18 de augusto

Le 18 de augusto es le 230e die del anno in le Calendario Gregorian (le 231e in un anno bissextil), con 135 dies usque le termino del anno.

Eventos

• 293 aEC. - Le fundation del templo de Venus (le plus antique cognoscite in le historia del Imperio Roman, e le institution de Vinalia Rustica comencia.
• 1587 - Virginia Dare, granfilia del Gov. John White del Colonia de Roanoke, deveni le prime infante britannic nascite in le Americas.
• 1590 - John White, Le governator del Colonia de Roanoke, retorna ab un viage al Anglaterra e trova le colonia desertate.
• 1864 - Guerra Civil American: Battalia de Weldon Railroad - Forias sub le General del Union Ulysses S. Grant essaya attacca le Weldon Railroad fortiante al Confederatos a usar wagones (carros).
• 1920 - Le 19e Amendmento al Constitution del Statos Unite es passate per le legislation, illo guarantiente le voto al feminas.
• 1938 - Le "Thousand Islands Bridge" (Ponte del mille insulas), que connecta le Statos Unite con Canada, es dedicate per le Presidente American Franklin D. Roosevelt.
• 1941 - Holocausto: Adolf Hitler ordina le fin al euthanasia systematic de personas mentalmente infirme e con un handicap a causa de protestas in Germania.
• 1958 - Le novella controversial de Vladimir Nabokov Lolita es publicate in le Statos Unite.
• 1963 - Movimento de derectos civil in America: James Meredith deveni le prime persona afro-american a graduar se ab le Universitate de Mississippi.
• 1965 - Guerra de Vietnam: Operation Starlite comencia - 5,500 Marines american destrue un forte Viet Cong al peninsula Van Tuong in le provincia Quang Ngai in le prime battalia grande del guerra. Le marines recipeva information ab un desertator qui revelava le planos pro le attacco contra un base american in Chu Lai.
• 1971 - Guerra de Vietnam: Australia e Nove Zealanda decide extraher su truppas ab Vietnam.
• 1976 - In Nord Korea a Panmunjom, doo soldatos american es occidite durante lor labor de hachar un arbore que obstrueva lor vista in le zona dis-militarisate.
• 1982 - Wang Laboratories firma papiros de bancarupta.
• 1983 - Hurrican Alicia veni contra le costa de Texas, occidente 22 personas e causante USD$1 billiardo de dollares de damno (USD$ de 1983).
• 1989 - Politico Luis Carlos Galan es assassinate circa Bogota in Columbia.
• 1991 - Cadita del Union Sovietic: Le Presidente del Union Sovietic Mikhail Gorbachev es ponite sub arresto-a-casa durante su vacantias in le Crimea. Le colpo esseva conducite per octo membros del governamento con alte-rango (ma le colpo de stato non supervive le 72 horas).

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• 1992 - After 13 years with the Boston Celtics, basketball player Larry Bird announces his retirement citing back problems.

Births

• 1587 - Virginia Dare, first English child born in North America (+ 1588)
• 1750 - Antonio Salieri, composer (+ 1825)
• 1774 - Meriwether Lewis, explorer (+ 1809)
• 1830 - Emperor Franz Josef I of Austria (+ 1916)
• 1896 - Jack Pickford, actor, Hollywood's first "bad boy", (+ 1933)
• 1904 - Max Factor, cosmetics entrepreneur (+ 1996)
• 1917 - Caspar Weinberger, former United States Secretary of Defense
• 1922 - Shelley Winters, actress
• 1925 - Brian Aldiss, writer
• 1927 - Rosalynn Carter, First Lady
• 1932 - William R. Bennett, Premier of British Columbia
• 1933 - Roman Polanski, director, actor
• 1934 - Roberto Clemente, baseball Hall of Famer
• 1934 - Vincent Bugliosi, prosecuting attorney in the Charles Manson case
• 1935 - Rafer Johnson, Olympic Games gold medalist
• 1937 - Robert Redford, actor, director
• 1943 - Martin Mull, comedian, actor
• 1952 - Patrick Swayze, actor
• 1952 - Elayne Boosler, comedienne
• 1957 - Denis Leary, comedian, actor
• 1958 - Madeleine Stowe, actress
• 1969 - Christian Slater, actor
• 1969 - Edward Norton, actor
• 1970 - Malcolm-Jamal Warner, actor

Deaths

• 472 - Ricimer, Roman general
• 1227 - Genghis Khan, Mongol leader
• 1276 - Pope Adrian V, newly elected pope
• 1850 - Honoré de Balzac, writer
• 1940 - Walter P. Chrysler, automobile mogul
• 1963 - Clifford Odets, playwright
• 1983 - Nikolaus Pevsner, art historian

Dies festive e observationes

• Imperio Roman - Vinalia Rustica celebrate in honor a Venus commemorante le fundation del templo plus vetere a illa in 293 BC in iste data.

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