Commonly known as PyeongChang 2018, is an international multi-sport event in South Korea. These Games featured 102 events in fifteen sports disciplines. 2,952 athletes from 92 National Olympic Committees competed, including the debut of Ecuador, Eritrea, Kosovo, Malaysia, Nigeria, and Singapore.
Glenn Close reprised her performance as Norma Desmond in a revival on Broadway. Featuring a 40-piece onstage orchestra and a relatively minimalist set, the production began performances at the Palace Theatre before opening officially for a limited run. The cast featured Michael Xavier as Joe Gillis, Siobhan Dillon as Betty Schaefer, and Fred Johanson as Max von Mayerling, all reprising their roles from the 2016 London ENO production.
Shanley's play, Prodigal Son, which he is directing, is produced Off-Broadway by the Manhattan Theatre Club. It features Timothée Chalamet, Robert Sean Leonard, Annika Boras, Chris McGarry and David Potters. The play concerns a lonely teen from The Bronx who attends a private school in New Hampshire.
2 Meridian-branded passenger trains were involved in a head-on collision at Bad Aibling in southeastern Germany. Of approximately 150 people on board the two trains, 12 people died and 85 others were injured, including 24 seriously. Two months after the accident, investigators announced that it had been caused by the responsible Deutsche Bahn train dispatcher who gave incorrect orders.
Bob Dylan turned the tables on his critics during a 30-minute speech, at the MusiCares charity gala honoring his career. The 73-year-old, who rarely talks about his work, asked why critics complained he "can't sing" and sounds "like a frog" but do not "say that about Tom Waits?" The singer added, "Critics say my voice is shot, that I have no voice. Why don't they say those things about Leonard Cohen? Why do I get special treatment?"
'Pink Friday' is the debut studio album by American recording artist Nicki Minaj. The album was promoted with singles 'Super Bass', 'Your Love', 'Check It Out', 'Right Thru Me', 'Moment 4 Life', 'Did It On'em', 'Girls Fall Like Dominoes' and 'Fly'. 'Pink Friday' features guest vocals from Eminem, Rihanna, Drake, will.i.am, Kanye West and Natasha Bedingfield.
Starr was honored with the 2,401st star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce. It is located at 1750 North Vine Street, in front of the Capitol Records building, as are the stars for Lennon, McCartney and Harrison. Starr was also appointed a Knight Bachelor in the 2018 New Year Honours for services to music.
Los Angeles-class submarine USS Greeneville collided with Japanese-fishery high-school training ship Ehime Maru near the south coast of Oahu, Hawaii, Within 10 minutes of the collision, Ehime Maru sank. Nine of the people on board were killed: four high-school students, two teachers, and three crewmembers.
'The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show' is the 14th episode in the eighth season of the American animated television series 'The Simpsons.' It originally aired on the Fox network in the US. This is the show's 167th episode, 'The Simpsons' surpassed 'The Flintstones' in the number of episodes produced for a prime-time animated series.
Copernicium is a synthetic chemical element with symbol Cn and atomic number 112. It is an extremely radioactive element, and can only be created in a laboratory. The most stable known isotope, copernicium-285, has a half-life of approximately 29 seconds. Copernicium was first created in 1996 by the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research near Darmstadt, Germany. It is named after the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus.
The event, which was the first one held after Johnson's appearance in the Olympics, raised over $1.3 million for UNCF. Magic Johnson joined Shaquille O'Neal and celebrity coach Spike Lee to lead the blue team to a 147–132 victory over the white team, which was coached by Arsenio Hall.
Sandler was discovered by comedian Dennis Miller, who caught Sandler's act in Los Angeles and recommended him to 'Saturday Night Live' producer Lorne Michaels. Sandler was hired as a writer for 'SNL' and became a featured player the following year. After becoming an 'SNL' cast member, Sandler went on to star in many Hollywood feature films that combined have grossed over $2 billion at the box office.
