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Today (18th Feb) my mind was restless and I started to wonder about what happened today in history. Did a search and found the following:

1229 - The Sixth Crusade: Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor signs a ten-year truce with al-Kamil, regaining Jerusalem, Nazareth, and Bethlehem with neither military engagements nor support from the papacy.

1901 - Winston Churchill makes his maiden speech in the British House of Commons.

1911 - The first official flight with air mail takes place in Allahabad, British India, when Henri Pequet, a 23-year-old pilot, delivers 6,500 letters to Naini, about 10 km away.

1929 - First Academy Awards are announced.

1930 - While studying photographs taken in January, Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto.

1972 - The California Supreme Court invalidates the state’s death penalty and commutes the sentences of all death row inmates to life in prison.

1977 - The Space Shuttle Enterprise test vehicle goes on its maiden “flight” while sitting on top of a Boeing 747.

1998 - Two white separatists are arrested in Nevada and accused of plotting a biological attack on New York City subways.

Hmmmm…so guess what happened on 6th Feb my birthday!

1819 - Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles founds Singapore.

Kekeke, I knew that since I was a little boy. Always proud of it. Actually, empires & nations were birth due to things that happened on the special day 6th Feb. Such as the great Roman Empire, the USA and lovely New Zealand. Even the 1st golf ball was hit on the same day on the moon.

46 BC - Julius Caesar defeats the combined army of Pompeian followers and Numidians under Metellus Scipio and Juba at Thapsus.

337 - Julius I is elected pope.

1778 - American Revolutionary War: In Paris the Treaty of Alliance and the Treaty of Amity and Commerce are signed by the United States and France signaling official recognition of the new republic.

1815 - New Jersey grants the first American railroad charter to a John Stevens.

1840 - Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, founding document of New Zealand.

1862 - American Civil War: Ulysses S. Grant gives the United States its first victory of the war, by capturing Fort Henry, Tennessee, known as the Battle of Fort Henry.

1952 - Elizabeth II becomes Queen upon the death of her father George VI. At the exact moment of succession, she was in a treehouse at the Treetops Hotel in Kenya.

1958 - Bobby Charlton survived the Munich air disaster in Germany, which killed eight of his teammates with Manchester United F.C..

1959 - Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments filed the first patent for an integrated circuit.

1971 - Project Apollo: Apollo 14 Mission - Alan Shepherd (the one in the middle) becomes the first person to hit a golf ball on the Moon.

So, wonder no more, just hop over to Wiki and find out what happened on your special day.