Today
Wednesday February 18 2026
- Day of the year
- 49/ 365
- Week
- 82,026
- Days left
- 31613%
- Moon
- 2%Waxing crescent
Today is Wednesday, February 18, 2026. It is day 49 of 2026, a year of 365 days: 316 remain, and 13% of the year has gone. Under ISO 8601 this date falls in week 8.
What's celebrated on this date
No United Nations international day falls on this date.
Coming up
- February 20World Day of Social Justice
- February 21International Mother Language Day
- March 3World Wildlife Day
Saints and name days
Saints whose feast falls on this date, most widely known first.
- Fra AngelicoItalian Early Renaissance painter
- Agatha of SicilyChristian saint and martyress (235–261)
- Tarasios of ConstantinoplePatriarch of Constantinople
- Constantinadaughter of Roman emperor Constantine the Great
- AngilbertFrank/served Charlemagne as diplomat/abbot/poet/semi-son-in-law
Sources : Wikidata (P841) · CC0 1.0
Astronomy
New York
- Sunrise
- 06:46
- Sunset
- 17:34
- Length of day
- 10h 49m+3 min vs yesterday
- Solar noon
- 12:10
Times shown for America/New_York
Season
Winter
began on December 21, 2025
Next season
Spring — 30 days, March 20, 2026 (March equinox)
Public holidays — United States
Not a public holiday in the United States.
Next public holiday : Memorial Day — May 25, 2026
National holidays only. Regions, provinces and Länder add their own.
Moon
Waxing crescent
Illumination : 2%
Moon age : 1.2 days
- Next full moon
- March 3, 2026
- Next new moon
- March 19, 2026
Astrology
Today's zodiac sign
Aquarius
until February 19, 2026 — Pisces
Zodiac dates are an astrological convention, not the Sun's actual position among the constellations. The astronomy above is measured; this is not.
On this day in history
1229
The Sixth Crusade: Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, signs a ten-year truce with al-Kamil, regaining Jerusalem, Nazareth, and Bethlehem with neither military engagements nor support from the papacy. Wikipedia
1861
In Montgomery, Alabama, Jefferson Davis is inaugurated as the provisional President of the Confederate States of America. Wikipedia
1878
John Tunstall is murdered by outlaw Jesse Evans, sparking the Lincoln County War in Lincoln County, New Mexico. Wikipedia
1885
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is published in the United States. Wikipedia
1911
The first official flight with airmail takes place from Allahabad, United Provinces, British India (now India), when Henri Pequet, a 23-year-old pilot, delivers 6,500 letters to Naini, about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) away. Wikipedia
1930
While studying photographs taken in January, Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto. Wikipedia
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1932
The Empire of Japan creates the independent state of Manzhouguo (the obsolete Chinese name for Manchuria) free from the Republic of China and installed former Chinese Emperor Puyi as Chief Executive of the State. Wikipedia
1943
World War II: The Nazis arrest the members of the White Rose movement. Wikipedia
2004
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. Wikipedia
2021
Perseverance, a Mars rover designed to explore Jezero crater on Mars, as part of NASA's Mars 2020 mission, lands successfully. Wikipedia
Sources : Wikipedia (en) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Data imported on 2026-08-26
Births and deaths
Born on this day February 18
- 1516Mary I, Queen of England (died 1558)
- 1559Isaac Casaubon, Swiss philologist and scholar (died 1614)
- 1745Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist, invented the battery (died 1827)
- 1838Ernst Mach, Austrian physicist and philosopher (died 1916)
- 1848Louis Comfort Tiffany, American stained glass artist (died 1933)
- 1890Adolphe Menjou, American actor (died 1963)
- 1903Nikolai Podgorny, Ukrainian engineer and politician (died 1983)
- 1931Toni Morrison, American novelist and editor, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2019).
Died on this day February 18
- 1294Kublai Khan, Mongol emperor (born 1215)aged 79 years
- 1455Fra Angelico, Italian priest and painter (born 1395)aged 65 years
- 1478George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence, English nobleman (born 1449; executed)aged 29 years
- 1535Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, German magician, astrologer, and theologian (born 1486)aged 49 years
- 1546Martin Luther, German priest and theologian, leader of the Protestant Reformation (born 1483)aged 63 years
- 1564Michelangelo, Italian sculptor and painter (born 1475)aged 89 years
- 1712Louis, Dauphin of France, (born 1682)aged 30 years
- 1873Vasil Levski, Bulgarian activist, founded the Internal Revolutionary Organization (born 1837)aged 36 years
Sources : Wikipedia (en) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Data imported on 2026-08-26
The day in words
In New York the sun rises at 06:46 and sets at 17:34, giving 10h 49m of daylight — 3 minutes more than yesterday. It has been winter since December 21, 2025; spring opens in 30 days, on March 20, 2026 (March equinox).
The moon is a waxing crescent, 2% illuminated. The next full moon falls on March 3, 2026 and the next new moon on March 19, 2026.
The saints' calendar attaches February 18 to Fra Angelico, Agatha of Sicily and Tarasios of Constantinople.
No United Nations international day falls on February 18. The next one on the calendar is World Day of Social Justice, on February 20.
It is not a public holiday in the United States.
On this day in history: The Sixth Crusade: Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, signs a ten-year truce with al-Kamil, regaining Jerusalem, Nazareth, and Bethlehem with neither military engagements nor support from the papacy (1229); In Montgomery, Alabama, Jefferson Davis is inaugurated as the provisional President of the Confederate States of America (1861). English Wikipedia records 10 events for this date.
Mary I was born on February 18, 1516; Kublai Khan died on February 18, 1294.
310 days remain until Christmas and 317 until New Year's Day.
In astrology — kept separate from the measured astronomy above, deliberately — February 18 falls under the sign of Aquarius.
Calendar
By the numbers
- 13%
- of the year elapsed
- 310
- until Christmas
- 317
- until New Year
- 741
- until the next 29 February
2026 — Common year (365 days)
Work with dates
Sources
Every block on this page names where its data comes from. Nothing here is generated when the source is silent.
- United Nations — International Days— What's celebrated today
- Wikidata (P841)— Saints and name days · CC0 1.0
- Wikipedia (en)— On this day in history · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Data imported on 2026-08-26