What Happened On August 18 - On This Day

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  • 1590 Governor of Roanoke Island colony John White returns from England to find no trace of the colonists he left there three years earlier
  • 1737 First public admission to the Salon de Paris art exhibition at the Louvre in Paris
  • 1838 United States Exploring Expedition headed by Charles Wilkes departs for the Pacific Ocean and Antarctica
  • 1919 Anti-Cigarette League of America forms in Chicago, Illinois
  • America's women's rights pioneers: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott and Susan B. Anthony

    American Women Demand Their Rights

    1920 State Representative Harry T. Burn (24) casts the deciding vote in Tennessee's and thus America's ratification of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, allowing women's suffrage after reading a letter from his mother
  • Buckingham Palace is bombed. Churchill, King George VI and Queen Consort Elizabeth (The Queen Mother) inspect the damage. Photo: NPA Rota

    Hitler Will Have to Break Us or Lose the War

    1940 Battle of Britain: Air battle known as "The Hardest Day" occurs; the Luftwaffe loses approximately 69 aircraft and the RAF 68 in one of the largest ever air battles
More August 18 Events
  • 1926 First televised weather map is broadcast by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Washington, DC
  • 1956 Elvis Presley's "Hound Dog" and "Don't Be Cruel" reach #1 on the charts, staying for 11 weeks (a record for a single release) [1]
  • 2008 Belarusian weightlifter Andrei Aramnau breaks three world records in the snatch, clean and jerk, and total on his way to winning the men's 105 kg gold medal at the Beijing Olympics

French astronomer Pierre Janssen discovers helium in the solar spectrum during an eclipse

August 18, 1868

  • Meriwether Lewis

    1774 - 1809

  • John Russell

    1792 - 1878

  • Franz Joseph I

    1830 - 1916

  • Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

    1900 - 1990
More Birthdays on August 18

  • Shelley Winters

    1920 - 2006

  • Robert Redford

    1936 - 2025

  • Patrick Swayze

    1952 - 2009

  • Roman Polanski

    92 Years Old

  • Christian Slater

    56 Years Old

  • Edward Norton

    56 Years Old

  • Antonio Salieri

    1750 - 1825

  • Roberto Clemente

    1934 - 1972

60-70 ft sea serpent sightings are reported offshore in Gloucester, Massachusetts

August 18, 1817

  • 1572 Henry of Navarre (later Henry IV of France) marries Margaret of Valois in Notre Dame cathedral, Paris, in attempt to make truce between Catholics and Protestants but prompts St. Bartholomew's Day massacre days later
  • 1782 Romantic Age poet and artist William Blake (24) marries Catherine Boucher (19) in St. Mary's Church, Battersea, London
  • 1867 Cosima Liszt marries Hans von Bülow, a pupil of her father, at St. Hedwig's Cathedral, Berlin
  • 1954 American actress Susan Hayward (37) divorces actor Jess Barker (42) after nine years of marriage
More August 18 Weddings

  • Genghis Khan

    - 1227

  • Walter Chrysler

    1875 - 1940

  • Frederick Ashton

    1904 - 1988

  • Kim Dae-jung

    1924 - 2009

  • Kofi Annan

    1938 - 2018

  • Alain Delon

    1935 - 2024
More August 18 Deaths
  • Baptism of Virginia Dare as shown in the book by William A. Crafts (1876) Pioneers in the settlement of America

    What Happened To America's Lost Colony?

    Virginia Dare, the first person of English parents born in the USA, began her life on this day. And then she disappeared – along with her fellow 107 colonists. August 18, 1587
  • The 1910 Model T Ford

    Weekly Quiz for August 12 - 18

    Test your knowledge of historical events and famous people in our multi-choice, weekly history quiz for August 12 - 18. Then challenge your friends!
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  • Edith Olivier standing outside her home. Painting by Rex Whistler (1942)

    Flight of Fancy or Supernatural Event?

    August 16, 1911
  • Nicolas Fouquet, looking unsure of himself, alongside the splendid château that he had built for his own use – much to his King’s displeasure

    Why The King Became a Party Pooper

    August 17, 1661
  • Maximilian giving a diamond ring to Mary of Burgundy. Image: hemmahoshilde.wordpress.com

    Diamond That Says I Love You

    August 19, 1477
  • Leonidas at Thermopylae by Jacques-Louis David. (The Louvre, Paris / public domain).

    The Battle For Western Civilisation

    August 20, 480 AD
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