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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.
2017 (Friday) 2016 (Thursday) 2015 (Tuesday) June 30 is the 181st day of the year (182nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 184 days remain until the end of the year.
August 19. August 19 is the 231st day of the year (232nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 134 days remain until the end of the year.
February 15: A Day for Wartime Rallying. On February 15, 1898, the USS Maine sank in Havana Harbor, and "Remember the Maine!" became a rallying cry as the U.S. entered the Spanish-American War ...
on this day in 2003, bob hope, beloved by generations of troops, dies at age 100 "I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts," he said in one of his most oft-repeated quips.
August 12, 2024 at 12:02 AM. On this day in history, August 12, 1877, Thomas Edison invents the phonograph. Thomas Alva Edison, the Wizard of Menlo Park whose genius ushered in a new era of light ...
The day is known as Barbed Wire Sunday. 1964 – Peter Allen and Gwynne Evans are hanged for the murder of John Alan West becoming the last people executed in the United Kingdom . 1967 – Two young women became the first fatal victims of grizzly bear attacks in the 57-year history of Montana's Glacier National Park in separate incidents.
August 16 is the day these three legends died. American icons Aretha Franklin (1942-2018), Babe Ruth (1895-1948) and Elvis Presley (1935-1977), three giants of American pop culture, all passed ...