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Events on February 18

• 1229 During his crusade, Emperor Frederick II agrees with Sultan al-Kamil in the Peace of Jaffa to a ten-year truce. Jerusalem, Nazareth and Bethlehem are ceded to the Kingdom of Jerusalem, but may not be militarily fortified.
• 1930 Clyde Tombaugh, employed by Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, specifically for the discovery of the legendary planet beyond Neptune, discovers the planet Pluto on photographs taken in January; more than 75 years later, Pluto is reclassified as a dwarf planet.
• 1943 The siblings Hans and Sophie Scholl, members of the White Rose resistance group, are spotted and arrested while distributing leaflets at the University of Munich.
• 1943 Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels advocates "total war" in his Sportpalast speech in Berlin.
• 1949 In Tübingen, the 28-year-old robber and murderer Richard Schuh is executed by guillotine. This was the last execution ordered by a West German court. The death penalty is abolished when the Basic Law enters into force in May of that year.
• 1952 Greece and Turkey become members of the military alliance NATO.
• 1960 U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon opens the VIII Olympic Winter Games in Squaw Valley, which run through February 28. Walt Disney is responsible for the opening ceremonies.
• 1977 The Space Shuttle Enterprise makes its unmanned maiden flight atop a Boeing 747.
• 1990 In Sonneberg, Bavarian state parliament member Walter Knauer and social welfare manager Edmund Fröhlich found the Workers' Welfare Association (AWO) in Thuringia, the first on the territory of the GDR, 57 years after the ban imposed by the National Socialists.
• 2001 In Berlin, French director Patrice Chéreau wins the Golden Bear at the International Film Festival.
• 2006 The Rolling Stones play the largest concert of all time to date on their A Bigger Bang Tour in front of around 1.2 million people at Copacabana in Rio de Janeiro.
• 2021 NASA's Mars 2020 probe lands successfully in the Martian crater Jezero.

Born on February 18

• 1857 Max Klinger, German sculptor, painter and graphic artist
• 1890 Adolphe Menjou, American actor
• 1911 Hans Woellke, German athlete
• 1912 Heinz Kühn, German politician
• 1931 Toni Morrison, American author, Nobel Prize winner
• 1952 Randy Crawford, American jazz and soul singer
• 1960 Greta Scacchi, Italian film actress
• 1970 Björn Casapietra, Italian singer, television presenter and actor
• 1971 Jimmy Kelly, Irish-American singer, songwriter and guitarist
• 2000 Giacomo Raspadori, Italian football player

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „18. Februar“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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