What happend on 18th August

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1971

Vietnam War: Australia and New Zealand decide to withdraw their troops from Vietnam.

1969

Jimi Hendrix plays the unofficial last day of Woodstock.

1966

Vietnam War: The Battle of Long Tan occurs, when a patrol of Royal Australian Regiment encounter the Viet Cong.

1965

Vietnam War: Operation Starlite begins

1963

American civil rights movement: James Meredith becomes the first black person to graduate from the University of Mississippi.

1958

Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel Lolita is published in the United States.

1950

Julien Lahaut, the chairman of the Communist Party of Belgium is assassinated by far-right elements.

1941

Adolf Hitler orders a temporary halt to Nazi Germany's systematic euthanasia of mentally ill and handicapped due to protests.

1938

The Thousand Islands Bridge, connecting New York State, United States with Ontario, Canada over the St. Lawrence River, is dedicated by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

1920

19th Amendment to US constitution passes, guaranteeing women's suffrage.