About August 18
August 18, 2024 is the 231st day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 135 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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Leo is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Peridot is the modern birthstone for this month. Diamond is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 164 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On August 18
- 1634 –Urbain Grandier, accused and convicted of sorcery, is burned alive in Loudun, France.
- 1783 –A huge fireball meteor is seen across the United Kingdom as it passes over the east coast.
- 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.
- 1868 –French astronomer Pierre Jules César Janssen discovers helium.
- 1870 –Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Gravelotte is fought.
- 1903 –German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flies his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright Brothers.
- 1917 –A Great Fire in Thessaloniki, Greece destroys 32% of the city leaving 70,000 individuals homeless.
- 1920 –The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing women’s suffrage.
- 1938 –The Thousand Islands Bridge, connecting New York State, United States with Ontario, Canada over the St. Lawrence River, is dedicated by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
- 1948 –The Australian cricket team completed a 4–0 Ashes series win over England during their undefeated Invincibles tour.
- 1958 –Brojen Das from Bangladesh swims across the English Channel in a competition, as the first Bangali as well as the first Asian to ever do it. He became first among 39 competitors.
- 1958 –Vladimir Nabokov’s controversial novel Lolita is published in the United States.
- 1963 –American civil rights movement: James Meredith becomes the first black person to graduate from the University of Mississippi.
- 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.
- 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 Phuoc Tuy Province.
- 1971 –Vietnam War: Australia and New Zealand decide to withdraw their troops from Vietnam.
- 1983 –Hurricane Alicia hits the Texas coast, killing 22 people and causing over USD $1 billion in damage (1983 dollars).
- 1989 –Leading presidential hopeful Luis Carlos Galán is assassinated near Bogotá in Colombia.
- 2008 –President of Pakistan Pervez Musharaf resigns due to the threat of impeachment.
- 2011 –The West Memphis Three are released from prison after 18 years in imprisonment.
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