February 18

On This Day In History
	1930: Pluto discovered by Clyde Tombaugh Using a 13-inch (33-cm) telescope at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, Clyde W. Tombaugh, a 24-year-old American with no formal training in astronomy, discovered the planet Pluto this day in 1930.
True-colour image of Pluto, created from telescopic data collected between 1985 and 1990
Biography Of The Day
	Toni Morrison American writer Toni Morrison, noted for her examination of black (particularly black female) experience within the black community and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993, was born this day in 1931.
Toni Morrison, 1993.
More Events On This Day In History
2001	2001 American stock-car racer Dale Earnhardt, Sr., died from injuries suffered during a crash in the final lap of the Daytona 500.
1975	1975 REA Express, Inc., at one time the largest delivery service in the United States, filed for bankruptcy.
1960	1960 Seven nations established the Latin American Free Trade Association (LAFTA), predecessor to the Latin American Integration Association.
	1861 Jefferson Davis was inaugurated as provisional president of the Confederate States of America.
1848	1848 Louis Comfort Tiffany—an American designer internationally recognized as one of the greatest proponents of Art Nouveau, particularly in the art of glassmaking—was born.
	1546 Martin Luther, leader of the Protestant Reformation, died at age 62 in Eisleben, Saxony.