On This Day
18 February
- 🇮🇳 In India
- 1836 Ramakrishna Paramahamsa (Gadadhar Chattopadhyaya), Hindu mystic and religious leader in 19th-century Bengal, was born. He became the guru of Swami Vivekananda.
- 1911 First official delivery of mail by air was done from Bamrauli to Naini (Allahabad).
- 1918 Srinivasa Ramanujan, mathematician, was elected a fellow of the Cambridge Philosophical Society and then three days later, the greatest honour that he would receive, his name appeared on the list for election as a fellow of the Royal Society of London.
- 1946 The Royal Indian Navy mutiny or revolt took place. Also called the 1946 Naval Uprising, it was an insurrection of Indian naval ratings, soldiers, police personnel and civilians against the British government in India.
- 🌎 Elsewhere
- 1546 Martin Luther, leader of the Protestant Reformation, died at age 62 in Eisleben, Saxony.
- 1678 John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress is published in Holborn, London, by Nathaniel Ponder.
- 1885 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain was published.
- 1930 Pluto was discovered by American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh. It was considered as the ninth planet in the solar system till 2006.
- 1951 Nepal becomes a constitutional monarchy.
- 1983 Violence between Hindu Tamils and Buddhist Singhalese in Sri Lanka marks beginning of Tamil rebellion by Tiger freedom fighters demanding an independent nation called Eelam. Prolonged civil war results.
- 2010 WikiLeaks publishes the first of hundreds of thousands of classified documents disclosed by the soldier now known as Chelsea Manning.
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