Page 4: 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 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  Armijn Pane, Indonesian writer (Belenggu) on this day in history.   

1909  On August - 18 mayor of Tokyo Yukio Ozaki presents Washington, D.C. with 2,000 cherry trees, which President Taft decides to plant near the Potomac River.   

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

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

1914  On August - 18 pres Wilson issues Proclamation of Neutrality   

1914  On this day in history oscar Egg sets new cycling hour record (44,247 km)   

1915  Braves Field opens in Boston to see Braves beat Cards 3-1 on this day in history.   

1915  On this day in history 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 this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

1918  Elsa Morante, writer on August - 18.   

1919  On this day in history anti-Cigarette League of America forms in Chicago Illinois   

1919  On August - 18 walter J Hickel, (Gov-R-Alaska)/US Secretary of Interior (1969-71)   

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

1920  On August - 18 1st class debut of Walter Hammond   

1920  On August - 18 bob Kennedy, baseball player   

1921  On this day in history zdzisÅ‚aw Å»ygulski, Jr., Polish art historian   

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

1922  On this day in history alain Robbe-Grillet, France, novelist (Voyeur)   

1923  On this day in history 37th US Womens Tennis: Helen Wills Moody beats Molla B Mallory (62 61)   

1923  On August - 18 jahangir Khan Irani, cricket wicketkeeper for India (1947-8 Aust tour)   

1924  On August - 18 france begins retracting troops out of Ruhrgebied   

1924  Mohammad Zia Ul-Haq, pres of Pakistan (1977-88)[or Aug 12] on August - 18.   

1925  Belgian & US sign treaty about war debts on this day in history.   

1925  On August - 18 brian W[ilson] Aldiss, UK, sci-fi author (Helliconia Trilogy)   

1926  On August - 18 england regain Ashes with 5th Test Cricket win, to take series 1-0   

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1414  On this day in history birth of jami, Persian poet (d. 1492)   

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 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 this day in history.   

1596  Jean Bolland, Flemish Jesuit writer (d. 1665) was born on this day in history.   

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  Death of Decentius, Roman usurper on August - 18.   

0849  Death of Walafrid Strabo, German monk and theologian on August - 18.   

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

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

1258  On this day in history death of theodore II Lascaris, Emperor of the Empire of Nicaea   

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

1318  On this day in history death of clare of Montefalco, Italian Abbess and religious leader (born c. 1268)   

1430  On this day in history death of thomas de Ros, 9th Baron de Ros, English soldier and politician (drowned) (b. 1406)