Daily Calendar for Thursday, February 18, 2027

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Thursday, February 18, 2027

Born

  • Queen Mary I of England
  • Louis Comfort Tiffany (artist)
  • Toni Morrison (author)
  • Cybill Shepard (actress)
  • John Travolta (actor)
  • Vanna White (game show hostess)
  • Matt Dillon (actor)
  • Molly Ringwald (actress)

Died

  • Harry Caray (sportscaster)
  • Dale Earnhardt (race car driver)
  • Wallace Smith Broecker (American geochemist)

Events

  • Jefferson Davis inaugurated as provisional president of Confederate states
  • First session of Confederate Congress, Richmond, Virginia
  • French sculptor Auguste Bartholdi was granted a design patent for “Liberty enlightening the world,” better known as the Statue of Liberty.
  • Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was published in the U.S.
  • First coiled postage stamps issued
  • 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
  • Planet Pluto discovered by Clyde W. Tombaugh at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona
  • First unmanned test flight of space shuttle Enterprise mounted on another aircraft
  • Hiroyuki Goto recited pi to 42,195 digits
  • 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
  • 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
  • Firenado captured on video, Platte County, Missouri

Weather

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