Historical Events In August - 18

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

1906  On August - 18 andre Van Gyseghem, England, actor (Search for the Nile)  

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

1907  On this day in history john Kerr, physicist (magneto-optic Kerr-effect), dies at 82  

1908  Armijn Pane, Indonesian writer (Belenggu) on August - 18.  

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  On this day in history charles Wegg-Prosser, solicitor  

1914  On this day in history 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  On this day in history max Lanier, baseball player  

1916  On August - 18 elsa Morante, Italy, writer (L'isola di Arturo)  

1916  On August - 18 edward D Pain, English journalist (NY World), dies in battle at 36  

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  Sgt. Fredrick Hobson (20th Cdn. infanctry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Hill 70, France on August - 18.  

1917  Dutch Naval Air Force forms (MLD) on this day in history.  

1917  On this day in history casper Weinberger, US Secretary of Defense (1981-87)  

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  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 August - 18.  

1922  The birth of Shelley Winters, American actress on August - 18.  

1922  Alain Robbe-Grillet, France, novelist (Voyeur) on this day in history.  

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

1923  On this day in history jahangir Khan Irani, cricket wicketkeeper for India (1947-8 Aust tour)  

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

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 August - 18.  

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  Jami, Persian poet (d. 1492) was born on this day in history.  

1450  On August - 18 birth of marko Marulic/Marulus/Splichanin/Pechinich, Croatian poet  

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

1587  On August - 18 birth of 1st English child born in New World (Virginia Dare)  

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

1596  Jean Bolland, Flemish Jesuit writer (d. 1665) was born on August - 18.  

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

1606  On August - 18 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  On this day in history death of walafrid Strabo, German monk and theologian  

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