deaths
February 18, 1966
Grigory Nelyubov, Soviet pilot and military officer (born 1934)
Grigory Nelyubov
Grigory Grigoryevich Nelyubov was one of the original 20 Soviet cosmonauts, who was dismissed from the Soviet space program in 1963 for drunk and disorderly conduct. His existence in the program was kept secret until the advent of Soviet glasnost in the late 1980s. He killed himself on 18 February 1966.
February 18
February 18 is the 49th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 316 days remain until the end of the year.