Daily Calendar for Tuesday, February 18, 2025

Events

• Jefferson Davis inaugurated as provisional president of Confederate states– 1861
• First session of Confederate Congress, Richmond, Virginia– 1862
• Auguste Bartholdi granted design patent for Statue of Liberty– 1879
• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn published in the U.S.– 1885
• First coiled postage stamps issued– 1908
• Planet Pluto discovered by Clyde W. Tombaugh at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona– 1930
• 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
• 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