Anniversaries, Holidays, & Observances for February 18, 2022

Many days there are far too many anniversaries, holidays, and observances to post about individually on social media, so in an effort to have more of them available, LLPHP is going to experiment with posting them daily here. If there are other items you feel should be included, please email contact@llphp.org and share!


Please note all holidays and observances listed as “National” days are American holidays and observances unless it is stated otherwise.

On This Day

• 1688: Quakers conducted the first formal protest of slavery in the Americas in Germantown, Pennsylvania
• 1787: Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II banned child labor for children under 8 years old
• 1828: More than 100 vessels were destroyed in a storm off Gibraltar
• 1856: The American Party, known as the Know-Nothings, convened in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to nominate its first Presidential candidate, former President Millard Fillmore
• 1884: Police seized all copies of Tolstoy’s “What I Believe In” because of his secular views of Christianity therein
• 1903: The Dutch government of Abraham Kuyper launcheed new anti-strike laws
• 1908: The American Ambassador to Japan was given a note by the Japanese in which the Japanese agreed to restrict Japanese emigration to the US creating the ‘Gentlemen’s Agreement’ between the two nations
• 1922: The US Capper-Volstead Act allowed farmers to buy and sell cooperatively without the risk of prosecution under antitrust laws
• 1923: Workers in Belgium’s Borinage mine workers began a strike for higher wages
• 1927: The US and Canada opened diplomatic relations
• 1932: Japan declared Manchuria independent
• 1962: France and Algerian Muslims negotiated a truce to end their 7 year war
• 1965: 27 copper miners died in an avalanche at Granduc Mountain, British Columbia, Canada
• 1965: Church deacon Jimmie Lee Jackson was beaten and shot during a peaceful march in Marion, Alabama. His death 8 days later inspired the Selma to Montgomery marches
• 1965: Gambia became independent from the United Kingdom
• 1972: The California Supreme Court struck down the death penalty
• 1979: A rare snow fell in the Sahara Desert
• 2013: 15 people were killed by flooding and landslides in Indonesia
• 2014: Police clashed with protesters in Bangkok, Thailand who were continuing to protest for political change
• 2020: Swarms of desert locusts affected east Africa reaching South Sudan threatening to cause a further food crisis
• 2021: Nearly seven million people were required to boil their water in Texas as an unusually harsh winter storm in the state continued
  
  

Weekly Holidays and Observances including February 18, 2022

• National Entrepreneurship Week (February 12-19)
• Celebration of Love Week (February 13-19)
• Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Awareness Week (February 13-19)
• Heart Failure Awareness Week (February 13-19)
• National Hero Week (February 13-19)
• Random Acts of Kindness Week (February 13-19)
  
  

February Monthly Holidays and Observances

• African American History Month/National Black History Month
• American Heart Month/National Heart Healthy Month
• Canned Food Month
• Cholangiocarcinoma Awareness Month
• International Boost Self Esteem Month
• International Expect Success Month
• Marfan Syndrome Awareness Month
• National Cancer Prevention Month
• National Care About Your Indoor Air Month
• National Time Management Month
• Plant the Seeds of Greatness Month
• Spiritual Teachers Month
• Relationship Wellness Month