Sunday August 18, 2024
A date scroll with Latin text from “The Extremes of Good and Evil” by Cicero, written in 45 BC.

: Day of the Week

was the of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There were until the end of the year. The day of the week was .

If you are trying to learn Spanish then this day of the week in Spanish is domingo.

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Zodiac & Birthstone

Leo is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Peridot is the modern birthstone for this month. Diamond is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

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by the Numbers

  • days since
  • year, months, and days ago
  • months since then
  • is in the rd week of the year (ISO 8601)
  • weeks ago
  • The year is a leap year

Historical Event(s)

Virginia Dare, granddaughter of governor John White of the Colony of Roanoke, becomes the first English child born in the Americas.
Camila O'Gorman and Ladislao Gutierrez are executed on the orders of Argentine dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas.
French astronomer Pierre Jules César Janssen discovers helium.
A Great Fire in Thessaloniki, Greece destroys 32% of the city leaving 70,000 individuals homeless.
Vladimir Nabokov’s controversial novel Lolita is published in the United States.
American civil rights movement: James Meredith becomes the first black person to graduate from the University of Mississippi.
Vietnam War: the Battle of Long Tan ensues after a patrol from the 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment clashes with a Viet Cong force in Phuoc Tuy Province.
Steve Biko is 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 South Africa’s apartheid policies.
A Massive power blackout hits the Indonesian island of Java, affecting almost 100 million people, the largest and most widespread power outage in history.
President of Pakistan Pervez Musharaf resigns due to the threat of impeachment.

Who were born on ?

Marshall Field, American retailer(d. 1906)
Thomas Godfrey Evans, English cricket keeper (d. 1999)
Pierre Grondin, French Canadian cardiac surgeon (d. 2006)
Hugues Aufray, French singer
Joe Frank, American radio personality
Nigel Griggs, bassist
Elayne Boosler, American comedian
Taher ElGamal, Egyptian scientist
Richard D James, Irish musician (Aphex Twin)
Jack Hobbs, English footballer

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