Berlin / Hanover. The current calendar sheet for Thursday, February 18, 2021: What happened today, who was born, who died? The events in the overview.
Calendar sheet: Thursday, February 18, 2021
- 7th calendar week, still 316 Days until the end of the year
- Aquarius
- Name day: Konstanze, Simon
History: What happened on February 18th?
A look at history can sharpen the view of the present. What events took place on February 18th?
2020 – Almost five months after the Afghan presidential election, the electoral commission officially declared incumbent President Ashraf Ghani the winner. The defeated Abdullah Abdullah does not recognize the result. Under pressure from the USA, the two agree on a distribution of power in May.
2016 – In Clausnitz, Saxony, a screaming crowd blocked a bus carrying refugees. Days later, a series of xenophobic riots began in Bautzen.
2011 – An Afghan army soldier shot three German soldiers in the “OP North” Bundeswehr outpost in the Afghan province of Baghlan.
2008 – The oldest science academy in Europe, the Leopoldina in Halle (Saxony-Anhalt), will in future be Germany’s national academy. It should advise politics and act as the “voice of German science” abroad.
2001 – In the Indonesian part of the island of Borneo, bloody riots break out, which according to official information will have killed at least 400 people by mid-March.
1984 – The 18-year-old Katarina Witt from Karl-Marx-Stadt won her first Olympic gold in figure skating in Sarajevo.
1946 – Clemens August von Galen, who, as Bishop of Münster in 1941, publicly denounced the mass murder of disabled people by the Nazi regime, was promoted to cardinal a few weeks before his death in Rome.
1861 – Jefferson Davis is sworn in as President of the Confederate States of America in Montgomery, Alabama. A few months later the American Civil War begins.
1846 – A Polish uprising against the rule of Austria begins in Krakow, which crushes the revolt and annexes the Free City of Krakow to its territory.
Celebrity birthdays on February 18th
Who was born on February 18th?
1961 – Armin Laschet (60), German politician, Federal Chairman of the CDU since 2021, North Rhine-Westphalian Prime Minister since 2017
1956 – Rüdiger Abramczik (65), German soccer player (Schalke 04) and coach
1931 – Toni Morrison, American writer (“Jazz”), winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize for Literature, died in 2019
1929 – Günther Schramm (92), German actor (“Der Kommissar”) and television presenter (“All or nothing”)
1896 – Dimitri Mitropoulos, Greek conductor and composer (New York Philharmonic), died in 1960
Prominent days of death on February 18
Who died on February 18th?
1996 – Josef Meinrad, Austrian actor, honorary member of the Vienna Burgtheater, winner of the Iffland-Ring, born in 1913
1546 – Martin Luther, German theologian and reformer, born 1483
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