On This Day (February 18)

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3102 BCE - Epoch (origin) of the Kali Yuga- Lord Krishna is believed by Hare Krishnas and Hindus to have left the planet on this day.
1455 - Fra Angelico, Italian artist died. (b. 1395)

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1838 - Ernst Mach, Austrian physicist (d. 1916)
1861 – With Italian unification almost complete, Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont, Savoy and Sardinia assumed the title King of Italy.
1861 – Jefferson Davis was inaugurated as the first (and only) President of the Confederate States of America.
1908 – The Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, Sweden's national stage for "spoken drama", opened with playwright August Strindberg's play Master Olof.
1929 - First Academy Awards are announced.
1932 – The Empire of Japan established Manchukuo, a puppet state in northeastern China during the Sino-Japanese War.
1943 – Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's Propaganda Minister, delivered the Sportpalast speech to motivate the German people when the tide of World War II was turning against Germany.
1967 - J. Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist died. (b. 1904) ("Father of the atomic bomb")
2003 – An arsonist started a fire aboard a Daegu Metropolitan Subway train in Daegu, South Korea, killing almost two hundred passengers.
2005 - The United Kingdom law banning fox hunting, hare coursing and other sports which domestic animals kill wild mammals is enforced from this date.

On This Day (February 17)

1653 - Arcangelo Corelli, Italian composer born. (d. 1713)
1801 – The U.S. House of Representatives elected Thomas Jefferson as President and Aaron Burr as Vice President of the United States, resolving an electoral tie in the 1800 presidential election.
1854 – Britain recognized the independence of the Orange Free State in the present-day Free State Province, South Africa.
1854 - Friedrich Alfred Krupp, German industrialist born. (d. 1902)
1904 - Madama Butterfly premiers at La Scala in Milan.
1936 – The Phantom, one of the first modern comic book superheroes with the hallmark skintight costume and a mask with no visible pupils, made his first appearance in a daily newspaper comic strip.
1995 – In the presence of the four guarantor countries of the Rio Protocol, Ecuador and Peru signed a peace declaration confirming a ceasefire, leading to the official end of the Cenepa War eleven days later.
2003 – The London congestion charge, a fee that is levied on motorists travelling within designated parts of London, came into operation.

On This Day (February 16)

1857 - The National Deaf Mute College (later renamed Gallaudet University) is established in Washington, D.C., becoming the first school for the advanced education of the deaf.
1923 - Howard Carter unseals the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun.
1937 - Wallace H. Carothers receives a patent for nylon.
1938 - John Corigliano, American composer born. (The Red Violin)
2006 - The last Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) is decommissioned by the United States Army.