Daily Calendar for Thursday, February 18, 2027

Name: Daily Almanac Features
Start: 2027-02-18T00:00:00
End: 2027-02-18T23:59:59

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Jefferson Davis inaugurated as provisional president of Confederate states – 1861
First session of Confederate Congress, Richmond, Virginia – 1862
French sculptor Auguste Bartholdi was granted a design patent for “Liberty enlightening the world,” better known as the Statue of Liberty. – 1879
Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was published in the U.S. – 1885
First coiled postage stamps issued – 1908
Elm Farm Ollie, a Guernsey, became the first cow to fly in an airplane. On the same trip she also became the first cow milked in flight – 1930
Planet Pluto discovered by Clyde W. Tombaugh at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona – 1930
First unmanned test flight of space shuttle Enterprise mounted on another aircraft – 1977
Hiroyuki Goto recited pi to 42,195 digits – 1995
Trinity Broadcasting Network, a Christian TV network, cancelled Pat Boone’s weekly gospel music show after he appeared in black leather and fake tattoos on the American Music Awards show – 1997
Evan Lysacek won the Olympic gold medal in men’s figure skating. He became the first U.S. man to win the gold medal since Brian Boitano in 1988 – 2010
Firenado captured on video, Platte County, Missouri – 2016

San Francisco, California, recorded a temperature of 80 degrees F – 1899
New England experienced extremely high temperatures, with Boston, Massachusetts at 66, Providence, Rhode Island at 72, and Concord, New Hampshire, at 63 degrees F – 1981
An F4 tornado struck Van Wert County in Ohio – 1992
Seventy-four degrees, McLean, Virginia – 2008