August 18

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on August 18. From 1900 until now. August 18 is under the sign of Leo. Famous birthdays on this day include Robert Redford (1936), Edward Norton (1969) and Roman Polanski (1933). Several movies were released around August 18 over the years, such as Pather Panchali in 1955 directed by Satyajit Ray and Rashomon in 1950 directed by Akira Kurosawa.
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2018 Russian president Vladimir Putin attends the wedding of Austrian foreign minister Karin Kneissl (FPÖ) and businessman Wolfgang Malinger. (BBC)
2017 Aftermath of the 2017 Barcelona attacks: Catalan police in the coastal town of Cambrils kill five suspected terrorists in a counter-terror operation to stop a second van attack. The police reported the attackers were wearing explosive vests, however they were later discovered to be fakes. (BBC)
2016 Kurdish–Turkish conflict (2015–present): Three bombings targeting police and military kill at least 12 people and wound 219 in southeast Turkey. (BBC)
2015 War in Donbass: Fighting intensifies near the ceasefire line in eastern Ukraine with both the Government of Ukraine and the rebels blaming each other. The separatist-held cities of Donetsk and Horlivka have been bombed with hundreds of shells and rockets in the last 72 hours. (The New York Times)
2014 War in Donbass:: Ukrainian forces say they recapture control of Mala Ivanivka and Andrianivka from pro-Russian insurgents, effectively isolating the rebel controlled city of Horlivka. (Reuters)
2013 Syrian civil war: A team of twenty UN weapons inspectors arrives in the capital, Damascus, to investigate the alleged use of chemical weapons in the conflict. (BBC)
2012 Syrian civil war:
2011 At least fourteen people die after a minibus hits a roadside bomb in Afganistan's Herat province. (Voice of America)
2010 The corpse of mayor Edelmiro Cavazos of the Mexican town of Santiago, Nuevo León, is found handcuffed and blindfolded after his abduction on Sunday night. (BBC) (Aljazeera) (Los Angeles Times) (AP via Miamai Herald) (Reuters)
2009 Veteran US newspaper columnist Robert Novak dies at age 78 after a battle with brain cancer.
2008 President Of Pakistan Pervez Musharaf resigns due to pressure from opposition.
2007 Rescuers say that a fourth hole in the Crandall Canyon mine near Huntington, Utah shows no sign of six trapped miners. (AP via Houston Chronicle)
2006 Ford Motor Company will idle 10 plants in North America temporarily as it slashes production by 21%. (CNN Money)
2005 Dennis Rader is sentenced to 175 years in prison for the BTK serial killings.
2004 In a statement issued from his Baghdad office, Shiite Muslim cleric Muqtada al-Sadr agrees to order his militia to leave the Imam Ali Mosque in Najaf, Iraq, after threats by Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's government to "liberate" it. Al-Sadr further agrees to disband his Jaish-i-Mahdi militia, and enter the "mainstream political process". It remains unclear when the withdrawal will actually take place. (CNN) (Reuters)
2003 War on Terrorism: Arab television airs an audio tape allegedly from al Qaeda official Abdel Rahman al-Najdi saying Osama bin Laden and Taliban chief Mullah Omar are alive. The tape advocates Muslims to commit terroristic acts and fight the Coalition forces in Iraq.
2002 Extreme weather: One of the sea lions who escaped from the Prague Zoo on the 13th is safely recaptured near Wittenberg.
2000 A Federal jury finds the US EPA guilty of discrimination against Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, later inspiring passage of the No FEAR Act.
1996 The San Jose Mercury News publishes Gary Webb's three-part series on the Reagan CIA's role in crack cocaine importation to fund the Contras.
1995 Cards reliever Tom Henke earns his 300th career save
1994 5.6 earthquake in Algeria, kills 171
1993 Historical Kapelbrug in Luzern Switz, destroyed by fire
1992 Real Inspector Hound opens at Criterion NYC for 61 performances
1991 Cindy Rarick wins LPGA Northgate Computer Golf Classic
1990 B.F. Skinner, American psychologist (Skinner Box), dies from Leukemia at age 86 (born 1904).
1989 Leading presidential hopeful Luis Carlos Galan is assassinated near Bogota in Colombia.
1988 Largest house (130 rooms) on Long Island, New York sells for $22 million.
1987 Houston Oiler Earl Campbell, retires from NFL
1986 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Philadelphia PA on WYSP 94.1 FM
1985 Muffin Spencer-Devlin wins MasterCard International Pro-Am Golf Tourn
1984 Triangle Oil Corp, above-ground storage tank at Jacksonville Florida, spills 2.5 million gallons of oil burned after lightning sparked a fire.
