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On February 18, -3102: Kali Yuga, the fourth and final yuga of Hinduism, starts with the death of Krishna.

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Kali Yuga, the fourth and final yuga of Hinduism, starts with the death of Krishna.

Kali Yuga, in Hinduism, is the fourth, shortest, and worst of the four yugas in a Yuga cycle, preceded by Dvapara Yuga and followed by the next cycle's Krita (Satya) Yuga. It is believed to be the present age, which is full of conflict and sin.

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Born on February 18

Manu Bhaker 2002– Indian sport shooter (born 2002)
Tanguy Coulibaly 2001– French footballer (born 2001)
Jaime Jaquez Jr. 2001– American-Mexican basketball player (born 2001)
Zakaria Aboukhlal 2000– Footballer (born 2000)
Giacomo Raspadori 2000– Italian footballer (born 2000)
Vernon 1998– South Korean and American rapper (born 1998)
DK 1997– South Korean singer (born 1997)
Odysseas Adam 1997– Greek volleyball player (born 1997)
Brandon Jones 1997– American racing driver (born 1997)
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Tyler Dorsey 1996– American-Greek basketball player (born 1996)
Nathan Aké 1995– Dutch footballer (born 1995)
J-Hope 1994– South Korean rapper (born 1994)
Paul Zipser 1994– German basketball player (born 1994)
Kentavious Caldwell-Pope 1993– American basketball player (born 1993)
Le'Veon Bell 1992– American football player (born 1992)
Martin Marinčin 1992– Slovak ice hockey player (born 1992)
Logan Miller 1992– American actor
Sebastian Neumann 1991– German footballer

People

Died on February 18

Borislav Paravac Bosnian Serb politician (1943–2026)
Gene Hackman American actor (1930–2025)
Gerald Ridsdale Australian laicised Catholic priest and sex offender (1934–2025)
Hurricane American Secret Service canine (2009–2025)
Flavio Bucci Italian actor (1947–2020)
Alessandro Mendini Italian designer and architect (1931–2019)
Elchanan Heilprin Slovak-born English rabbi (1921–2015)
Mavis Gallant Canadian writer (1922–2014)
Maria Franziska von Trapp Member of Trapp Family Singers (1914–2014)
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Balthus French artist (1908–2001)
Dale Earnhardt American racing driver (1951–2001)
Ngaio Marsh New Zealand crime writer and theatre director (1895–1982)
Jack Northrop Aircraft industrialist and designer, founder of Northrop Corporation
Andy Devine American actor (1905–1977)
Dragiša Cvetković Yugoslav politician
J. Robert Oppenheimer American theoretical physicist (1904–1967)
Grigory Nelyubov Soviet cosmonaut
Gertrude Vanderbilt American stage actress (1885-1960)

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  1. -3102 Kali Yuga, the fourth and final yuga of Hinduism, starts with the death of Krishna.

    Last of four yugas (ages) in Hindu cosmology

    Kali Yuga, in Hinduism, is the fourth, shortest, and worst of the four yugas in a Yuga cycle, preceded by Dvapara Yuga and followed by the next cycle's Krita (Satya) Yuga. It is believed to be the present age, which is full of conflict and sin.

  2. 1229 The Sixth Crusade: Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, signs a ten-year truce with al-Kamil, regaining Jerusalem, Nazareth, and Bethlehem with neither military engagements nor support from the papacy.

    1228–1229 attempted conquest of the Holy Land

    The Sixth Crusade (1228–1229), also known as the Crusade of Frederick II, was a military expedition to recapture Jerusalem and the rest of the Holy Land. It began seven years after the failure of the Fifth Crusade and involved very little actual fighting. The diplomatic maneuvering of the Holy Roman emperor and king of Sicily, Frederick II, resulted in the Kingdom of Jerusalem regaining some control over Jerusalem for much of the ensuing fifteen years as well as over other areas of the Holy Land.

  3. 1268 The Battle of Wesenberg is fought between the Livonian Order and Dovmont of Pskov.

    Part of the Northern Crusades

    The Battle of Wesenberg, Rakvere, or Rakovor, was fought on 18 February 1268 between the combined forces of Danish Estonia, the Bishopric of Dorpat, the Livonian Order, and local Estonian militias on one side, and the combined Russian forces of Novgorod and Pskov, led by Dmitry of Pereslavl, on the other. Medieval accounts of the battle vary, with both sides claiming victory.

