August 18
1227 - Mongol conqueror Genghis Khan died in China.
1587 - Virginia Dare became the first child of English parents born in North America on what is now Roanoke Island in North Carolina.
1894 - Congress established the Bureau of Immigration, forerunner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
1914 - President Woodrow Wilson issued his Proclamation of Neutrality, aimed at keeping the United States out of World War I.
1920 - The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, granting women the right to vote, was ratified when Tennessee became the 36th state to approve it, reaching the three-fourths of states required.
1963 - James Meredith became the first African American to graduate from the University of Mississippi.
1969 - The Woodstock Music and Art Fair in Bethel, New York, wound to a close after three nights with a mid-morning set by Jimi Hendrix.
1983 - Hurricane Alicia slammed into the Texas coast, leaving 21 dead and causing more than a billion dollars’ worth of damage.
1993 - A judge in Sarasota, Florida ruled that Kimberly Mays, the 14-year-old girl who had been switched at birth with another baby, need never again see her biological parents, Ernest and Regina Twigg, in accordance with her stated wishes. (However, Kimberly later moved in with the Twiggs.)
2005 - A judge in Wichita, Kansas, sentenced BTK serial killer Dennis Rader to 10 consecutive life terms, the maximum the law would allow.
2014 - Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon ordered the National Guard to Ferguson, a suburb of St. Louis convulsed by protests over the fatal shooting of a Black 18-year-old, Michael Brown.
2017 - Steve Bannon, President Donald Trump’s top White House strategist, was forced out of his post by Trump. (Bannon would be pardoned by Trump in the final hours of Trump’s term after being charged with diverting money from donors who believed the money would be used to build a wall along the southern border; he was later convicted of contempt for defying a congressional subpoena from the House panel investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.)
2020 - Democrats formally nominated Joe Biden their presidential nominee at their all-virtual national convention.
2020 - The Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee concluded that the Kremlin had launched an aggressive effort to interfere in the 2016 presidential election on behalf of Donald Trump, and that the Trump campaign's interactions with Russian intelligence services had posed a "grave" counterintelligence threat.
Birthdays
25 - Josephine Langford (actress)
27 - Parker McKenna Posey (actress)
28 - Madelaine Petsch (actress)
29 - Maia Mitchell (actress)
29 - Kara Del Toro (model)
35 - Mika Boorem (actress)
38 - Eniko Hart (model)
44 - Andy Samberg (actor/comedian)
47 - Kaitlin Olson (actress)
52 - Malcolm-Jamal Warner (actor)
53 - Edward Norton (actor)
53 - Christian Slater (actor)
58 - Craig Bierko (actor)
60 - Adam Storke (actor)
61 - Bob Woodruff (news reporter)
64 - Madeleine Stowe (actress)
65 - Denis Leary (actor)
79 - Martin Mull (actor/comedian)
80 - Henry G. Sanders (actor)
86 - Robert Redford (actor/director)
95 - Rosalynn Cater (wife of President Jimmy Carter)
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Today in Sports History - August 18
1956 - The Cincinnati Reds and Milwaukee Braves combined for a National League record of 10 home runs. The Reds won 13-4. Bob Thurman (Cincinnati Reds) hit three of the home runs.
1973 - Hank Aaron set a major league record with his 1,378th extra base.
1980 - George Brett of the Kansas City Royals had his batting average reach the .400 mark.
1981 - Herschel Walker of the University of Georgia took out an insurance policy with Lloyd’s of London. The all-American was insured for one million dollars.
1982 - Pete Rose sets a major league record with his 13,941st career plate appearance.
1987 - Earl Campbell announced his retirement from football.
1992 - Larry Bird, after 13 years with the Boston Celtics, announced his retirement.
1995 - Tom Henke (St. Louis) became only the seventh major league player to record 300 saves.
1996 - Frank Thomas (Chicago White Sox) became the fourth player to reach 100 RBIs in each of his first six seasons.
1996 - Wade Boggs became the 41st major league player to get 2,000 career singles.
2004 - In Athens, Paul Hamm (hahm) won the men’s gymnastics all-around Olympic gold medal by the closest margin ever in the event; controversy followed after it was discovered a scoring error cost Yang Tae-young of South Korea the title.
2021 - Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Angels becomes the fastest player in franchise history to reach 40 home runs in a season; he also pitched 8 innings in a 3-1 win against the Detroit Tigers.
