On 18 July 2002, Spanish special forces landed on a tiny, uninhabited island called Perejil (Parsley Island) to remove twelve Moroccan soldiers who had set up camp there days earlier. The swift operation, later dubbed the Parsley War, was a military confrontation between two NATO allies over a rock barely bigger than a football pitch, home only to goats and wild parsley. The incident highlighted unresolved territorial disputes between Spain and Morocco dating back to 1860. Ten years earlier, on the same date in 1992, a photograph of a comedy pop group called Les Horribles Cernettes became one of the first images ever uploaded to the World Wide Web, shared among scientists at CERN in Geneva. That modest photo, taken at a lab festival, quietly marked the beginning of the visual internet age. And in 1969, a ceasefire came into effect on 18 July, ending the so-called Football War between Honduras and El Salvador. Though named after violent World Cup qualifying matches, the conflict was rooted in land disputes, immigration tensions, and nationalism, claiming several thousand lives in just five days. Three stories from one date: a rock, a pop group, and a war named after the wrong thing.