February 18^th in history

Encyclopædia Britannica presents people and events from this day in history:

Toni Morrison: Biography of the Day

Toni Morrison

American writer Toni Morrison, noted for her examination of black (particularly black female) experience within the black community and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993, was born this day in 1931.

 

Pluto discovered by Clyde Tombaugh: 18 February 1930 - This Day in History

Using a 13-inch (33-cm) telescope at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, Clyde W. Tombaugh, a 24-year-old American with no formal training in astronomy, discovered the planet Pluto this day in 1930.

More Events on this day:

1975: REA Express, Inc., at one time the largest delivery service in the United States, filed for bankruptcy.

1960: Seven nations established the Latin American Free Trade Association (LAFTA), predecessor to the Latin American Integration Association.

1861: Jefferson Davis was inaugurated as provisional president of the Confederate States of America.

1546: Martin Luther, leader of the Protestant Reformation, died at age 62 in Eisleben, Saxony.