Today is Wednesday, February 18, the 49th day of 2009. There are 316 days left in the year.
3102 B.C. _ Origin of Kali Era (India)
1503 _ Henry Tudor created Prince of Wales (later Henry VIII)
1678 _ John Bunyan's ``The Pilgrim's Progress" is published
1688 _ Quakers conduct first formal protest of slavery in Germantown, Pa.
1841 _ First continuous filibuster in US Senate began, lasting until March 11
1885 _ Mark Twain's ``Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" published
1909 _ Boston Red Sox trade Cy Young, at 41, to Cleveland Naps
1932 _ Japan declares Manchuria Independent
1970 _ U.S. President Nixon launches ``Nixon-doctrine"
1979 _ Snow falls in the Sahara Desert