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February 18

Protesters during the Revolution of Dignity

3102 BCE – According to Hindu scriptures, Kali Yuga, the last of the four stages that the world goes through as part of the cycle of yugas, began.
1814 – War of the Sixth Coalition: French troops led by Napoleon forced the Army of Bohemia to retreat after it advanced dangerously close to Paris.
1977 – The Xinjiang 61st Regiment Farm fire started during Chinese New Year when a firecracker ignited the wreaths of late Mao Zedong, killing 694 personnel.
2014 – A series of violent events (pictured) involving protesters, riot police, and unknown shooters began in Kyiv that culminated in the ousting of Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych five days later.

Angilbert (d. 814)
Per Brahe the Younger (b. 1602)
Ōyama Sutematsu (d. 1919)
J. Robert Oppenheimer (d. 1967)

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Continuing the ongoing effort to reduce the size of the Births and Deaths sections to make them manageable, I'm removing celebrities with few or no articles in other wikipedias, moving the entries to the appropriate Year in Topic article if they were not already present. This is in accordance with the guidelines. Deb (talk) 15:06, 6 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

with which guidelines? where can they be found? -- -- -- 04:58, 20 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@-- -- --: See the big beige box above? Toddst1 (talk) 04:01, 27 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]