August 18th, 1947

Born on August 18th, 1947

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What happened on August 18th?

August 18th, 2008

Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf resigned under pressure from a movement to impeach him.

August 18th, 1983

Hurricane Alicia made landfall near Galveston, Texas, causing $3 billion in damage and 21 fatalities.

August 18th, 1966

Vietnam War: Members of the 6th Battalion of the Royal Australian Regiment were surrounded by a much larger Viet Cong unit at the Battle of Long Tan (helicopter pictured), but held them off for several hours until reinforcements arrived.

August 18th, 1964

East German Communist Party member Hildegard Trabant was killed while attempting to cross the Berlin Wall.

August 18th, 1948

Australia won the fifth Test of the 1948 Ashes series, becoming the first Test cricket team to go undefeated in England, earning them the nickname "The Invincibles".

August 18th, 1945

World War II: Amid a Soviet invasion of Japanese-held Sakhalin, Japanese police massacred 18 Koreans in Kamishisuka.

August 18th, 1940

Second World War: During the Battle of Britain, the Luftwaffe made an all-out effort to destroy RAF Fighter Command, with both sides combined losing more aircraft on this day than at any other point during the campaign.

August 18th, 1920

The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified, guaranteeing women's suffrage in the country.

August 18th, 1919

Russian Civil War: British motor torpedo boats raided the Bolshevik Baltic Fleet's home base of Kronstadt, sinking a depot ship and damaging a battleship.

August 18th, 1891

A hurricane struck the Caribbean island of Martinique, killing about 700 people, injuring at least 1,000 others, and causing severe damage.

August 18th, 1877

American astronomer Asaph Hall discovered Phobos, the larger of Mars's two moons, six days after discovering Deimos, the smaller one.

August 18th, 1864

American Civil War: At the Battle of Globe Tavern, Union forces attempted to sever the Weldon Railroad during the siege of Petersburg.

August 18th, 1783

A meteor procession blazed across the night sky over Great Britain.

August 18th, 1612

The trials of the Pendle and Samlesbury witches (statue pictured), among the most famous of England's witch trials, began at the assizes in Lancaster.

August 18th, 1590

John White, governor of the Roanoke Colony, the first English settlement in North America (located in present-day North Carolina), returned after a three-year absence to find it deserted (depicted).

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on August 18th

Born on August 18th, 1947

78

Giulio Tremonti

Italian politician.

*August 18th, 1947, Sondrio

78

Eleonore Weisgerber

German actress and chansonnier

*August 18th, 1947, Wiesbaden

78

Osmar Prado

Brazilian actor and writer

*August 18th, 1947, São Paulo

78

Eiichi Yamashita

Japanese politician

*August 18th, 1947, Toyonaka

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Born in 1947

78

Rodney Williams

Governor-General of Antigua and Barbuda (born 1947)

*November 2nd, 1947, Swetes

78

Hillary Clinton

American politician, diplomat, and presidential candidate (born 1947)

*October 26th, 1947, Edgewater Hospital

79

Ulf Brunnberg

Actor

*April 7th, 1947, Bromma parish

69

David Bowie

English musician and actor (1947–2016)

*January 8th, 1947, Brixton †January 10th, 2016, Manhattan

69

Gregg Allman

American musician

*December 8th, 1947, Saint Thomas Hospital †May 27th, 2017, Richmond Hill

79

Hans-Jürgen Kreische

German association football player and manager

*July 19th, 1947, Dresden

78

Stephen King

American writer (born 1947)

*September 21st, 1947, Portland

78

Geoffrey Hinton

British-Canadian computer scientist and psychologist

*December 6th, 1947, Wimbledon

79

Peter Nogly

German association football player and manager

*January 14th, 1947, Lübeck

78

Dieter Riedel

East German association football player and manager

*September 16th, 1947, Gröditz

78

Angry Anderson

Australian rock singer

*August 5th, 1947, Melbourne

78

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Austrian and American actor, bodybuilder, and politician (born 1947)

*July 30th, 1947, Thal

78

Dilma Rousseff

36th President of Brazil, 3rd President of the BRICS Bank

*December 14th, 1947, Belo Horizonte

78

Ulrich Daldrup

German Politician, Scientist and former Mayor of Aachen

*September 27th, 1947, Porta Westfalica

79

Mitt Romney

United States Senator from Utah since 2019

*March 12th, 1947, Harper University Hospital

78

Françoise Barré-Sinoussi

French virologist and Nobel laureate, co-discoverer of HIV

*July 30th, 1947, Paris

79

Elton John

British singer, songwriter and musician

*March 25th, 1947, Pinner

68

Johan Cruyff

Dutch footballer and manager (1947–2016)

*April 25th, 1947, Betondorp †March 24th, 2016, Barcelona

79

Robert Kiyosaki

American finance author and investor

*April 8th, 1947, Hilo

69

Alan Thicke

Canadian actor, songwriter, and television host (1947–2016)

*March 1st, 1947, Kirkland Lake †December 13th, 2016, Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1947 is a normal year and no leap year.

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