Are you asking the question “What day of the week was I born?” Continue reading to find out what day of the week you were born.
Day Of The Week: August 18
August 18, 2025 is the 230th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 135 days remaining until the end of 2025. The day of the week is Monday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Leo is your zodiac sign. Peridot is your modern birthstone. Diamond is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: August 18
- 1864 –American Civil War: Battle of Globe Tavern – Union forces try to cut a vital Confederate supply-line into Petersburg, Virginia, by attacking the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad.
- 1870 –Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Gravelotte is fought.
- 1891 –Major hurricane strikes Martinique, leaving 700 dead.
- 1903 –German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flies his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright Brothers.
- 1958 –Brojen Das from Bangladesh swims across the English Channel in a competition, as the first Bangali as well as the first Asian to ever do it. He became first among 39 competitors.
- 1963 –American civil rights movement: James Meredith becomes the first black person to graduate from the University of Mississippi.
- 1965 –Vietnam War: Operation Starlite begins – United States Marines destroy a Viet Cong stronghold on the Van Tuong peninsula in the first major American ground battle of the war.
- 1971 –Vietnam War: Australia and New Zealand decide to withdraw their troops from Vietnam.
- 1977 –Steve Biko is arrested at a police roadblock under the Terrorism Act No 83 of 1967 in King William’s Town, South Africa. He would later die of the injuries sustained during this arrest bringing attention to South Africa’s apartheid policies.
- 2000 –A federal jury finds the US EPA guilty of discrimination against Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, later inspiring passage of the No FEAR Act.
Who were born on August 18?
- 1692 –Louis Henri, Duc de Bourbon, Prime Minister of France (d. 1740)
- 1902 –Adamson-Eric, Estonian painter (d. 1968)
- 1909 –Gérard Filion, French Canadian businessman and journalist (d. 2005)
- 1934 –Roberto Clemente, Puerto Rican baseball player and humanitarian (d. 1972)
- 1969 –Edward Norton, American actor
- 1969 –Everlast, American musician
- 1980 –Kieron Davies, Welsh-born German rugby player
- 1983 –Cameron White, Australian cricketer
- 1983 –Kris Boyd, Scottish footballer
- 1988 –Luke Jackson (author), English Author
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