February 18

John Joseph Travolta (born February 18, 1954) is a singer and actor from the United States. During the 1970s, he rose to prominence by acting on the television comedy Welcome Back, Kotter (1975–1979) and starring in the box office hits Carrie (1976), Saturday Night Fever (1977), Grease (1978), and Urban Cowboy (1979). (1980). He had a revival in the 1990s with his performance in Pulp Fiction (1994), and has since appeared in Get Shorty (1995), Broken Arrow (1996), Phenomenon (1996), Face/Off (1997), A Civil Action (1998), Primary Colors (1998), Hairspray (2007), and the main character in Bolt (2008). Travolta received Academy Award nominations for Best Actor for his roles in Saturday Night Fever and Pulp Fiction.
Kellogg's, full name Kellogg Company, is a major American manufacturer of ready-to-eat cereals and other food items. Kellogg's Corn Flakes were among the first and are now among the most popular morning cereals in the United States. The company's headquarters are in Battle Creek, Michigan.
The Sanitas Food Company was formed in 1900 by the brothers W.K. Kellogg and Dr. John H. Kellogg, who had invented a way of making crispy, flavorful flakes of processed grain that proved popular among patients at Dr. Kellogg's Battle Creek Sanitarium. W.K. Kellogg finally bought out his brother and founded the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company in 1906. The firm thrived because to new advertising strategies and advances in cereal quality.
Juan Domingo de la Calzada Manuel Mara Lascuráin Paredes was a Mexican politician who lived from 8 May 1856 until 21 July 1952. He served as Mexico's 34th President. On February 19, 1913, he was president for less than an hour. It is the world's shortest presidency in history.
Gopal Krishna Gokhale CIE (May 9, 1866 – February 15, 1915) was an Indian'moderate' political leader and social reformer during India's independence struggle. Gokhale was the founder of the Servants of India Society and a prominent leader of the Indian National Congress. Gokhale pushed for Indian self-rule and social changes through the Society, as well as the Congress and other legislative organisations in which he served. He was the leader of the Congress party's moderate group, which favoured changes through collaboration with existing government institutions.
Trevor Noah (born 20 February 1984) is a comedian, television personality, and political analyst from South Africa. He is the host of The Daily Show, a Comedy Central satirical news show. Noah, who was born in Johannesburg, began his career in South Africa in 2002. He hosted various shows for the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) and finished second in the fourth season of Strictly Come Dancing South Africa in 2008. He presented the late-night chat programme Tonight with Trevor Noah, which he produced and broadcast on M-Net and DStv from 2010 to 2011. Noah joined The Daily Show as Senior International Correspondent in 2014, and took over as host in 2015, succeeding long-time host Jon Stewart.
Shivaji Bhonsale I, popularly known as Chhatrapati Shivaji, was an Indian monarch and a member of the Bhonsle Maratha tribe. Shivaji created the Maratha Empire by carving away an enclave from the fading Adilshahi sultanate of Bijapur. He was formally anointed Chhatrapati of his domain at Raigad in 1674.
Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee, born 21 February 1961 in India, is an Indian-born naturalised American economist who is now the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Banerjee was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2019 alongside Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer "for their experimental approach to eliminating global poverty." He and his wife, Esther Duflo, are the sixth married couple to share a Nobel Prize. Banerjee is a founding member of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab.
Andre Romelle Young (born February 18, 1965) is an American rapper, record producer, and entrepreneur better known as Dr. Dre. He is the founder and CEO of Aftermath Entertainment and Beats Electronics, as well as the former co-founder, co-owner, and president of Death Row Records. Dr. Dre began his career in 1985 as a member of the World Class Wreckin' Cru and eventually rose to prominence with the gangsta rap group N.W.A. The trio pioneered graphic hip hop songs that detailed the brutality of street life. During the early 1990s, Dre was credited with helping to create and popularise West Coast G-funk, a hip hop style distinguished by a synthesiser base and sluggish, heavy beats.
After moving to Los Angeles, Peretti made appearances on programs such as Kroll Show, Louie, The Sarah Silverman Program, TruTV Presents: World's Dumbest..., and Tosh.0. She appeared as a guest correspondent on one episode of Lopez Tonight, interviewing local citizens about Prop 8. Peretti is credited as a story editor on season 4 of the television show Parks and Recreation from 2011 to 2012.
