8 / 18 History Vault
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Famous Pioneer Born on 8/18
Born under Leo (♌ Leo), possessing unique vision and inspiration.
"We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once."
—— Leo Pioneer
Historical Milestone of 8/18
On this day in history (8/18), significant global milestones and breakthroughs were recorded across science, culture, and human society.
The Persistence of Memory
The Persistence of Memory is a world-class museum collection item preserved at Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).
Salvador Dalí (Oil on canvas)
East German Communist Party member Hildegard Trabant was killed while attempting to cross the Berlin Wall.
The Socialist Unity Party of Germany was the founding and ruling party of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) from the country's establishment in 1949 until the Peaceful Revolution of 1989. Formed in 1946 through a forced merger of the East German branches of the Communist Party of Germany and the Social Democratic Party of Germany, the SED built and ruled East Germany as a one-party Marxist–Leninist state. The SED had, at the last official count in late November 1989, 2,129,250 members, or about 17% of the entire East German adult population.
Vietnam War: Members of the 6th Battalion of the Royal Australian Regiment were surrounded by a much larger Viet Cong unit at the Battle of Long Tan (helicopter pictured), but held them off for several hours until reinforcements arrived.
The Vietnam War was an armed conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam and their allies. North Vietnam was supported by the Soviet Union and China, while South Vietnam was supported by the United States and other anti-communist nations. The conflict was the second of the Indochina wars and a proxy war of the Cold War. The Vietnam War was one of the postcolonial wars of national liberation, a theater in the Cold War, and a civil war, with civil warfare a defining feature from the outset. Direct US military involvement escalated from 1965 until US forces were withdrawn in 1973. The fighting spilled into the Laotian and Cambodian civil wars, which ended with all three countries becoming communist in 1975.
Hurricane Alicia made landfall near Galveston, Texas, causing $3 billion in damage and 21 fatalities.
Hurricane Alicia was a small but powerful tropical cyclone that caused significant destruction in the Greater Houston area of Southeast Texas in August 1983. Although Alicia was a relatively small hurricane, its track over the rapidly growing metropolitan area contributed to its $3 billion damage toll, making it the costliest Atlantic hurricane at the time. Alicia spawned from a disturbance that originated from the tail-end of a cold front over the northern Gulf of Mexico in mid-August 1983. The cyclone was named on August 14 when it became a tropical storm, and the combination of weak steering currents and a conducive environment allowed Alicia to quickly intensify as it drifted slowly westward. On August 17, Alicia became a hurricane and continued to strengthen, topping out as a Category 3 major hurricane as it made landfall on the southwestern end of Galveston Island. Alicia's eye passed just west of Downtown Houston as the system accelerated northwestwards across East Texas; Alicia eventually weakened into a remnant area of low pressure over Oklahoma on August 20 before they were last noted on August 21 over eastern Nebraska.
Brian_To'o Born
Brian To'o is a Samoa international rugby league footballer who plays as a winger for the Penrith Panthers in the National Rugby League, New South Wales in the State of Origin series. Known for his strength, he is regarded as one of the best wingers in the NRL.
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—— Brian_To'o
Clairo Born
Claire Elizabeth Cottrill, known professionally as Clairo, is an American singer-songwriter.
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—— Clairo
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Cassius Jerome Stanley is an American professional basketball player for Šiauliai of the Lithuanian Basketball League (LKL). He played college basketball for the Duke Blue Devils.
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—— Cassius_Stanley
Summer_McIntosh Born
Summer Ann McIntosh is a Canadian competitive swimmer. She is a three-time Olympic champion, eight-time World Aquatics champion, and two-time Commonwealth Games gold medallist. Noted for her strength in medley, freestyle and butterfly events, she is the world record holder in the 200 meter butterfly, 200 and 400 meter individual medley and 400 meter freestyle. In the short course pool, she is a four-time World Swimming Championships gold medallist and holds world records in the 400 metre freestyle, 200 metre butterfly, and 400 metre individual medley events.
「Summer Ann McIntosh is a Canadian competitive swimmer. She is a three-time Olympic ch...」
—— Summer_McIntosh
Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf resigned under pressure from a movement to impeach him.
Pervez Musharraf was a Pakistani politician and military officer who served as the tenth president of Pakistan from 2001 to 2008. He overthrew Nawaz Sharif's government in the 1999 coup d'état and proclaimed himself the chief executive of Pakistan, under martial law.
The President of Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf, resigns under threat of impeachment.
Pervez Musharraf was a Pakistani politician and military officer who served as the tenth president of Pakistan from 2001 to 2008. He overthrew Nawaz Sharif's government in the 1999 coup d'état and proclaimed himself the chief executive of Pakistan, under martial law.
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Two people were fatally stabbed and eight others wounded by a rejected asylum seeker in an Islamist terrorist attack in Turku, Finland.
An asylum seeker or asylum-seeker is a person who leaves their country of residence, enters another country, and makes in that other country a formal application for the right of asylum according to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 14. A person keeps the status of asylum seeker until the right of asylum application has concluded.
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