Historical Events In August - 18

1905  Greta Garbo, actress famed recluse on August - 18.  

1906  Andre Van Gyseghem, England, actor (Search for the Nile) on this day in history.  

1907  On this day in history cecilia Grace Hunt Reeves Gillie, Executive (BBC)  

1907  John Kerr, physicist (magneto-optic Kerr-effect), dies at 82 on August - 18.  

1908  On August - 18 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  Charles Wegg-Prosser, solicitor on August - 18.  

1914  Pres Wilson issues Proclamation of Neutrality on this day in history.  

1914  Oscar Egg sets new cycling hour record (44,247 km) on August - 18.  

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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  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  Sgt. Fredrick Hobson (20th Cdn. infanctry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Hill 70, France on this day in history.  

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

1917  Casper Weinberger, US Secretary of Defense (1981-87) on August - 18.  

1918  Elsa Morante, writer on August - 18.  

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 this day in history.  

1920  Tennessee ratifies 19th Amendment, guarantees women voting right on this day in history.  

1920  On this day in history 1st class debut of Walter Hammond  

1920  On this day in history bob Kennedy, baseball player  

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 this day in history.  

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 August - 18 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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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  Charlotte Flandrina van Nassau, daughter of Willem I of Orange was born on this day in history.  

1587  1st English child born in New World (Virginia Dare) was born on this day in history.  

1587  Virginia Dare, 1st American born of English parents was born on August - 18.  

1596  On this day in history birth of jean Bolland, Flemish Jesuit writer (d. 1665)  

1605  On August - 18 birth of henry Hammond, English churchman (d. 1660)  

1606  On this day in history 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 August - 18.  

1227  Genghis Khan, Mongol conqueror, dies on this day in history.  

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 this day in history.  

1276  On this day in history 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 August - 18.