August 18th, 1997

Born on August 18th, 1997

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, 1997

26

Goh Sze Fei

Badminton player

*August 18th, 1997, Malacca

26

Renato Sanches

Portuguese association football player

*August 18th, 1997, Lisbon

26

Manuela Giugliano

Italian association football player

*August 18th, 1997, Castelfranco Veneto

26

Haseul

South Korean pop singer

*August 18th, 1997, Suncheon

26

Terrell Burgess

American football safety

*August 18th, 1997, Oceanside

26

Christoph Kobald

Association football player

*August 18th, 1997, Vienna

26

Sergio Gregori

Journalist and audiovisual producer

*August 18th, 1997, Valladolid

26

Maximilian Pommer

Association football player

*August 18th, 1997, Neuhaus am Rennweg

26

Jean Armel Drolé

Ivorian association football player

*August 18th, 1997, Abidjan

26

Yohanes Chiappinelli

Italian athletics competitor

*August 18th, 1997, Addis Ababa

26

Josephine Langford

Australian actress

*August 18th, 1997, Perth

26

Sami Guediri

American soccer player

*August 18th, 1997, Boca Raton

26

Simphiwe Matanzima

South African rugby union player

*August 18th, 1997, Queenstown

26

Joey Taylor

Montserratian footballer

*August 18th, 1997, Montserrat

26

Stefano Tarolli

Italian footballer

*August 18th, 1997, Foggia

26

Roko Badžim

Croatian basketball player (1997-)

*August 18th, 1997, Šibenik

26

Abdel-Hakim Abdallah

Comorian and French association football player

*August 18th, 1997, Saint-Leu

26

Tenzin Dorji

Association football player

*August 18th, 1997, Pemagatsel

26

Lerissa Henry

Federated States of Micronesia sprinter

*August 18th, 1997, Kolonia

26

Josh Emmanuel

English association football player

*August 18th, 1997, London

26

Li Jiaman

Archer

*August 18th, 1997, Beijing

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Who's birthday is on August 18th?

30

Sikki Reddy

Indian badminton player

*August 18th, 1993, Kodad

25

Joy Lai

Badminton player

*August 18th, 1998, Victoria

39

Robert Huth

German association football player

*August 18th, 1984, East Berlin

24

Vitão

Brazilian singer-songwriter

*August 18th, 1999, São Paulo

23

Belén Aizen

Argentinian handball player

*August 18th, 2000, General San Martín

74

Rudy Hartono

Indonesian badminton player

*August 18th, 1949, Surabaya

44

Aamir Ghaffar

Badminton player

*August 18th, 1979, Peshawar

29

Krists Neilands

Latvian cyclist

*August 18th, 1994, Ventspils

45

Sergio Llopis

Badminton player

*August 18th, 1978, Xàtiva

23

Nikolaj Majorov

Swedish figure skater

*August 18th, 2000, Luleå

76

Paul Yule

German-American archaeologist

*August 18th, 1947, Minneapolis

35

Are Strandli

Norwegian rower

*August 18th, 1988, Stavanger

77

Volker Lechtenbrink

German actor and singer

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

31

Kristýna Fleissnerová

Czech rower

*August 18th, 1992, Prague

42

Frida Svensson

Swedish rower

*August 18th, 1981, Falkenberg

87

Robert Redford

American actor (born 1936)

*August 18th, 1936, Santa Monica

54

Edward Norton

American actor (born 1969)

*August 18th, 1969, Boston

25

Clairo

American singer-songwriter (born 1998)

*August 18th, 1998, Atlanta

96

Rosalynn Carter

First Lady of the United States from 1977 to 1981

*August 18th, 1927, Plains †November 19th, 2023, Plains

29

Madelaine Petsch

American actress and YouTuber

*August 18th, 1994, Port Orchard

Same year
Born in 1997

26

Zara Larsson

Swedish singer and songwriter

*December 16th, 1997, Solna Municipality

27

Zheng Siwei

Chinese badminton player

*February 26th, 1997, Wenzhou

27

Bad Gyal

Spanish singer

*March 7th, 1997, Vilassar de Mar

27

Victor Leksell

Swedish singer

*April 4th, 1997, Torslanda

27

Becky G

American singer and actress

*March 2nd, 1997, Inglewood

26

Dechapol Puavaranukroh

Thai badminton player

*May 20th, 1997, Chonburi

27

Li Yinhui

Chinese badminton player

*March 11th, 1997, Wuhan

27

Princesa Alba

Chilean singer

*February 16th, 1997, Santiago

26

Leony

German pop singer

*June 25th, 1997, Chammünster

26

Yuta Watanabe

Badminton player

*June 13th, 1997, Suginami-ku

27

Chloë Grace Moretz

American actress (born 1997)

*February 10th, 1997, Atlanta

27

Bella Poarch

American singer and social media personality (born 1997)

*February 9th, 1997, Philippines

26

Chirag Shetty

Indian badminton player

*July 4th, 1997, Mumbai

26

Raye

British singer and songwriter

*October 24th, 1997, Tooting

27

Aaron Chia Teng Fong

Malaysian badminton player

*February 24th, 1997, Malacca

26

Dardan

German rapper

*October 2nd, 1997, Stuttgart

26

Apache 207

German rapper

*October 23rd, 1997, Ludwigshafen

26

Charles Leclerc

Monegasque racing driver

*October 16th, 1997, Monte Carlo

26

Malala Yousafzai

Pakistani children's education activist

*July 12th, 1997, Mingora

26

Fabian Reese

German association football player

*November 29th, 1997, Kiel

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Born on August 18th, 1997
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No: With 365 days 1997 is a normal year and no leap year.

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