February 14 » Voting machines are approved by the U.S. Congress for use in federal elections.
April 18 » The St. Andrew's Ambulance Association is granted a royal charter by Queen Victoria.
May 8 » The Irish Literary Theatre in Dublin produced its first play.
September 13 » Henry Bliss is the first person in the United States to be killed in an automobile accident.
November 2 » The Boers begin their 118-day siege of British-held Ladysmith during the Second Boer War.
December 11 » Second Boer War: In the Battle of Magersfontein the Boers commanded by general Piet Cronjé inflict a defeat on the forces of the British Empire commanded by Lord Methuen trying to relieve the Siege of Kimberley.
Day of death February 18, 1980
The temperature on February 18, 1980 was between 1.9 °C and 8.9 °C and averaged 5.0 °C. There was 4.0 hours of sunshine (40%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
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.
February 28 » Andalusia approves its statute of autonomy through a referendum.
May 5 » Operation Nimrod: The British Special Air Service storms the Iranian embassy in London after a six-day siege.
May 9 » In Norco, California, five masked gunmen hold up a Security Pacific bank, leading to a violent shoot-out and one of the largest pursuits in California history. Two of the gunmen and one police officer are killed and thirty-three police and civilian vehicles are destroyed in the chase.
June 3 » An explosive device is detonated at the Statue of Liberty. The FBI suspects Croatian nationalists.
August 14 » Lech Wałęsa leads strikes at the Gdańsk, Poland shipyards.
October 30 » El Salvador and Honduras agree to put the border dispute fought over in 1969's Football War before the International Court of Justice.
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