August 18: Zboriv peace treaty, the Denikin Volunteer Army and Ringo Starr in the "The Beatles"

August 18, 1649 Bogdan Khmelnitsky signed with the Polish King Jan II Kazimierz Zborovsky peace treaty, according to which Ukraine in the territory of 3 voivodships (Kiev, Bratslav and Chernigov) received autonomy, and the Cossack registry was set at 40 000 people.

1859 - French rope walker Jean Blonden crossed the Niagara Falls, holding on the shoulders of another acrobat.

1868 - during the observation of a solar eclipse, the French astronomer Pierre Jules Cesar Jansen discovered a new element in the solar spectrum - helium. On Earth, helium was found only in 1895.

1909 - Tokyo Mayor Yukio Ozaki gave Washington 2,000 cherry trees, which US President Taft decided to land near the Potomac River.

1919 - The Volunteer Army of Denikin was taken by Nikolaev.

1941 - on the orders of the General Staff of the retreating Red Army, the Dnieper Hydroelectric Power Station dam was blown up, which led to a devastating flood and the death of a significant number of people from the coastal villages and Soviet servicemen.

1943 - World War II: the Battle of Horaniyu - one of the sea fighting in the Pacific campaign.

1958 - in the US published a novel by Vladimir Nabokov "Lolita."

1962 - during a performance at the Liverpool club "The Cavern" Ringo Starr first played in the "The Beatles".

1976 - The Soviet space station "Luna-24" landed on the surface of the Moon. The next day, with a special module, she sent samples of lunar soil to Earth. It was the last device launched by the USSR to the Moon.

1992 - the honorary sign of the President of Ukraine, the first award of independent Ukraine was founded (since 1996 - the Order of Merit).

2006 - IV World Forum of Ukrainians began in Kiev.