08-18-2005, 08:54 AM
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August 18th
1227 ~ Death of Genghis Khan, Mongol leader.
1587 ~ Birthday of Virginia Dare; the first English child born in the Americas.
1750 ~ Birthday of Antonio Salieri, Composer.
1774 ~ Birthday of Meriwether Lewis, Explorer.
1877 ~ Asaph Hall discovered Phobos, the moon of Pluto.
1920 ~ 19th Amendment to US constitution was passed, guaranteeing women's suffrage.
1925 ~ Birthday of Brian Aldiss, Writer.
1958 ~ Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel Lolita was published in the U.S.
1969 ~ Jimi Hendrix played the unofficial last day of Woodstock.
1991 ~ Downfall of the Soviet Union: Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev was put under house arrest while he was vacationing in the Crimea.
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