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Today in History ~ August 18
National Aviation Day
Events0410 - King Alarik I's Visigoths occupy & plunders Rome
1564 - Spanish king Philip II joins Council of Trente
1590 - John White returns to Roanoke, VA & finds no trace of colonists he had left there 3 yrs earlier [H]
1674 - Jean Racine's "Iphigenie," premieres in Versailles
1735 - Evening Post begins publishing (Boston Mass)
1769 - Gunpowder in Brescia Italy church explodes, killing 3,000
1817 - Gloucester, Mass, newspapers tells of wild sea serpent seen offshore
1834 - Mt Vesuvius erupts
1835 - Last Pottawatomie Indians leave Chicago
1846 - Gen Stephen W Kearney's US forces captures Santa Fe NM
1853 - Cyrus Skinner released from San Quentin [H]
1862 - Sioux Indians begin uprising in Minnesota (it is later crushed)
1864 - Petersburg Campaign-Battle of Weldon Railroad, day 1 of 3 days
1872 - 1st mail-order catalog issued by A M Ward
1894 - Congress creates Bureau of Immigration
1896 - Adolph Ochs (39) buys NY Times
1914 - Pres Wilson issues "Proclamation of Neutrality"
1919 - Anti-Cigarette League of America forms in Chicago Illinois
1920 - The Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution, guaranteeing women the right to vote, was ratified by Tennessee, giving it the two-thirds majority of state ratification necessary to make it the law of the land [H]
1930 - Eastern Airlines begins passenger service
1932 - Auguste Piccard/Max Cosijns reach 16,201m in a balloon
1938 - FDR dedicates Thousand Islands Bridge connecting US & Canada
1940 - 71 German aircrafts shot down above England
1941 - Concentration camp Amersfoort opens
1942 - Carlson's Raiders land on Makin, Gilbert islands, kill 350 Japs
1943 - Final convoy of Jews from Salonika Greece arrive at Auschwitz
1943 - Otto Skorzeny's Heinkel-111 shot down at Sardinia
1947 - Naval torpedo & mine factory explodes at Cadiz, Spain killing 300
1956 - Elvis Presley's "Hound Dog/Don't Be Cruel" reaches #1
1958 - "Lolita," by Vladimir Nabokov, published
1958 - Fidel Castro makes a speech on Cuban pirate radio Rebelde
1958 - TV game show scandal investigation starts
1960 - 1st commercial oral contraceptive, Enovid 10 debuts in Skokie Ill
1960 - Beatles give their 1st public performance (Kaiserkeller in Hamburg)
1961 - Construction on Berlin Wall completed
1962 - Peter, Paul & Mary release their 1st hit "If I Had a Hammer"
1963 - James Meredith becomes 1st black graduate from U of Mississippi
1964 - South Africa banned from Olympic Games because of apartheid policies
1973 - Gene Krupa, drummer, plays for final time with Benny Goodman Quartet
1979 - Iran Ayatollah Khomeini demands Saintly War against Kurds
1979 - Nick Lowe marries singer Carlene Carter
1979 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1982 - Pete Rose sets record with his 13,941st plate appearance
1983 - Hurricane Alicia battered Houston & Galveston, Texas
1984 - Triangle Oil Corp, above-ground storage tank at Jacksonville Fla, spills 2.5 m gallons of oil burned after lightning sparked a fire
1988 - FDA approves Minoxidil as a hair loss treatment
1988 - Republican Convention in New Orleans select Bush-Quayle ticket
1991 - On the eve of the planned signing of a new Union treaty for the U.S.S.R., eight senior officials of the Soviet government and military launched the August Coup against Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
Birthdays Today
0472 - Flavius Ricimer, general of the Western Roman Empire, kingmaker
1587 - Virginia Dare, 1st American born of English parents, disappeared with the rest of the Roanoke colonists. [H]
1750 - Antonio Salieri, Italy, composer (Tatare)
1774 - Meriwether Lewis, Charlottsville VA, capt (Lewis & Clark Expedition)
1807 - Charles Francis Adams, (Union), died in 1886
1849 - Benjamin Louis Paul Godard, composer
1870 - Bernard M. Baruch was born advised every president from Woodrow Wilson to JFK, would hold impromptu press conferences on park benches
1871 - Orville Wright was born (celebrated as National Aviation Day)
1873 - Leo Slezak, Austria tenor/actor (Othello)
1873 - Otto Harbach, songwriter (Smoke Gets in Your Eyes)
1883 - Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, French fashion designer (Chanel)
1904 - [Francis] Max Factor, cosmetics manufacturer (Max Factor)
1905 - Greta Garbo, actress famed recluse
1908 - Edgar Faure, thriller writer/PM of France (1952, 52-56)
1915 - Max Lanier (baseball)
1917 - Casper Weinberger (former U.S. Secretary of Defense)
1919 - Malcolm Forbes was born "I don't waste too much time philosophizing about wealth, I just recommend it to everyone."
