Today in history: Feb. 18

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Today in history: Feb. 18
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A star-studded funeral service was held for pop singer Whitney Houston at New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, New Jersey, a week after her death at age 48.

In 1885, Mark Twain’s “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” was published in the U.S. for the first time .In 1970, the “Chicago Seven” defendants were found not guilty of conspiring to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic national convention; five were convicted of violating the Anti-Riot Act of 1968 .In 1988, Anthony M. Kennedy was sworn in as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.In 1994, at the Winter Olympic Games in Norway, U.S.

Norma McCorvey, whose legal challenge under the pseudonym “Jane Roe” led to the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision that legalized abortion but who later became an outspoken opponent of the procedure, died in Katy, Texas, at age 69.Omar Abdel-Rahman, the so-called “Blind Sheik” convicted of plotting terror attacks in the United States in the 1990s, died at a federal prison in North Carolina where he was serving a life sentence; he was 78.

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