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August 18: Ghost Festival in China (2024) Blackwater Fire. 684 – Second Fitna: Umayyad partisans defeated the supporters of Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr near Damascus, cementing Umayyad control of Syria. 1823 – At least 9,000 enslaved people rebelled in the British colony in Demerara-Essequibo (in present-day Guyana), demanding emancipation.
Armed conflicts and attacks. Russian invasion of Ukraine. Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. August 2024 Kursk Oblast incursion. Ukraine reports capturing 82 Russian settlements within an area of 1,150 square kilometres (440 sq mi) since the start of the Kursk incursion on August 6.
July 25. July 25 is the 206th day of the year (207th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 159 days remain until the end of the year.
July 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Earliest day on which Parents' Day can fall, while 28 July is the latest; celebrated on the fourth Sunday in July. (United States) National Press Day ( Azerbaijan) Pi Approximation Day, see also March 14.
This day is commemorated as the anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army. 1933 – Anti-Fascist activists Bruno Tesch, Walter Möller, Karl Wolff and August Lütgens are executed by the Nazi regime in Altona. 1936 – The Olympics opened in Berlin with a ceremony presided over by Adolf Hitler.
October 6. October 6 is the 279th day of the year (280th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 86 days remain until the end of the year.
While the "marriage" didn't last, it was biggest corporate merger in history at the time. 2006: America Online drops its old name to officially become AOL and no longer charges for email services ...
January 26. January 26 is the 26th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 339 days remain until the end of the year (340 in leap years ).