What Happened in August 2018

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• Aug 1 Australian Rugby League's 'Immortals' tally moves to 13 as pre-War stars Dally Messenger, Frank Burge & Dave Brown along with latter day giants Norm Provan & Mal Meninga are added
• Aug 1 Swedish crown jewels stolen in heist from Strängnäs Cathedral, Stockholm
• Aug 2 Apple becomes the first American public listed company to reach $1 trillion in value

• Aug 2 Fields Medal for mathematics awarded to Caucher Birkar (his stolen minutes later), Alessio Figalli, Peter Scholze and Akshay Venkatesh
• Aug 2 Oldest library in Germany confirmed unearthed in Cologne dating to 2AD, possibly held 20,000 scrolls
• Aug 2 Pope Frances declares the death penalty unacceptable in all cases, reversing church teachings and adding to Catechism of the Roman Catholic Church
• Aug 2 TikTok, the video-sharing social network, becomes available worldwide after merging with Musical.ly
• Aug 2 Tokyo Medical University revealed to have been tampering with female entrance exams to ensure under 30% accepted, by Japanese newspaper "Yomiuri Shimbun"

• Aug 4 Super Rugby Final, AMI Stadium, Christchurch: Canterbury Crusaders successfully defend title with 37-18 home win against the Lions from Johannesburg; Crusaders' 9th SR title
• Aug 5 6.9 magnitude earthquake on island of Lombok, Indonesia, kills at least 460 people and displaces 350,000

• Aug 5 British Open Women's Golf, Royal Lyham & St. Annes: England's Georgia Hall wins her first major title by 2 shots from Pornanong Phatlum of Thailand

• Aug 5 Vintage Junkers Ju-52 plane crashes near Flims, Switzerland, killing all 20 on board
• Aug 6 Boston appoints its first African American Police Commissioner William G. Gross
• Aug 6 Chicago police appeal for more help after 66 people shot in the city in one weekend

• Aug 6 PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi announces she will be stepping down
• Aug 6 Saudi Arabia's state airline suspends direct flights to Toronto and expels ambassador after Canada calls for release of detained activists for civil and women's rights
• Aug 6 South Sudan peace accord signed between South Sudanese President Salva Kiir and rebel leader Riek Machar in Sudan attempting to end 5 years of civil war

• Aug 7 Australia's population hits 25 million according to Australian Bureau of Statistics

• Aug 7 CW network announces that Ruby Rose has been cast as lesbian superhero Batwoman

• Aug 7 Mendocino Fire becomes the largest recorded fire in California's history at 290,600 acres, overtaking 2017 Thomas Fire
• Aug 7 Swedish furniture brand Ikea opens its first store in India in Hyderabad
• Aug 8 Academy of Motion Pictures reveals new "Popular Film" category for the Oscars
• Aug 8 Australia's most populous state New South Wales declared 100% in drought
• Aug 8 EPL club Chelsea sign Kepa Arrizabalaga from Spain's Athletic Bilbao for £72 million; world-record fee for a goalkeeper

• Aug 8 US State Department imposes new sanctions on Russia for nerve attack in Britain
• Aug 9 Argentina's Senate rejects bill to legalize abortion in first 14 weeks
• Aug 9 EPL club Tottenham Hotspur fails to bring in one player during the transfer window; first time since FIFA made system compulsory in 2002-03
• Aug 9 Saudi-led air coalition strikes a school bus in Sada Province, Yemen, killing 43, many of them children
• Aug 10 Anti-government protests begin in Bucharest, Romania, with over 400 injured in clashes with police

• Aug 10 Evidence of one million Uighurs being held in "counter-extremism centers" in China presented to UN Committee on Human Rights
• Aug 10 Jason Mraz's sixth studio album, "Know." is released
• Aug 10 Landmark case against weed killer Roundup, San Francisco court awards groundsman Dewayne Johnson $289 million against Monsanto for giving him terminal cancer

• Aug 10 Turkish lira falls dramatically after US President Donald Trump announces tariff increases on Turkish steel and aluminum
• Aug 10 US ground crew member steals an Alaskan Air plane from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, flies for over an hour chased by military jets before fatally crashing on Ketron Island

• Aug 12 Mali's Presidential run-off election held, eventually won by current President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita with opposition disputing outcome
• Aug 12 More than 200 Afghan soldiers reported killed after 3 days of attacks by taliban insurgents over multiple fronts including Ghazni city
• Aug 12 NASA launches the Parker Space Probe, its first mission to the Sun and its outermost atmosphere, the corona

