August 18: Long Tan Day in Australia (1966)
Pierre Jules Janssen
- 684 – Second Fitna: Umayyad partisans defeated the supporters of Ibn al-Zubayr and cemented Umayyad control of Syria.
- 1590 – On the third birthday of his granddaughter Virginia Dare, the first English child born in the Americas, John White returned to the Roanoke Colony in present-day North Carolina, U.S., only to find it deserted.
- 1868 – Astronomer Pierre Janssen (pictured) discovered helium while analysing the chromosphere of the sun during a total solar eclipse in Guntur, India.
- 1940 – World War II: During the Battle of Britain, the Luftwaffe made an all-out effort to destroy RAF Fighter Command, wherein both sides lost more aircraft combined on this day than at any other point during the campaign.
- 2008 – War in Afghanistan: French ISAF forces were ambushed by Afghan militants, suffering heavy casualties.
Agneta Horn (b. 1672) · Honoré de Balzac (d. 1850) · Maria Ulfah Santoso (b. 1911)
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