Historical Events In August - 18
Saturday, 07 September 2024
1905 Greta Garbo, actress famed recluse on this day in history.
1906 On this day in history andre Van Gyseghem, England, actor (Search for the Nile)
1907 On August - 18 cecilia Grace Hunt Reeves Gillie, Executive (BBC)
1907 On August - 18 john Kerr, physicist (magneto-optic Kerr-effect), dies at 82
1908 On this day in history armijn Pane, Indonesian writer (Belenggu)
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 August - 18.
1909 On this day in history miliza Korjus, Warsaw Poland, actress (Great Waltz)
1910 On this day in history charles Wegg-Prosser, solicitor
1914 Pres Wilson issues Proclamation of Neutrality on this day in history.
1914 Oscar Egg sets new cycling hour record (44,247 km) on this day in history.
1915 On August - 18 braves Field opens in Boston to see Braves beat Cards 3-1
1915 On this day in history max Lanier, baseball player
1916 Elsa Morante, Italy, writer (L'isola di Arturo) on August - 18.
1916 Edward D Pain, English journalist (NY World), dies in battle at 36 on August - 18.
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 Sgt. Fredrick Hobson (20th Cdn. infanctry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Hill 70, France on this day in history.
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 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 On this day in history tennessee ratifies 19th Amendment, guarantees women voting right
1920 On this day in history 1st class debut of Walter Hammond
1920 Bob Kennedy, baseball player on August - 18.
1921 Zdzisław Żygulski, Jr., Polish art historian on this day in history.
1922 On this day in history the birth of Shelley Winters, American actress
1922 On this day in history alain Robbe-Grillet, France, novelist (Voyeur)
1923 On August - 18 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 this day in history 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 On this day in history 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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