1590 Governor of Roanoke Island colony, John White, returns from England to find no trace of the colonists he had left there 3 years earlier [or Aug 18, 1591]
1903 Joe Pulitzer donates $1 million to Columbia University & begins the Pulitzer Prizes in America
1945 Sukarno and Mohammad Hatta declare Indonesia (Dutch East Indies) independent from the Netherlands
1945 Korea is divided into North and South Korea along the 38th parallel
1947 The Radcliffe Line, the border between Union of India and Dominion of Pakistan is revealed
1998 Monica Lewinsky scandal: US President Bill Clinton admits in taped testimony he had an “improper physical relationship” with the intern and on the same day admits before the nation he “misled people” about the relationship
HISTORICAL EVENTS TODAY
TODAY IN FILM & TV
1979 “Monty Python’s Life of Brian” directed by Terry Jones, starring Graham Chapman, Mickael Palin, & John Cleese, premieres in US theaters
TODAY IN MUSIC
1876 Richard Wagner’s opera “Götterdämmerung” premieres in Bayreuth
TODAY IN SPORT
1933 MLB player Lou Gehrig plays record 1,308th consecutive game
MORE FACTS…
1908 Projection in Paris of the very first animated cartoon, Fantasmagorie realized by Émile Cohl
1957 Baseball player Richie Ashburn fouls and hits fan Alice Roth twice in the same game at bat playing for the Philadelphia Phillies, 1st hit breaks her nose, 2nd one hits her while she is on the stretcher
FAMOUS WEDDINGS
1498 Cesare Borgia, son of Pope Alexander IV, 1st man to resign the cardinalate marries Charlotte d’Albret of Navarre
1950 Short story writer Dorothy Parker (57) weds screenwriter Alan Campbell (46)
1962 Actor Jack Lemmon (37) weds actress and model Felicia Farr (29) in Paris, France
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