Talk:August 18

--mav 00:09, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Selected anniversaries for the "On this day" section of the Main Page

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August 18: Ghost Festival in China (2024) Blackwater Fire 684 – Second Fitna: Umayyad partisans defeated the supporters of Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr near Damascus, cementing Umayyad control of Syria. 1823 – At least 9,000 enslaved people rebelled in the British colony in Demerara-Essequibo (in present-day Guyana), demanding emancipation. 1864 – American Civil War: At the Battle of Globe Tavern, Union forces attempted to sever the Weldon Railroad during the siege of Petersburg. 1937 – A lightning strike started the Blackwater Fire (pictured) in Shoshone National Forest, Wyoming, consuming 1,700 acres (7 km2) of old-growth forest and killing 15 firefighters. 2017 – Two people were fatally stabbed and eight others wounded by a rejected asylum seeker in an Islamist terrorist attack in Turku, Finland. Knut Alvsson (d. 1502) Maria Ulfah Santoso (b. 1911) Edward Norton (b. 1969) Evan Gattis (b. 1986) More anniversaries: August 17 August 18 August 19

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Re: Recorded this date

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. RickK 21:00, Aug 19, 2004 (UTC)

Mistake?

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)

Anyone read Cyrillic?

Removed

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

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

Ancient?

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)

1991 Soviet coup attempt

The claim that the date is incorrect is erroneous, as evidenced by this part of the article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Soviet_coup_attempt#Commencement 176.102.71.103 (talk) 15:17, 17 August 2024 (UTC)