August 18th, 2298

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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

Birthdays and future age on August 18th, 2298

349

Rudy Hartono

Indonesian badminton player

*August 18th, 1949, Surabaya

314

Robert Huth

German association football player

*August 18th, 1984, East Berlin

305

Sikki Reddy

Indian badminton player

*August 18th, 1993, Kodad

319

Aamir Ghaffar

Badminton player

*August 18th, 1979, Peshawar

351

Paul Yule

German-American archaeologist

*August 18th, 1947, Minneapolis

298

Belén Aizen

Argentinian handball player

*August 18th, 2000, General San Martín

299

Vitão

Brazilian singer-songwriter

*August 18th, 1999, São Paulo

301

Goh Sze Fei

Badminton player

*August 18th, 1997, Malacca

362

Robert Redford

American actor (born 1936)

*August 18th, 1936, Santa Monica

320

Sergio Llopis

Badminton player

*August 18th, 1978, Xàtiva

300

Joy Lai

Badminton player

*August 18th, 1998, Victoria

329

Edward Norton

American actor (born 1969)

*August 18th, 1969, Boston

365

Roman Polanski

French-Polish director, screenwriter, producer and actor

*August 18th, 1933, Paris

341

Carole Bouquet

French actress

*August 18th, 1957, Neuilly-sur-Seine

331

Carolin Emcke

German journalist; Peace Prize of the German Book Trade 2016

*August 18th, 1967, Mülheim an der Ruhr

334

Craig Bierko

American actor and singer

*August 18th, 1964, New York City

317

Frida Svensson

Swedish rower

*August 18th, 1981, Falkenberg

322

Michael Greis

German biathlete

*August 18th, 1976, Füssen

310

Are Strandli

Norwegian rower

*August 18th, 1988, Stavanger Municipality

351

Giulio Tremonti

Italian politician.

*August 18th, 1947, Sondrio

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