On This Day

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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