TUESDAY, Feb. 18, 2025

1519-Hernán Cortés leaves Cuba for the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico with 11 ships and 500 men

1678-John Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" is published in London, by Nathaniel Ponder

1879-French Sculptor Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi is awarded a U.S. patent for his design for the Statue of Liberty

1885-Mark Twain publishes the "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" in the U.S.

1917-First major strike of the Russian "February Revolution" starts at the giant Putilov factory in Petrograd

1942-Japanese troop land on Bali

1955-Baghdad Pact signed, making Turkey & Iraq a defense alliance

2014-Ukrainian Revolution of 2014 begins as protesters, riot police and unknown shooters take part in violent events in the capital, Kiev, culminating after five days in the ouster of President Viktor Yanukovych