On This Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on August 18:
0472 Flavius Ricimer general of the Western Roman Empire, kingmaker
1276 Adrianus V, [Ottobono Fieschi], Italian Pope (7/11-8/18/1276)
1503 Alexander VI, [Rodrigo the Borja], Spanish Pope (1492-1503)
1587 Virginia Dare 1st American born of English parents
1685 Brook Taylor England, mathematician, discoverer of Taylor's Theorem
1750 Antonio Salieri Italy, composer (Tatare)
1774 Meriwether Lewis, American explorer who led the Corps of Discovery with William Clark
1778 Fabian Gottlieb von Bellinghausen 1st to circumnavigate Antarctica
1834 Marshall Field founded Chicago-based store chain
1873 Otto Harbach songwriter (Smoke Gets in Your Eyes)
1896 Alan Mowbray London England, actor (Dante, Colonel Flack)
1904 Max Factor Jr CEO (Max Factor Cosmetics)
1906 Andre Van Gyseghem England, actor (Search for the Nile)
1907 Enoch Light Canton Ohio, orch leader (Gulf Road Show with Bob Smith)
1916 Elsa Morante Italy, writer (L'isola di Arturo)
1916 Moura Lympany Saltash England, pianist (OBE-1979)
1917 Casper Weinberger US Secretary of Defense (1981-87)
1919 Walter J Hickel (Gov-R-Alaska)/US Secretary of Interior (1969-71)
1922 Shelley Winters [Schrift], St Louis Mo, actress (Poisidon Adventure)
1924 Mohammad Zia Ul-Haq pres of Pakistan (1978-88)
1927 Rosalynn Carter Georgia, 1st lady, Pres Carter's main lust
1930 Johnny Preston Port Arthur, Tx, rocker (Feel So Fine)
1933 Roman Polanski director/pedophile (Knife in the Water, Repulsion)
1934 Rafer Lewis Johnson US, decathalete (Olympic-gold-1960)
1934 Roberto Clemente pro baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1935 Gail Fisher Orange NJ, actress (Peggy-Mannix)
1937 Robert Redford Calif, actor/lover & protector of our mother the earth, and a much better person than you are. (Sting, Candidate, Natural, Great Gatsby)
1941 Christopher Jones Jackson TN, actor (Wild in the Streets)
1943 Martin Mull Chic Ill, actor/comedian (Bad Manners, Flick, Serial)
1945 Nona Hendryx Trenton NJ, rocker (LaBelle-Lady Marmalade)
1948 Rudy Hartono Kurniawan Indonesia, All-England tennis champ
1951 Candice Earley actress (Donna Tyler-All My Children)
1952 Patrick Swayze Houston Tx, actor/dancer (Dirty Dancing, Ghost)
1968 Greta Lind actress (Katie Kennicott-All My Children)
1970 Malcolm Jamal Warner Jersey City NJ, actor (Theodore-Cosby Show)
1971 Trey Ames Canton Oh, actor (David-A Year in the Life)
Deaths which occurred on August 18:
1227 Genghis Khan (Chinggis), Mongol conqueror, dies in his sleep at his camp, during his siege of Ningxia, the capital of the rebellious Chinese kingdom of Xi Xia
(Ruled an empire that stretched from Poland down to Iran in the west, and from Russia's Arctic shores down to Vietnam in the east.)
1952 Ralph Byrd actor (Dick Tracy TV Show), dies at 43
1959 Harvey Glatmin executed
1961 Learned Hand Chief judge of US court of Appeals, dies at 89
1968 Cy Walter pianist (3's Company), dies at 52
1982 Beverly Bayne actress, dies at 87
1988 Frederick Ashton choreographer (Cinderella), dies at 83
1990 B.F. Skinner psychologist (Skinner Box), dies from Leukemia at 86
Take A Moment To Remember
GWOT Casualties
Iraq
Aug. 18, 2003 Army Sgt. Eric R. Hull, Baghdad Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
Aug. 18, 2004 Marine Lance Cpl. Dustin R. Fitzgerald, 22, non-combat related vehicle incident Al Anbar Province, Iraq.
Aug. 18, 2004 Marine Sgt. Richard M. Lord, Al Anbar Province, Iraq.
Aug. 18, 2004 Army Spc. Jacob D. Martir,Sadr City, Iraq, enemy small arms fire.
Aug. 18, 2004 Marine Sgt. Harvey E. Parkerson III, Al Anbar Province, Iraq.
