Page 4: Historical Events In August - 18

1905  Greta Garbo, actress famed recluse on August - 18.   

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

1907  On August - 18 cecilia Grace Hunt Reeves Gillie, Executive (BBC)   

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

1908  Armijn Pane, Indonesian writer (Belenggu) on August - 18.   

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 this day in history charles Wegg-Prosser, solicitor   

1914  On August - 18 pres Wilson issues Proclamation of Neutrality   

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  On this day in history max Lanier, baseball player   

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

1916  Edward D Pain, English journalist (NY World), dies in battle at 36 on August - 18.   

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 this day in history.   

1917  On August - 18 dutch Naval Air Force forms (MLD)   

1917  Casper Weinberger, US Secretary of Defense (1981-87) on August - 18.   

1918  Elsa Morante, writer on August - 18.   

1919  Anti-Cigarette League of America forms in Chicago Illinois on August - 18.   

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

1920  Tennessee ratifies 19th Amendment, guarantees women voting right on August - 18.   

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

1920  On this day in history bob Kennedy, baseball player   

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

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

1922  On this day in history alain Robbe-Grillet, France, novelist (Voyeur)   

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  France begins retracting troops out of Ruhrgebied on August - 18.   

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

1925  On August - 18 belgian & US sign treaty about war debts   

1925  Brian W[ilson] Aldiss, UK, sci-fi author (Helliconia Trilogy) on this day in history.   

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 August - 18 birth of jami, Persian poet (d. 1492)   

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

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 this day in history.   

1596  Jean Bolland, Flemish Jesuit writer (d. 1665) was born on August - 18.   

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 this day in history.   

0353  On August - 18 death of decentius, Roman usurper   

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

1227  Genghis Khan, Mongol conqueror, dies on August - 18.   

1236  Theodorus Van Celles, monastery founder (Kruisheren), dies on this day in history.   

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

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

1318  On August - 18 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)