Historical Events on February 18 (Part 2)

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• 2019 Gun battle in Pulwama, Indian-controlled Kashmir, kills nine with Pakistan-based group Jaish-e-Mohammad held responsible
• 2019 Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei says "There's no way the US can crush us" in interview with BBC, saying his daughter's arrest politically motivated

• 2019 NHL hockey team Carolina Hurricanes owner Tom Dundon agrees to invest $250 million into the Alliance of American Football; named new chairman of the AAF

• 2020 Boy Scouts of America files for bankruptcy amid hundreds of sexual abuse lawsuits, suspending those claims

• 2020 Swarms of desert locusts affecting east Africa reach South Sudan, threatening a food crisis
• 2021 Facebook blocks users in Australia from accessing news sites in response to proposed new laws for tech companies to pay to show news content
• 2021 NASA's Perseverance rover successfully lands at Jezero Crater, Mars, on mission to find microfossils [1]
• 2021 Nearly seven million people required to boil their water in Texas as unusually harsh winter storm in the state continues
• 2022 Johannes Thingnes Bø of Norway wins his 4th biathlon gold medal of the Beijing Winter Olympics when he takes out the men's mass start
• 2022 Scientific study says the sudden drop in emissions due to COVID-19 shutdowns caused the record rainfall in eastern China in 2020 that killed hundreds [1]
• 2022 Storm Eunice [Zeynep/Nora] moves across Europe and the UK with gusts of 120mph, killing at least 17, cutting off power to millions [1]

• 2024 Massacre leaves 49 dead after tribal fighting in Papa New Guinea's Enga Province [1]

• 2024 Singaporean chess prodigy Ashwath Kaushik at eight years old is the youngest player to defeat a grandmaster in a classic tournament game at the Burgdorfer Stadthaus Open, Switzerland [1]

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