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
- 1590 –John White, the governor of the Colony of Roanoke, returns from a supply trip to England and finds his settlement deserted.
- 1783 –A huge fireball meteor is seen across the United Kingdom as it passes over the east coast.
- 1838 –The Wilkes Expedition, which would explore the Puget Sound and Antarctica, weighs anchor at Hampton Roads in 1838
- 1848 –Camila O'Gorman and Ladislao Gutierrez are executed on the orders of Argentine dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas.
- 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.
- 1891 –Major hurricane strikes Martinique, leaving 700 dead.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1976 –In the Korean Demilitarized Zone at Panmunjeom, the Axe Murder Incident results in the death of two US soldiers.
- 1977 –Steve Biko is arrested at a police roadblock under the Terrorism Act No 83 of 1967 in King William’s Town, South Africa. He would later die of the injuries sustained during this arrest bringing attention to South Africa’s apartheid policies.
- 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.
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