MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Today is Monday, February 18, the 49th day of 2013. There are 316 days left in the year.

3102 B.C. ― Origin of Kali Era (India)

1678 ― John Bunyan's “The Pilgrim’s Progress” is published

1885 ― Mark Twain's “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” published

1902 ― The opera “Le Jongleur (Hunchback) de Notre Dame” is produced (Monte Carlo)

1915 ― Germany begins a blockade of England

1930 ― Luigi Pirandello's “Come Tu Mi Vuoi" premieres in Milan

1968 ― British adopt year-round daylight savings time

1968 ― 10,000 demonstrators against U.S. in Vietnam War in West Berlin

1973 ― A 54-kg octopus measuring seven meters across captured in Hood Canal, Wash.

1979 ― Snow falls in the Sahara Desert