February 18, 1745 – Italian physicist and inventor of the first battery, Alessondro Volta, is born in Como, Italy.
February 18, 1892 – American politician Wendell Willkie is born in Elwood, Indiana. He was the Republican nominee for President in 1940 waging an unsuccessful campaign in Franklin D. Roosevelt’s bid for an unprecedented third term as President.
February 19, 1473 – Nicolaus Copernicus, the mathematician and astronomer who was first to theorize that planets revolve around the sun, is born in Torun, Poland.
February 22, 1732 – George Washington is born in Westmoreland County, Virginia. He served as commander of the Continental Army during the American Revolution and became the first U. S. President.