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