Talk:August 18

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August 18: Ghost Festival in China (2024)

White's discovery of the abandoned Roanoke Colony

1590 – John White, governor of the Roanoke Colony, the first English settlement in North America (located in present-day North Carolina), returned after a three-year absence to find it deserted (depicted).
1877 – American astronomer Asaph Hall discovered Phobos, the larger of Mars's two moons, six days after discovering Deimos, the smaller one.
1919 – Russian Civil War: British motor torpedo boats raided the Bolshevik Baltic Fleet's home base of Kronstadt, sinking a depot ship and damaging a battleship.
1920 – The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified, guaranteeing women's suffrage in the country.
1964 – East German Communist Party member Hildegard Trabant was killed while attempting to cross the Berlin Wall.

Olaf I of Denmark (d. 1095)
Maria Ulfah Santoso (b. 1911)
Learned Hand (d. 1961)
Jack Hobbs (b. 1988)

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Re: Recorded this date[edit]

I would like to ask: How verifiable are those entries in "Recorded this date" ? How notable ? Why does August 18 have such a section ?

-- PFHLai 20:17, 2004 Aug 19 (UTC)

I deleted them as questionable. I had thought the poster who was putting these on each of the date pages had stopped. Rick K 21:00, Aug 19, 2004 (UTC)

Mistake?[edit]

In deaths section last line states "2005 - Mohamed Khan, Indian Filmmaker (b. 1930)", but as currently it is august 11 2005, that is some kind of prediction (someone knows that person will be dead after one week) or just a strange joke? Knutux 10:16, 11 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Anyone read Cyrillic?[edit]

Removed

2008 - Зил трахнед весь мир!
2007 нах - Зил стал еще сексуальнее!

from the list of dates 14:58, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

Ancient?[edit]

1541 – A Portuguese ship drifts ashore in the ancient Japanese province of Higo (modern day Kumamoto Prefecture). (Traditional Japanese date: July 27, 1541)

Is a location where something happens in 1541 considered ancient? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.72.186.112 (talk) 13:01, 4 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]