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| August 18th, 2005 (August 18 2005) | Event | Dennis Rader is sentenced to 175 years in prison for the BTK serial killings. | |
| August 18th, 2005 (August 18 2005) | Event | Massive power blackout hits the Indonesian island of Java, affecting almost 100 million people. | |
| August 18th, 2005 (August 18 2005) | Death | Christopher Bauman, American wrestler (born in 1982) | |
| August 18th, 2005 (August 18 2005) | Death | Gao Xiumin, Chinese comedy actress (born in 1959) | |
| August 18th, 1995 (August 18 1995) | Birth | Parker McKenna Posey, American actress | |
| August 18th, 1965 (August 18 1965) | Event | Vietnam War: Operation Starlite beginsUnited States Marines destroy a Viet Cong stronghold on the Van Tuong peninsula in the first major American ground battle of the war. | |
| August 18th, 1965 (August 18 1965) | Birth | Koji Kikkawa, Japanese singer | |
| August 18th, 1965 (August 18 1965) | Birth | Jim Florentine, American comedian | |
| August 18th, 1955 (August 18 1955) | Birth | Taher ElGamal, Egyptian scientist | |
| August 18th, 1945 (August 18 1945) | Birth | Barbara Harris, American singer (Toys) | |
| August 18th, 1935 (August 18 1935) | Birth | Rafer Johnson, American athlete | |
| August 18th, 1935 (August 18 1935) | Birth | Howard Morrison, New Zealand entertainer | |
| August 18th, 1925 (August 18 1925) | Birth | Brian Aldiss, English writer | Brian Aldiss Quotes |
| August 18th, 1925 (August 18 1925) | Birth | Pierre Grondin, French Canadian cardiac surgeon (died in 2006) | |
| August 18th, 1915 (August 18 1915) | Birth | Max Lanier, baseball player (died in 2007) | |
| August 18th, 1855 (August 18 1855) | Birth | Alfred Wallis, English artist and mariner (died in 1942) | |
| August 18th, 1815 (August 18 1815) | Death | Chauncey Goodrich, American politician (born in 1759) | |
| August 18th, 1775 (August 18 1775) | Event | The Spanish established a presidio (fort) and the town came to be called Tucson, Arizona. | |
| August 18th, 1765 (August 18 1765) | Death | Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (born in 1708) | |
| August 18th, 1685 (August 18 1685) | Birth | Brook Taylor, English mathematician (died in 1731) | |
| August 18th, 1645 (August 18 1645) | Death | Eudoxia Streshneva, Tsarina of Mikhail I of Russia (born in 1608) | |
| August 18th, 1605 (August 18 1605) | Birth | Henry Hammond, English churchman (died in 1660) | |
