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Wikipedia:On this day/Today. Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 18 [ talk · edit · history ] August 18: Ghost Festival in China (2024) 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 ...
2010 – WikiLeaks publishes classified documents about the War in Afghanistan, one of the largest leaks in U.S. military history. 2018 – As-Suwayda attacks: Coordinated attacks occur in Syria. [11] 2019 – National extreme heat records set this day in the UK, Belgium, The Netherlands and Germany during the July 2019 European heat wave.
April 17. April 17 is the 107th day of the year (108th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 258 days remain until the end of the year.
August 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Day of Songun(North Korea) Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Uruguayfrom Brazilin 1825. Soldier's Day (Brazil) References. [edit] ^Tyerman, Christopher (2019). The World of the Crusades. Yale University Press. pp. 134–135.
70 – Titus ends the siege of Jerusalem after destroying Herod's Temple. [1]1282 – Peter III of Aragon lands at Trapani to intervene in the War of the Sicilian Vespers.; 1363 – The five-week Battle of Lake Poyang begins, in which the forces of two Chinese rebel leaders (Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang) meet to decide who will supplant the Yuan dynasty.
Updated July 14, 2016 at 10:39 PM. On this day, July 22, 1992, President Cesar Gaviria of Colombia said that Pablo Escobar, one of the world's most powerful drug traffickers, had escaped from the ...
October 6. October 6 is the 279th day of the year (280th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 86 days remain until the end of the year.
2015 (Tuesday) 2014 (Monday) November 17 is the 321st day of the year (322nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 44 days remain until the end of the year.