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Notable anniversaries in history for today: August 18
- 100th: 1924 - Birth of Mohammad Zia Ul-Haq; president of Pakistan (1978-88).
- 90th: 1934 - Birth of Rafer Lewis Johnson; American decathalete (Olympic-gold-1960).
- 90th: 1934 - Birth of Roberto Clemente; pro baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates).
- 50th: 1974 - In Naragh, Iran, a building is hit by a falling meteorite.
- 40th: 1984 - Triangle Oil Corp, above-ground storage tank at Jacksonville Florida, spills 2.5 million gallons of oil burned after lightning sparked a fire.
- 30th: 1994 - In Northern Algeria, a magnitude 5.9 earthquake occurs. At least 159 people are killed, 289 injured, 8,000 to 10,000 left homeless and thousands of houses destroyed in Mascara Province.
- 30th: 1994 - Death of Richard Laurence Millington Synge, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1914).
- 20th: 2004 - In Dublin, Ireland, the Dublin Port Tunnel excavation works are completed and the final tunnel boring machine breakthrough ceremony takes place.
- 15th: 2009 - Veteran US newspaper columnist Robert Novak dies at age 78 after a battle with brain cancer.
- 15th: 2009 - Former South Korean President Kim Dae-jung dies at age 85 in Seoul.
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