1983 Royals defeat Yanks, 5-4, completing pine-tar game (12 minutes). Hal McRae strikes out and Dan Quisenberry retires Yankees in order
1982 1st time NYSE tops 100 M figure, 132.69 M shares traded
1981 My Fair Lady opens at Uris Theater NYC for 119 performances
1979 Iran Ayatollah Khomeini demands Saint War against Kurds
1978 Memphis Tenn settles with striking police officers and firefighters
1977 2 girls are killed by a runaway car outside of Graceland
1976 In the Korean Demilitarized Zone at Panmunjeom, the Axe Murder Incident results in the death of two US soldiers.
1974 Joanne Carner wins LPGA St. Paul Keller Golf Open
1973 Gene Krupa, drummer, plays for final time with Benny Goodman Quartet
1971 Vietnam War: Australia and New Zealand decide to withdraw their troops from Vietnam.
1969 Mick Jagger accidentally shot while filming Ned Kelly
1968 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Holiday Inn Golf Classic
1967 Red Sox Tony Conigliaro is beaned by Angels Jack Hamilton
1966 Vietnam War: the Battle of Long Tan occurs, when a patrol of 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment encounter the Viet Cong.
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.
1964 Beatles arrive in SF, 2nd US visit
1963 James Meredith becomes 1st black graduate from University of Mississippi
1962 Peter, Paul and Mary release their first hit "If I Had a Hammer".
1961 Construction on Berlin Wall completed.
1960 1st commercial oral contraceptive, Enovid 10 debuts in Skokie, Illinois
1958 Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov, published
1957 Betty Dodd wins LPGA Colonial Golf Open
1956 Cin Reds (8) and Cubs (2) combine to hit 10 HRs in a 9 inning game
1955 46.1 cm rainfall at Westfield, Massachusetts (state record)
1954 James E Wilkins is 1st black to attend a US cabinet meeting
1953 The second Kinsey Report, ''Sexual Behavior in the Human Female'', is published in the US.
1949 Hungary adopts constitution
1948 The Australian cricket team completed a 4 : 0 Ashes series win over England during their undefeated Invincibles tour.
1947 Naval torpedo and mine factory explodes at Cadiz, Spain, killing 168, injuring 4000.
1946 Golf Writers Associaton of America formed.
1945 Scheduled demonstrations at Polo Grounds and Ebbets Field to end segregation in organized baseball are called off
1944 Paris railroad workers strike against Nazi occupiers
1943 Carl Hubbell wins his 253rd and final game, all with Giants
1941 Concentration camp Amersfoort opens
1940 71 German aircrafts shot down above England
1938 FDR dedicates Thousand Islands Bridge connecting US and Canada
1937 1st FM radio construction permit issued (W1X0J (WGTR) in Boston, Massachusetts)
1936 106.5 degrees F - hottest afternoon ever in Iowa.
1934 48th US Womens Tennis: Helen Jacobs beats Sarah H Cooke (61 64)
1932 Auguste Piccard / Max Cosijns reach 16,201m in a balloon
1931 Lou Gehrig hitless in Detroit, his 1,000th consecutively played game
1930 Eastern Airlines begins passenger service.
1926 Weather map televised for 1st time
1925 Belgian and US sign treaty about war debts
1924 France begins retracting troops out of Ruhrgebied
1923 37th US Womens Tennis: Helen Wills Moody beats Molla B Mallory (62 61)
1920 1st class debut of Walter Hammond
1919 Anti-Cigarette League of America forms in Chicago Illinois
1917 Dutch Naval Air Force forms (MLD)
1915 Braves Field opens in Boston to see Braves beat Cards 3-1
1914 French troops under general Dubail occupy Sarrebourg
1909 Mayor of Tokyo Yukio Ozaki presents Washington, D.C. with 2,000 cherry trees, which President Taft decides to plant near the Potomac River.
1903 German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flies his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright Brothers.
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