It’s my birthday today!
Some other cool people just happen to be born on February 18th: Louis Comfort Tiffany, Enzo Ferrari, Toni Morrison, Ono Yoko, Dr. Dre, and Regina Spektor.
Some interesting people have also died on February 18th: Kublai Khan, Martin Luther, Charles Lewis Tiffany (ironic), and J. Robert Oppenheimer.
Besides births and deaths, February the 18th was also the day for momentous occasions such as these:
1841 – the first ongoing filibuster in the U.S. Senate (it lasted until March 11th of that year)
1929 – the first Academy Awards were announced
1930 – the planet Pluto was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh
1979 – it SNOWED in the Sahara Desert in southern Algeria for the ONLY time in recorded history (!!!)
Thank you Wikipedia, for making my birthday slightly more interesting!!!
Happy (belated) Birthday, Bridget. Interesting tidbits of information. :-)
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