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18 Feb 1861     King Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia became first King of Italy.
18 Feb 1885     The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain was published in the United States.
18 Feb 1957     Walter James Bolton became the last person legally executed in New Zealand.
18 Feb 1965     The Gambia became independent from the UK.
18 Feb 1969     Lulu married Maurice Gibb of the Bee Gees.
18 Feb 1977     The Space Shuttle Enterprise test vehicle was carried on its maiden flight on top of a Boeing 747.

19 Feb 1878     Thomas Edison patented the phonograph.
19 Feb 1964     Peter Sellers married Britt Ekland in London.
19 Feb 2021     Kim Kardashian filed for divorce from her third husband, Kanye West.

20 Feb 1472     Orkney and Shetland were left by Norway to Scotland, due to a dowry payment.
20 Feb 1547     Edward VI was crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey.
20 Feb 1816     Rossini’s opera The Barber of Seville had its premiere in Rome.
20 Feb 1962     John Glenn became the first US astronaut to orbit the Earth, aboard Friendship 7.
20 Feb 1968     John Cleese married Connie Booth.
20 Feb 1974     Cher filed for divorce from Sonny Bono.
20 Feb 1986     The Soviet Union launched its Mir spacecraft that remained in orbit for 15 years.
20 Feb 1998     15 year old Tara Lipinski became the youngest Olympic figure skating gold-medalist at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Japan.
20 Feb 2007     ‘Baywatch’ star Carmen Electra divorced rockstar Dave Navarro after less than three years of marriage.

21 Feb 1173     Pope Alexander III canonized Thomas Becket as Archbishop of Canterbury.
21 Feb 1952     The British government abolished identity cards in the UK.
21 Feb 1952     Elizabeth Taylor married husband number two, Michael Wilding.
21 Feb 1958     The CND symbol, protesting against Atomic Weapons, was designed by Gerald Holtom.
21 Feb 1972     Richard Nixon became the first US President to visit China.
21 Feb 1995     Steve Fossett landed in Canada becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon.

22 Feb 1955     Maureen Connolly, ‘Little Mo’ retired from tennis seven months after a horse-riding accident.
22 Feb 1959     Lee Petty won the first Daytona 500.
22 Feb 1987     Andy Warhol died.
22 Feb 2017     Jay-Z became the first rapper to be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
22 Feb 2008     Pamela Anderson divorced Rick Salomon just 2 months after getting married.
22 Feb 2018     Marit Bjoergen became the most successful Winter Olympic athlete of all time winning 15 medals.

23 Feb 1886     The Times published the world’s first classified ad.
23 Feb 1958     Five-time World F1 champion Juan Manuel Fangio was kidnapped by rebels, but released the following day after the Cuban Grand Prix.
23 Feb 1965     Stan Laurel died.
23 Feb 1996     ‘Trainspotting’ directed by Danny Boyle was released in UK cinemas.
23 Feb 1997     Scientists in Scotland announce they have cloned a sheep and named it ‘Dolly’.

24 Feb 1854     The Penny Red became the first perforated official postage stamp.
24 Feb 1920     Nancy Astor became the first woman to speak in the House of Commons.
24 Feb 1981     Prince Charles and Lady Diana announced their engagement.
24 Feb 2008     Fidel Castro retired as the President of Cuba and the Council of Ministers after 32 years.
24 Feb 2010     Sachin Tendulkar scored the first double century in One Day International cricket.

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