Page 4: Historical Events In August - 18

1905  On August - 18 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 this day in history.   

1907  On August - 18 john Kerr, physicist (magneto-optic Kerr-effect), dies at 82   

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  Miliza Korjus, Warsaw Poland, actress (Great Waltz) on this day in history.   

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

1914  Pres Wilson issues Proclamation of Neutrality on August - 18.   

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  Max Lanier, baseball player on this day in history.   

1916  On this day in history elsa Morante, Italy, writer (L'isola di Arturo)   

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

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  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  Casper Weinberger, US Secretary of Defense (1981-87) on this day in history.   

1918  On this day in history elsa Morante, writer   

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

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  1st class debut of Walter Hammond on August - 18.   

1920  On August - 18 bob Kennedy, baseball player   

1921  On August - 18 zdzisÅ‚aw Å»ygulski, Jr., Polish art historian   

1922  On August - 18 the birth of Shelley Winters, American actress   

1922  Alain Robbe-Grillet, France, novelist (Voyeur) on this day in history.   

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 August - 18.   

1924  On August - 18 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  On this day in history england regain Ashes with 5th Test Cricket win, to take series 1-0   

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1414  Jami, Persian poet (d. 1492) was born on August - 18.   

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 this day in history 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 August - 18.   

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 this day in history.   

0353  On this day in history death of decentius, Roman usurper   

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

1227  On August - 18 genghis Khan, Mongol conqueror, dies   

1236  On this day in history 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  Death of Thomas de Ros, 9th Baron de Ros, English soldier and politician (drowned) (b. 1406) on August - 18.