Page 4: Historical Events In August - 18
Friday, 07 February 2025
1905 On this day in history greta Garbo, actress famed recluse
1906 Andre Van Gyseghem, England, actor (Search for the Nile) on this day in history.
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 August - 18.
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 On this day in history miliza Korjus, Warsaw Poland, actress (Great Waltz)
1910 Charles Wegg-Prosser, solicitor on August - 18.
1914 On August - 18 pres Wilson issues Proclamation of Neutrality
1914 On August - 18 oscar Egg sets new cycling hour record (44,247 km)
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 Elsa Morante, Italy, writer (L'isola di Arturo) on this day in history.
1916 Edward D Pain, English journalist (NY World), dies in battle at 36 on this day in history.
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 this day in history.
1917 Dutch Naval Air Force forms (MLD) on this day in history.
1917 On August - 18 casper Weinberger, US Secretary of Defense (1981-87)
1918 On August - 18 elsa Morante, writer
1919 Anti-Cigarette League of America forms in Chicago Illinois on August - 18.
1919 Walter J Hickel, (Gov-R-Alaska)/US Secretary of Interior (1969-71) on this day in history.
1920 On August - 18 tennessee ratifies 19th Amendment, guarantees women voting right
1920 On August - 18 1st class debut of Walter Hammond
1920 On this day in history bob Kennedy, baseball player
1921 Zdzisław Żygulski, Jr., Polish art historian on August - 18.
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 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 On this day in history belgian & US sign treaty about war debts
1925 On August - 18 brian W[ilson] Aldiss, UK, sci-fi author (Helliconia Trilogy)
1926 England regain Ashes with 5th Test Cricket win, to take series 1-0 on this day in history.
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