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What Happened on August 18th This Day in History

Year	Name
2019	One hundred activists, officials, and other concerned citizens in Iceland hold a funeral for Okjökull glacier, which has completely melted after having once covered six square miles (15.5 km2).
2017	The first terrorist attack ever sentenced as a crime in Finland kills two and injures eight.
2008	The President of Pakistan, Pervez Musharra, resigns under threat of impeachment.
2008	War of Afghanistan: The Uzbin Valley ambush occurs.
2005	A massive power blackout hits the Indonesian island of Java; affecting almost 100 million people, it is one of the largest and most widespread power outages in history.
2003	One-year-old Zachary Turner is murdered in Newfoundland by his mother, who was awarded custody despite facing trial for the murder of Zachary's father. The case was documented in the film Dear Zachary and led to reform of Canada's bail laws.
1993	American International Airways Flight 808 crashes at Leeward Point Field at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, injuring the three crew members.
1989	Leading presidential hopeful Luis Carlos Galán is assassinated near Bogotá in Colombia.
1983	Hurricane Alicia hits the Texas coast, killing 21 people and causing over US$1 billion in damage (1983 dollars).
1977	Steve Biko is arrested at a police roadblock under Terrorism Act No. 83 of 1967 in King William's Town, South Africa. He later dies from injuries sustained during this arrest, bringing attention to South Africa's apartheid policies.
1976	The Korean axe murder incident in Panmunjom results in the deaths of two US Army officers.
1976	The Soviet Union’s robotic probe Luna 24 successfully lands on the Moon.
1971	Vietnam War: Australia and New Zealand decide to withdraw their troops from Vietnam.
1966	Vietnam War: The Battle of Long Tan ensues after a patrol from the 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment clashes with a Viet Cong force in Phước Tuy Province.
1965	Vietnam War: Operation Starlite begins: United States Marines destroy a Viet Cong stronghold on the Van Tuong peninsula in the first major American ground battle of the war.
1963	Civil rights movement: James Meredith becomes the first African American to graduate from the University of Mississippi.
1958	Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel Lolita is published in the United States.
1958	Brojen Das from Bangladesh swims across the English Channel in a competition as the first Bengali and the first Asian to do so, placing first among the 39 competitors.
1950	Julien Lahaut, the chairman of the Communist Party of Belgium, is assassinated. The Party newspaper blames royalists and Rexists.
1945	Sukarno takes office as the first president of Indonesia, following the country's declaration of independence the previous day.
1945	Soviet-Japanese War: Battle of Shumshu: Soviet forces land at Takeda Beach on Shumshu Island and launch the Battle of Shumshu; the Soviet Union’s Invasion of the Kuril Islands commences.
1940	World War II: The Hardest Day air battle, part of the Battle of Britain, takes place. At that point, it is the largest aerial engagement in history with heavy losses sustained on both sides.
1938	The Thousand Islands Bridge, connecting New York, United States, with Ontario, Canada, over the Saint Lawrence River, is dedicated by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1937	A lightning strike starts the Blackwater Fire of 1937 in Shoshone National Forest, killing 15 firefighters within 3 days and prompting the United States Forest Service to develop their smokejumper program.
1933	The Volksempfänger is first presented to the German public at a radio exhibition; the presiding Nazi Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, delivers an accompanying speech heralding the radio as the ‘eighth great power’.
1923	The first British Track and Field championships for women are held in London, Great Britain.
1920	The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing women's suffrage.
1917	A Great Fire in Thessaloniki, Greece, destroys 32% of the city leaving 70,000 individuals homeless.
1903	German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flies his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright brothers.
1891	A major hurricane strikes Martinique, leaving 700 dead.
1877	American astronomer Asaph Hall discovers Phobos, one of Mars’s moons.[11][12]
1870	Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Gravelotte is fought.
1868	French astronomer Pierre Janssen discovers helium.
1864	American Civil War: Battle of Globe Tavern: Union forces try to cut a vital Confederate supply-line into Petersburg, Virginia, by attacking the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad.
1848	Camila O'Gorman and Ladislao Gutierrez are executed on the orders of Argentine dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas.
1838	The Wilkes Expedition, which would explore the Puget Sound and Antarctica, weighs anchor at Hampton Roads.
1826	Major Gordon Laing becomes the first European to enter Timbuktu.
1809	The Senate of Finland is established in the Grand Duchy of Finland after the official adoption of the Statute of the Government Council by Tsar Alexander I of Russia.
1783	A huge fireball meteor is seen across Great Britain as it passes over the east coast.
1721	The city of Shamakhi in Safavid Shirvan is sacked.[7]
1634	Urbain Grandier, accused and convicted of sorcery, is burned alive in Loudun, France.
1612	The trial of the Pendle witches, one of England's most famous witch trials, begins at Lancaster Assizes.
1590	John White, the governor of the Roanoke Colony, returns from a supply trip to England and finds his settlement deserted.
1572	The Huguenot King Henry III of Navarre marries the Catholic Margaret of Valois, ostensibly to reconcile the feuding Protestants and Catholics of France.
1492	The first grammar of the Spanish language (Gramática de la lengua castellana) is presented to Queen Isabella I.
1487	The Siege of Málaga ends with the taking of the city by Castilian and Aragonese forces.
1304	The Battle of Mons-en-Pévèle is fought to a draw between the French army and the Flemish militias.
707	Princess Abe accedes to the imperial Japanese throne as Empress Genmei.
684	Battle of Marj Rahit:

Famous People Born on August 18

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Year	Name
1933	Roman Polanski, French-Polish director, producer, screenwriter, and actor
1900	Ruth Norman, American religious leader (d. 1993)
1987	Joanna Jędrzejczyk, Polish mixed martial artist
1885	Nettie Palmer, Australian poet and critic (d. 1964)
1967	Daler Mehndi, Indian Punjabi singer, songwriter and record producer
1792	John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1878)
1992	Bogdan Bogdanović, Serbian basketball player
1911	Amelia Boynton Robinson, American activist (d. 2015)
1720	Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers, English politician (d. 1760)
1750	Antonio Salieri, Italian composer and conductor (d. 1825)

Famous People Deaths On August 18

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Date	Name
1211	Narapatisithu, king of Burma (b. 1150)
1550	Antonio Ferramolino, Italian architect and military engineer
1944	Ernst Thälmann, German soldier and politician (b. 1886)
1648	Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1615)
2001	David Peakall, English chemist and toxicologist (b. 1931)
1502	Knut Alvsson, Norwegian nobleman and politician (b. 1455)
1563	Étienne de La Boétie, French judge and philosopher (b. 1530)
1600	Sebastiano Montelupi, Italian businessman (b. 1516)
353	Decentius, Roman usurper
1986	Harun Babunagari, Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and educationist (b. 1902)