TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Today is Tuesday, February 18, the 49th day of 2014. 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

1930 ― Luigi Pirandello’s “Come Tu Mi Vuoi” premieres in Milan

1930 ― U.S. astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto

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

1970 ― U.S. President Nixon launches “Nixon-doctrine”

1972 ― California Supreme Court abolishes death penalty

1973 ― 54-kg octopus measuring 7 meter across captured in Hood Canal, Wash.

1979 ― Snow falls in the Sahara Desert