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February 18: Presidents' Day in the United States and Family Day in various regions of Canada (2008); Independence Day in The Gambia

1861 – With Italian unification almost complete, Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont, Savoy and Sardinia assumed the title King of Italy.
1861 – Jefferson Davis (pictured) was inaugurated as the first and only President of the Confederate States of America.
1908 – The Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, Sweden's national stage for "spoken drama", opened with playwright August Strindberg's play Master Olof.
1932 – The Empire of Japan established Manchukuo, a puppet state in northeastern China during the Sino-Japanese War.
1943 – Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's Propaganda Minister, delivered the Sportpalast speech to motivate the German people when the tide of World War II was turning against Germany.
2003 – An arsonist started a fire aboard a Daegu Metropolitan Subway train in Daegu, South Korea, killing almost two hundred passengers.

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