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On This Day, August 18
- 2019: One hundred activists, officials, and other concerned citizens in Iceland hold a funeral for Okjökull glacier, which has completely melted after having once covered six square miles (15.5 km2).
- 2017: The Turku terror attack occurs in Finland when a knifeman kills two and injures eight.
- 2011: A terrorist attack on Israel's Highway 12 near the Egyptian border kills 16 and injures 40.
- 2008: The President of Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf, resigns under threat of impeachment.
- 2008: War of Afghanistan: The Uzbin Valley ambush occurs.