History for February 18

History for February 18 - On-This-Day.com:
Mary Tudor 1516 - The Queen of England known as "Bloody Mary", Count Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta 1745, Louis Comfort Tiffany 1848 - Glass maker and interior designer


Enzo Ferrari 1898, Gahan Wilson 1930, John Travolta 1954 - Actor ("Pulp Fiction")



1564 - The artist Michelanglelo died in Rome.


1841 - The first continuous filibuster in the U.S. Senate began. It lasted until March 11th.


1885 - Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" was published in the U.S. for the first time.


1930 - Elm Farm Ollie became the first cow to fly in an airplane.


1930 - The planet Pluto was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh. The discovery was made as a result of photographs taken in January 1930.


1977 - The space shuttle Enterprise went on its maiden "flight" sitting on top of a Boeing 747.


2001 - NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt, Sr., was killed in a crash during the Daytona 500 race.


2006 - American Shani Davis won the men's 1,000-meter speedskating in Turin. He was the first black athlete to win an individual gold medal in Winter Olympic history.