Page 4: Historical Events In August - 18

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

1906  On August - 18 andre Van Gyseghem, England, actor (Search for the Nile)   

1907  Cecilia Grace Hunt Reeves Gillie, Executive (BBC) on August - 18.   

1907  On this day in history john Kerr, physicist (magneto-optic Kerr-effect), dies at 82   

1908  On August - 18 armijn Pane, Indonesian writer (Belenggu)   

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  On August - 18 miliza Korjus, Warsaw Poland, actress (Great Waltz)   

1910  On this day in history charles Wegg-Prosser, solicitor   

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

1914  On August - 18 oscar Egg sets new cycling hour record (44,247 km)   

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

1915  On August - 18 max Lanier, baseball player   

1916  On August - 18 elsa Morante, Italy, writer (L'isola di Arturo)   

1916  On this day in history 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  On August - 18 sgt. Fredrick Hobson (20th Cdn. infanctry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Hill 70, France   

1917  On this day in history dutch Naval Air Force forms (MLD)   

1917  On August - 18 casper Weinberger, US Secretary of Defense (1981-87)   

1918  On August - 18 elsa Morante, writer   

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 August - 18.   

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

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

1920  Bob Kennedy, baseball player on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

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

1924  France begins retracting troops out of Ruhrgebied on this day in history.   

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

1925  On this day in history belgian & US sign treaty about war debts   

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 August - 18.   

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1414  On August - 18 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 this day in history.   

1587  On this day in history birth of 1st English child born in New World (Virginia Dare)   

1587  On August - 18 birth of virginia Dare, 1st American born of English parents   

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

1605  Henry Hammond, English churchman (d. 1660) was born on August - 18.   

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 this day in history.   

0849  On this day in history death of walafrid Strabo, German monk and theologian   

1227  Genghis Khan, Mongol conqueror, dies on this day in history.   

1236  On August - 18 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 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)