It happened one 18 February

1930 : Discovery of Pluto


On February 18, 1930, by studying photographs in the observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovered a new planet which he called Pluto, named after the Greek god of the underworld. This name was suggested by a young British schoolgirl, Venetia Burney. Pluto has since been downgraded from planet to dwarf planet.

1977 : Space Shuttle


February 18, 1977, the first space shuttle, Enterprise, made its test flight on the top of a Boeing 747 in the Mojave Desert.

2002 : Metro


On 18 February 2002 the free daily Metro is distributed for the first time, in Marseille and Paris.

2009 : Boring / Google


On February 18, 2009, a couple from Pittsburgh, Aaron and Christine Boring, who had sued Google Street View for violating their privacy, was dismissed by a U.S. federal court.

2010 : Coup in Niger


On 18 February 2010, a coup overthrew President Mamadou Tandja.

Quote of the day : 18 February

Clyde Tombaugh, Astronome américain, découvreur de Pluton
That's the way I got along in life. I don't ever remember being particularly jealous of anybody, because I figured if I can't do it myself, I don't deserve to get it.

Birthdays : 18 February

Marie Champmeslé, French actress (1642)
Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist (1745)
Ernst Mach, Austrian physicist (1838)
Edward Arnold, American actor (1890)
Adolphe Menjou, American actor (1890)
Andre Breton, French writer (1896)
Enzo Ferrari, Italian entrepreneur, founder of Ferrari (1898)
Merle Oberon, English actress (1911)
Jack Palance, American actor (1919)
George Kennedy, American actor (1925)
Toni Morrison, American writer, Nobel Prize in Literature (1931)
Miloš Forman, Czech film director (1932)
Yoko Ono, Japanese singer (1933)
Michel Aoun, Lebanese prime minister (1935)
Jean-Claude Dreyfus, French actor (1946)
Cybill Shepherd, American actress (1950)
John Travolta, American actor (1954)
Greta Scacchi, Australian actress (1960)
Marianne James, Singer, actress (1962)
Matt Dillon, American actor (1964)
Marco Aurélio, Brazilian footballer (1967)
Roberto Baggio, Italian footballer (1967)
Claude Makélélé, French footballer (1973)
Yevgeny Kafelnikov, Russian tennis player (1974)
Gary Neville, English footballer (1975)
Sean Watkins, American guitarist (1977)
Jermaine Jenas, English footballer (1983)
Sebastian Neumann, German football player (1991)

They left us one 18 February

Martin Luther, German religious reformer (1546)
Carl Gustav Jakob Jacobi, German mathematician (1851)
John Batterson Stetson, Inventor of the cowboy hat (1906)
James J. Corbett, American boxer (1933)
J. Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist (1967)
Andy Devine, American actor (1977)
Ngaio Marsh, New Zealand writer (1982)
Willy Maltaite (Will), Belgian comics creator (2000)

Tip of the Day : 18 February

To prevent your baby to have a flat head


To prevent your baby to have a flat head, he must change the position of his head every day. A baby should sleep on his back, so to change the position of his head, change the position of his cot so he would not always be attracted by the same thing. You can also install a mobile above his cot and change its position regularly.

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Vue mer : crédit photo Aseed