Monday, August 18, 2014

History for August 18

History for August 18 - On-This-Day.com
Birth anniversary of Virginia Dare, the first child of English parents to be born in the New World(1587-?).


Birth anniversaries of baseball hero Roberto Clemente (1934-72) and explorer Meriwether Lewis (1774-1809).

Happy Birthday! Roman Polanski, Robert Redford, Madeleine Stowe


1227 - The Mongol conqueror Ghengis Khan died. 


1587 - Virginia Dare became the first child to be born on American soil of English parents. The colony that is now Roanoke Island, NC, mysteriously vanished. 


In 1872, the first mail-order catalog was published by Montgomery Ward (it was a single sheet of paper).


1894 - The Bureau of Immigration was established by the U.S. Congress. 


1914 - The "Proclamation of Neutrality" was issued by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson. It was aimed at keeping the U.S. out of World War I. 


1920 - Tennessee ratified the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The Amendment guaranteed the right of all American women to vote. 

1960 - Anniversary of “the Pill”: the first commercially produced oral contraceptives were marketed by the G.D. Searle Company on this date.


1963 - James Meredith graduated from the University of Mississippi. He was the first black man to accomplish this feat. 


1991 - An unsuccessful coup was attempted in against President Mikhail S. Gorbachev. The Soviet hard-liners were responsible. Gorbechev and his family were effectively imprisoned for three days while vacationing in Crimea

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