• Aug 14 2.3 million estimated Venezuelans have left crisis-hit Venezuela since 2015 according to the UN
• Aug 14 Italy's Morandi Bridge collapses in Genoa, taking 30 vehicles with it and killing 43
• Aug 14 Pennsylvania grand jury alleges 300 "predator priests" abused over 1000 children over 30 years and Catholic leaders covered it, up after 2-year investigation
• Aug 15 Australian Senator Fraser Anning evokes Nazi euphemism "a final solution to the immigration problem", in proposing outlawing Muslim immigration into Australia in parliament speech
• Aug 15 Bar-hopping for pintxos (Basque tapas) in San Sebastián, Spain, named world's best food experience in Lonely Planet's Ultimate Eatlist
• Aug 15 Boat overturns in floods near the Nile in Northern Sudan, leaving 25 dead, most of them school children
• Aug 15 First ever US execution by fentanyl of Carey Dean Moore at Nebraska State Penitentiary in Lincoln

• Aug 15 Record 72,000 Americans (up 10%) killed by drug overdoses in 2017 in new figures by Centers for Disease Control
• Aug 15 Suicide bomber attacks tuition centre in Kabul, Afghanistan, killing 48 and injuring 67
• Aug 15 US President Donald Trump revokes security clearance of former CIA Director and Trump critic John Brennan
• Aug 16 Brandt Snedeker shoots 10th sub-60 round in PGA history with an 11-under par 59 in the opening round of the Wyndham Championship in Greensboro, North Carolina
• Aug 16 British Columbia, Canada, declares State of Emergency with 566 wildfires burning, prompting evacuation of 3,000 people
• Aug 16 Brooke Raboutou wins a gold medal in lead climbing at the IFSC Youth World Championships in Moscow, Russia
• Aug 16 International Tennis Federation votes to change format of the Davis Cup to a big prize money, season-ending, 18-team tournament at a neutral site; 24 team qualifying tournament to start in February 2019

• Aug 16 Unprecedented flooding and landslides in Kerala, India, reported to have killed 106 people with 150,000 homeless
• Aug 16 World's first floating dairy farm opens in Merwehaven harbour, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, with 40 cows milked by robots
• Aug 18 Archaeologists confirm first-ever cheese found from Ancient Egypt 3,200 years old in tomb of Ptahmes, mayor of Memphis
• Aug 18 Australian mare Winx wins her Australasian record 26th consecutive race, the renamed Winx Stakes at Royal Randwick in Sydney; 19th Group One win for thoroughbreds

• Aug 19 Limerick wins All Ireland Hurling Championship for first time in 45 years with a 3-16 to 2-18 win over defending champions Galway at Croke Park, Dublin
• Aug 19 Monsoon rains finally ease in Kerala State, India, with flooding taking 350 lives with 200,000 in relief camps

• Aug 19 Two more earthquakes hit Lombok in Indonesia killing 14 two weeks after previous earthquakes
• Aug 19 Weinstein accuser Asia Argento is alleged to have sexually assaulted a 17-year old in article by "The New York Times"
• Aug 20 Colorado man Christopher Lee Watts is charged with the murder of his wife and two daughters
• Aug 20 Measles cases reach record high in Europe with 41,000 infected first six months of 2018 with 37 deaths according to WHO
• Aug 20 Polish immigrant and former volunteer Nazi guard Jakiw Palij (95) is deported from the US in New York to Germany
• Aug 20 Pope Francis releases letter to all Catholics condemning sexual abuse atrocities and clerical cover-ups "We showed no care for the little ones; we abandoned them"
• Aug 20 Venezuela issues new currency the "Bolivar Soberano" in attempt to stop runaway hyperinflation
• Aug 21 Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull calls for and wins a leadership vote 43-35 over Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton
• Aug 21 Californian Representative Duncan Hunter indicted for using campaign funds for personal expenses including holidays and flight for a pet rabbit
• Aug 21 Michael Cohen, President Trump's personal lawyer, pleads guilty to charges including illegal payment at direction of Trump to women Trump had affairs with
• Aug 21 Paul Manafort, former Trump campaign chairman, is convicted on eight counts of fraud in a federal court in Alexandria, Virginia
• Aug 21 Water-ice first detected on the Moon by India's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft (2008-9) in findings published by scientists
• Aug 22 Australia's House of Representatives is closed down early because of the Liberal Party leadership battle
• Aug 22 Discovery of a bone of a 90,000 hybrid human, half Neanderthal, half Denisovan from Anuy River, Siberia published in "Nature"

