Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 18

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  Pierre Jules Janssen
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  Helium atom nucleus
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  Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
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  Margaret of Valois
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  Phobos
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  The depot ship Pamiat Azova, sunk at Kronstadt
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  Statue of Alice Nutter, hanged during the Pendle witch trials
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  White's discovery of the abandoned Roanoke Colony
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  Blackwater Fire

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
Paryushana begins (Svetambar Jains, 2017);	unreferenced section
1572 – French Wars of Religion: Margaret of Valois married Huguenot King Henry of Navarre, in an attempt to reconcile Protestants and Catholics.	Lots of cn
1868 – Astronomer Pierre Jules Janssen discovered helium while analysing the chromosphere of the sun during a total solar eclipse in Guntur, India.	refimprove section
1917 – A fire destroyed about 9,500 homes in Thessaloniki, Greece, leaving 70,000 homeless.	refimprove
1976 – North Korean soldiers killed two American soldiers in the Demilitarized Zone, heightening tensions over a poplar tree that blocked the line of sight between a UN Command checkpoint and an observation post.	refimprove section
1989 – Leading Colombian presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galán was assassinated during a public demonstration in the town of Soacha, Cundinamarca.	lots of CN tags in one section
2008 – War in Afghanistan: French ISAF forces were ambushed by Afghan militants, suffering heavy casualties.	unreferenced section
Agneta Horn |b|1629|	refimprove
Baji Rao I |b|1700|	copyedit banner
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell |b|1792|	Too much uncited
Robert Redford |b|1936|	Too much uncited
Cameron White |b|1983|	Multiple cn tags
B. F. Skinner |d|1990|	Too much uncited

Eligible

• Long Tan Day in Australia (1966)
• 684 – Second Fitna: Umayyad partisans defeated the supporters of Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr near Damascus, cementing Umayyad control of Syria.
• 1487 – Reconquista: After a four-month siege, the Catholic Monarchs of Spain conquered the city of Málaga from the Emirate of Granada.
• 1590 – John White, governor of the Roanoke Colony, the first English settlement in North America (located in present-day North Carolina), returned after a three-year absence to find it deserted (depicted).
• 1612 – The trials of the Pendle and Samlesbury witches (statue pictured), among the most famous of England's witch trials, began at the assizes in Lancaster.
• 1823 – At least 9,000 enslaved people rebelled in the British colony in Demerara-Essequibo (in present-day Guyana), demanding emancipation.
• 1864 – American Civil War: At the Battle of Globe Tavern, Union forces attempted to sever the Weldon Railroad during the siege of Petersburg.
• 1877 – American astronomer Asaph Hall discovered Phobos, the larger of Mars's two moons, six days after discovering Deimos, the smaller one.
• 1919 – Russian Civil War: British motor torpedo boats raided the Bolshevik Baltic Fleet's home base of Kronstadt, sinking a depot ship and damaging a battleship.
• 1937 – A lightning strike started the Blackwater Fire (pictured) in Shoshone National Forest, Wyoming, consuming 1,700 acres (7 km²) of old-growth forest and killing 15 firefighters.
• 1940 – Second World War: During the Battle of Britain, the Luftwaffe made an all-out effort to destroy RAF Fighter Command, with both sides combined losing more aircraft on this day than at any other point during the campaign.
• 1945 – World War II: Amid a Soviet invasion of Japanese-held Sakhalin, Japanese police massacred 18 Koreans in Kamishisuka.
• 1948 – Australia won the fifth Test of the 1948 Ashes series, becoming the first Test cricket team to go undefeated in England, earning them the nickname "The Invincibles".
• 1964 – East German Communist Party member Hildegard Trabant was killed while attempting to cross the Berlin Wall.
• 1983 – Hurricane Alicia made landfall near Galveston, Texas, causing $3 billion in damage and 21 fatalities.
• 2017 – Two people were fatally stabbed and eight others wounded by a rejected asylum seeker in an Islamist terrorist attack in Turku, Finland.

• Born/died this day: | Olaf I of Denmark |d|1095| Knut Alvsson |d|1502| Maria Ulfah Santoso |b|1911| Learned Hand |d|1961| Edward Norton |b|1969| Evan Gattis |b|1986| G-Dragon |b|1988| Jack Hobbs |b|1988| Nick Fuentes |b|1998| Hiram Fong |d|2004| Jim Jeffords |d|2014|

Notes

• Deimos (moon) appears on August 12, so Phobos should not appear in the same year
• 1915 Galveston hurricane appears on August 17, so Hurricane Alicia should not appear in the same year

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• 1783 – A meteor procession blazed across the night sky over Great Britain.
• 1891 – A hurricane struck the Caribbean island of Martinique, killing about 700 people, injuring at least 1,000 others, and causing severe damage.
• 1920 – The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified, guaranteeing women's suffrage in the country.
• 1966 – Vietnam War: Members of the 6th Battalion of the Royal Australian Regiment were surrounded by a much larger Viet Cong unit at the Battle of Long Tan (helicopter pictured), but held them off for several hours until reinforcements arrived.
• 2008 – Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf resigned under pressure from a movement to impeach him.