  4. 1332 Amda Seyon I, Emperor of Ethiopia begins his campaigns in the southern Muslim provinces.

    Emperor of Ethiopia from 1314 to 1344

    Amda Seyon I, also known as Amda Tsiyon I, throne name Gebre Mesqel, was Emperor of Ethiopia from 1314 to 1344 and a member of the Solomonic dynasty.

  5. 1637 Eighty Years' War: Off the coast of Cornwall, England, a Spanish fleet intercepts an important Anglo-Dutch merchant convoy of 44 vessels escorted by six warships, destroying or capturing 20 of them.

    c. 1566/1568–1648 war in Habsburg Netherlands

    The Eighty Years' War or Dutch Revolt was an armed conflict in the Habsburg Netherlands between disparate groups of rebels and the Spanish government. The causes of the war included the Reformation, centralisation, excessive taxation, and the rights and privileges of the Dutch nobility and cities.

  6. 1735 The ballad opera called Flora, or Hob in the Well went down in history as the first opera of any kind to be produced in North America (Charleston, S.C.)
  7. 1781 Fourth Anglo-Dutch War: Captain Thomas Shirley opens his expedition against Dutch colonial outposts on the Gold Coast of Africa (present-day Ghana).
  8. 1791 Congress passes a law admitting the state of Vermont to the Union, effective 4 March, after that state had existed for 14 years as a de facto independent largely unrecognized state.
  9. 1797 French Revolutionary Wars: Sir Ralph Abercromby and a fleet of 18 British warships invade Trinidad.
  10. 1814 Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Montereau.
  11. 1861 In Montgomery, Alabama, Jefferson Davis is inaugurated as the provisional President of the Confederate States of America.
  12. 1861 With Italian unification almost complete, Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont, Savoy and Sardinia assumes the title of King of Italy.
  13. 1873 Bulgarian revolutionary leader Vasil Levski is executed by hanging in Sofia by the Ottoman authorities.
  14. 1878 John Tunstall is murdered by outlaw Jesse Evans, sparking the Lincoln County War in Lincoln County, New Mexico.
  15. 1885 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is published in the United States.
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  1. 1900 Second Boer War: Imperial forces suffer their worst single-day loss of life on Bloody Sunday, the first day of the Battle of Paardeberg.
  2. 1906 Édouard de Laveleye forms the Belgian Olympic Committee in Brussels.
  3. 1911 The first official flight with airmail takes place from Allahabad, United Provinces, British India (now India), when Henri Pequet, a 23-year-old pilot, delivers 6,500 letters to Naini, about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) away.
  4. 1915 U-boat Campaign: The Imperial German Navy institutes unrestricted submarine warfare in the waters around Great Britain and Ireland.
  5. 1930 While studying photographs taken in January, Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto.
  6. 1930 Elm Farm Ollie becomes the first cow to fly in a fixed-wing aircraft and also the first cow to be milked in an aircraft.
  7. 1932 The Empire of Japan creates the independent state of Manzhouguo (the obsolete Chinese name for Manchuria) free from the Republic of China and installed former Chinese Emperor Puyi as Chief Executive of the State.
  8. 1938 Second Sino-Japanese War: During the Nanking Massacre, the Nanking Safety Zone International Committee is renamed "Nanking International Rescue Committee", and the safety zone in place for refugees falls apart.
  9. 1942 World War II: The Imperial Japanese Army begins the systematic extermination of perceived hostile elements among the Chinese in Singapore.
  10. 1943 World War II: The Nazis arrest the members of the White Rose movement.
  11. 1943 World War II: Joseph Goebbels delivers his Sportpalast speech.
  12. 1945 World War II: American and Brazilian troops kick off Operation Encore in Northern Italy, a successful limited action in the Northern Apennines that prepares for the western portion of the Allied Spring offensive.
  13. 1946 Sailors of the Royal Indian Navy mutiny in Bombay harbour, from where the action spreads throughout the Provinces of British India, involving 78 ships, twenty shore establishments and 20,000 sailors
  14. 1947 First Indochina War: The French gain complete control of Hanoi after forcing the Viet Minh to withdraw to the mountains.
  15. 1954 The first Church of Scientology is established in Los Angeles.

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