Annelies Marie (Anne) Frank was a German-Dutch diarist of Jewish ancestry who was born on June 12, 1929. She became one of the most discussed Jewish Holocaust victims with the 1947 release of The Diary of a Young Girl, in which she describes her life in hiding from 1942 to 1944, during the German occupation of the Netherlands during World War II. It is one of the most well-known books in the world and has inspired countless plays and films. A typhus outbreak swept across the camp in early 1945, killing 17,000 inmates. Other infections, such as typhoid fever, were widespread. The precise cause of Anne's death could not be determined due to the chaotic circumstances.
Kumail Ali Nanjiani is a Pakistani-American comedian, actor, and screenwriter who was born on May 2, 1978. He is most known for playing Dinesh in the HBO comedy series Silicon Valley (2014–2019), as well as co-writing and acting in the romantic comedy film The Big Sick (2017). He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for co-writing the latter with his wife, Emily V. Gordon. In 2018, Time magazine named him one of the world's 100 most influential people. Nanjiani has also starred in the TNT comedy Franklin & Bash and the Adult Swim series Newsreaders, as well as voicing Prismo in the cartoon series Adventure Time.
Fenty, Robyn Rihanna, was born on February 20, 1988. She is a singer, actor, fashion designer, and businesswoman from Barbados. Rihanna was found by American record producer Evan Rogers, who brought her to the United States to make demo tapes. She was born in Saint Michael and reared in Bridgetown, Barbados. She quickly garnered popularity after signing with Def Jam in 2005, with the release of her first two studio albums, Music of the Sun (2005) and A Girl Like Me (2006), both of which were influenced by Caribbean music and climbed in the top ten of the US Billboard 200 list. Rihanna is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold over 250 million albums worldwide.
The treaty was signed on February 21, 1999, at the end of a historic summit in Lahore, and approved by both nations' parliaments the following year. Prime Ministers Nawaz Sharif and Atal Bihari Vajpayee signed the pact during a televised news conference in both countries.
Alan Sidney's Patrick Rickman was an English actor and director who was born on February 21, 1946. He educated at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London and joined the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), where he performed in modern and traditional theatrical performances. He played the Vicomte de Valmont in the RSC stage production of Les Liaisons Dangereuses in 1985, and he was nominated for a Tony Award after the performance relocated to the West End in 1986 and Broadway in 1987. Rickman made his film debut as German terrorist leader Hans Gruber in Die Hard (1988). He also played the Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991), for which he won a BAFTA.
Elliot Page is a Canadian actor and producer who was born on February 21, 1987. He has been nominated for an Oscar, two BAFTAs, two Emmys, and a Satellite Award, among other honours. Page rose to prominence for his work in the television series Pit Pony (1997–2000), for which he received a Young Artist Award nomination, and for his recurrent appearances in Trailer Park Boys (2002) and ReGenesis (2004). (2004). Going For Broke, a 2003 made-for-television film, was one of Page's first appearances in a mainstream United States-distributed film. Page had his debut with the film Hard Candy (2005), for which he won an Austin Film Critics Association Award and was nominated for an Empire Award.
Sophie Belinda Jonas is an English actress who was born on February 21, 1996. She made her acting debut as Sansa Stark on HBO's epic fantasy television series Game of Thrones (2011–2019), for which she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 2019. Turner made her feature film debut in Another Me after appearing in the television series The Thirteenth Tale (2013). (2013). She played a youthful Jean Grey / Phoenix in the X-Men film series (2016–2019) and participated in the action comedy Barely Lethal (2015).
Nutan Samarth Bahl, often known as Nutan, was an Indian actress who starred in Hindi cinema.She performed in more than 70 films, primarily as a leading lady, during the course of her nearly four-decade career. Nutan held the record for the most Best Actress victories at the Filmfare Awards, which she held for nearly 30 years before being equaled by her niece Kajol in 2011. The Government of India bestowed the Padma Shri on her in 1974. In 1990, Nutan was diagnosed with breast cancer and underwent treatment. She was taken to Mumbai's Breach Candy Hospital in February 1991 after becoming unwell. She was filming Garajna and Insaniyat at the time. She passed away on February 21st.
Olivia Isabel Rodrigo, born February 20, 2003, is a singer-songwriter and actor from the United States. She rose to prominence as the lead in the Disney television shows Bizaardvark and High School Musical: The Musical: The Series. Rodrigo signed with Geffen and Interscope Records and released her debut single "Drivers License" in 2021, which broke several records and became one of the year's best-selling singles, catapulting her to mainstream prominence. She followed it up with two more hit songs, "Deja Vu" and "Good 4 U."
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