History for August 18 - On-This-Day.com
Merriwether Lewis 1774, Max Factor 1904, Shelley Winters 1920
Roman Polanski 1933, Robert Redford 1937, Martin Mull 1943
1227 - The Mongol conqueror Ghengis Khan died.
1587 - Virginia Dare became the first child to be born on American soil of English parents. The colony that is now Roanoke Island, NC, mysteriously vanished.
1894 - The Bureau of Immigration was established by the U.S. Congress.
1958 - Vladimir Nabokov's novel "Lolita" was published.
1963 - James Meredith graduated from the University of Mississippi. He was the first black man to accomplish this feat.
2004 - Donald Trump unveiled his board game (TRUMP the Game) where players bid on real estate, buy big ticket items and make billion-dollar business deals.
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