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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 ...
April 19. April 19 is the 109th day of the year (110th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 256 days remain until the end of the year.
The ancient Athenian calendar was a lunisolar calendar with 354-day years, consisting of twelve months of alternating length of 29 or 30 days. To keep the calendar in line with the solar year of 365.242189 days, an extra, intercalary month was added in the years: 3, 6, 8, 11, 14, 17, 19 of the 19-years Metonic cycle.
The Declaration of Independence, the most consequential and perhaps most heroic challenge to authority in human annals, reached the ear of King George III in London on this day in history, August ...
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 ...
2016 (Sunday) 2015 (Friday) 2014 (Thursday) September 11 is the 254th day of the year (255th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 111 days remain until the end of the year.
April 12. April 12 is the 102nd day of the year (103rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 263 days remain until the end of the year.
The iconic British comedy musical film, "A Hard Day’s Night," was released on this day in history, Aug. 11, 1964, and starred the Beatles in their first feature movie. The movie was released ...