August 18th
The August 18th is the 230e Jour of the Année (231e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian Calendrier.
Events
1 to 1900
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849: The former tutor of Charles the Bald person, Walafrid Strabon, abbot of Reichenau, come as an ambassador from Louis Germanic the near Charles, drowns while crossing the the Loire.
- 1235 : Important fire with Lausanne
- 1304: The Flemish militia are crushed by the army of Philippe IV Beautiful the with the Bataille of Mons-in-Pévèle.
- 1388 : Truce of Leulinghem between the France and the England.
- 1516 : The pope Leon X yields Parma and Plaisance to the France by the Traité of Bologna.
- 1572 : The future Henri IV wife Marguerite de France.
- 1789 : Revolution with Liege.
- 1792 : Dissolution in France of the religious congregations, including teaching.
- 1812 : Battle of Smolensk.
- 1813 : Victoire of Davout to Lauenbourg.
- 1870 : Battle of Saint-Privat.
XXe century
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1920: 19th amendment granting the right to vote with the women to the the United States.
- 1944 : Release of the camp of Drancy
- 1966: beginning of the Cultural revolution in China.
- 1983 : In France, the material of the radio Carbon-14 is seized. The frequency is immediately réattribuée at another station, Merry Fréquence.
- 1989 : Tadeusz Mazowiecki becomes in Poland Prime Minister for the first noncommunist government of Europe of the East.
- 1990 : Baghdad announces the taken as hostages of the “nationals of aggressive nations” and decides to gather them in strategic zones, where they will be used like human shields against possible bombardments.
- 1991 : Beginning of the putsch against Mikhaïl Gorbatchev.
- 1993 : Swiss modification in of the ordinance of the July 4th 1984 regulating the documentary evidence of the origin of the goods as regards Foreign trade.
Births
- 1748 : Pierre Sonnerat, Naturalist and explorer French († 1814)
- 1750: Antonio Salieri, type-setter
- 1782: Marcellin de Marbot, general baron d' Empire
- 1847: El Gallo (Fernando Gómez García), Spanish Matador († August 2nd 1897).
- 1908 : Edgar Faure († 1988), Politician French
- 1909: Flesh-colored Marcel, French scenario writer
- 1922: Alain Robbe-Grillet, writer, scenario writer and academician French
- 1929: Hugues Aufray, French singer
- 1933: Just Fountain, French footballer
- 1933: Roman Polanski, realizer
- 1937: Robert Redford, American actor
- 1952
- Patrick Swayze, American actor
- Kastriot Islami, Albanian politician
- 1954: Umberto Guidoni, spationaut and Italian politician
- 1957: Carole Bouquet, French actress
- 1958
- Didier Auriol, pilot of rally French
- Sergei Treschev, Russian cosmonaut
- 1961: Daniela Lumbroso, stimulating French TV
- 1966: Gustavo Charif, Argentinian artist
- 1969:
- Christian Slater, actor
- Edward Norton, actor
- Masta Killa, American rappor
- 1975: Anne Barzin, Belgian political woman of French language
- 1983: Mica Penniman, singer
Death
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849: Walafrid Strabon, monk Benedictine, abbot of Reichenau, glosator of the Bible, former tutor of Charles the Bald person.
- 1095 : Oluf Ier '' the famine '', king de Danemark of 1086 with 1095.
- 1227 : Gengis Khan
- 1503 : Rodrigo Borgia, pope Alexandre VI
- 1559: Paul IV ( Gian Pietro Carafa ), 223e Pope of the Catholic church. (° June 28th 1476)
- 1563: Etienne of Boétie, French writer (° November 1st 1530)
- 1804: Louis-Rene-Madeleine de Latouche-Tréville, French admiral (° June 3rd 1745)
- 1850: Honore de Balzac, French writer (° May 20th 1799)
- 1925: Gaston Cypress, footballer French (° November 19th 1884).
- 1956 : Louis Madelin, historian and academician French (° May 8th 1871)
- 1998: Otto Wichterle, Czech Chemist inventive of the flexible contact lenses (° October 27th 1913).
- 2006 : Fernand Gignac, singer and actor Québécois (° May 19th 1932).
Celebrations
First names
- Lætitia, name given in reference to Notre-Dame de Liesse;
- Helene, in reference to holy Helene.
Catholic and orthodoxe saints of the day
- Jean de Rila, (+ 946), higoumene in Bulgaria;
- Helene, mother of the emperor Constantin {{Ier}};
- Notre-Dame de Liesse.
See too
- August 18th in sport
- August 18th in the railroads
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