February 18th – Birthdays and Events
1990 - Freddie Mercury made his final public appearance on stage when he joined the rest of Queen to collect the Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music.
February 17th – Birthdays and Events
1955 - Fanny Cradock's first cookery programme Kitchen Magic, was broadcast on television. She mostly worked with her then common-law husband Johnny Cradock, adopting his surname long before they married.
February 16th – Birthdays and Events
1923 - Egyptian King Tutankhamun’s coffin was discovered. English archeologist Howard Carter entered the tomb on November 22, where everything was fully intact, untouched for over 3,000 years.
February 15th – Birthdays and Events
1998 - The Angel of the North, a 66ft tall steel sculpture by Antony Gormley is installed at Gateshead.
February 14th – Birthdays and Events
1984 - British ice skaters Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean won the ice dance gold medal at the Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, gaining maximum points for artistic expression.
February 13th – Birthdays and Events
1996 - Take That split up, the biggest band of the 90s announced their demise in front of the world's press at The Hilton in Manchester
February 12th – Birthdays and Events
2017 - Elaine Hopley, a 45 year old Scottish mother-of-two, broke the solo female record in a prestigious rowing race across the Atlantic.
February 11th – Birthdays and Events
1990 - Nelson Mandela is released from Victor Verster Prison outside Cape Town, South Africa after 27 years as a political prisoner.
February 10th – Birthdays and Events
1840 - Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, both aged 20, were married in St James' Palace, London. This was the first marriage of a reigning English Queen since Queen Mary in 1554.