FBI agent Robert Hanssen is arrested for spying for the Soviet Union. He is ultimately convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment. Date: February 18, 2001 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on February 18 📅 Events on this day in 2001 📅 On This Day (Today)

192 people die when an arsonist sets fire to a subway train in Daegu, South Korea. Date: February 18, 2003 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on February 18 📅 Events on this day in 2003 📅 On This Day (Today)

Up to 295 people, 182 of which being rescue workers, die near Nishapur, Iran, when a runaway freight train carrying sulfur, petrol and fertilizer catches fire and explodes. Date: February 18, 2004 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on February 18 📅 Events on this day in 2004 📅 On This Day (Today)

WikiLeaks publishes the first of hundreds of thousands of classified documents disclosed by the soldier now known as Chelsea Manning. Date: February 18, 2010 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on February 18 📅 Events on this day in 2010 📅 On This Day (Today)

Armed robbers steal a haul of diamonds worth $50 million during a raid at Brussels Airport in Belgium. Date: February 18, 2013 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on February 18 📅 Events on this day in 2013 📅 On This Day (Today)

Revolution of Dignity: At least 76 people are killed and hundreds are injured in clashes between riot police and demonstrators in Kyiv, Ukraine. Date: February 18, 2014 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on February 18 📅 Events on this day in 2014 📅 On This Day (Today)

Iran Aseman Airlines Flight 3704 crashes in the Dena sub-range in the Zagros Mountains of Iran, Resulting in 66 Deaths Date: February 18, 2018 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on February 18 📅 Events on this day in 2018 📅 On This Day (Today)

Perseverance, a Mars rover designed to explore Jezero crater on Mars, as part of NASA's Mars 2020 mission, lands successfully. Date: February 18, 2021 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on February 18 📅 Events on this day in 2021 📅 On This Day (Today)

Russian Revolution of 1905: Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia is assassinated in the Moscow Kremlin by Socialist Revolutionary Ivan Kalyayev. Date: February 17, 1905 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on February 17 📅 Events on this day in 1905 📅 On This Day (Today)

The Armory Show opens in New York City, displaying works of artists who are to become some of the most influential painters of the early 20th century. Date: February 17, 1913 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on February 17 📅 Events on this day in 1913 📅 On This Day (Today)