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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 30. April 30 is the 120th day of the year (121st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 245 days remain until the end of the year.
Tisha B'Av (Hebrew: תִּשְׁעָה בְּאָב [a] Tīšʿā Bəʾāv; IPA: [tiʃʕa beˈʔav] ⓘ, lit. ' the ninth of Av ') is an annual fast day in Judaism.A commemoration of a number of disasters in Jewish history, primarily the destruction of both Solomon's Temple by the Neo-Babylonian Empire and the Second Temple by the Roman Empire in Jerusalem.
Nov. 15—November 15: 1777 — The Continental Congress approved the Articles of Confederation, precursor to the U.S. Constitution. 1806 — Explorer Zebulon Pike spotted the mountaintop that ...
1954 in various calendars. Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1954. 1954 ( MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1954th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 954th year of the 2nd millennium, the 54th year of the 20th century, and the 5th year of the 1950s decade.
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 ...
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.
SEE ALSO: This day in history: Rep. Gabrielle Giffords shot in Arizona While other explorers also traveled to the rim of the canyon, few descended into vast depth of the valley until the 19th century.