Historical Events In August - 18

1905  Greta Garbo, actress famed recluse on this day in history.   

1906  On this day in history andre Van Gyseghem, England, actor (Search for the Nile)   

1907  Cecilia Grace Hunt Reeves Gillie, Executive (BBC) on this day in history.   

1907  On August - 18 john Kerr, physicist (magneto-optic Kerr-effect), dies at 82   

1908  Armijn Pane, Indonesian writer (Belenggu) on this day in history.   

1909  On August - 18 mayor of Tokyo Yukio Ozaki presents Washington, D.C. with 2,000 cherry trees, which President Taft decides to plant near the Potomac River.   

1909  Miliza Korjus, Warsaw Poland, actress (Great Waltz) on this day in history.   

1910  Charles Wegg-Prosser, solicitor on August - 18.   

1914  Pres Wilson issues Proclamation of Neutrality on this day in history.   

1914  Oscar Egg sets new cycling hour record (44,247 km) on August - 18.   

1915  On this day in history braves Field opens in Boston to see Braves beat Cards 3-1   

1915  Max Lanier, baseball player on this day in history.   

1916  Elsa Morante, Italy, writer (L'isola di Arturo) on August - 18.   

1916  On August - 18 edward D Pain, English journalist (NY World), dies in battle at 36   

1917  On August - 18 capt. (acting Major) Okill Massey Learmonth (2nd Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Hill 70, France   

1917  Sgt. Fredrick Hobson (20th Cdn. infanctry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Hill 70, France on August - 18.   

1917  Dutch Naval Air Force forms (MLD) on August - 18.   

1917  Casper Weinberger, US Secretary of Defense (1981-87) on this day in history.   

1918  Elsa Morante, writer on August - 18.   

1919  Anti-Cigarette League of America forms in Chicago Illinois on this day in history.   

1919  Walter J Hickel, (Gov-R-Alaska)/US Secretary of Interior (1969-71) on this day in history.   

1920  On August - 18 tennessee ratifies 19th Amendment, guarantees women voting right   

1920  1st class debut of Walter Hammond on this day in history.   

1920  On this day in history bob Kennedy, baseball player   

1921  ZdzisÅ‚aw Å»ygulski, Jr., Polish art historian on August - 18.   

1922  On August - 18 the birth of Shelley Winters, American actress   

1922  Alain Robbe-Grillet, France, novelist (Voyeur) on August - 18.   

1923  37th US Womens Tennis: Helen Wills Moody beats Molla B Mallory (62 61) on August - 18.   

1923  On August - 18 jahangir Khan Irani, cricket wicketkeeper for India (1947-8 Aust tour)   

1924  On August - 18 france begins retracting troops out of Ruhrgebied   

1924  Mohammad Zia Ul-Haq, pres of Pakistan (1977-88)[or Aug 12] on this day in history.   

1925  Belgian & US sign treaty about war debts on August - 18.   

1925  On August - 18 brian W[ilson] Aldiss, UK, sci-fi author (Helliconia Trilogy)   

1926  On this day in history england regain Ashes with 5th Test Cricket win, to take series 1-0   

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1414  Jami, Persian poet (d. 1492) was born on August - 18.   

1450  Marko Marulic/Marulus/Splichanin/Pechinich, Croatian poet was born on August - 18.   

1579  On this day in history birth of charlotte Flandrina van Nassau, daughter of Willem I of Orange   

1587  1st English child born in New World (Virginia Dare) was born on this day in history.   

1587  Virginia Dare, 1st American born of English parents was born on August - 18.   

1596  On this day in history birth of jean Bolland, Flemish Jesuit writer (d. 1665)   

1605  Henry Hammond, English churchman (d. 1660) was born on this day in history.   

1606  On this day in history birth of maria Anna of Spain, Holy Roman Empire Empress and Queen of Hungary (d. 1646)   

0353  On this day in history death of decentius, Roman usurper   

0849  On August - 18 death of walafrid Strabo, German monk and theologian   

1227  On August - 18 genghis Khan, Mongol conqueror, dies   

1236  On this day in history theodorus Van Celles, monastery founder (Kruisheren), dies   

1258  Death of Theodore II Lascaris, Emperor of the Empire of Nicaea on August - 18.   

1276  Adrian V, [Ottobono Fieschi], Italian Pope (7/11-8/18/1276), dies on this day in history.   

1318  On this day in history death of clare of Montefalco, Italian Abbess and religious leader (born c. 1268)   

1430  On this day in history death of thomas de Ros, 9th Baron de Ros, English soldier and politician (drowned) (b. 1406)