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  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 August - 18.   

1909  Miliza Korjus, Warsaw Poland, actress (Great Waltz) on this day in history.   

1910  Charles Wegg-Prosser, solicitor on August - 18.   

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  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  Edward D Pain, English journalist (NY World), dies in battle at 36 on August - 18.   

1917  On August - 18 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  On August - 18 dutch Naval Air Force forms (MLD)   

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

1918  Elsa Morante, writer on August - 18.   

1919  On this day in history 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 August - 18 tennessee ratifies 19th Amendment, guarantees women voting right   

1920  1st class debut of Walter Hammond on August - 18.   

1920  On August - 18 bob Kennedy, baseball player   

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 August - 18 alain Robbe-Grillet, France, novelist (Voyeur)   

1923  37th US Womens Tennis: Helen Wills Moody beats Molla B Mallory (62 61) on August - 18.   

1923  On this day in history 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  Mohammad Zia Ul-Haq, pres of Pakistan (1977-88)[or Aug 12] on this day in history.   

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

1925  On this day in history brian W[ilson] Aldiss, UK, sci-fi author (Helliconia Trilogy)   

1926  On this day in history england regain Ashes with 5th Test Cricket win, to take series 1-0   

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1414  On August - 18 birth of jami, Persian poet (d. 1492)   

1450  Marko Marulic/Marulus/Splichanin/Pechinich, Croatian poet was born on this day in history.   

1579  On August - 18 birth of charlotte Flandrina van Nassau, daughter of Willem I of Orange   

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 August - 18.   

1605  Henry Hammond, English churchman (d. 1660) was born on this day in history.   

1606  On August - 18 birth of maria Anna of Spain, Holy Roman Empire Empress and Queen of Hungary (d. 1646)   

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

0849  Death of Walafrid Strabo, German monk and theologian on this day in history.   

1227  Genghis Khan, Mongol conqueror, dies on August - 18.   

1236  On August - 18 theodorus Van Celles, monastery founder (Kruisheren), dies   

1258  Death of Theodore II Lascaris, Emperor of the Empire of Nicaea on this day in history.   

1276  On August - 18 adrian V, [Ottobono Fieschi], Italian Pope (7/11-8/18/1276), dies   

1318  Death of Clare of Montefalco, Italian Abbess and religious leader (born c. 1268) on this day in history.   

1430  Death of Thomas de Ros, 9th Baron de Ros, English soldier and politician (drowned) (b. 1406) on this day in history.