February 18

This day in history:

• 1229 – The Sixth Crusade: Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, signs a ten-year truce with al-Kamil, regaining Jerusalem, Nazareth, and Bethlehem with neither military engagements nor support from the papacy.
• 2004 – Up to 295 people, 182 of which being rescue workers, die near Nishapur, Iran, when a runaway freight train carrying sulfur, petrol and fertilizer catches fire and explodes.
• 1332 – Amda Seyon I, Emperor of Ethiopia begins his campaigns in the southern Muslim provinces.
• 3102 BC – Kali Yuga, the fourth and final yuga of Hinduism, starts with the death of Krishna.

Births:

• 1955 – Lisa See, American writer and novelist
• 1954 – John Travolta, American actor, singer and producer
• 1848 – Louis Comfort Tiffany, American stained glass artist (d. 1933)

Deaths:

• 1455 – Fra Angelico, Italian priest and painter (b. 1395)
• 1139 – Yaropolk II, Grand Prince of Kiev (b. 1082)
• 999 – Gregory V, pope of the Catholic Church (b. 972)

Holidays:

• Dialect Day (Amami Islands, Japan)
• Kurdish Students Union Day (Iraqi Kurdistan)
• National Democracy Day, celebrates the 1951 overthrow of the Rana dynasty (Nepal)

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