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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_18" title="August 18">August 18</a></b>: <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_Festival" title="Ghost Festival">Ghost Festival</a></b> in China (2024)
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1590" title="1590">1590</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_White_(colonist_and_artist)" title="John White (colonist and artist)">John White</a>, governor of the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roanoke_Colony" title="Roanoke Colony">Roanoke Colony</a></b>, the first English settlement in North America (located in present-day <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Carolina" title="North Carolina">North Carolina</a>), returned after a three-year absence to find it deserted <i>(depicted)</i>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1877" title="1877">1877</a> – American astronomer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asaph_Hall" title="Asaph Hall">Asaph Hall</a> discovered <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phobos_(moon)" title="Phobos (moon)">Phobos</a></b>, the larger of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moons_of_Mars" title="Moons of Mars">Mars's two moons</a>, six days after discovering <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deimos_(moon)" title="Deimos (moon)">Deimos</a>, the smaller one.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1919" title="1919">1919</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Civil_War" title="Russian Civil War">Russian Civil War</a>: <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raid_on_Kronstadt" title="Raid on Kronstadt">British motor torpedo boats raided</a></b> the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolsheviks" title="Bolsheviks">Bolshevik</a> Baltic Fleet's home base of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kronstadt" title="Kronstadt">Kronstadt</a>, sinking a depot ship and damaging a battleship.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1920" title="1920">1920</a> – The <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution" title="Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution">Nineteenth Amendment</a></b> to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_United_States" title="Constitution of the United States">United States Constitution</a> was ratified, guaranteeing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_suffrage_in_the_United_States" title="Women's suffrage in the United States">women's suffrage in the country</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964" title="1964">1964</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Unity_Party_of_Germany" title="Socialist Unity Party of Germany">East German Communist Party</a> member <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hildegard_Trabant" title="Hildegard Trabant">Hildegard Trabant</a></b> was killed while attempting to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republikflucht" title="Republikflucht">cross the Berlin Wall</a>.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olaf_I_of_Denmark" title="Olaf I of Denmark">Olaf I of Denmark</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1095); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Ulfah_Santoso" title="Maria Ulfah Santoso">Maria Ulfah Santoso</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1911); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_Hand" title="Learned Hand">Learned Hand</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1961); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Hobbs_(footballer)" title="Jack Hobbs (footballer)">Jack Hobbs</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1988)</p>
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