Template:On this day/18 August
- 1590 – John White, the govrenor o the Roanoke Colony, returns frae a supplee trip tae Ingland an finds his settlement desertit.
- 1868 – French astronomer Pierre Janssen diskivers helium.
- 1920 – The Nineteent Amendment tae the Unitit States Constitution is ratifee'd, guaranteein weemen's suffrage.
- 2008 – Preses o Pakistan Pervez Musharraf (picturt) resigns unner threit o impeachment.
- 2017 – The first terrorist attack iver sentenced as a crime in Finland kills twa an injures aicht.
Genghis Khan (d. 1227) · Antonio Salieri (b. 1750) · Robert Redford (b. 1936)