Historical Events In August - 18
Thursday, 28 March 2024
1905 Greta Garbo, actress famed recluse on August - 18.
1906 On this day in history andre Van Gyseghem, England, actor (Search for the Nile)
1907 Cecilia Grace Hunt Reeves Gillie, Executive (BBC) on this day in history.
1907 On this day in history john Kerr, physicist (magneto-optic Kerr-effect), dies at 82
1908 On this day in history armijn Pane, Indonesian writer (Belenggu)
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 August - 18.
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 Braves Field opens in Boston to see Braves beat Cards 3-1 on this day in history.
1915 Max Lanier, baseball player on August - 18.
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 this day in history capt. (acting Major) Okill Massey Learmonth (2nd Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Hill 70, France
1917 On August - 18 sgt. Fredrick Hobson (20th Cdn. infanctry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Hill 70, France
1917 Dutch Naval Air Force forms (MLD) on August - 18.
1917 On August - 18 casper Weinberger, US Secretary of Defense (1981-87)
1918 Elsa Morante, writer on August - 18.
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 August - 18.
1920 Tennessee ratifies 19th Amendment, guarantees women voting right on August - 18.
1920 1st class debut of Walter Hammond on August - 18.
1920 On August - 18 bob Kennedy, baseball player
1921 Zdzisław Żygulski, Jr., Polish art historian on this day in history.
1922 On August - 18 the birth of Shelley Winters, American actress
1922 Alain Robbe-Grillet, France, novelist (Voyeur) on August - 18.
1923 On August - 18 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) on this day in history.
1924 France begins retracting troops out of Ruhrgebied on this day in history.
1924 On August - 18 mohammad Zia Ul-Haq, pres of Pakistan (1977-88)[or Aug 12]
1925 Belgian & US sign treaty about war debts on this day in history.
1925 On this day in history 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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