On This Day

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The sooner that horrible old cnut Soros snuffs it the better..

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18 AUGUST

1737 First public admittance 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

1914 US President Woodrow Wilson issues "Proclamation of Neutrality"

1919 Anti-Cigarette League of America forms in Chicago, Illinois

1920 22 year old representative Harry T. Burn is deciding vote in Tennessee's and thus America's ratification of the 19th Amendment to the constitution allowing women's suffrage after letter from his mother

1940 Battle of Britain - 'The hardest day" Luftwaffe lose 69 aircraft, the RAF 68 in largest ever air battle

1960 The Beatles give their 1st public performance at the Kaiserkeller in Hamburg

Today's Birthday's:

Antonio Salieri
(1750 - 1825)

Meriwether Lewis
(1774 - 1809)

Roberto Clemente
(1934 - 1972)

Famous Deaths:

Genghis Khan
( - 1227)

Walter Chrysler
(1875 - 1940)

Frederick Ashton
(1904 - 1988)

Bruce Forsyth
(1928 - Today 2017)


Famous Weddings:

1572 Henry of Navarre (later Henry IV of France) marries his cousin Margaret of Valois in Paris

1782 Romantic Age poet and artist William Blake (24) marries Catherine Boucher, 5 years his junior, in St. Mary's Church, Battersea, London.

1918 Italian tenor Enrico Caruso (45) weds socialite Dorothy Benjamin (25)

1932 Actress Bette Davis (24) weds musician Harmon Nelson (25)

1979 Nick Lowe marries singer Carlene Carter

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19 AUGUST

43 BC Octavian, later known as Augustus, compels the Roman Senate to elect him Consul.

1839 Details of Louis Daguerre's 1st practical photographic process are released in Paris

1942 World War II: Over 4,000 Canadian and British soldiers killed, wounded or captured raiding Dieppe, France

1988 Iran-Iraq begin a cease-fire in their 8-year-old war (11 PM EDT)

1991 Conservative members of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union attempt to depose Mikhail Gorbachev in a coup d'état

2010 Operation Iraqi Freedom ends, with the last of the United States brigade combat teams crossing the border to Kuwait


Today's Birthday's:

Orville Wright
(1871 - 1948)

Manuel L. Quezon
(1878 - 1944)

Bill Clinton
71st Birthday

Famous Deaths:

Augustus Caesar
(63 BC - 14)

Blaise Pascal
(1623 - 1662)

Groucho Marx
(1890 - 1977)

Famous Weddings:

1800 Social reformer Elizabeth Fry (20) weds tea dealer Joseph Fry (23) at the Norwich Quaker Meeting House in Norwich, England

1935 French singer Edith Piaf (19) weds Andrew Johnseppe in Belleville, Paris

1956 Actor Christopher Plummer (26) weds actress Tammy Grimes (22) at Cherokee Castle in Sedalia, Colorado

1973 Kris Kristofferson weds Rita Coolidge

1974 Oscar-winning lyricist Tim Rice (29) weds Jane McIntosh

Famous Divorces:

2008 Actor-comedian Tom Arnold (48) divorces Shelby Roos (35) after six years of marriage

2011 "My Fair Brady" actress Adrianne Curry (28) divorces "The Brady Bunch" actor Christopher Knight (53) due to irreconcilable differences after 5 years of marriage

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20 AUGUST

1597 1st Dutch East India Company ships return from the Far East

1619 1st known African Americans in English North America (approx. 20) land at Point Comfort (Fort Monroe), Virginia. They are then sold or traded into servitude.

1741 Alaska first sighted by Danish explorer Vitus Bering at head of Russian expedition

1866 President Andrew Johnson formally declares US Civil War over

1882 Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" opens in Moscow

1968 During the night 200,00 Warsaw Pact Soviet led troops begin to invade Czechoslovakia in response to the Prague Spring

1993 Oslo Peace Accords signed, after secret negotiations in Norway, followed by a public ceremony in Washington, D.C. the following month

Famous Birthday's

Benjamin Harrison
(1833 - 1901)

Slobodan Milosevic
(1941 - 2006)

Robert Plant
69th Birthday

Famous Death's

Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
(1775 - 1854)

Hua Guofeng
(1921 - 2008)

Phyllis Diller
(1917 - 2012)

Jerry Lewis
(1926 - Today 2017)


Famous Weddings

1836 English novelist (Vanity Fair) William Makepeace Thackeray (25) marries Isabella Gethin Shawe (20)

1939 "Rebecca" actress Joan Fontaine (21) weds actor Brian Aherne (37)

1992 Rocker Sting weds Trudie Styler at an 11th century chapel in Wiltshire, England

2005 "24" actress Sarah Wynter (32) weds "Details" magazine editor-in-chief Dan Peres in Sydney, Australia

2005 Award-winning American news anchor Lauren Sanchez (35) weds prominent talent agent Patrick Whitesell at The Bacara Resort and Spa in Santa Barbara, California

Famous Diverces

2012 The man known primarily for gatecrashing the White House, Tareq Salahi (42) divorces socialite Michaele Salahi (46) due to adultery, desertion and construction desertion

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21 AUGUST

1192 Minamoto Yoritomo becomes Seii Tai Shōgun and the de facto ruler of Japan. (Traditional Japanese date: July 12, 1192)

1703 The Edirne Event: Turkish army removes Sultan Mustafa II, lessening the power of the sultans

1772 King Gustav III of Sweden completes coup d'etat by adopting a new Constitution and installing himself as an enlightened despot - ends 50 years of parliamentary rule

1888 American inventor William Seward Burroughs patents the adding machine

1911 "Mona Lisa" stolen from the Louvre by Vincenzo Perugia (Recovered in 1913)

1959 Hawaii becomes the 50th US state

1991 Conservative coup in the Soviet Union is crushed by popular resistance led by Boris Yeltsin in three days

2000 82nd PGA Championship: Tiger Woods become the first golfer since Ben Hogan in 1953 to win 3 majors in a calendar year. He ties the to-par record for the PGA (-18) with Bob May, and wins in a playoff

Famous Birthday's:

Bugs Moran
(1891 - 1957)

Wilt Chamberlain
(1936 - 1999)

Usain Bolt
31st Birthday

Famous Death's:

Elizabeth Báthory
(1560 - 1614)

Leon Trotsky
(1879 - 1940)

Famous Weddings:

1745 Future Russian Tsar Peter III marries Ekaterina Alexeievna later Catherine II (Catherine the Great)

1929 Painter Diego Rivera (42) weds fellow artist Frida Kahlo (22)

1956 Boxing champ Archie Moore (42) weds model Joan Hardy in Ensenada, Mexico

1976 Magazine publisher Larry Flynt (33) weds Althea Leasure (23)

1982 U2 lead singer Bono (22) weds activist and businesswoman Ali Hewson (21)