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August 18

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August 18 is the 230th day of the year (231st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 135 days remaining.

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Contents

1 Events

2 Births

3 Deaths

4 Holidays and observances

5 External links

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Events

293 BC - Oldest known Roman temple to Venus founded, institution of Vinalia Rustica begins.
1587 - Virginia Dare, granddaughter of Gov. John White of the Colony of Roanoke, becomes the first English child born in the Americas.
1590 - John White, the governor of the Colony of Roanoke, returns from a supply-trip to England and finds his settlement deserted.
1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Weldon Railroad - Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant try to cut a vital Confederate supply-line into Petersburg, Virginia, by attacking the Weldon Railroad forcing the Confederates to use wagons.
1877 - Asaph Hall discovers Phobos.
1903 - German engineer Karl Jatho flew with his self-made motored gliding airplane, four months before the first flight of the Wright Brothers.
1904 - Chris Watson resigns as Prime Minister of Australia and is succeded by George Reid.
1920 - 19th Amendment to US constitution is passed, guaranteeing women's suffrage.
1938 - The Thousand Islands Bridge, connecting the United States with Canada, is dedicated by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1941 - Adolf Hitler orders a temporary halt to Nazi Germany's systematic euthanasia of mentally ill and handicapped due to protests. However, graduates of the T-4 Euthanasia Program were then transferred to the conentration camps, where they continued in their trade.
1958 - Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel Lolita is published in the United States.
1963 - American civil rights movement: James Meredith becomes the first black person to graduate from the University of Mississippi.
1965 - Vietnam War: Operation Starlite begins - 5,500 United States Marines destroy a Viet Cong stronghold on the Van Tuong peninsula in Quang Ngai Province in the first major American ground battle of the war. The Marines were tipped-off by a Viet Cong deserter who said that there was an attack planned against the US base at Chu Lai.
1971 - Vietnam War: Australia and New Zealand decide to withdraw their troops from Vietnam.
1976 - In North Korea at Panmunjom, two US soldiers are killed while trying to chop down part of a tree in the DMZ which had obscured their view.
1983 - Hurricane Alicia hits the Texas coast, killing 22 and causing over USD $1 billion in damage (1983 dollars).
1989 - Leading presidential hopeful Luis Carlos Galán is assassinated near Bogotá in Colombia.
1991 - Collapse of the Soviet Union: Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is put under house arrest while he was vacationing in the Crimea. The coup was led by eight high-ranking hard-liners (the coup would collapse in less than 72 hours).
1992 - Wang Laboratories files for bankruptcy.
1992 - NBA basketball player Larry Bird announces his retirement after winning an Olympic gold medal as a member of the Dream Team.
2004 - In Dublin, Ireland the Dublin Port Tunnel excavation works were completed and the final tunnel boring machine breakthrough ceremony took place.

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Births

1587 - Virginia Dare, first English child born in North America (d. 1588)
1750 - Antonio Salieri, composer (d. 1825)
1774 - Meriwether Lewis, explorer (d. 1809)
1830 - Emperor Franz Josef I of Austria (d. 1916)
1857 - Libert H. Boeynaems, ss.cc., Roman Catholic prelate
1890 - Walther Funk, German Nazi politician (d. 1960).
1896 - Jack Pickford, actor, Hollywood's first "bad boy", (d. 1933)
1904 - Max Factor, cosmetics entrepreneur (d. 1996)
1917 - Caspar Weinberger, former United States Secretary of Defense
1918 - Walter Joseph Hickel, former Governor of Alaska, former US Secretary of the Interior
1920 - Bob Kennedy, MLB player and manager (d. 2005)
1922 - Shelley Winters, actress
1925 - Brian Aldiss, writer
1927 - Rosalynn Carter, First Lady
1928 - Marge Schott, former owner of MLB's Cincinnati Reds (d. 2004)
1932 - William R. Bennett, Premier of British Columbia
1933 - Roman Polanski, director, actor
1934 - Vincent Bugliosi, prosecuting attorney in the Charles Manson case
1934 - Roberto Clemente, baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1972)
1935 - Rafer Johnson, American decathlete
1935 - Sir Howard Morrison, New Zealand entertainer
1937 - Robert Redford, actor, director
1943 - Martin Mull, comedian, actor
1943 - Carl Wayne, singer (d. 2004)
1945 - Barbara Harris, singer, formerly of the group the Toys
1952 - Elayne Boosler, comedienne
1952 - Patrick Swayze, actor
1953 - Louie Gohmert, American politician
1955 - Dr. Taher ElGamal, American-Egyptian Scientist
1957 - Carole Bouquet, French actress
1957 - Denis Leary, comedian, actor
1958 - Madeleine Stowe, actress
1960 - Fat Lever, NBA player
1969 - Edward Norton, actor
1969 - Christian Slater, actor
1969 - Masta Killa, rapper
1970 - Malcolm-Jamal Warner, actor
1974 - Shivnarine Chanderpaul, West Indian cricketer
1990 - Evan Perrotta, musician
1992 - Frances Cobain, daughter of Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love

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Deaths

472 - Ricimer, Roman general
849 - Walafrid Strabo, German monk and theologian
1227 - Genghis Khan, Mongol leader
1276 - Pope Adrian V
1503 - Pope Alexander VI (b. 1431)
1559 - Pope Paul IV (b. 1476)
1765 - Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1708)
1809 - Matthew Boulton, pioneering industrialist and member of the Lunar Society (b. 1728)
1815 - Chauncey Goodrich, U.S. Senator from Connecticut (b. 1759)
1850 - Honoré de Balzac, French writer (b. 1799)
1940 - Walter P. Chrysler, American automobile mogul (b. 1875)
1949 - Paul Mares, jazz musician (b. 1900)
1963 - Clifford Odets, American playwright (b. 1906)
1981 - Anita Loos, American screenwriter, playwright and author (b. 1889)
1983 - Nikolaus Pevsner, art historian (b. 1902)
1990 - Grethe Ingmann, Danish singer and Eurovision Song Contest winner (b. 1938)
1998 - Persis Khambatta, Indian actress (b. 1950)
2004 - Elmer Bernstein, American film composer (b. 1922)

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Holidays and observances

Roman Empire - Vinalia Rustica celebrated in honor of Venus commemorating the founding of the oldest known temple to her in 293 BC on this date.
Afghanistan - Independence Day (1919)

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