Historical Events In August - 18
Wednesday, 08 May 2024
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 On August - 18 cecilia Grace Hunt Reeves Gillie, Executive (BBC)
1907 On this day in history 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 On this day in history miliza Korjus, Warsaw Poland, actress (Great Waltz)
1910 Charles Wegg-Prosser, solicitor on this day in history.
1914 On August - 18 pres Wilson issues Proclamation of Neutrality
1914 Oscar Egg sets new cycling hour record (44,247 km) on this day in history.
1915 Braves Field opens in Boston to see Braves beat Cards 3-1 on this day in history.
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 this day in history.
1917 On August - 18 sgt. Fredrick Hobson (20th Cdn. infanctry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Hill 70, France
1917 Dutch Naval Air Force forms (MLD) on August - 18.
1917 On this day in history casper Weinberger, US Secretary of Defense (1981-87)
1918 Elsa Morante, writer on this day in history.
1919 On this day in history anti-Cigarette League of America forms in Chicago Illinois
1919 On August - 18 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 Bob Kennedy, baseball player on this day in history.
1921 Zdzisław Żygulski, 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 On this day in history 37th US Womens Tennis: Helen Wills Moody beats Molla B Mallory (62 61)
1923 Jahangir Khan Irani, cricket wicketkeeper for India (1947-8 Aust tour) on this day in history.
1924 France begins retracting troops out of Ruhrgebied on August - 18.
1924 Mohammad Zia Ul-Haq, pres of Pakistan (1977-88)[or Aug 12] on August - 18.
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 this day in history.
1926 On August - 18 england regain Ashes with 5th Test Cricket win, to take series 1-0
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