The BRIT Awards are the annual British pop music awards, considered to be the highest profile music awards ceremony in the country. The seventh, hosted by Jonathan King, was held at Grosvenor House Hotel in London. The whole event was broadcasted by BBC, the channel that did it for 8 consecutive years.
Halley comet reached its closest approach to the sun, the perihelion. Comet Halley is the only known the short-period comet that is regularly visible to the naked eye from Earth, and the only naked-eye comet that might appear twice in a human lifetime. It has been observed and recorded since at least 240 BC.
Madonna's second studio album, 'Like a Virgin', received mixed reviews after its release. However, it was a commercial success, becoming her first No. 1 on the Billboard 200, month after getting into top ten. It kept its position for three consecutive weeks after that. The album sold 3.5 million copies after 14 weeks.
Chita Rivera co-starred with Liza Minnelli in The Rink, a Kander and Ebb musical collaboration, with book by Terrence McNally, the same trio that created Kiss of the Spider Woman. Both leading ladies received a Tony nomination for Best Actress in a Musical — Rivera won the Tony Award, her first, for her role as Anna, mother to Angel.
The San Fernando earthquake occurred in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains in southern California. The unanticipated thrust earthquake had a magnitude of 6.5 on the Ms scale, and a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI. The event was one in a series that affected the Los Angeles area in the late 20th century.
The Boeing 747 is an American wide-body commercial jet airliner and cargo aircraft often referred to by its original nickname, "Jumbo Jet". The first flight took place on with test pilots Jack Waddell and Brien Wygle at the controls and Jess Wallick at the flight engineer's station.
The Rotterdam Metro is a rapid transit system operated in Rotterdam, Netherlands and surrounding municipalities by RET. The first line called Noord – Zuidlijn opened and ran from Centraal Station to Zuidplein, crossing the river Nieuwe Maas in a tunnel. It was the first metro system to open in the Netherlands. At the time it was also one of the shortest metro lines in the world with a length of only 5.9 km.
The NHL added six new teams to double its size at the NHL expansion. The league then increased to 18 teams by 1974 and 21 teams in 1979. Between 1991 and 2000, the NHL further expanded to 30 teams. It added its 31st team in 2017 and has approved the addition of the 32nd team in 2021.
The Beatles landed at NY airport at the beginning of February. Their first performance on the US television came two days after. The band appeared on 'The Ed Sullivan Show', which have been watched by roughly 73 million viewers, largest audience that had been recorded for an American TV program.
McCarthy became the most visible public face of a period in the United States in which Cold War tensions fueled fears of widespread Communist subversion. He is known for alleging that numerous Communists and Soviet spies and sympathizers had infiltrated the United States federal government, universities, film industry, and elsewhere.
DST became a local option and was observed in some states until World War II when President Franklin Roosevelt instituted year-round DST, called "War Time". It lasted until the last Sunday in September. After that many states and cities east of the Mississippi River adopted summer DST.
The Guadalcanal Campaign, also known as the Battle of Guadalcanal and codenamed Operation Watchtower by American forces, was a military campaign fought between on and around the island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific theater of World War II. It was the first major offensive by Allied forces against the Empire of Japan and it was won by Americans.
Joe Louis was an American professional boxer. Louis fought Chilean Arturo Godoy twice in the same year. The first was held at the Madison Square Garden, which Louis won by a split-decision and the rematch by a knockout in the eighth round.
William G. Morgan, a YMCA physical education director, created a new game called Mintonette, a name derived from the game of badminton, as a pastime to be played indoors and by any number of players. The game took some of its characteristics from other sports such as tennis and handball.
Falstaff is a comic opera in three acts by the Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi. The libretto was adapted by Arrigo Boito from Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor and scenes from Henry IV, parts 1 and 2. The work premiered in 1893 at La Scala, Milan. Verdi wrote Falstaff, which was the last of his 28 operas, as he was approaching the age of 80.