February 18th, 1979

Born on February 18th, 1979

Age in days, weeks and months
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What happened on February 18th, 1979?

February 18th, 1979

Richard Petty wins a then-record sixth Daytona 500 after leaders Donnie Allison and Cale Yarborough crash on the final lap of the first NASCAR race televised live flag-to-flag.

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What else happened on February 18th?

February 18th, 2013

Eight gunmen stole US$50,000,000 worth of diamonds from a Swiss-bound aircraft at Brussels Airport.

February 18th, 2010

WikiLeaks published the first of hundreds of thousands of classified documents disclosed by Chelsea Manning.

February 18th, 1946

President Harry S. Truman signed the Rescission Act, annulling benefits payable to Filipino troops who fought for the U.S. during World War II.

February 18th, 1943

The core members of the White Rose, an anti-Nazi resistance group, were arrested by the Gestapo.

February 18th, 1942

World War II: The Imperial Japanese Army began the systematic extermination of perceived hostile elements among Chinese Singaporeans.

February 18th, 1878

Competition between two American merchants in Lincoln County, New Mexico Territory, turned into a range war when a member of one faction was murdered by the other.

February 18th, 1873

Vasil Levski, a national hero of Bulgaria, was executed in Sofia by the Ottoman authorities for his efforts to establish an independent Bulgarian republic.

February 18th, 1814

War of the Sixth Coalition: French troops led by Napoleon forced the Army of Bohemia to retreat after it advanced dangerously close to Paris.

February 18th, 1781

Fourth Anglo-Dutch War: A British expedition against Dutch colonial outposts on the Gold Coast of Africa landed in Elmina in present-day Ghana.

February 18th, 1766

Enslaved Malagasy captives on the Dutch East India Company slave ship Meermin began a mutiny that led to the ship's destruction on Cape Agulhas in present-day South Africa and the recapture of the instigators.

February 18th, 1637

Eighty Years' War: Off the coast of Cornwall, a Spanish fleet intercepted an Anglo-Dutch merchant convoy of forty-four vessels escorted by six men-of-war, destroying or capturing twenty ships.

February 18th, 1268

The Battle of Wesenberg took place between Novgorodian and Pskovian forces against the Livonian Order and its allies, ending with Russian forces retreating from Danish Estonia.

February 18th, 2019

Seven members of Parliament in the United Kingdom resigned from the Labour Party to form a new political party called The Independent Group.

February 18th, 2014

A series of violent events (pictured) involving protesters, riot police, and unknown shooters began in Kyiv that culminated in the ousting of Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych five days later.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on February 18th

Born on February 18th, 1979

45

Zhou Mi

Badminton player

*February 18th, 1979, Nanning

45

Jason Scotland

Trinidad and Tobago footballer

*February 18th, 1979, Morvant

45

Vipin Sharma

Indian actor

*February 18th, 1979, New Delhi

45

Vega

Spanish singer-songwriter

*February 18th, 1979, Córdoba

45

Thomas Kirk Kristiansen

Danish billionaire businessman

*February 18th, 1979, Billund

21

Mausberg

American musician

*February 18th, 1979, Compton †July 4th, 2000, Compton

Same Day
Who's birthday is on February 18th?

48

Rayoni Head

Badminton player

*February 18th, 1976, London Borough of Hillingdon

42

Christian Tiffert

German association football player and manager

*February 18th, 1982, Halle (Saale)

42

Courtney Act

Australian drag queen

*February 18th, 1982, Brisbane

56

Molly Ringwald

American actress, singer, dancer, and author (1968-)

*February 18th, 1968, Roseville

39

Anton Ferdinand

English association football player (born 1985)

*February 18th, 1985, Peckham

49

Gary Neville

English association football player and manager (born 1975)

*February 18th, 1975, Bury

44

Regina Spektor

American musician

*February 18th, 1980, Moscow

88

Toni Morrison

African American novelist, essayist, and academic

*February 18th, 1931, Lorain †August 5th, 2019, The Bronx

57

Roberto Baggio

Italian association football player (born 1967)

*February 18th, 1967, Caldogno

59

Dr. Dre

American rapper, record producer, and businessman

*February 18th, 1965, Compton

70

John Travolta

American actor (born 1954)

*February 18th, 1954, Englewood

48

Chanda Rubin

American tennis player

*February 18th, 1976, Lafayette

65

Jayne Atkinson

British actress

*February 18th, 1959, Bournemouth

57

Lorena Herrera

Mexican actress, singer and model

*February 18th, 1967, Mazatlán

46

Oliver Pocher

German comedian and entertainer

*February 18th, 1978, Hanover

77

Dennis DeYoung

American musician

*February 18th, 1947, Chicago

47

László Nemes

Hungarian filmmaker

*February 18th, 1977, Budapest

34

Park Shin-hye

South Korean actress and singer (born 1990)

*February 18th, 1990, Gwangju

51

Claude Makelélé

French association football player and manager

*February 18th, 1973, Kinshasa

91

Yoko Ono

Japanese artist and activist based in the United States

*February 18th, 1933, Tokyo

Same year
Born in 1979

45

Gao Ling

Chinese badminton player

*March 14th, 1979, Wuhan

45

Yang Wei

Chinese badminton player

*January 13th, 1979, Guangdong

44

Tine Baun

Danish badminton player

*July 21st, 1979, Hørsholm

44

Deborah Secco

Brazilian actress

*November 26th, 1979, Rio de Janeiro

45

Johan Harstad

Norwegian author

*February 10th, 1979, Stavanger Municipality

44

Saralee Thungthongkam

Badminton player

*June 13th, 1979, Bangkok

44

Anders Kristiansen

Badminton player

*September 7th, 1979, Frederikssund Municipality

44

Nikhil Kanetkar

Badminton player

*May 13th, 1979, Pune

44

Guf

Russian rapper

*September 23rd, 1979, Ivanteyevskaya Street

44

Ghayath Almadhoun

Swedish poet

*July 19th, 1979, Damascus

45

Dan Tangnes

Norwegian ice hockey player (1979-)

*March 8th, 1979, Oslo

44

Patricia Aulitzky

Austrian actress

*July 7th, 1979, Salzburg

44

Mia Audina

Indonesian badminton player

*August 22nd, 1979, Jakarta

44

Chen Hong

Badminton player

*November 28th, 1979, Changting County

45

Ingo Kindervater

Badminton player

*January 1st, 1979, Burgwedel

44

Britta Andersen

Badminton player

*December 19th, 1979, Aarhus

44

Vincent Kartheiser

American actor

*May 5th, 1979, Minneapolis

44

Aamir Ghaffar

Badminton player

*August 18th, 1979, Peshawar

44

Chris Pratt

American actor (born 1979)

*June 21st, 1979, Virginia

45

Lise Risom Olsen

Norwegian actress

*March 1st, 1979, Fredrikstad Municipality

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No: With 365 days 1979 is a normal year and no leap year.

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