Today In History
Today is Tuesday, Aug. 18, the 231st day of 2020. There are 135 days left in the year.
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT
› 1920: The 19th Amendment to the Constitution, guaranteeing all American women’s right to vote, was ratified as Tennessee became the 36th state to approve it.
ON THIS DATE
› 1587: Virginia Dare became the first child of English parents to be born in present-day America, on what is now Roanoke Island in North Carolina. (However, the Roanoke colony ended up mysteriously disappearing.)
› 1894: Congress established the Bureau of Immigration.
› 1914: President Woodrow Wilson issued his Proclamation of Neutrality, aimed at keeping the United States out of World War I.
› 1963: James Meredith became the first Black student to graduate from the University of Mississippi.
› 1969: The Woodstock Music and Art Fair in Bethel, New York, wound to a close after three nights with a mid-morning set by Jimi Hendrix.
› 2014: Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon ordered the
National Guard to Ferguson, a suburb of St. Louis convulsed by protests over the fatal shooting of a Black teen.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS
Former first lady Rosalynn Carter is 93. Movie director Roman Polanski is 87. Olympic gold medal decathlete Rafer Johnson is 85. Country singer Jamie O’Hara is 70. Comedian Elayne Boosler is 68. Country singer Steve Wilkinson (The Wilkinsons) is 65. Actor Denis Leary is 63. Actor Madeleine Stowe is 62. Former Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is
59. ABC News reporter Bob Woodruff is 59. The former president of Mexico, Felipe Calderon, is
58. Bluegrass musician Jimmy Mattingly is 58. Actor Adam Storke is 58. Actor Craig Bierko is 56. Rock singer-musician Zac Maloy (The Nixons) is 52. Rock singer and hip-hop artist Everlast is 51. Rapper Masta Killa (Wu-Tang Clan) is 51. Actor Christian Slater is
51. Actor Edward Norton is 51. Actor-writer-director Hadjii is 44. Rock musician Dirk Lance is
44. Actor-comedian Andy Samberg (TV: “Saturday Night Live”) is 42. Country musician Brad Tursi (Old Dominion) is 41. Actor Madelaine Petsch is 26. Actor Parker McKenna Posey is 25.