February 18th (2004) was a Wednesday. It's the 46th day of the year (47th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 319 days left to the end of the year.
Historical Events for 18th February, 2004
» Up to 295 people, including nearly 200 rescue workers, die near Neyshabur in Iran when a runaway freight train carrying sulfur, petrol and fertilizer Nishapur train disaster named catches fire and explodes.
February 18th Famous Deaths for 2004
» Jean Rouch, French anthropologist and director (b. 1917)
February 18th Holidays in History
» Christian Feast Day:
» Bernadette Soubirous (France)
» Colmán of Lindisfarne
» Archbishop Flavian of Constantinople called Flavian of Constantinople
» Simeon of Jerusalem (Western Christianity)
» February 18 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
» Ryukyuan languages Status named Dialect Day (Amami Islands, Japan)
» Independence Day, celebrates the independence of the Gambia from the United Kingdom in 1965.
» Public holidays in Nepal e.g National Democracy Day, celebrates the 1951 overthrow of the Rana dynasty (Nepal)