Page 4: Historical Events In August - 18

1905  On August - 18 greta Garbo, actress famed recluse   

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

1907  On August - 18 cecilia Grace Hunt Reeves Gillie, Executive (BBC)   

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  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  On August - 18 miliza Korjus, Warsaw Poland, actress (Great Waltz)   

1910  On August - 18 charles Wegg-Prosser, solicitor   

1914  Pres Wilson issues Proclamation of Neutrality on August - 18.   

1914  Oscar Egg sets new cycling hour record (44,247 km) on August - 18.   

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

1915  Max Lanier, baseball player on August - 18.   

1916  Elsa Morante, Italy, writer (L'isola di Arturo) on this day in history.   

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

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  On this day in history elsa Morante, writer   

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 August - 18.   

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

1920  On this day in history bob Kennedy, baseball player   

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

1922  On this day in history the birth of Shelley Winters, American actress   

1922  On August - 18 alain Robbe-Grillet, France, novelist (Voyeur)   

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

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

1924  France begins retracting troops out of Ruhrgebied on August - 18.   

1924  Mohammad Zia Ul-Haq, pres of Pakistan (1977-88)[or Aug 12] on this day in history.   

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

1925  Brian W[ilson] Aldiss, UK, sci-fi author (Helliconia Trilogy) on August - 18.   

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 this day in history.   

1579  On this day in history birth of charlotte Flandrina van Nassau, daughter of Willem I of Orange   

1587  1st English child born in New World (Virginia Dare) was born on August - 18.   

1587  On August - 18 birth of virginia Dare, 1st American born of English parents   

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

1605  Henry Hammond, English churchman (d. 1660) was born on August - 18.   

1606  On August - 18 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  Death of Walafrid Strabo, German monk and theologian on this day in history.   

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

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 August - 18.   

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

1318  Death of Clare of Montefalco, Italian Abbess and religious leader (born c. 1268) on August - 18.   

1430  On August - 18 death of thomas de Ros, 9th Baron de Ros, English soldier and politician (drowned) (b. 1406)