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Friday, August 18, 2017
History for August 18
History for August 18 - On-This-Day.com
Merriwether Lewis 1774, Max Factor 1904, Caspar Weinberger 1917
Shelley Winters 1920, Robert Redford 1937, 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.
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.
1919 - The "Anti-Cigarette League of America" was formed in Chicago IL.
1937 - The first FM radio construction permit was issued in Boston, MA. The station went on the air two years later.
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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