1227 - Mongol conqueror Genghis Khan died in China.
1587 - Virginia Dare became the first child of English parents born in North America on what is now Roanoke Island in North Carolina.
1894 - Congress established the Bureau of Immigration, forerunner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
1914 - President Woodrow Wilson issued his Proclamation of Neutrality, aimed at keeping the United States out of World War I.
1920 - The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, granting women the right to vote, was ratified when Tennessee became the 36th state to approve it, reaching the three-fourths of states required.
1963 - James Meredith became the first African American to graduate from the University of Mississippi.
1969 - The Woodstock Music and Art Fair in Bethel, New York, wound to a close after three nights with a mid-morning set by Jimi Hendrix.
1983 - Hurricane Alicia slammed into the Texas coast, leaving 21 dead and causing more than a billion dollars’ worth of damage.
1993 - A judge in Sarasota, Florida ruled that Kimberly Mays, the 14-year-old girl who had been switched at birth with another baby, need never again see her biological parents, Ernest and Regina Twigg, in accordance with her stated wishes. (However, Kimberly later moved in with the Twiggs.)
2005 - A judge in Wichita, Kansas, sentenced BTK serial killer Dennis Rader to 10 consecutive life terms, the maximum the law would allow.
2014 - Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon ordered the National Guard to Ferguson, a suburb of St. Louis convulsed by protests over the fatal shooting of a Black 18-year-old, Michael Brown.
2017 - Steve Bannon, President Donald Trump’s top White House strategist, was forced out of his post by Trump. (Bannon would be pardoned by Trump in the final hours of Trump’s term after being charged with diverting money from donors who believed the money would be used to build a wall along the southern border; he was later convicted of contempt for defying a congressional subpoena from the House panel investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.)
2020 - Democrats formally nominated Joe Biden their presidential nominee at their all-virtual national convention.
2020 - The Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee concluded that the Kremlin had launched an aggressive effort to interfere in the 2016 presidential election on behalf of Donald Trump, and that the Trump campaign's interactions with Russian intelligence services had posed a "grave" counterintelligence threat.
Birthdays
25 - Josephine Langford (actress)
27 - Parker McKenna Posey (actress)
28 - Madelaine Petsch (actress)
29 - Maia Mitchell (actress)
29 - Kara Del Toro (model)
35 - Mika Boorem (actress)
38 - Eniko Hart (model)
44 - Andy Samberg (actor/comedian)
47 - Kaitlin Olson (actress)
52 - Malcolm-Jamal Warner (actor)
53 - Edward Norton (actor)
53 - Christian Slater (actor)
58 - Craig Bierko (actor)
60 - Adam Storke (actor)
61 - Bob Woodruff (news reporter)
64 - Madeleine Stowe (actress)
65 - Denis Leary (actor)
79 - Martin Mull (actor/comedian)
80 - Henry G. Sanders (actor)
86 - Robert Redford (actor/director)
95 - Rosalynn Cater (wife of President Jimmy Carter)
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Today in Sports History - August 18
1956 - The Cincinnati Reds and Milwaukee Braves combined for a National League record of 10 home runs. The Reds won 13-4. Bob Thurman (Cincinnati Reds) hit three of the home runs.
1973 - Hank Aaron set a major league record with his 1,378th extra base.
1980 - George Brett of the Kansas City Royals had his batting average reach the .400 mark.
1981 - Herschel Walker of the University of Georgia took out an insurance policy with Lloyd’s of London. The all-American was insured for one million dollars.
1982 - Pete Rose sets a major league record with his 13,941st career plate appearance.
1987 - Earl Campbell announced his retirement from football.
1992 - Larry Bird, after 13 years with the Boston Celtics, announced his retirement.
1995 - Tom Henke (St. Louis) became only the seventh major league player to record 300 saves.
1996 - Frank Thomas (Chicago White Sox) became the fourth player to reach 100 RBIs in each of his first six seasons.
1996 - Wade Boggs became the 41st major league player to get 2,000 career singles.
2004 - In Athens, Paul Hamm (hahm) won the men’s gymnastics all-around Olympic gold medal by the closest margin ever in the event; controversy followed after it was discovered a scoring error cost Yang Tae-young of South Korea the title.
2021 - Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Angels becomes the fastest player in franchise history to reach 40 home runs in a season; he also pitched 8 innings in a 3-1 win against the Detroit Tigers.
