18-08-2025

Met Museum

Design for a Decorative Frieze

ca. 1825–50

Anonymous, French, 19th century

MoMA Highlight

The Starry Night

1889

Vincent van Gogh

Oil on canvas

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On This Day

• 2017 Two people were fatally stabbed and eight others wounded by a rejected asylum seeker in an Islamist terrorist attack in Turku, Finland.
Asylum seeker2017 Turku attackTurku
• 2008 Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf resigned under pressure from a movement to impeach him.
Pervez MusharrafEffort to impeach Pervez Musharraf
• 1983 Hurricane Alicia made landfall near Galveston, Texas, causing $3 billion in damage and 21 fatalities.
Hurricane AliciaGalveston, Texas
• 1966 Vietnam War: Members of the 6th Battalion of the Royal Australian Regiment were surrounded by a much larger Viet Cong unit at the Battle of Long Tan (helicopter pictured), but held them off for several hours until reinforcements arrived.
Vietnam War6th Battalion, Royal Australian RegimentRoyal Australian RegimentViet CongBattle of Long Tan
• 1964 East German Communist Party member Hildegard Trabant was killed while attempting to cross the Berlin Wall.
Socialist Unity Party of GermanyHildegard TrabantRepublikflucht
• 1948 Australia won the fifth Test of the 1948 Ashes series, becoming the first Test cricket team to go undefeated in England, earning them the nickname "The Invincibles".
Fifth Test, 1948 Ashes seriesTest cricketAustralian cricket team in England in 1948
• 1945 World War II: Amid a Soviet invasion of Japanese-held Sakhalin, Japanese police massacred 18 Koreans in Kamishisuka.
World War IISoviet–Japanese WarSakhalinSakhalin Koreans
• 1940 Second World War: During the Battle of Britain, the Luftwaffe made an all-out effort to destroy RAF Fighter Command, with both sides combined losing more aircraft on this day than at any other point during the campaign.
World War IIBattle of BritainThe Hardest DayRAF Fighter Command
• 1937 A lightning strike started the Blackwater Fire (pictured) in Shoshone National Forest, Wyoming, consuming 1,700 acres (7 km2) of old-growth forest and killing 15 firefighters.
Blackwater Fire of 1937Shoshone National ForestOld-growth forest
• 1920 The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified, guaranteeing women's suffrage in the country.
Nineteenth Amendment to the United States ConstitutionConstitution of the United StatesWomen's suffrage in the United States
• 1919 Russian Civil War: British motor torpedo boats raided the Bolshevik Baltic Fleet's home base of Kronstadt, sinking a depot ship and damaging a battleship.
Russian Civil WarRaid on KronstadtBolsheviksKronstadt
• 1891 A hurricane struck the Caribbean island of Martinique, killing about 700 people, injuring at least 1,000 others, and causing severe damage.
1891 Martinique hurricaneMartinique
• 1877 American astronomer Asaph Hall discovered Phobos, the larger of Mars's two moons, six days after discovering Deimos, the smaller one.
Asaph HallPhobos (moon)Moons of MarsDeimos (moon)
• 1864 American Civil War: At the Battle of Globe Tavern, Union forces attempted to sever the Weldon Railroad during the siege of Petersburg.
American Civil WarBattle of Globe TavernUnion (American Civil War)Wilmington and Weldon RailroadSiege of Petersburg
• 1823 At least 9,000 enslaved people rebelled in the British colony in Demerara-Essequibo (in present-day Guyana), demanding emancipation.
Demerara rebellion of 1823Demerara-Essequibo
• 1783 A meteor procession blazed across the night sky over Great Britain.
Meteor procession1783 Great Meteor
• 1612 The trials of the Pendle and Samlesbury witches (statue pictured), among the most famous of England's witch trials, began at the assizes in Lancaster.
Pendle witchesSamlesbury witchesWitch huntAssizesLancaster, Lancashire
• 1590 John White, governor of the Roanoke Colony, the first English settlement in North America (located in present-day North Carolina), returned after a three-year absence to find it deserted (depicted).
John White (colonist and artist)Roanoke ColonyNorth Carolina
• 1487 Reconquista: After a four-month siege, the Catholic Monarchs of Spain conquered the city of Málaga from the Emirate of Granada.
ReconquistaSiege of Málaga (1487)Catholic Monarchs of SpainMálagaEmirate of Granada
• 684 Second Fitna: Umayyad partisans defeated the supporters of Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr near Damascus, cementing Umayyad control of Syria.
Second FitnaUmayyad CaliphateBattle of Marj Rahit (684)Abd Allah ibn al-ZubayrDamascus