Thursday, August 18, 2022

History for August 18

History for August 18 - On-This-Day.com
Martin Mull 1943
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1963 - James Meredith graduated from the University of Mississippi. He was the first black man to accomplish this feat.
  • 1990 - The first shots were fired by the U.S. in the Persian Gulf Crisis when a U.S. frigate fired rounds across the bow of an Iraqi oil tanker.

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