Talk:August 18

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August 18:

293 BC – The oldest known Roman temple to Venus was founded, starting the institution of Vinalia Rustica.
1572 – French Wars of Religion: Marguerite de Valois (pictured) was married to Huguenot King Henry of Navarre, in a supposed attempt to reconcile Protestants and Catholics in France.
1590 – John White, the governor of the Colony of Roanoke, returned from a supply trip to England and found his settlement deserted.
1868 – Pierre Janssen discovered helium while analyzing the chromosphere during a total eclipse of the sun. This was the first element detected in space before being found on Earth.
1941 – The T-4 Euthanasia Program in Nazi Germany was temporarily halted due to public resistance.
1966 – Vietnam War: A company of the Royal Australian Regiment fought a much larger North Vietnamese unit in the Battle of Long Tan.

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[edit] Re: Recorded this date

I would like to ask: How verifiable are those entries in "Recorded this date" ? How notable ? Why does August 18 have such a section ?

-- PFHLai 20:17, 2004 Aug 19 (UTC)

I deleted them as questionable. I had thought the poster who was putting these on each of the date pages had stopped. Rick K 21:00, Aug 19, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Mistake?

In deaths section last line states "2005 - Mohamed Khan, Indian Filmmaker (b. 1930)", but as currently it is August 11, 2005, that is some kind of prediction (someone knows that person will be dead after one week) or just a strange joke? Knutux 10:16, 11 August 2005 (UTC)