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Tuesday, 18 August 2026
1984 Dorothy Arnold, actress (House of Fear, Phantom Creeps), dies at 66 
1985 Nevado del Ruiz volcano erupts in Colombia, results in the deaths of 25000
1986 NASA launches space vehicle S-199.
1986 US violates Iran arms boycott
1986 Rolando Olalia, Philippines worker's union leader, murdered
1988 Antal Dorati, Hungarian/US conductor/composer, dies at 82.
1989 In this year, Paul McCartney releases "Figure of 8" and Ou Est Le Soleil".
1990 Charlie Carpenter, dies at 77.
1991 Ad Kosto, Dutch state secretary (PvdA), assassinated by bomb
1992 Alan Balsam, US movie editor (Divine Madness), dies.
1993 Jose Toirkens, journalist (Slogan, NRC), dies at 48
1994 Frank Singleton, librarian, dies at 67
1995 Ralph Hunsecker Blane, songwriter, dies at 81
1996 Kenneth Watkins, woodland conservationist, dies at 86.
1997 William John Elwyn Davies, painter, dies at 80
2005 Andrew Stimpson, a 25-year old British man is reported as the inaugural person proven to have been 'cured' of HIV.
2005 Current WWE Wrestler, Eddie Guerrero, sadly passes away at the age of 38.
2007 An explosion hits the south wing of the House of Representatives of the Philippines in Quezon City, north of Manila, killing four people, including Basilan Congressman Wahab Akbar, and wounding 6 others
2007 In this year, Parliamentary elections in Denmark. Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen's coalition claims a third term.
2010 Burmese opposition politician Aung San Suu Kyi is released from her house arrest
2012 3 Syrian tanks enter the demilitarized zone of Golan Heights
2014 Rohit Sharma of India sets a new record of 264 runs against Sri Lanka in an ODI innings in cricket
2017 Italy fails to qualify for 2018 Football World Cup (inaugural time since 1958), after play-off defeat against Sweden.
2017 World's earliest wine-making uncovered from Khramis Didi Gora, Georgia, in clay pots from 6000BC.
2017 inaugural Barbie doll to wear a hijab, modeled on Olympic fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad unveiled in New York.
2018 Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court blocks President Maithripala Sirisena from dissolving parliament
2018 Trial of JoaquÃn " El Chapo " Guzmán begins in New York
2018 Four members of a family arrested for the Rhoden family massacre where eight people were shot, south of Columbus, Ohio in 2016
2018 Amazon announces two new corporate outposts at Queens, New York and Arlington, Virginia.
2018 Kristine E. Guillaume is named the inaugural black woman to head prestigious Harvard student newspaper "The Crimson"
2019 inaugural day of public testimony in Donald Trump 's impeachment inquiry held in Washington D.C.
2019 Public impeachment hearings against U.S. President Donald Trump begin in the House of Representatives
2019 The Chinese University of Hong Kong officially announces a premature end to the semester as a result of large-scale protests and civil unrest. Besides CUHK, several Hong Kong universities switch to online learning and suspend on-campus class. The Education Bureau in Hong Kong officially announces to close all schools in Hong Kong due to the ongoing protests
2020 British strategist and chief advisor to the PM Dominic Cummings is let go by Boris Johnson
