18 February It happened today…….
1455 Death of Dominican friar Fra Angelico.
1784 Birth of Italian violin player Niccolo Paganini.
1855 Tsar Nicholas I dies.
1933 Death of “Gentleman Jim” Corbett, US prizefighter.
1954 Birth of John Travolta, American actor.
1967 Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist dies.
