Page 4: Historical Events In August - 18

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  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  On this day in history miliza Korjus, Warsaw Poland, actress (Great Waltz)   

1910  On August - 18 charles Wegg-Prosser, solicitor   

1914  On this day in history pres Wilson issues Proclamation of Neutrality   

1914  On August - 18 oscar Egg sets new cycling hour record (44,247 km)   

1915  On August - 18 braves Field opens in Boston to see Braves beat Cards 3-1   

1915  On August - 18 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  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 this day in history.   

1917  On August - 18 casper Weinberger, US Secretary of Defense (1981-87)   

1918  Elsa Morante, writer on August - 18.   

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

1919  On this day in history 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 this day in history 1st class debut of Walter Hammond   

1920  Bob Kennedy, baseball player on this day in history.   

1921  On August - 18 zdzisÅ‚aw Å»ygulski, Jr., Polish art historian   

1922  On August - 18 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 August - 18.   

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 this day in history 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 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 August - 18.   

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1414  Jami, Persian poet (d. 1492) was born on this day in history.   

1450  Marko Marulic/Marulus/Splichanin/Pechinich, Croatian poet was born on this day in history.   

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  On this day in history birth of virginia Dare, 1st American born of English parents   

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

1605  On this day in history 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  On August - 18 death of walafrid Strabo, German monk and theologian   

1227  On this day in history genghis Khan, Mongol conqueror, dies   

1236  Theodorus Van Celles, monastery founder (Kruisheren), dies on August - 18.   

1258  On August - 18 death of theodore II Lascaris, Emperor of the Empire of Nicaea   

1276  Adrian V, [Ottobono Fieschi], Italian Pope (7/11-8/18/1276), dies on August - 18.   

1318  On August - 18 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)