Holidays and Observances
- Birthday of Virginia Dare (Roanoke Island)
- Christian Feast Day:
- Agapitus of Palestrina
- Alberto Hurtado
- Helena of Constantinople (Roman Catholic Church)
- August 18 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Long Tan Day, also called Vietnam Veterans' Day (Australia)
- National Science Day (Thailand)
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“... if it be true that death is annihilation, then the man who believes that he will certainly go straight to heaven when he dies, provided he has fulfilled certain simply observances in this life, has a cheap pleasure which will not be followed by the least disappointment.”
—Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914)