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Birthdates which occurred on your SELECTED date of August 18:

 472 Flavius Ricimer general of the Western Roman Empire, kingmaker
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)
1778 Fabian Gottlieb von Bellinghausen 1st to circumnavigate Antarctica
1792 John 1st Earl Russell, British Whig PM (1846-52, 1865-66)
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)
19-- Karen Jensen SF Calif, actress (Rachel Holt-Bracken's World)
19-- Taylor Miller New Orleans, actress (All My Children, Another World)
1900 Walter O'Keefe Hartford Ct, songwriter/TV host (Mayor of Hollywood)
1904 Max Factor Jr CEO (Max Factor Cosmetics)
1904 Sterling W Cole (Rep-R-NY)
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 Alain Robbe-Grillet France, novelist (Voyeur)
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 Grant Williams NYC, actor (Greg-Hawaiian Eye)
1930 Johnny Preston Port Arthur, Tx, rocker (Feel So Fine)
1933 Roman Polanski director (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 (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)
1961 John Viscardi NYC, actor (Father Tony-One Life to Live)
1967 Blas Elias Gomez Kennedy TX, rock drummer (Slaughter-Stick it Live)
1967 Tracy Tracy rocker (Primitives-Lovely, Lump of Coal)
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 Mongol conqueror, died
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

Reported: MISSING in ACTION

( Expanded with full Bios, history, & MIA report )
 1964    UOM              CHEM BARUNG       THAILAND                     REFNO 0038   RELEASED    DECEASED
 1966    RYKOSKEY         EDWARD J.         CARLISLE              PA       
 1968    DAVIS            DANIEL R.         ATLANTA               GA        REMAINS IDENTIFIED 21 AUG 95
 1971    KUYKENDALL       WILLIE C.         BATESVILLE            MS       
 1971    WEAKS            MELVIN L.         CONCORD               NC

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On this day...

1587 1st English child born in the New World (Virginia Dare)
1686 Cassini reports seeing a satellite orbiting Venus
1817 Gloucester, Mass, newspapers tells of wild sea serpent seen offshore
1834 Mt Vesuvius erupts
1835 Last Pottawatomie Indians leave Chicago
1838 1st US marine expedition
1846 Gen Stephen W Kearney's US forces captures Santa Fe, NM
1864 Petersburg Campaign-Battle of Weldon Railroad day 1 of 3 days
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
1920 Tennessee ratifies 19th Amendment, guarantees women voting right
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
1943 Final convoy of Jews from Salonika Greece arrive at Auschwitz
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
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
1967 Rolling Stones release "We Love You"
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
1978 Memphis, Tenn, settles with striking police officers & firefighters
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
1984 Triangle Oil Corp, above-ground storage tank at Jacksonville Fla, spills 2.5 m gallons of oil burned after lightning sparked a fire
1986 Crockett's Tavern opens in Fort Wilderness
1986 WYSP-FM Philadelphia begins simulcasting Howard Stern Show
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




Holidays

Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"

Hawaii : Admission Day (1959) - - - - - ( Friday )
Mich : Montrose-Blueberry Festival - - - - - ( Friday )

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.
Additional information supplied by the author. Contact via E-mail: William D. Blake. (pilgrimwb@aol.com)

Thought for the day :

" No really great man every thought himself so. "
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