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Royal Swedish Dramatic Theatre
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Joseph Goebbels
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Chelsea Manning
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Vasil Levski
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Robert Hanssen
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| Independence Day in The Gambia (1965) | refimprove section |
| 1908 – The Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, Sweden's national stage for "spoken drama", opened with playwright August Strindberg's play Master Olof. | refimprove |
| 1911 – The first official flight with airmail took place when pilot Henri Pequet carried 6,500 letters from Allahabad to Naini, British India, about Template:Convert away. | refimprove |
| 1932 – The Empire of Japan established Manchukuo, a puppet state in northeastern China during the Sino-Japanese War. | lots of CN tags (23) |
| 1942 – World War II: The Imperial Japanese Army began the systematic extermination of perceived hostile elements among Chinese Singaporeans. | Too much uncited |
| 1946 – Sailors of the Royal Indian Navy began a total strike on board ship and shore establishments at Bombay harbour that grew into a mutiny involving over 10,000 sailors | unreferenced section |
| 1954 – The Church of Scientology, the largest organization devoted to the practice and the promotion of the Scientology belief system, was incorporated in Los Angeles. | refimprove sections |
| 1970 – An American jury acquitted the "Chicago Seven" of conspiracy and inciting riots stemming from protests during the 1968 Democratic National Convention. | refimprove section |
| 2003 – An arsonist started a fire aboard a Daegu Metropolitan Subway train in Daegu, South Korea, killing almost two hundred passengers. | needs more footnotes |
| 2007 – Terrorists detonated bombs on a Samjhauta Express train in Panipat, India, killing 70 people. | Article states 70 people killed though cited to two different sources that say 66 and 68 dead and a dead link |
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- 1268 – The Battle of Wesenberg took place between Novgorodian and Pskovian forces against the Livonian Order and its allies, ending with Russian forces retreating from Danish Estonia.
- 1637 – Eighty Years' War: Off the coast of Cornwall, a Spanish fleet intercepted an Anglo-Dutch merchant convoy of forty-four vessels escorted by six men-of-war, destroying or capturing twenty ships.
- 1766 – Enslaved Malagasy captives on the Dutch East India Company slave ship Meermin began a mutiny that led to the ship's destruction on Cape Agulhas in present-day South Africa and the recapture of the instigators.
- 1781 – Fourth Anglo-Dutch War: A British expedition against Dutch colonial outposts on the Gold Coast of Africa landed in Elmina in present-day Ghana.
- 1861 – With Italian unification almost complete, [[Victor Emmanuel II of Italy|Victor Template:Nowrap]] of Piedmont, Savoy and Sardinia assumed the title King of Italy.
- 1873 – Vasil Levski, a national hero of Bulgaria, was executed in Sofia by the Ottoman authorities for his efforts to establish an independent Bulgarian republic.
- 1878 – Competition between two American merchants in Lincoln County, New Mexico Territory, turned into a range war when a member of one faction was murdered by the other.
- 1943 – Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi propaganda minister, delivered a speech calling for a "total war" to motivate the German people as the tide of World War II turned against Germany.
- 1943 – The core members of the White Rose, an anti-Nazi resistance group, were arrested by the Gestapo.
- 1946 – President Harry S. Truman signed the Rescission Act, annulling benefits payable to Filipino troops who fought for the U.S. during World Template:Nowrap.
- 1977 – NASA's first Space Shuttle, Enterprise, made its first test flight on top of the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (both pictured).
- 2001 – American FBI agent Robert Hanssen (pictured) was arrested for having spied for the KGB and GRU over a 22-year period.
- 2001 – Inter-ethnic violence between the Dayak and the Madurese broke out in Sampit, Indonesia, ultimately causing more than 500 deaths and the displacement of 100,000 Madurese from their homes.
- 2010 – In a coup d'état, military rebels attacked the presidential palace in Niamey, Niger, and replaced President Mamadou Tandja with a ruling junta, the Supreme Council for the Restoration of Democracy.
- 2010 – WikiLeaks published the first of hundreds of thousands of classified documents disclosed by Chelsea Manning.
- 2013 – Eight gunmen stole US$50,000,000 worth of diamonds from a Swiss-bound aircraft at Brussels Airport.
- 2019 – Seven members of Parliament in the United Kingdom resigned from the Labour Party to form a new political party called The Independent Group.
- Born/died this day: | Michelangelo |d|1564| Michelangelo Cerquozzi |b|1602| Francesco Redi |b|1626| William Phips |d|1695| Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici |d|1743| Joseph Marie Terray |d|1778| Kristijonas Donelaitis |d|1780| George Henschel |b|1850| Ho Yuen Hoe |b|1908| Swraj Paul, Baron Paul |b|1931| Toni Morrison |b|1931| Bobby Robson |b|1933| Sergo Ordzhonikidze |d|1937| Bidzina Ivanishvili |b|1956| Jared Huffman |b|1964
Notes
- Fall of Singapore appears on February 15, so Sook Ching should not appear in the same year
- Battle of Mormant appears on February 17, so Battle of Montereau should not appear in the same year
February 18: First day of Ramadan (2026); Tibetan New Year begins (2026) Template:Main page image/OTD
- 3102 BCE – According to Hindu scriptures, Kali Yuga, the last of the four stages that the world goes through as part of the cycle of yugas, began.
- 1814 – War of the Sixth Coalition: French troops led by Napoleon forced the Army of Bohemia to retreat after it advanced dangerously close to Paris.
- 1977 – The Xinjiang 61st Regiment Farm fire started during Chinese New Year when a firecracker ignited the wreaths of late Mao Zedong, killing 694 personnel.
- 2014 – A series of violent events (pictured) involving protesters, riot police, and unknown shooters began in Kyiv that culminated in the ousting of Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych five days later.