Page 4: Historical Events In August - 18

1905  Greta Garbo, actress famed recluse   

1906  Andre Van Gyseghem, England, actor (Search for the Nile).   

1907  Cecilia Grace Hunt Reeves Gillie, Executive (BBC).   

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

1908  Armijn Pane, Indonesian writer (Belenggu)   

1909  Mayor of Tokyo Yukio Ozaki presents Washington, D.C. with 2000 cherry trees, which President Taft decides to plant near the Potomac River   

1909  Miliza Korjus, Warsaw Poland, actress (Great Waltz).   

1910  Charles Wegg-Prosser, solicitor.   

1914  Pres Wilson issues Proclamation of Neutrality   

1914  Oscar Egg sets new cycling hour record (44247 km).   

1915  Braves Field opens in Boston to see Braves beat Cards 3-1.   

1915  Max Lanier, baseball player.   

1916  Elsa Morante, Italy, writer (L'isola di Arturo)   

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

1917  In this year, Capt. (acting Major) Okill Massey Learmonth (2nd Cdn. Infantry Batt.) claims the Victoria Cross at Hill 70, France   

1917  In this year, Sgt. Fredrick Hobson (20th Cdn. infanctry Batt.) claims the Victoria Cross at Hill 70, France   

1917  Dutch Naval Air Force forms (MLD).   

1917  Casper Weinberger, US Secretary of Defense (1981-87)   

1918  Elsa Morante, writer   

1919  Anti-Cigarette League of America forms in Chicago Illinois   

1919  Walter J Hickel, (Gov-R-Alaska)/US Secretary of Interior (1969-71)   

1920  Tennessee ratifies 19th Amendment, guarantees women voting right.   

1920  1st class debut of Walter Hammond   

1920  Bob Kennedy, baseball player.   

1921  ZdzisÅ‚aw Å»ygulski, Jr., Polish art historian.   

1922  Shelley Winters, American actress is born.   

1922  Alain Robbe-Grillet, France, novelist (Voyeur).   

1923  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)   

1924  France begins retracting troops out of Ruhrgebied   

1924  Mohammad Zia Ul-Haq, pres of Pakistan (1977-88)[or Aug 12].   

1925  Belgian and US sign treaty about war debts   

1925  Brian W[ilson] Aldiss, UK, sci-fi author (Helliconia Trilogy).   

1926  England regain Ashes with 5th Test Cricket win, to take series 1-0   

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1414  Jami: Persian poet   

1450  Marko marulic/marulus/splichanin/pechinich: Croatian poet   

1579  Charlotte flandrina van nassau: Daughter of willem i of orange   

1587  Virginia dare: 1st american born of english parents   

1587  1st english child: 1st english child born in new world (virginia dare)   

1596  Jean bolland: Flemish jesuit writer   

1605  Henry hammond: English churchman   

1606  Maria anna of spain: Holy roman empire empress and queen of hungary   

0353  Death of Decentius: Roman usurper   

0849  Death of Walafrid strabo: German monk and theologian   

1227  Death of Genghis khan: Mongol conqueror,   

1236  Theodorus van celles: Monastery founder (kruisheren),   

1258  Death of Theodore ii lascaris: Emperor of the empire of nicaea   

1276  Death of Adrian v: [ottobono fieschi], italian pope (7/11-8/18/1276),   

1318  Death of Clare of montefalco: Italian abbess and religious leader (born c. 1268)   

1430  Thomas de ros: 9th baron de ros, english soldier and politician (drowned) (b. 1406)