2018
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- An earthquake and tsunami in Sulawesi kills 4,340;
- the 2018 FIFA World Cup was held in Russia and was won by France;
- Operation Olive Branch was a Turkish military incursion into the Afrin region of Syria;
- the Tham Luang cave rescue was a rescue of an association football team who got stuck in the cave situated in Thailand; 2 of the 12 team members died as a result of flooding there;
- protests occur following the assassination of Jamal Khashoggi;
- the US-China trade war is an ongoing period of economic conflict initiated by the United States, primarily through the imposition of tariffs on Chinese goods;
- Elon Musk launched his personal Tesla Roadster into space as a dummy payload for the Falcon Heavy test flight.
- yellow vests protests occur in France due to the increasing price of crude oil;
- the 2018 Winter Olympics were held in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
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2018 (MMXVIII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2018th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 18th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 9th year of the 2010s decade.