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Today In HistoryHere is what happened on Monday - February 18th...
It is day 49 of the year 2019, and there are 316 days left... Famous People Born On This Day In History... | 1745, | Count Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta, invented the electric battery.
Today, this person is/would be 274 years old.
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| 1848, | Louis Comfort Tiffany, glassmaker
Today, this person is/would be 171 years old.
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| 1909, | Wallace Stegner
Today, this person is/would be 110 years old.
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| 1920, | Bill Cullen
Today, this person is/would be 99 years old.
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| 1920, | Jack Palance, actor, bad guy, and one hand push up king!
Today, this person is/would be 99 years old.
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| 1931, | Chloe Anthony Morrison, - aka Tonie Morrison, author.
Today, this person is/would be 88 years old.
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| 1954, | John Travolta, actor.
Today, this person is/would be 65 years old.
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| 1957, | Vanna White, Wheel of Fortune letter turner.
Today, this person is/would be 62 years old.
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Events On This Day In History... | 1849, | First regular steamboat service to California started with the arrival of the "California".
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| 1850, | California Legislature creates the 9 Bay Area counties.
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| 1899, | San Francisco is named as a port of dispatch for Army transports.
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| 1930, | A cow is flown (and milked in flight) for first time. Her milk was sealed in paper containers and dropped by parachute over St. Louis, MO. I knew you'd want to know ...
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| 1939, | Golden Gate International Exposition opens on Treasure Island (built for the occasion) in San Francisco Bay.
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| 1995, | "World Champion Houston Rockets" are honored at The White House.
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And Don't Forget...| | President's Day, A legal holiday
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| | National Bun Day -- Iceland.
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