August 18<\/p>\n
1227 \u2013 Genghis Khan dies in Yinchuan, China<\/p>\n
1487 \u2013 The city of M\u00e1laga in the Emirate of Granada, Spain falls to the combined forces of Castile and Aragon during the final years of the Reconquista.<\/p>\n
1590 \u2013 John White, the governor of the Roanoke Colony, returns from a supply trip to England and finds his settlement deserted.<\/p>\n
1636 \u2013 \u00a0The Covenant of the Town of Dedham, Massachusetts is signed.<\/p>\n
1774 \u2013 Meriwether Lewis is born in Ivy, Virginia.<\/p>\n
1826 \u2013 British Brevet Major Gordon Laing becomes the first European to enter the city of Timbuktu.<\/p>\n
1838 \u2013 The United States Exploring Expedition to explore Puget Sound and Antarctica, under the command of Lt Charles Wilkes, weighs anchor at Hampton Roads, Virginia.<\/p>\n
1846 \u2013 During the Mexican\u2013American War, General Stephen W Kearney’s US forces capture Santa Fe.<\/p>\n
1864 \u2013 Union forces attempt for the second time to cut the Wilmington & Weldon Railroad supply line into Petersburg, Virginia near the Globe Tavern.<\/p>\n
1868 \u2013 Pierre Janssen discovers helium.<\/p>\n
1920 \u2013 The 19th Amendment to the Constitution is ratified<\/p>\n
1938 \u2013 The Thousand Islands Bridge, connecting Wellesley Island in New York with Ontario, Canada over the Saint Lawrence River, is dedicated by President Roosevelt.<\/p>\n
1945 \u2013 U.S. Army photographer SGT Anthony J. Marchione is the last American to die in WWII when the B-32 he is flying in over Tokyo is damaged by enemy fire.<\/p>\n
1958 \u2013\u00a0\u00a0Lolita<\/em> by Vladimir Nabokov is published in the United States.<\/p>\n 1965 \u2013 Operation Starlite,<\/em> the first major combat ground operation by purely U.S forces begins when U.S. Marines destroy a Viet Cong stronghold on the Van Tuong peninsula.<\/p>\n 1976 \u2013 While attempting to cut down a tree that blocked the line of sight between a United Nations Command checkpoint and an observation post, in the Joint Security Area in the Korean Demilitarized Zone, North Korean soldiers kill two US Army officers supervising the operation.<\/p>\n 1983 \u2013 Hurricane Alicia hits the Texas Gulf coast, killing 21 people and causing over US$1 billion in damage.<\/p>\n 1989 \u2013 Colombian presidential candidate Luis Carlos Gal\u00e1n is assassinated near Bogot\u00e1<\/p>\n 1993 \u2013 American International Airways Cargo Flight 808,\u00a0 a McDonnell Douglas DC-8, crashes on landing at Leeward Point Field at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Guant\u00e1namo Bay, Cuba, injuring the 3 crew members aboard.<\/p>\n 2005 \u2013 Dennis Rader is sentenced to 175 years in prison for the BTK (Bind, Torture, Kill) serial killings in Sedgwick County, Kansas.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" August 18 1227 \u2013 Genghis Khan dies in Yinchuan, China 1487 \u2013 The city of M\u00e1laga in the Emirate of Granada, Spain falls to the combined forces of Castile and Aragon during the final years of the Reconquista. 1590 \u2013 John White, the governor of the Roanoke Colony, returns from a supply trip to England … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58326"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95247,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58326\/revisions\/95247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}