February 18<\/p>\n
1229 \u2013 During the 6th Crusade, Frederick II signs a 10 year truce with Al Kamil Meledin , regaining rule of Jerusalem, Nazareth, and Bethlehem<\/p>\n
1294 \u2013 Mongol emperor Kublai Khan doesn’t make it to his stately pleasure dome in Xanadu and instead dies at the imperial capital of Khanbaliq – modern Peking.<\/p>\n
1546 \u2013 Martin Luther dies at his home in Eisleben, Germany, age 62<\/p>\n
1564 \u2013 Michelangelo Buonarroti dies in Rome, age 88<\/p>\n
1791 \u2013 Congress passes a law to allow admitting the independent Republic of Vermont to join the Union as the State of Vermont, which took effect on March 4th.<\/p>\n
1861 \u2013 In Montgomery, Alabama, Jefferson Davis is inaugurated as the provisional President of the Confederate States of America.<\/p>\n
1878 \u2013 John Tunstall is murdered by outlaw Jesse Evans, sparking the Lincoln County War in Lincoln County, New Mexico.<\/p>\n
1885 \u2013 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn<\/u><\/em> by Mark Twain, is published in the United States.<\/p>\n 1930 \u2013 While studying photographs taken in January at the Lowell Observatory in Arizona, Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto.<\/p>\n 1972 \u2013 The California Supreme Court in the case of People v. Anderson<\/em>,\u00a0 invalidates the state’s death penalty and commutes the sentences of all death row inmates to life imprisonment.<\/p>\n 1977 \u2013 The Space Shuttle Enterprise<\/em> test vehicle is carried on its maiden flight on top of a Boeing 747.<\/p>\n 1983 \u2013 13 people are murdered and 1 wounded during a robbery of the Wah Mee Gambling Club in Seattle’s Chinatown-International District<\/p>\n 2001 \u2013 FBI agent Robert Hanssen is arrested for spying for the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n 2010 \u2013 WikiLeaks publishes the first of hundreds of thousands of classified documents illegally disclosed by soldier Bradley Manning.<\/p>\n 2021 \u2013 NASA’s Perseverance <\/em>rover lands successfully on its mission to explore the Jezero crater in Isidis Planitia on Mars<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" February 18 1229 \u2013 During the 6th Crusade, Frederick II signs a 10 year truce with Al Kamil Meledin , regaining rule of Jerusalem, Nazareth, and Bethlehem 1294 \u2013 Mongol emperor Kublai Khan doesn’t make it to his stately pleasure dome in Xanadu and instead dies at the imperial capital of Khanbaliq – modern Peking. … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64950"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90147,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64950\/revisions\/90147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}