📜 This Day in History
August 18
- 684Second Fitna: Umayyad partisans defeated the supporters of Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr near Damascus, cementing Umayyad control of Syria.
- 1783A meteor procession blazed across the night sky over Great Britain.
1891A hurricane struck the Caribbean island of Martinique, killing about 700 people, injuring at least 1,000 others, and causing severe damage.- 1937A lightning strike started the Blackwater Fire in Shoshone National Forest, Wyoming, consuming 1,700 acres (7 km2) of old-growth forest and killing 15 firefighters.
- 1964East German Communist Party member Hildegard Trabant was killed while attempting to cross the Berlin Wall.
- 2017Two people were fatally stabbed and eight others wounded by a rejected asylum seeker in an Islamist terrorist attack in Turku, Finland.
