Hisdates•ComPage 7: Historical Events In August - 18
Sunday, 15 June 2025
1980 Norman Cazden, composer, dies at 65 on this day in history. 
1981 Jerry Lewis appears on "Donahue" to defend Telethons on August - 18.
1981 Anita Loos, US (stage)author (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes), dies at 88 on this day in history.
1982 NYSE tops 100 M share volume figure, 132.69 M shares traded on this day in history.
1982 On this day in history beverly Bayne, actress (Romeo & Juliet, Passionate Youth), dies at 87
1983 Hurricane Alicia battered Houston andGalveston, Texas on this day in history.
1983 On this day in history samantha Druce, age 12y 119d is youngest woman to swim English Channel
1984 Triangle Oil Corp, above-ground storage tank at Jacksonville Fla, spills 2.5 m gallons of oil burned after lightning sparked a fire on August - 18.
1987 On August - 18 philip Rush of NZ, set record for triple crossing English Channel. His time 28 21, 10 hours faster than the first man to do it
1987 On August - 18 philip Rush of NZ, set record for triple crossing English Channel. His time 28:21, 10 hours faster than the first man to do it
1988 FDA approves Minoxidil as a hair loss treatment on this day in history.
1988 Largest house (130 rooms) on Long Island sold for $22 million on August - 18.
1988 On August - 18 republican Convention in New Orleans select Bush-Quayle ticket
1988 On August - 18 alexandr V Shchukin, Russian cosmonaut, dies in SU-26 crash at 42
1989 Bert Oosterbosch, cyclist, dies on this day in history.
1990 On this day in history b F Skinner, psychologist (Skinner Box), dies of Leukemia at 86
1991 Pan Am games closes in Havana on August - 18.
1991 Vaughn Shoemaker, US cartoonist (John Q Public, Pulitzer), dies on August - 18.
1992 Gerard Sonder, Dutch radio host (AVRO), dies on this day in history.
1993 Waring factions in Yugoslavia agree to place Sarajevo under UN control on August - 18.
1993 Alf Bold, German festival programmer, dies of AIDS at 47 on this day in history.
1994 On August - 18 gottlob Frick, singer, dies at 88
1995 James Ackley Maxwell, actor/director (Traitors, Otley), dies at 66 on August - 18.
1996 Geoffrey Dearmer, poet, dies at 103 on this day in history.
2005 On August - 18 bTK killer Dennis Rader is sentenced to 10 consecutive life sentences.
2005 On this day in history peace Mission 205, the first joint China-Russia military exercise, begins its 8-day training on the Shandong peninsula.
2007 Typhoon Sepat makes landfall in eastern Taiwan on August - 18.
2010 On August - 18 hal Connolly, American Athlete and hammer thrower (b.1931)
2011 On August - 18 the West Memphis Three are released from prison after 18 years in imprisonment
2012 Al-Qaeda militants kill 14 people in an attack in Aden, Yemen on this day in history.
2013 6 people are killed by a bomb blast on a bus in West Bengal, India on this day in history.
2017 White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon is fired by US President Donald Trump on this day in history.
2018 Indian actress Priyanka Chopra and American singer Nick Jonas confirm their engagement with engagement party in Mumbai, India More >> on this day in history.
2018 Archaeologists confirm first-ever cheese found from Ancient Egypt 3,200 years old in tomb of Ptahmes, mayor of Memphis on August - 18.