This Day, That Year – February 18

Auguste Bartholdi was awarded a patent for his design of the Statue of Liberty on this day in 1879.

Did you know that:

• Alessandro Volta, an Italian inventor of the electric battery, was born on this day in 1745
• Mark Twain published the “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” on this day in 1885
• Nellie Jay was the first cow to be flown and milked in an aeroplane on this day in 1930