Today in History - History - February 18th

1885Mark Twain publishes the "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"

2004Greg Maddux signs with the Chicago Cubs, the team he began his career with

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

1861Confederate President Jefferson Davis inaugurated at Montgomery Alabama (US Civil War)

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

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

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

1879Sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi is awarded a patent for his design for the Statue of Liberty

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

1977George Harrison releases "True Love"

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

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

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

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

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