February 18 - What happened today?

Home What happened today in history? Blamepro's Almanac for February 18
In the headlines today:

2003	Country music singer Johnny Paycheck, best-known for the song "Take This Job And Shove It," dies in a Nashville nursing home at age 64.
2001	NASCAR race driver Dale Earnhardt dies from injuries sustained in a last-lap crash during the Daytona 500 auto race in Daytona Beach, FL.
1999	Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic is warned by the US to make peace with ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, or face military intervention.
1988	Anthony M. Kennedy is sworn in as the 104th justice of the US Supreme Court.
1977	The first space shuttle, Enterprise, makes its maiden flight (atop a Boeing 747), over the Mojave Desert.
1970	The Chicago Seven are found innocent of conspiring to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic national convention.
1960	US Vice President Richard Nixon opens the Eighth Olympic Winter Games in Squaw Valley, California. (photo credit: NARA)
1939	The Golden Gate International Exposition opens in San Francisco.
1930	Pluto, the ninth planet of our solar system (formerly known as Planet X), is discovered.
1902	Charles F. Tiffany, founder of the jewelry company that bears his name, dies.
1864	The Mark Twain classic, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, is published in the US.
1688	The first recorded US vote against slavery is made in Germantown, Pennsylvania.
1564	Artist Michelangelo dies in Rome.
1546	Martin Luther, German religious leader, dies.