit Attitudes", is #born
Andre Romell Young in Compton, California, a city located in the
Gateway Cities region of southern Los Angeles County that has high
poverty and crime rates. N.W.A. popularized explicit lyrics in hip
hop to detail the violence of street life. During the early 1990s,
Young was credited as a key figure in the crafting and
popularization of West Coast G-funk (short for gangsta funk, also
known as funk rap), a subgenre of hip hop characterized by a
synthesizer foundation and slow, heavy production. Young's solo
debut studio album The Chronic (1992), released under Death Row
Records, made him one of the best-selling American music artists
of 1993. It earned him a Grammy Award for Best Rap Solo
Performance for the single "Let Me Ride", as well as
several accolades for the single "Nuthin' but a 'G' Thang".
That year, he produced Death Row labelmate Snoop Doggy Dogg's
debut album Doggystyle and mentored producers such as his
stepbrother Warren G (leading to the multi-platinum debut
Regulate...G Funk Era in 1994) and Snoop Dogg's cousin Daz
Dillinger (leading to the double-platinum debut Dogg Food by Tha
Dogg Pound in 1995), and would later mentor other producers
including Mel-Man and Scott Storch. In 1996, Young left Death Row
Records to establish his own label, Aftermath Entertainment. He
produced a compilation album, Dr. Dre Presents: The Aftermath, in
1996, and released his second solo album, 2001, in 1999. During
the 2000s, Young focused on producing other artists, occasionally
contributing vocals. He signed Eminem in 1998 and 50 Cent in 2002,
and heavily produced their output while they were signed with
Aftermath. Through the label, Dre signed other artists including
the Game, Kendrick Lamar, Anderson .Paak, Silk Sonic, Busta
Rhymes, Eve, and Rakim, among others. He has won seven Grammy
Awards, including Producer of the Year, Non-Classical. Rolling
Stone ranked him number 56 on the list of 100 Greatest Artists of
All Time. Outside of music, Young has acted in films such as Set
It Off, The Wash, and Training Day. Accusations of Young's
violence against women have been widely publicized. Following his
assault of television host Dee Barnes, he was fined 2,5K USD,
given two years' probation, and ordered to perform 240 hours of
community service, part of which he fulfilled by making an
anti-violence public service announcement. A civil suit was
settled out of court. In 2015, Michel'le, the mother of one of his
children, accused him of domestic violence during their time
together as a couple. The abusive relationship is portrayed in her
2016 biopic Surviving Compton: Dre, Suge & Michel'le. Lisa
Johnson, the mother of three of Young's children, stated that he
beat her many times, including while she was pregnant. She was
granted a restraining order against him. Former labelmate Tairrie
B claimed to that Young assaulted her at a party in 1990, in
response to her track "Ruthless Bitch". Two weeks
following the release of his third album, Compton in August 2015,
he issued an apology to the women "I've hurt".
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Today, February 18, 2026February 18, 1920: #BOTD: Eddie Slovik,
U.S. Army private, the only American soldier to be
court-martialled and executed for desertion since the American
Civil War (d. January 31, 1945) is #born Edward Donald Slovik in
Detroit, Michigan to a Catholic Polish-American family, the son of
Anna and Josef Slowikowski. As a minor, he was a troublemaker and
had contact with the police frequently. Slovik was first arrested
at 12 years old when he and some friends broke into a foundry to
steal brass. Between 1932 and 1937, he was arrested several times
for offenses which included petty theft, breaking and entering,
and disturbing the peace. In October 1937, he was sent to prison,
but was paroled in September 1938. After stealing and crashing a
car with two friends while drunk, he was sent back to prison in
January 1939. In April 1942, Slovik was paroled once more. He then
obtained a job at Montella Plumbing and Heating in Dearborn,
Michigan. While working there, he met the woman who became his
wife, Antoinette Wisniewski. She was working as a bookkeeper for
Montella Plumbing's owner, James Montella. They married on
November 7, 1942, and lived with her parents. Slovik's criminal
record made him classified as morally unfit for duty in the U.S.