• Aug 22 Longest ever bull market for Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index at 3,453 days (using 19.9 percent decline in 1990 as the start, usually 20%)

• Aug 24 Scott Morrison becomes Prime Minister of Australia after defeating Peter Dutton in a leadership spill, replacing Malcolm Turnbull
• Aug 25 Afghan Islamic State leader Abu Saad Erhabi and 10 others killed in an air strike in province of Nangarhar, Afghanistan
• Aug 26 Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, former US Vatican Ambassador, claims Pope Francis knew of and ignored sex abuse allegations against Cardinal Theodore McCarrick
• Aug 26 Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop resigns after losing Liberal Party leadership contest

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• Aug 3 Moshe Mizrahi, Israeli film director (Madame Rosa), dies of pneumonia at 86
• Aug 5 Charlotte Rae, American character actress (Facts of Life - "Edna"), comedian, singer, and dancer, dies at 92
• Aug 6 Joël Robuchon, French chef, world record for Michelin stars (32), dies of cancer at 73
• Aug 6 Margaret Heckler, American politician and 15th U.S. Secretary of Health & Human Services (1983-85), dies at 87
• Aug 6 Paul Laxalt, American politician (22nd Governor of Nevada), dies at 96

• Aug 13 Jim "the Anvil" Neidhart, American professional wrestler (WWF/WCW/NJPW/CWFI/Calgary), dies at 63
• Aug 13 Somnath Chatterjee, Indian communist leader, dies at 89
• Aug 14 Jill Janus, American heavy metal singer (Huntress), commits suicide at 43
• Aug 15 Ajit Wadekar, Indian cricket batsman and captain (37 Tests; top score 143; Bombay), dies at 77

• Aug 16 Yelena Shushunova, Russian gymnast (Olympic gold USSR Team, All-around 1988; World C'ship gold x 5), dies of pneumonia at 49

• Aug 18 Peter Tapsell, British Conservative Party politician (Member of Parliament, 1959-64 and 1966-2015), dies at 88
• Aug 19 Vaughn Beals, American CEO (Harley Davidson. 1981-96), dies at 90
• Aug 20 Charles Blackman, Australian figurative artist (Heide circle), dies at 90
• Aug 20 Eddie Willis, American guitar and sitar player (The Funk Brothers), dies of polio complications at 82
• Aug 21 Barbara Harris, American Tony Award-winning actress (Plaza Suite; Family Plot), dies at 83
• Aug 21 George Andrie, American football defensive end (Super Bowl 1971; First Team All Pro 1969; 5 x Pro Bowl; Dallas Cowboys), dies from dementia at 78
• Aug 21 Stefán Karl Stefánsson, Icelandic actor (Lazytown), dies of cancer at 43
• Aug 22 Ed King, American psychedelic rock musician (Strawberry Alarm Clock; Lynyrd Skynyrd), dies of cancer at 68
• Aug 23 George Theophilus Walker, African-American pianist, composer and teacher (Lilacs; In Praise Of Folly), dies at 96
• Aug 24 Adrian Swire, British aircraft magnate (Cathay Pacific), dies at 86
• Aug 24 Robin Leach, English TV host (Life Styles of Rich & Famous), dies at 76
• Aug 24 Tom Frost, American rock climber (founder gear & apparel company Patagonia), dies of prostate cancer at 82

• Aug 25 Noam Sheriff, Israeli composer, conductor, and music director, dies at 83

• Aug 26 Rosa Bouglione, French circus performer, dies at 107
• Aug 28 Tatyana Kuznetsova, Soviet cosmonaut (youngest person selected for space training at 20 but never flew), dies at 77
• Aug 29 Paul Taylor, American dancer and choreographer (Paul Taylor Dance Company), dies at 88 [1]
• Aug 29 Peter Mond, 4th Baron Melchett, English jurist and Labour politician who was Minister of State for Northern Ireland (1976-79), dies at 70 [1]
• Aug 31 Gloria Jean [Schoonover], American actress (Never Give a Sucker an Even Break), and singer, dies at 92