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Today in history

Here are some interesting facts ih history happened on 18 August.

  1. Mongol conqueror Genghis Khan died.
  2. Virginia Dare 1st child of English parents to be born in America
  3. The last of the Pottawatomie Indians leave Chicago
  4. US forces led by Gen. Stephen W. Kearney captured Santa Fe NM
  5. Pierre Janssan discovers helium in solar spectrum during eclipse
  6. Pres Wilson issues Proclamation of Neutrality
  7. Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the 19th Amendment which guarantees the right of all American women to vote.
  8. FDR dedicates the Thousand Islands Bridge connecting US & Canada.
  9. Asst Sec of Labor James Wilkins became 1st black to attend Cabinet
  10. Lolita - by Vladimir Nabokov published.
  11. Investigation starts of TV Game show scandal
  12. 1st photograph bounced off a satellite Cedar Rapids Iowa
  13. James Meredith became 1st black graduate from U of Mississippi
  14. USSR's Luna 24 softlands on the Moon
  15. 1st time NYSE tops 100 million figure 132.69 million shares traded
  16. Crockett's Tavern opens in Fort Wilderness

Birthdays

These famous people were born on 18 August.

  1. 1587 - Virginia Dare, 1st American born of English parents
  2. 1685 - Brook Taylor, mathematician, discoverer of Taylor's Theorem
  3. 1750 - Antonio Salieri, Italian composer
  4. 1774 - Meriwether Lewis, American explorer
  5. 1778 - Fabian Gottlieb von Bellinghausen, 1st to circumnavigate Antarctica
  6. 1792 - John Earl Russell 1st, British Whig P.M. (1846-52, 1865-66)
  7. 1834 - Marshall Field, founder of a Chicago-based store chain
  8. 1904 - Max FActor Jr
  9. 1917 - Caspar Weinberger, US secretary of defense (1981-87)
  10. 1922 - Shelley Winters, St Louis Mo Actress
  11. 1927 - Rosalynn Carter, 1st lady, Pres Carter's main lust
  12. 1933 - Roman Polanski, director (Knife in the Water, Repulsion)
  13. 1934 - Roberto Clemente, pro baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates)
  14. 1935 - Gail Fisher, in Orange NJ
  15. 1935 - Rafer Johnson, decathelete
  16. 1937 - Robert Redford, Actor (Sting, Natural, Great Gatsby)
  17. 1943 - Martin Mull, Actor-comedian
  18. 1970 - Malcolm-Jamal Warner, (Cosby Show)