Aug. 18, 2004 Army Pfc. Henry C. Risner, 26, Baghdad, Iraq, enemy small arms fire.
Afghanistan
A GOOD DAY
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On this day...
0410 Visigoths occupy & plunders Rome
1587 1st English child born in the New World (Virginia Dare)
1686 Cassini reports seeing a satellite orbiting Venus
1759 The French fleet is destroyed by the British under "Old Dreadnought" Boscawen battle of Lagos Bay.
1769 Gunpowder in Brescia Italy church explodes, killing 3,000
1812 USS Constitution encounters HMS Guerriere about 750 miles out of Boston. 55-minute battle leaves 101 British dead, Guerriere rolled helplessly in the water, smashed beyond salvage. Constitution suffered little damage and only 14 casualties. USS Constitution nicknamed "OLD IRONSIDES"
1817 Gloucester, Mass, newspapers tells of wild sea serpent seen offshore
1834 Mt Vesuvius erupts
1835 Last Pottawatomie Indians leave Chicago
1846 Gen Stephen W Kearney's US forces captures Santa Fe, NM
1862 Sioux Indians begin uprising in Minnesota
1864 Petersburg Campaign-Battle of Weldon Railroad day 1 of 3 days
1864 General William T. Sherman sends General Judson Kilpatrick to raid Confederate lines of communication outside Atlanta. The raid was unsuccessful.
1868 Pierre Janssan discovers helium in solar spectrum during eclipse
1873 1st ascent of Mount Whitney, Calif (14,494')
1894 Congress creates Bureau of Immigration
1914 Pres Wilson issues Proclamation of Neutrality
1919 Anti-Cigarette League of America formed in Chicago, Illinois
1920 Tennessee ratifies 19th Amendment, guarantees women voting right (36th state) (And it ONLY took 139 years)
1930 Eastern Airlines begins passenger service
1936 106.5ø F-Hottest afternoon ever in Iowa
1938 FDR dedicates Thousand Islands Bridge connecting US & Canada
1941 Phillies commit 8 errors in a game
1942 Japan sends a crack army to Guadalcanal to repulse the U.S. Marines
1943 Final convoy of Jews from Salonika Greece arrive at Auschwitz
1943 RAF attacks Peenemunde
1943 Otto Skorzeny's Heinkel-111 shot down at Sardinia
1946 Golf Writers Associaton of America formed
1947 Naval torpedo & mine factory explodes at Cadiz, Spain killing 300
1954 Asst Sec of Labor James Wilkins became 1st black to attend cabinet
1956 Cincinnati Reds (8) & Cubs (2) combine to hit 10 HRs in a 9 inning game
1956 Elvis Presley's "Hound Dog/Don't Be Cruel" reaches #1
1957 Amelia Wershoven sets record of female throwing a baseball (252'4")
1957 Juan-Manuel Fangio, wins his last auto World Championship at 46
1958 Betsy Palmer joins the Today Show panel
1958 Fidel Castro makes a speech on Cuban pirate radio Rebelde
1958 Great Britain issues regional stamps (N Ireland, Scotland & Wales)
1958 Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov, published
1958 TV game show scandal investigation starts
1960 1st photograph bounced off a satellite, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
