August 18th, 1979

Born on August 18th, 1979

Age in days, weeks and months
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What happened on August 18th?

August 18th, 2017

Two people were killed and eight others wounded when a rejected asylum seeker went on a knife rampage in Turku, Finland.

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, 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, 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, 1979

44

Aamir Ghaffar

Badminton player

*August 18th, 1979, Peshawar

44

Stuart Dew

Australian rules footballer

*August 18th, 1979, Adelaide

44

Alexander Mikhaylin

Russian judoka

*August 18th, 1979, Moscow

44

Fred Carreiro

Brazilian footballer

*August 18th, 1979, Belo Horizonte

44

Edward Boyden

American neuroscientist

*August 18th, 1979, Plano

44

Miikka Turunen

Finnish football player

*August 18th, 1979, Varkaus

44

Oğuz Dağlaroğlu

Turkish footballer

*August 18th, 1979, Istanbul

44

Selena Silver

Australian pornographic actress

*August 18th, 1979, Sydney

43

Thomas Mace-Archer-Mills

American commentator on the British royal family

*August 18th, 1979, Bolton Landing †November 30th, 2022

44

Christine Amertil

Athletics competitor

*August 18th, 1979, Nassau

44

Víctor Merino

Salvadoran footballer

*August 18th, 1979, Apopa

44

Thabang Stemmer

Association footballer

*August 18th, 1979, Soweto

44

Shaker Asad

Palestinian-American soccer player

*August 18th, 1979, Gaza City

44

Rocky Peeters

Belgian footballer

*August 18th, 1979, Herentals

44

Peter Byaruhanga

Ugandan footballer

*August 18th, 1979, Kampala

44

Mohib Mirza

Actor

*August 18th, 1979, Karachi

44

Martin Šarić

Argentine footballer

*August 18th, 1979, Buenos Aires

44

Malik R. Dahlan

International lawyer

*August 18th, 1979, Mecca

44

Kim Seung-hyun

South Korean footballer

*August 18th, 1979, South Korea

44

Isaias Bardales Jr.

American soccer player

*August 18th, 1979, San Jose

44

Paul Scates

Writer and activist (b. 1979)

*August 18th, 1979, Bournemouth

44

Inna Yaitskaya

Russian swimmer

*August 18th, 1979, Tolyatti

44

Cristian Gil Mosquera

Colombian footballer

*August 18th, 1979, Cali

44

Colleen Lanne

American swimmer

*August 18th, 1979, Tucson

44

Yurisel Laborde

Cuban judoka

*August 18th, 1979, Santiago de Cuba

44

Dzhambulad Bazayev

Russian footballer

*August 18th, 1979, Rustavi

44

Petra Vítková

Czech handball player

*August 18th, 1979, Prague

44

Mounir Madoui

Association football player

*August 18th, 1979, Sétif

44

Mateusz Bartczak

Polish footballer

*August 18th, 1979, Legnica

44

Nicolas Tourte

French tennis player

*August 18th, 1979, Chambéry

44

Ahmed Al-Kudmani

Saudi Arabian swimmer

*August 18th, 1979, Jeddah

44

Choi Phillip

South Korean actor

*August 18th, 1979, Seoul

44

Mohd Fareed Shah Hassan

Malaysian footballer

*August 18th, 1979, Selangor

44

Ramy Adel

Football player

*August 18th, 1979, Cairo

44

Tara Lynn Wilson

Canadian actress (*1979)

*August 18th, 1979, Vancouver

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39

Robert Huth

German association football player

*August 18th, 1984, East Berlin

45

Sergio Llopis

Badminton player

*August 18th, 1978, Xàtiva

30

Sikki Reddy

Indian badminton player

*August 18th, 1993, Kodad

74

Rudy Hartono

Indonesian badminton player

*August 18th, 1949, Surabaya

42

Frida Svensson

Swedish rower

*August 18th, 1981, Falkenberg

43

Esteban Cambiasso

Argentine association football player

*August 18th, 1980, Buenos Aires

47

Michael Greis

German biathlete

*August 18th, 1976, Füssen

23

Belén Aizen

Argentinian handball player

*August 18th, 2000, General San Martín

24

Vitão

Brazilian singer-songwriter

*August 18th, 1999, São Paulo

26

Goh Sze Fei

Badminton player

*August 18th, 1997, Malacca

45

Andy Samberg

American comedian, actor and producer

*August 18th, 1978, Berkeley

25

Joy Lai

Badminton player

*August 18th, 1998, Victoria

54

Edward Norton

American actor (born 1969)

*August 18th, 1969, Boston

76

Paul Yule

German-American archaeologist

*August 18th, 1947, Minneapolis

77

Volker Lechtenbrink

German actor and singer

*August 18th, 1944, Zelenogradsk †November 22nd, 2021, Hamburg

56

Carolin Emcke

German journalist; Peace Prize of the German Book Trade 2016

*August 18th, 1967, Mülheim an der Ruhr

42

Dimitris Salpingidis

Greek footballer

*August 18th, 1981, Thessaloniki

35

Are Strandli

Norwegian rower

*August 18th, 1988, Stavanger Municipality

87

Robert Redford

American actor (born 1936)

*August 18th, 1936, Santa Monica

46

Alastair Heathcote

British rower

*August 18th, 1977, Athens

Same year
Born in 1979

45

Gao Ling

Chinese badminton player

*March 14th, 1979, Wuhan

45

Yang Wei

Chinese badminton player

*January 13th, 1979, Guangdong

44

Tine Baun

Danish badminton player

*July 21st, 1979, Hørsholm

44

Deborah Secco

Brazilian actress

*November 26th, 1979, Rio de Janeiro

45

Johan Harstad

Norwegian author

*February 10th, 1979, Stavanger Municipality

44

Saralee Thungthongkam

Badminton player

*June 13th, 1979, Bangkok

44

Anders Kristiansen

Badminton player

*September 7th, 1979, Frederikssund Municipality

44

Nikhil Kanetkar

Badminton player

*May 13th, 1979, Pune

44

Guf

Russian rapper

*September 23rd, 1979, Ivanteyevskaya Street

44

Ghayath Almadhoun

Swedish poet

*July 19th, 1979, Damascus

45

Dan Tangnes

Norwegian ice hockey player (1979-)

*March 8th, 1979, Oslo

44

Patricia Aulitzky

Austrian actress

*July 7th, 1979, Salzburg

44

Mia Audina

Indonesian badminton player

*August 22nd, 1979, Jakarta

44

Chen Hong

Badminton player

*November 28th, 1979, Changting County

45

Ingo Kindervater

Badminton player

*January 1st, 1979, Burgwedel

44

Britta Andersen

Badminton player

*December 19th, 1979, Aarhus

44

Vincent Kartheiser

American actor

*May 5th, 1979, Minneapolis

44

Chris Pratt

American actor (born 1979)

*June 21st, 1979, Virginia

45

Lise Risom Olsen

Norwegian actress

*March 1st, 1979, Fredrikstad Municipality

44

Diego Forlán

Uruguayan association football player and manager

*May 19th, 1979, Montevideo

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No: With 365 days 1979 is a normal year and no leap year.

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