What happened on this day in history?
February 18
1878 – Murder ignites Lincoln County War
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1885 – Mark Twain publishes “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”
1929 – First Academy Awards announced
1930 – Pluto discovered
1943 – Nazis arrest White Rose resistance leaders
1959 – Ray Charles records “What’d I Say” at Atlantic Records
2001 – Dale Earnhardt Sr. killed in crash
2003 – Arsonist sets fire in South Korean subway
2006 – Shani Davis becomes first Black athlete to win individual gold medal at Winter Games
2010 – WikiLeaks publishes the first documents leaked by Chelsea Manning
2011 – Green River serial killer pleads guilty to 49th murder
1885 – 2011 This Day in History Video: What Happened on February 18
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