Page 4: Historical Events In August - 18

1905  On this day in history greta Garbo, actress famed recluse   

1906  Andre Van Gyseghem, England, actor (Search for the Nile) on this day in history.   

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

1907  John Kerr, physicist (magneto-optic Kerr-effect), dies at 82 on August - 18.   

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  On August - 18 charles Wegg-Prosser, solicitor   

1914  On this day in history pres Wilson issues Proclamation of Neutrality   

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

1915  On August - 18 braves Field opens in Boston to see Braves beat Cards 3-1   

1915  On this day in history max Lanier, baseball player   

1916  Elsa Morante, Italy, writer (L'isola di Arturo) on this day in history.   

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

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

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 August - 18.   

1918  On August - 18 elsa Morante, writer   

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

1919  On August - 18 walter J Hickel, (Gov-R-Alaska)/US Secretary of Interior (1969-71)   

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

1920  On August - 18 1st class debut of Walter Hammond   

1920  On this day in history bob Kennedy, baseball player   

1921  On this day in history zdzisÅ‚aw Å»ygulski, Jr., Polish art historian   

1922  The birth of Shelley Winters, American actress on August - 18.   

1922  On August - 18 alain Robbe-Grillet, France, novelist (Voyeur)   

1923  On this day in history 37th US Womens Tennis: Helen Wills Moody beats Molla B Mallory (62 61)   

1923  On this day in history 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 this day in history.   

1925  Brian W[ilson] Aldiss, UK, sci-fi author (Helliconia Trilogy) on August - 18.   

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

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1414  On this day in history birth of jami, Persian poet (d. 1492)   

1450  On this day in history birth of marko Marulic/Marulus/Splichanin/Pechinich, Croatian poet   

1579  Charlotte Flandrina van Nassau, daughter of Willem I of Orange was born on August - 18.   

1587  On August - 18 birth of 1st English child born in New World (Virginia Dare)   

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

1596  Jean Bolland, Flemish Jesuit writer (d. 1665) was born on this day in history.   

1605  On August - 18 birth of henry Hammond, English churchman (d. 1660)   

1606  Maria Anna of Spain, Holy Roman Empire Empress and Queen of Hungary (d. 1646) was born on August - 18.   

0353  Death of Decentius, Roman usurper on August - 18.   

0849  Death of Walafrid Strabo, German monk and theologian on this day in history.   

1227  On this day in history genghis Khan, Mongol conqueror, dies   

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

1258  On August - 18 death of theodore II Lascaris, Emperor of the Empire of Nicaea   

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 August - 18 death of thomas de Ros, 9th Baron de Ros, English soldier and politician (drowned) (b. 1406)