Page 4: Historical Events In August - 18

1905  On this day in history greta Garbo, actress famed recluse   

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 this day in history.   

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  Pres Wilson issues Proclamation of Neutrality on August - 18.   

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 August - 18.   

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  Capt. (acting Major) Okill Massey Learmonth (2nd Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Hill 70, France on August - 18.   

1917  On this day in history sgt. Fredrick Hobson (20th Cdn. infanctry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Hill 70, France   

1917  On this day in history dutch Naval Air Force forms (MLD)   

1917  Casper Weinberger, US Secretary of Defense (1981-87) on August - 18.   

1918  Elsa Morante, writer on this day in history.   

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 this day in history bob Kennedy, baseball player   

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

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

1922  On this day in history alain Robbe-Grillet, France, novelist (Voyeur)   

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

1923  On August - 18 jahangir Khan Irani, cricket wicketkeeper for India (1947-8 Aust tour)   

1924  On this day in history france begins retracting troops out of Ruhrgebied   

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

1925  On August - 18 belgian & US sign treaty about war debts   

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

1926  England regain Ashes with 5th Test Cricket win, to take series 1-0 on this day in history.   

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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  On this day in history birth of 1st English child born in New World (Virginia Dare)   

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 this day in history.   

1606  Maria Anna of Spain, Holy Roman Empire Empress and Queen of Hungary (d. 1646) was born on August - 18.   

0353  On August - 18 death of decentius, Roman usurper   

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  On this day in history 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 this day in history 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)