1961 Construction on Berlin Wall completed
1962 Peter, Paul & Mary release their 1st hit "If I Had a Hammer"
1963 James Meredith became 1st black graduate from U of Mississippi
1965 Hank Aaron loses a HR, because he hit it out of the batter's box
1965 Operation Starlite marks the beginning of major U.S. ground combat operations in Vietnam.
1966 Australian troops repulse a Viet Cong attack at Long Tan.
1972 Police fine Paul & Linda McCartney $800 in Sweden cannabis possession
1973 Hank Aaron's record 1,378 extra base hit surpasses Stan Musial record
1976 USSR's Luna 24 soft-lands on Moon
1976 Two U.S. Army officers were killed in Korea's demilitarized zone as a group of North Korean soldiers wielding axes and metal pikes attacked U.S. and South Korean soldiers. Major Arthur G. Bonifas was attacked and beaten to death by North Korean soldiers as he attempted to cut down a poplar tree in the DMZ
1978 Memphis, Tenn, settles with striking police officers & firefighters
1979 Iran Ayatollah Khomeini demands holy war against Kurds
1981 Jerry Lewis appears on "Donahue" to defend Telethons
1982 1st time NYSE tops 100 M figure, 132.69 M shares traded
1982 LA Dodgers beat Chicago Cubs, 6-5, in 21 innings (game started 8/17)
1982 Pete Rose sets record with his 13,941st plate appearance
1983 Hurricane Alicia battered Houston & Galveston, Texas
1983 Royals defeat Yanks, 5-4, completing "pine-tar" game (12 minutes)
1983 Samantha Druce, age 12y 119d is youngest woman to swim English Channel
1986 Crockett's Tavern opens in Fort Wilderness
1987 Philip Rush of NZ, set record for triple crossing English Channel. His time 28:21, 10 hours faster than the 1st man to do it
1988 FDA approves Minoxidil as a hair loss treatment
1988 Largest house (130 rooms) on Long Island sold for $22 million
1988 Republican Convention in New Orleans select Bush-Quayle ticket
1989 Arturo Barrios of Mexico sets the 10K record (27:08.23) in Berlin
1991 Pan Am games closes in Havana
1991 PM Valentin Pavlov attemps coup aimed at toppling President Mikhail S. Gorbachev
1992 Basketball star Larry Bird announced his retirement after 13 years with the Boston Celtics
1997 The Lutheran Church approves a Formula of Agreement document that called for closer cooperation with the Presbyterian Church (USA), the United Church of Christ and the Reformed Church in America.
1998 A day after his grand jury testimony, President Clinton left Washington on a vacation with his family. Meanwhile, some lawmakers called for Clinton to resign in the wake of his admissions concerning Monica Lewinsky while a spokeswoman for Hillary Rodham Clinton said the first lady "believes in this marriage." ("Because I WILL be President, and this SOB will help...or else.")
2004 Iraq's new air force takes to the skies for the 1st time since the 2003 US invasion
Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Hawaii : Admission Day (1959) ( Friday )
Mich : Montrose-Blueberry Festival ( Friday )
Bad Poetry Day
Elvis International Tribute Week (Day 4)
US : Women's Voting Rights Day (1920)
National Watermelon Day
Foot Health Month
Religious Observances
RC : Commemoration of St Agapitus, martyr
RC : Comm of St Helena, empress, mother of Constantine the Great
Ang : Commemoration of William Porcher DuBose, priest
Religious History
1688 Puritan clergyman John Bunyan, 69, preached his last sermon, before dying 13 days later. In 1678 he had authored Pilgrim's Progress, an allegory describing the difficulties encountered in the Christian life, while journeying through this world.
1856 Birth of Charles Gabriel, American sacred music artist. He edited a great number of hymnbooks, and wrote several hymns, including "More Like the Master," "I Stand Amazed in the Presence" and "Send the Light."
1927 At age 20, Christian radio pioneer Theodore Epp was converted to a living faith. In 1939 he founded Back to the Bible Broadcast, an evangelistic radio program with outlets today on over 600 stations around the world.
1930 English apologist C. S. Lewis wrote in a letter: 'One creeps home, tired and bruised, into a state of mind that is really restful, when all ambitions have been given up. Then one can really for the first time say, "Thy Kingdom come."
1963 Swiss Reformed theologian Karl Barth wrote in a letter: 'Even if there is cause for great dissatisfaction with one's church, one should stay in it in the hope that new movements will come.... Only in this way could I continue to be a member of the Evangelical Reformed Church.'
Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.
Gas Thieves Fill Car With Diesel Fuel
NAPPANEE, Ind. -- The high cost of gasoline may have driven them to it, but picking the wrong fuel pump cut short their getaway.
Two men who tried to steal gasoline from a construction company instead filled the tank of their car with off-road-grade diesel fuel Sunday, police said.
An employee of Beer & Slabaugh spotted the men on the company property near Nappanee, about 20 miles southeast of South Bend, as they were siphoning fuel out of a car's tank, Elkhart County deputies said.
The two told the employee that a friend had put the wrong fuel into the tank and they were trying to empty it, authorities said. The employee noticed that the fuel was the distinctive red color of off-road diesel.
He called deputies, who arrested McKinley Chase, 21, and Dajuan L. Lord, 19, both of Gary, on preliminary charges of felony. They acknowledged the theft by explaining their mistake and saying their car would not run.
Lord remained in the Elkhart County Jail on Tuesday. Chase was released on bond, a jail spokeswoman said.
Thought for the day :
"The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass."
Martin Mull
