Historical Events In August - 18
Sunday, 03 July 2022
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 On August - 18 cecilia Grace Hunt Reeves Gillie, Executive (BBC)
1907 John Kerr, physicist (magneto-optic Kerr-effect), dies at 82 on this day in history.
1908 On this day in history armijn Pane, Indonesian writer (Belenggu)
1909 Mayor of Tokyo Yukio Ozaki presents Washington, D.C. with 2,000 cherry trees, which President Taft decides to plant near the Potomac River on this day in history.
1909 On August - 18 miliza Korjus, Warsaw Poland, actress (Great Waltz)
1910 Charles Wegg-Prosser, solicitor on August - 18.
1914 Pres Wilson issues Proclamation of Neutrality on August - 18.
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 August - 18.
1915 On this day in history max Lanier, baseball player
1916 On this day in history elsa Morante, Italy, writer (L'isola di Arturo)
1916 Edward D Pain, English journalist (NY World), dies in battle at 36 on this day in history.
1917 On this day in history 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 this day in history.
1919 On August - 18 anti-Cigarette League of America forms in Chicago Illinois
1919 Walter J Hickel, (Gov-R-Alaska)/US Secretary of Interior (1969-71) on August - 18.
1920 On this day in history 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 August - 18.
1921 On this day in history zdzisław Żygulski, Jr., Polish art historian
1922 On this day in history 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 this day in history france begins retracting troops out of Ruhrgebied
1924 On this day in history mohammad Zia Ul-Haq, pres of Pakistan (1977-88)[or Aug 12]
1925 Belgian & US sign treaty about war debts on August - 18.
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 August - 18.
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