1976

Panmunjom axe murder incident

The Panmunjom axe murder incident, also known as the Korean axe atrocity incident, was the killing of two United Nations Command officers, Captain Arthur Bonifas and First Lieutenant Mark Barrett, by North Korean soldiers on August 18, 1976, in the Joint Security Area (JSA) in the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). The officers, from the United States Army, had been part of a work party trimming a poplar tree in the JSA.

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Panmunjom axe murder incident

1977

Steve Biko

Bantu Stephen Biko OMSG was a South African anti-apartheid activist. Ideologically an African nationalist and African socialist, he was at the forefront of a grassroots anti-apartheid campaign known as the Black Consciousness Movement during the late 1960s and 1970s. His ideas were articulated in a series of articles published under the pseudonym Frank Talk.

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Steve Biko

1983

Hurricane Alicia

Hurricane Alicia was a small but powerful tropical cyclone that caused significant destruction in the Greater Houston area of Southeast Texas in August 1983. Although Alicia was a relatively small hurricane, its track over the rapidly growing metropolitan area contributed to its $3 billion damage toll, making it the costliest Atlantic hurricane at the time. Alicia spawned from a disturbance that originated from the tail-end of a cold front over the northern Gulf of Mexico in mid-August 1983. The cyclone was named on August 14 when it became a tropical storm, and the combination of weak steering currents and a conducive environment allowed Alicia to quickly intensify as it drifted slowly westward. On August 17, Alicia became a hurricane and continued to strengthen, topping out as a Category 3 major hurricane as it made landfall on the southwestern end of Galveston Island. Alicia's eye passed just west of Downtown Houston as the system accelerated northwestwards across East Texas; Alicia eventually weakened into a remnant area of low pressure over Oklahoma on August 20 before they were last noted on August 21 over eastern Nebraska.

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Hurricane Alicia

1989

Luis Carlos Galán

Luis Carlos Galán Sarmiento was a Colombian liberal politician and journalist who ran for the Presidency of Colombia on two occasions, the first time for the political movement New Liberalism that he founded in 1979. The movement was an offspring of the mainstream Colombian Liberal Party, and with mediation of former Liberal president Julio César Turbay Ayala, Galán returned to the Liberal party in 1989 and sought the nomination for the 1990 presidential election, but was assassinated before the vote took place.

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Luis Carlos Galán

1993

American International Airways Flight 808

American International Airways Flight 808 was a cargo flight operated by American International Airways that crashed on 18 August 1993, while attempting to land at Leeward Point Field at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. All three crew members on board survived with serious injuries.

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American International Airways Flight 808

1995

Birth of Alīna Fjodorova

Alīna Fjodorova, Latvian figure skater

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Alīna Fjodorova

1997

Birth of Josephine Langford

Josephine Langford, Australian actress

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Josephine Langford

1997

Birth of Renato Sanches

Renato Sanches, Portuguese footballer

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Renato Sanches

1998

Birth of Brian To'o

Brian To'o is a Samoa international rugby league footballer who plays as a winger for the Penrith Panthers in the National Rugby League, New South Wales in the State of Origin series. Known for his strength, he is regarded as one of the best wingers in the NRL

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Brian To'o

1998

Birth of Clairo

Claire Elizabeth Cottrill, known professionally as Clairo, is an American singer-songwriter.

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Clairo

1998

Birth of Nick Fuentes

Nick Fuentes, American far-right political commentator

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Nick Fuentes

1999

Birth of Cassius Stanley

Cassius Jerome Stanley is an American professional basketball player for Šiauliai of the Lithuanian Basketball League (LKL). He played college basketball for the Duke Blue Devils.

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Cassius Stanley

2003

Murders of Andrew Bagby and Zachary Turner

Zachary Andrew Turner was a Canadian child from St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, who was killed by his mother, Shirley Jane Turner, in a murder–suicide. At the time, Shirley had been released on bail and awarded custody of the infant, even though she was in the process of being extradited to the United States to stand trial for the murder of Zachary's father, Andrew Bagby. The case led to a critical overview of Newfoundland's legal and child welfare systems as well as Canada's bail laws.

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Murders of Andrew Bagby and Zachary Turner

2005

2005 Java–Bali blackout

The 2005 Java–Bali Blackout was a power outage across Java and Bali on 18 August 2005, affecting some 100 million people.

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2005 Java–Bali blackout

2006

Birth of Summer McIntosh

Summer Ann McIntosh is a Canadian competitive swimmer. She is a three-time Olympic champion, eight-time World Aquatics champion, and two-time Commonwealth Games gold medallist. Noted for her strength in medley, freestyle and butterfly events, she is the world record holder in the 200 and 400 meter individual medley and 400 meter freestyle, and also holds the Olympic and textile records in the 200 meter butterfly event. In the short course pool, she is a four-time World Swimming Championships gold medallist and holds world records in the 400 metre freestyle, 200 metre butterfly, and 400 metre individual medley events.

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Summer McIntosh