Following are some of the major events to have occurred on Feb 18
Reuters
1913 - Mexican President General Francisco Madero signs his resignation amidst a military coup, days before he was assassinated along with his Vice-President.
1930 - Clyde William Tombaugh discovered the planet Pluto, working with photographic plates at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona.
1994 - South Africa's ANC President Nelson Mandela and Palestinian PLO leader Yasser Arafat meet in the Hague.
2001 - NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt dies in accident at Daytona 500 in Florida.
2003 - At least 133 people were killed in South Korea after an arson attack on two crowded subway trains in the city of Taegu, 200 km (120 miles) southeast of Seoul.
2004 - Baseball's Greg Maddux returns to Chicago Cubs, where he started his career.
2004 - Runaway train wagons laden with a lethal cocktail of fuel and fertilisers blew up in northeast Iran, killing almost 300 people and injuring up to 450.
2009 - Sudanese novelist Tayeb Salih, one of the best known and most translated Arabic novelists of the 20th-century who won fame with his 1966 novel Season of Migration to the North, died.
2014 - Tens of thousands rally for lower taxes in Italy.
2014 - Kiev protesters clash with police.
