Today in History - History - February 18th

1919Cy Denneny of NHL Ottawa Senators scores record 52nd goals

1991Edmonton Oiler goalie Grant Fuhr returns to NHL after season-long suspension for substance abuse & shuts out NJ Devils 4-0

1885Mark Twain publishes the "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"

1856The American Party (Know-Nothings) convenes in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to nominate its first Presidential candidate, former President Millard Fillmore.

1989Sherri Turner wins LPGA Orix Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open/Itoki Pro-Am

1814The Battle of Montereau; victory of French under Napoleon Bonaparte against Austrians and Württembergers under the King of Württemberg.

1503Henry Tudor created Prince of Wales (later Henry VIII)

1861King Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia becomes 1st King of Italy

19752nd American Music Award: Olivia Newton-John & John Denver win

1909Boston Red Sox trade Cy Young, at 41, to Cleveland Naps

1933Yoko Ono Lennon, [Mrs John Lennon], Tokyo Japan, singer and artist

1745Count Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Gerolamo Umberto Volta, Como, Italy, physicist and inventor (battery)

1940Molecular biologist Francis Crick (23) weds Ruth Doreen Dodd

1946MLB baseball player Hank Greenberg (35) weds heiress Caral Gimbel in Sea Island, Georgia

1977Actor Peter Sellers (51) weds actress Lynne Frederick (22)

1937Actress Mary Astor (30) weds film editor Manuel del Campo (23) in Yuma, Arizona

1546Martin Luther, biblical scholar/religious reformer, dies at 62

1564Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian sculptor/painter (David), dies at 88

1587Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots (1560-87), beheaded at 44 [OS=Feb 8]

1967Robert Oppenheimer, creator of atomic bomb, dies of throat cancer at 62