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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, 2004 (August 18 2004) | Event | In Dublin, Ireland the Dublin Port Tunnel excavation works are completed. | |
| August 18th, 2000 (August 18 2000) | Event | Federal jury found 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. | |
| August 18th, 1992 (August 18 1992) | Event | Wang Laboratories files for bankruptcy. | An Wang Quotes |
| August 18th, 1989 (August 18 1989) | Event | Leading presidential hopeful Luis Carlos Galan is assassinated near Bogota in Colombia. | |
| August 18th, 1983 (August 18 1983) | Event | Hurricane Alicia hits the Texas coast, killing 22 people and causing over USD $1 billion in damage (1983 dollars). | |
| August 18th, 1982 (August 18 1982) | Event | Japanese election law is amended to allow for proportional representation. | |
| August 18th, 1977 (August 18 1977) | Event | Steve Biko was 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 apartheid. | William King Quotes |
| August 18th, 1976 (August 18 1976) | Event | In the Korean Demilitarized Zone at Panmunjeom, the Axe Murder Incident results in the death of two US soldiers. | |
| August 18th, 1971 (August 18 1971) | Event | Vietnam War: Australia and New Zealand decide to withdraw their troops from Vietnam. | |
| August 18th, 1969 (August 18 1969) | Event | Jimi Hendrix plays the unofficial last day of Woodstock. | Jimi Hendrix Quotes |
| August 18th, 1966 (August 18 1966) | Event | Vietnam War: The Battle of Long Tan occurs, when a patrol of Royal Australian Regiment encounter the Viet Cong. | |
| 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, 1963 (August 18 1963) | Event | American civil rights movement: James Meredith becomes the first black person to graduate from the University of Mississippi. | |
| August 18th, 1958 (August 18 1958) | Event | Vladimir Nabokov s controversial novel Lolita is published in the United States. | Vladimir Nabokov Quotes |
| August 18th, 1950 (August 18 1950) | Event | Julien Lahaut, the chairman of the Communist Party of Belgium is assassinated by far-right elements. | |
| August 18th, 1941 (August 18 1941) | Event | Adolf Hitler orders a temporary halt to Nazi Germany s systematic euthanasia of mentally ill and handicapped due to protests. | Adolf Hitler Quotes |
| August 18th, 1938 (August 18 1938) | Event | 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. | |
| August 18th, 1920 (August 18 1920) | Event | Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution ratified, guaranteeing women s suffrage. | |
| August 18th, 1917 (August 18 1917) | Event | A Great Fire in Thessaloniki, Greece destroys 32% of the city leaving 70,000 individuals homeless. | |
| August 18th, 1909 (August 18 1909) | Event | Tokyo mayor Yukio Ozaki presents Washington, D.C. with 2,000 cherry trees, which President Taft decides to plant near the Potomac River. | |
| August 18th, 1904 (August 18 1904) | Event | Chris Watson resigns as Prime Minister of Australia and is succeeded by George Reid. | |
| August 18th, 1903 (August 18 1903) | Event | German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flies his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright Brothers. | |
| August 18th, 1891 (August 18 1891) | Event | Major hurricane strikes Martinique, leaving 700 dead. | |
| August 18th, 1877 (August 18 1877) | Event | Asaph Hall discovers Martian moon Phobos. | |
| August 18th, 1870 (August 18 1870) | Event | Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Gravelotte is fought. | |
| August 18th, 1868 (August 18 1868) | Event | French astronomer Pierre Jules Cesar Janssen discovers helium. | |
| August 18th, 1864 (August 18 1864) | Event | American Civil War: Battle of Globe TavernUnion forces try to cut a vital Confederate supply-line into Petersburg, Virginia, by attacking the Weldon Railroad. | |
| August 18th, 1848 (August 18 1848) | Event | Camila O Gorman and Ladislao Gutierrez executed on orders by Argentine dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas. | |
| August 18th, 1838 (August 18 1838) | Event | The Wilkes Expedition, which would explore the Puget Sound and Antarctica, weighs anchor at Hampton Roads in 1838 | |
| August 18th, 1775 (August 18 1775) | Event | The Spanish established a presidio (fort) and the town came to be called Tucson, Arizona. | |
| August 18th, 1636 (August 18 1636) | Event | The Covenant of the Town of Dedham, Massachusetts was first signed. | |
| August 18th, 1634 (August 18 1634) | Event | Urbain Grandier, accused and convicted of sorcery, burned alive in Loudun, France. | |
| August 18th, 1590 (August 18 1590) | Event | John White, the governor of the Colony of Roanoke, returns from a supply-trip to England and finds his settlement deserted. | |
| August 18th, 1587 (August 18 1587) | Event | Virginia Dare, granddaughter of Gov. John White of the Colony of Roanoke, becomes the first English child born in the Americas. | |
| August 18th, 1587 (August 18 1587) | Event | Saul Wahl was elected King of Poland, according to legend. | |
| August 18th, 1572 (August 18 1572) | Event | Wedding in Paris of the Huguenot King Henry IV of Navarre with Marguerite de Valois, in a supposed attempt to reconcile Protestants and Catholics. | |
| August 18th, 1541 (August 18 1541) | Event | A Portuguese ship drifts ashore in the ancient Japanese province of Higo (modern day Kumamoto Prefecture). (Traditional Japanese date: July 27, 1541) | |
| August 18th, 1201 (August 18 1201) | Event | The city of Riga is founded. | |
| August 18th, 0293 (August 18 0293) | Event | The oldest known Roman temple to Venus was founded, starting the institution of Vinalia Rustica. | |