1920 - Bob Kennedy (baseball)
1922 - Shelly Winters (Schrift) (Academy Award-winning actress: Patch of Blue [1965], The Diary of Anne Frank [1959]; The Poseidon Adventure, A Place in the Sun, The Night of the Hunter, The Pickle)
1927 - Rosalynn Carter (Smith) (First Lady: wife of 39th U.S. President Jimmy Carter)
1930 - Grant Williams (actor: Escape from Planet Earth, The Incredible Shrinking Man)
1933 - Roman Polanski (director: Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown, MacBeth)
1934 - Roberto Clemente (Baseball Hall of Famer: Pittsburgh Pirates RF: Baseball Writer's Award winner: [1966])
1934 - Vincent Bugliosi, attorney/author (Helter-Skelter)
1935 - Gail Fisher (Emmy Award-winning actress: Mannix [1969-70])
1935 - Rafer Johnson (Olympic and National Track and Field Hall of Famer: decathlon gold medalist [1960]; AP Athlete of the Year [1960]; lighted torch at Olympics [1984])
1937 - Robert Redford (actor: All the President's Men, Quiz Show, The Sting, Sneakers, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Out of Africa; Academy Award-winning director: Ordinary People [1980]; A River Runs Through It, Quiz Show)
1939 - Joe Azcue (baseball)
1939 - Johnny Preston (singer: Running Bear, Cradle of Love)
1941 - Christopher Jones (actor: The Looking Glass War, Ryan's Daughter, Three in the Attic, Wild in the Streets)
1941 - Matt Snell (football: NY Jets running back: Super Bowl III)
1943 - Martin Mull (comedian, actor: Roseanne, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, Take This Job and Shove It, Portrait of a White Marriage, The History of White People in America)
1950 - Dennis Elliott (musician: drums: group: Foreigner: I Want to Know What Love Is, Waiting for a Girl like You)
1951 - Greg Pruitt (football: LA Raiders running back: Super Bowl XVIII)
1954 - Patrick Swayze (dancer, actor: Dirty Dancing, Ghost, Father Hood, Red Dawn, Point Break, North and South)
1958 - Madeleine Stowe (actress: Unlawful Entry, The Last of the Mohicans, Gangster Wars)
1969 - Christian Slater (actor: Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Murder in the First, Untamed Heart, Young Guns, Interview with the Vampire)
1970 - Malcolm Jamal Warner (actor: The Cosby Show, Tyson; writer: Theo & Me)
Famous deaths
1227 - Genghis Khan, Mongol conqueror of most of the known world, dies in his sleep. [H]
1503 - Alexander VI, [Rodrigo di Borgia], Spanish Pope (1492-1503),
1850 - Honore de Balzac, writer, dies at 51
1943 - Hans Jeschonnek, German air force general/chief-staff, commits suicide
1961 - Learned Hand, Chief judge of US court of Appeals, dies at 89
1988 - Frederick Ashton, choreographer (Cinderella), dies at 83
1992 - John Stuges, director (Gunfight at OK Corral), dies of emphysema at 82
1994 - Gottlob Frick, German operatic basso, dies at 88
If you have other Birthdays or events to add for this day please E-mail me
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