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August 18

What happened on this day

Long Tan Day60 years agoAustralia's Vietnam Veterans' Day marks the 1966 battle in a rubber plantation where a company of 108 men held off a far larger force.
19th Amendment ratified106 years agoTennessee becomes the 36th and decisive state to ratify the 19th Amendment in 1920, securing US women the right to vote.
Helium found in the Sun158 years agoPierre Janssen sees an unexplained yellow line in the solar spectrum during an eclipse over India in 1868, finding an element in the sky 27 years before anyone found it on Earth.
Funeral for a glacier7 years agoIceland unveils a plaque where Okjökull used to be in 2019, the first of its glaciers to lose the name, addressed to whoever reads it in 200 years.

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