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

1907  John Kerr, physicist (magneto-optic Kerr-effect), dies at 82 on August - 18.   

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

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 August - 18.   

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

1916  On this day in history 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 this day in history.   

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

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 this day in history.   

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  ZdzisÅ‚aw Å»ygulski, Jr., Polish art historian on August - 18.   

1922  On August - 18 the birth of Shelley Winters, American actress   

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  Jahangir Khan Irani, cricket wicketkeeper for India (1947-8 Aust tour) on August - 18.   

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

1924  Mohammad Zia Ul-Haq, pres of Pakistan (1977-88)[or Aug 12] on August - 18.   

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

1925  Brian W[ilson] Aldiss, UK, sci-fi author (Helliconia Trilogy) on this day in history.   

1926  On this day in history 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 August - 18.   

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

1579  Charlotte Flandrina van Nassau, daughter of Willem I of Orange was born on this day in history.   

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  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  Death of Walafrid Strabo, German monk and theologian on August - 18.   

1227  Genghis Khan, Mongol conqueror, dies on this day in history.   

1236  Theodorus Van Celles, monastery founder (Kruisheren), dies on this day in history.   

1258  Death of Theodore II Lascaris, Emperor of the Empire of Nicaea on this day in history.   

1276  On this day in history 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)