About the day » Sunday February 18, 1979Calender converter

• Florence Susanne Steunenberg, Roermond, Limburg, Nederland († 1979)

• Arnoldus Johannes Hendrikus Vermazeren (67), Venlo
• Aloysius Balm (71), Haarlemmerliede en Spaarnwoude, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Alfred Ellig (84), Guelph, Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada
• * Catharina Maria Gertruda Kuppers (73), Roosendaal
• Camillius Lauret (71), Boschkapelle, Zeeland, Nederland
• Ariana Johanna Vollaard (73), Oud-Beijerland
• Adrianus Aarden (77), Bergen op Zoom
• WELVIS PIERRE (83), ST. JANS MOLENBEEK
• Cornelia Maria Hendrika van Gestel (81), Goirle
• Catharina Johanna Nuijten (50), Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1976 » Leilani Munter, American race car driver and environmentalist
• 1978 » Josip Šimunić, Croatian footballer
• 1979 » Tinu Yohannan, Indian cricketer
• 1980 » Aivar Anniste, Estonian footballer
• 1980 » Nik Antropov, Kazakhstani-Canadian ice hockey player
• 1980 » Regina Spektor, Russian-American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer
• 1981 » Alex Ríos, American baseball player
• 1981 » Andrei Kirilenko, Russian basketball player
• 1981 » Ivan Sproule, Northern Irish footballer
• 1981 » Larry Sweeney, American wrestler and manager († 2011)

• 1967 » J. Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist and academic (b. 1904)
• 1969 » Dragiša Cvetković, Serbian lawyer and politician, 17th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1893)
• 1973 » Frank Costello, Italian-American gangster (b. 1891)
• 1976 » Wallace Berman, American painter and illustrator (b. 1926)
• 1977 » Andy Devine, American actor (b. 1905)
• 1978 » Maggie McNamara, American actress (b. 1928)
• 1981 » Jack Northrop, American engineer and businessman, founded the Northrop Corporation (b. 1895)
• 1982 » Ngaio Marsh, New Zealand author (b. 1895)
• 1989 » Mildred Burke, American wrestler and trainer (b. 1915)
• 1990 » Richard de Zoysa, Sri Lankan journalist (b. 1958)

1. Peter
2. Jan
3. Jeroen
4. Johannes
5. Martijn
6. Mark
7. David
8. Dennis
9. Robert
10. Richard
11. Michael
12. Pieter
13. Paul
14. Erik
15. Gerrit
16. Bart

1. Maria
2. Wendy
3. Marieke
4. Anna
5. Kim
6. Sandra
7. Johanna
8. Linda
9. Vanessa
10. Judith
11. Monique
12. Esther
13. Jessica
14. Patricia
15. Jennifer
16. Nathalie

• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 14.0 million citizens.
• February 11 » The Iranian Revolution establishes an Islamic theocracy under the leadership of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
• May 25 » John Spenkelink, a convicted murderer, is executed in Florida; he is the first person to be executed in the state after the reintroduction of capital punishment in 1976.
• July 12 » The island nation of Kiribati becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
• July 19 » The oil tanker SS Atlantic Empress collides with another oil tanker, causing the largest ever ship-borne oil spill.
• October 12 » The lowest recorded non-tornadic atmospheric pressure, 87.0 kPa (870 mbar or 25.69 inHg), occurred in the western Pacific Ocean during Typhoon Tip.
• December 21 » Lancaster House Agreement: An independence agreement for Rhodesia is signed in London by Lord Carrington, Sir Ian Gilmour, Robert Mugabe, Joshua Nkomo, Bishop Abel Muzorewa and S.C. Mundawarara.

The temperature on February 18, 1979 was between -8.3 °C and -4.9 °C and averaged -6.3 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 3.0 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.