The Commercial Appeal

Today in history

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Today is Monday, Feb. 18, the 49th day of 2019. There are 316 days left in the year. In 1546, Martin Luther, leader of the Protestant Reformatio­n in Germany, died in Eisleben. In 1861, Jefferson Davis was sworn in as provisiona­l president of the Confederat­e States of America in Montgomery, Alabama. In 1913, Mexican President Francisco I. Madero and Vice President Jose Maria Pino Suarez were arrested during a military coup (both were shot to death on Feb. 22). In 1930, photograph­ic evidence of Pluto was discovered by Clyde W. Tombaugh at Lowell Observator­y in Flagstaff, Arizona. In 1943, Madame Chiang Kai-shek, wife of the Chinese leader, addressed members of the Senate and then the House, becoming the first Chinese national to address both houses of the U.S. Congress.

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