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The
18t o August
is the 230t day o the year (231st in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 135 days bidin.
Events
- 1201
- The ceety o
Riga
in present-day
Latvie
is foondit.
- 1868
- A total
solar eclipse
is seen ower Soothren an Sootheast
Asie
: It is observed bi Keeng
Mongkut
o
Siam
an
Pierre Janssen
discovers
helium
durin the event.
- 1870
-
Franco-Proushie War
: The
Battle
o Gravelotte is focht.
- 1877
-
Mars
' muin
Phobos
is discoverit.
- 1891
- A hurricane hits the Caribbean isle o
Martinique
, killin 700 fowk.
- 1917
- The Greek ceety o
Thessaloniki
is heavily damaged bi fire.
- 1920
- Weemen in the
Unitit States
gain the richt tae vote.
- 1940
-
Warld War II
: Battle o Breetain's "hardest day", wi heavy losses on baith sides.
- 1945
-
Sukarno
becomes
Preses
o
Indonesie
.
- 1959
- The
Mini
automobile
goes on sale.
- 1964
-
Sooth Africae
is banned frae the
Olympic Gemmes
ower its Apartheid policy.
- 1966
-
Vietnam War
: The
Battle
o Long Tan taks place.
- 1971
-
Vietnam War
:
Australie
an
New Zealand
decide tae withdraw their troops frae
Vietnam
.
- 1976
- The
Soviet Union
's Luna 24 probe lands on the
Muin
.
- 1977
-
Sooth Africae
activist
Steve Biko
is arrestit.
- 1983
-
Hurricane
Alicia hits
Texas
, killin 21 fowk.
- 1988
-
George H. W. Bush
maks his famous "Read my lips, No new taxes" campaign promise.
- 2004
- A laundslide at
Lochearnhead
,
Stirlin Cooncil
, closes a section o the
A84 road
.
- 2005
- A massive pouer cut affects
Java
,
Indonesie
.
- 2008
-
Pervez Musharraf
demits as
Preses
o
Pakistan
.
- 2017
-
2017 Turku stobbin
: Twa fowk are kilt in a stabbin attack in
Turku
,
Finland
.
- 2018
- Umwhile
cricketer
Imran Khan
becomes
Prime meenister
o
Pakistan
.
- 2018
- Scots baund
Runrig
plays its feenal concert, in
Stirlin
.
- 2019
- A plaque is unveiled in
Iceland
tae mourn the loss o the meltit Okjokull
Glacier
.
- 2020
- A mutiny bi
Malian
sodgers turns intae a
coup d'etat
; Preses
Ibrahim Boubacar Keita
is arrestit an later propales his demission.
- 2020
-
Joe Biden
accepts the
Democratic Pairty
nomination for
Preses o the Unitit States
; at age 77, he becomes the auldest Presidential nominee o a major US poleetical pairty.
Births
- 1685
-
Brook Taylor
, Inglis mathemateecian (d.
1731
)
- 1692
-
Louis Henri, Duke o Bourbon, Prince o Conde
(d.
1740
)
- 1750
-
Antonio Salieri
, Italian componer (d.
1825
)
- 1774
-
Meriwether Lewis
, American splorer (d.
1809
)
- 1792
-
John Russell, 1st Yerl Russell
,
Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick
(d.
1878
)
- 1830
-
Franz Joseph I o Austrick
(d.
1916
)
- 1835
-
Robert Murdoch Smith
, Scots ingineer, airchaeologist an diplomat (d.
1900
)
- 1885
-
Ivan Laing
, Scots field hockey player (d.
1917
)
- 1908
-
Sam English
, Erse fitbawer (d.
1967
)
- 1916
-
Don Keefer
, American actor (d.
2014
)
- 1920
-
Shelley Winters
, American actress (d.
2006
)
- 1921
-
Zdzislaw Zygulski, Jr.
, Pols art historian an professor (d.
2015
)
- 1927
-
Rosalynn Carter
, First Lady o the
Unitit States
- 1932
-
Luc Montagnier
, French virologist
- 1933
-
Just Fontaine
, French fitbawer
- 1933
-
Roman Polanski
, Pols-French director
- 1936
-
Gulzar
, Indie poet, lyricist an sangwriter
- 1936
-
Robert Redford
, American actor
- 1952
-
Chaudhry Mohammad Sarwar
, Scots-Pakistani politeecian
- 1952
-
Patrick Swayze
, American actor (d.
2009
)
- 1962
-
Felipe Calderon
, umwhile
Preses
o
Mexico
- 1963
-
Billy Reid
, Scots fitbawer
- 1969
-
Edward Norton
, American actor, director, screenwriter an producer
- 1969
-
Christian Slater
, American actor
- 1974
-
Duncan Hodge
, Scots rugby union player
- 1980
-
Mark Burchill
, Scots fitbawer
- 1980
-
Esteban Cambiasso
, Argentine fitbawer
- 1983
-
Mika
, Lebanese-Inglis sangster
- 1983
-
Kris Boyd
, Scots fitbawer
- 1985
-
Bryan Ruiz
, Costa Rican fitbawer
- 1986
-
Ross McCormack
, Scots fitbawer
Daiths
- 1227
-
Genghis Khan
, Mongol Emperor
- 1276
-
Pape Adrian V
(b.
1220
)
- 1503
-
Pape Alexander VI
(b.
1431
)
- 1559
-
Pape Paul IV
(b.
1476
)
- 1620
-
Wanli Emperor
o
Cheenae
(b.
1563
)
- 1642
-
Guido Reni
, Italian penter (b.
1575
)
- 1648
-
Ibrahim o the Ottoman Empire
(b.
1615
)
- 1654
-
Hugo Grotius
, Dutch polymath (b.
1583
)
- 1765
-
Francis I, Haly Roman Emperor
(b.
1708
)
- 1803
-
James Beattie
, Scots poet an philosopher (b.
1735
)
- 1850
-
Honore de Balzac
, French writer (b.
1799
)
- 1853
-
Alexander Fraser, 16t Laird Saltoun
, Scots peer (b.
1785
)
- 1874
-
William Fairbairn
, Scots ceevil ingineer (b.
1789
)
- 1936
-
Federico Garcia Lorca
, Spaingie poet, playwricht an director (b.
1898
)
- 1990
-
B. F. Skinner
, American psychologist (b.
1904
)
- 2009
-
Kim Dae-jung
,
Preses
o
Sooth Korea
(b.
1925
)
- 2012
-
Scott McKenzie
, American sangster-sangwriter (b.
1939
)
- 2014
-
Sam Galbraith
, Scots politeecian (b.
1945
)
- 2017
- Sir
Bruce Forsyth
, Inglis enterteener (b.
1928
)
- 2018
-
Kofi Annan
, Ghanaian diplomat an
Secretar-General o the Unitit Naitions
(b.
1938
)
Halidays
- 18t o Augist
is the feast day o the follaein saunts:
- St. Helena
- St. Agapitus
- Bl. Thomas Guengoro
- St. Daig Maccairaill
- St. Firminus o Metz
- St. Florus & Laurus
- St. Hugh the Little
- St. James Guengoro, Blissit
- St. John & Crispus
- St. Leo & Juliana
- Bl. Raynald o Ravenna
- Bl. Mary Guengoro
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