military (4-F), but, shortly after the couple's first wedding
anniversary, Slovik was reclassified as fit for duty (1-A) and
subsequently drafted by the Army on January 3, 1944, from Detroit,
Michigan. Although over 21,000 American soldiers were given
varying sentences for desertion during World War II, including
forty-nine death sentences, Slovik's death sentence was the only
one that was carried out. During World War II, 1.7 million
courts-martial were held, representing one third of all criminal
cases tried in the United States during the same period. Most of
the cases were minor, as were the sentences. Nevertheless, a
clemency board, appointed by the Secretary of War in the summer of
1945, reviewed all general courts-martial where the accused was
still in confinement. That Board remitted or reduced the sentence
in 85 percent of the 27,000 serious cases reviewed. The death
penalty was rarely imposed, and those cases typically were for
rapes or murders. Slovik was the only soldier executed who had
been convicted of a "purely military" offense. Eddie
Slovik died aged 24 when he is executed by a firing squad in
Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines, France after being sentenced to death for
desertion. He is buried at Woodmere Cemetery in Detroit, Michigan.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Crime
Vs Uncle Sam: Kefauver & Army-McCarthy Hearings MP4 Download
DVD
Today, February 18, 2026February 18, 1973: #DOTD: Frank Costello,
Italian-American Mafia gangster and crime boss of the Genovese
crime family (b. January 26, 1891) #dies when he suffered a heart
attack at his Manhattan home and was rushed to Doctors Hospital in
Manhattan, where he died, aged 82. Costello's sedate memorial
service at a Manhattan funeral home was attended by 50 relatives,
friends, and law enforcement agents. Costello is interred in a
private mausoleum in St. Michael's Cemetery in East Elmhurst,
Queens. In 1974, after his enemy Carmine Galante was released from
prison, he allegedly ordered the bombing of the doors to
Costello's mausoleum. Frank Costello was born Francesco Castiglia
in Lauropoli, a frazione (municipality) of the town of Cassano
allo Ionio in the province of Cosenza in the Calabria region of
Italy. In 1895, he boarded a ship to the United States with his
mother and his brother Edward to join their father, who had moved
to New York City's East Harlem several years earlier and opened a
small neighborhood Italian grocery store. Frank Costello rose to
the top of the United States underworld, controlled a vast
gambling empire across the United States, and enjoyed political
influence. Nicknamed "The Prime Minister Of The Underworld,"
he became one of the most powerful and influential mafia bosses in
American history, eventually leading the Luciano crime family
(later called the Genovese crime family), one of the Five Families
that operates in New York City. In 1957, Costello survived an
assassination attempt ordered by Vito Genovese and carried out by
Vincent Gigante, however, the altercation persuaded Costello to
relinquish power to Genovese and retire.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Nuclear
War Films #7 Upshot/Knothole Teapot Atomic Cannon DVD MP4 USB
Today, February 18, 2026February 18, 1955:The Aftermath Of World
War II: The Cold War: Nuclear Warfare: Nuclear Weapons Testing:
American Nuclear Warfare: Nuclear Weapons Testing: Operation
Teapot: Wasp Test: -- 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. Operation Teapot was a series of fourteen nuclear test
explosions conducted at the Nevada Test Site in the first half of
1955. The aims of the operation were to establish military tactics
for ground forces on a nuclear battlefield and to improve the
nuclear weapons used for strategic delivery. During test shot
Wasp, ground forces took part in Exercise Desert Rock VI which
included an armored task force named "Razor" moving to
within 3,000 ft of ground zero, under the still-forming mushroom
cloud.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: One Of
The Reasons Why: The War In Vietnam 1945-46 DVD MP4 USB Drive
Today, February 18, 2026February 18, 1947: The Indochina Wars:
The 1945-46 War In Vietnam (The War in Vietnam 1945-1946, The
First Indochina War, Operation Masterdom, Southern Resistance
War): The Battle Of Hanoi (1946): -- The French gain complete
control of Hanoi after forcing the Viet Minh to withdraw to
mountains. On December 19, 1946, Viet Minh soldiers detonated
explosives in Hanoi, and the ensuing battle, known as the Battle
of Hanoi, marked the opening salvo of the First Indochina War. The
Viet-Minh set off explosives at 20:03 in the evening after
smuggling them past French Army guards into the city's power
plant. The explosion plunged Hanoi into darkness, and throughout
the city the Viet-Minh began attacking French military positions
and French homes. Surviving French troops, alerted by friendly
spies, gradually gained a numerical superiority. French artillery
shelled the city, and house to house searches were conducted
searching for the Viet-Minh leadership. Ho Chi Minh was at the
time ill with fever, and Vo Nguyen Giap ordered "all
soldiers... to stand together, go into battle, destroy the
invaders, and save the nation". Eventual French superiority
in firepower forced the Viet-Minh to withdraw to the mountains 80
miles to the north of Hanoi. However, it took the French 60 days
to gain complete control of the city, which bought enough time for
the Viet-Minh to evacuate all of its central offices, as well as
most of their main forces. After expunging the Viet-Minh from the
city, the French demanded the military surrender of their
opponents, but the latter refused. The United States, alarmed at
the incident, dispatched Abbot Low Moffat on a special mission to
Saigon and Hanoi to consider a negotiated referendum. However, the
realization that the Viet-Minh would not accept any compromise,
and the fact that the US did not want to formally mediate between
the two sides, led to the US abandoning the idea.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title:
Understanding Northern Ireland: The Historical Evidence MP4 Or DVD
Today, February 18, 2026February 18, 1991: The Northern Ireland
Conflict (The Troubles): The Bombings Of Paddington And Victoria
Stations: -- Two Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) bombs
exploded at London mainline stations, one at Victoria station and
the other at Paddington station, killing one person and injuring
38 other people at Victoria station. It was the IRA's second major
attack in London in February 1991 after the Downing Street mortar
attack eleven days earlier which was an attempt to assassinate the
British War cabinet and the British prime minister John Major. It
was also the first IRA attack against a civilian target in England
since the 1983 Harrods bombing, marking a strategic change in
their bombing campaign in England.
#BombingsOfPaddingtonAndVictoriaStations #NorthernIrelandConflict
#TheTroubles #ProvisionalIrishRepublicanArmy #IRA #VictoriaStation
#PaddingtonStation #MP4 #VideoDownload #DVD
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