Today is Sunday, August 18, the 231st day of the yr 2024. There are 135 days left within the yr.
Today in history:
On August 18, 1920, the nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution was ratified, guaranteeing American women the fitting to vote. Tennessee was the thirty sixth state to approve it.
Also on this date:
In 1590, John White, governor of the Roanoke Island colony (in present-day North Carolina), returned to Roanoke after nearly three years abroad to search out the settlement deserted; the fate of the “lost colony” stays a mystery.
In 1958, Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita was published within the USA.
In 1963, James Meredith became the primary black student to graduate from the University of Mississippi.
In 1969, the Woodstock Music and Art Fair in Bethel, New York, ended after three nights with a performance by Jimi Hendrix within the morning.
In 1983, Hurricane Alicia hit the Texas coast, killing 21 people and causing over $1 billion in damage.
In 2004, Paul Hamm (hahm) won the Olympic gold medal within the gymnasts' all-around competition in Athens by the narrowest margin ever in that discipline. Controversy arose when it emerged that a scoring error cost South Korean Yang Tae-young the title.
In 2005, a judge in Wichita, Kansas, sentenced BTK serial killer Dennis Rader to 10 consecutive life sentences, the utmost sentence allowed by law.
In 2014, Missouri Governor Jay Nixon ordered the National Guard to Ferguson, a suburb of St. Louis rocked by protests over the fatal shooting of 18-year-old black man Michael Brown.
Today's birthdays:
- Actor and director Robert Redford is 88.
- Actress Carole Bouquet is 67.
- Actor Denis Leary is 67.
- Actress Madeleine Stowe is 66.
- ABC News reporter Bob Woodruff is 63.
- Actor Edward Norton is 55.
- Actor Christian Slater is 55.
- Actor Malcolm-Jamal Warner is 54.
- Actress Kaitlin Olson is 49.
- Actor and comedian Andy Samberg is 46.
- Artist-model Frances Bean Cobain is 32.
- Actress and singer Maia Mitchell is 31.
- Actress Madelaine Petsch is 30.
- Olympic gold medalist in swimming, Summer McIntosh, is eighteen.
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