August 18th, 2002

Born on August 18th, 2002

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, 2002

21

Janis Antiste

French association football player

*August 18th, 2002, Toulouse

21

Jorge Eduardo García

Mexican actor and television actor

*August 18th, 2002, Mexico City

21

Bart Verbruggen

Dutch association football player

*August 18th, 2002, Breda

21

Amar Dedić

Bosnian footballer

*August 18th, 2002, Zell am See

Same Day
Who's birthday is on August 18th?

30

Sikki Reddy

Indian badminton player

*August 18th, 1993, Kodad

23

Belén Aizen

Argentinian handball player

*August 18th, 2000, General San Martín

39

Robert Huth

German association football player

*August 18th, 1984, East Berlin

24

Vitão

Brazilian singer-songwriter

*August 18th, 1999, São Paulo

74

Rudy Hartono

Indonesian badminton player

*August 18th, 1949, Surabaya

25

Joy Lai

Badminton player

*August 18th, 1998, Victoria

26

Goh Sze Fei

Badminton player

*August 18th, 1997, Malacca

44

Aamir Ghaffar

Badminton player

*August 18th, 1979, Peshawar

23

Nikolaj Majorov

Swedish figure skater

*August 18th, 2000, Luleå

45

Sergio Llopis

Badminton player

*August 18th, 1978, Xàtiva

76

Paul Yule

German-American archaeologist

*August 18th, 1947, Minneapolis

29

Krists Neilands

Latvian cyclist

*August 18th, 1994, Ventspils

77

Volker Lechtenbrink

German actor and singer

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

20

Ian Gaudet

Canadian canoeist

*August 18th, 2003, Halifax

35

Are Strandli

Norwegian rower

*August 18th, 1988, Stavanger

87

Robert Redford

American actor (born 1936)

*August 18th, 1936, Santa Monica

23

Andreea Dragoman

Romanian table tennis player

*August 18th, 2000, Mediaș

54

Edward Norton

American actor (born 1969)

*August 18th, 1969, Boston

42

Frida Svensson

Swedish rower

*August 18th, 1981, Falkenberg

96

Rosalynn Carter

First Lady of the United States from 1977 to 1981

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

Same year
Born in 2002

22

Josie Nelson

British cyclist

*April 8th, 2002, Burton upon Trent

21

NLE Choppa

American rapper from Tennessee (born. 2002)

*November 1st, 2002, Memphis

21

Alika Milova

Estonian singer-songwriter

*September 5th, 2002, Narva

22

Lil Mosey

American rapper and singer-songwriter

*January 25th, 2002, Mountlake Terrace

21

Lil Tecca

American rapper and singer-songwriter

*August 26th, 2002, Queens

21

João Gomes

Brazilian singer-songwriter

*July 31st, 2002, Serrita

21

Jasmine Liu

American Samoan beach handball player

*September 2nd, 2002, Vaitogi

22

Trueno

Argentinian rapper and singer

*March 25th, 2002, Buenos Aires

19

Einár

Swedish rapper (2002–2021)

*September 5th, 2002, Stockholm †October 21st, 2021, Hammarby Sjöstad

22

Matteo Romano

Italian singer (2002-)

*March 20th, 2002, Cuneo

22

Indah Cahya Sari Jamil

Badminton player

*March 16th, 2002, Gowa Regency

21

Riko Gunji

Badminton player

*July 31st, 2002, Ebina

21

Rui Hirokami

Badminton player

*July 26th, 2002, Takaoka

22

Christo Popov

Badminton player

*March 8th, 2002, Sofia

21

Cheng Xing

Chinese badminton player

*May 7th, 2002, Jiujiang, Guangdong

21

Srivedya Gurazada

US American badminton player

*August 15th, 2002, Boston

21

Katharina Fink

Italian badminton player

*November 14th, 2002, Bolzano

21

Jesita Putri Miantoro

Badminton player

*May 1st, 2002, Depok City

22

Ishaan Bhatnagar

Indian badminton player

*February 2nd, 2002, Raipur

21

Myisha Mohd Khairul

Malaysian badminton player

*July 27th, 2002, Johor Bahru

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Born on August 18th, 2002
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Leap year

No: With 365 days 2002 is a normal year and no leap year.

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