On this day …
February 18, 2015
- In 1865, Union forces under Gen. William T. Sherman set fire to the South Carolina State House during the burning of Columbia.
- In 1885, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain was published in the United States.
- In 1930, Clyde Tombaugh, while studying photographs taken weeks earlier, discovered Pluto.
- In 1954, the first Church of Scientology was established in Los Angeles.
- In 1957, Walter James Bolton was the last convict to be executed in New Zealand.
- In 1965, Gambia gained its independence from the United Kingdom.
- In 1970, the “Chicago Seven” were found not guilty of conspiring to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
- In 1978, the first Ironman Triathlon took place on the Hawaiian island of Oahu.
- In 2001, seven-time NASCAR Spring Cup Series champion Dale Earnhardt was killed in an accident at the Daytona 500.
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