Notable Events and Birthdays on August 18th

Notable Events and Birthdays on August 18th

Today marks the 230th day of the year, with 135 days remaining. On this day in history, the 19th Amendment was ratified in 1920, granting American women the right to vote. John White returned to the Roanoke Island colony in 1590 to find it deserted, and President Woodrow Wilson issued a Proclamation of Neutrality in 1914. Vladimir Nabokov's "Lolita" was published in the U.S. in 1958, and James Meredith became the first Black student to graduate from the University of Mississippi in 1963. The iconic Woodstock Music and Art Fair concluded in 1969, and Hurricane Alicia hit the Texas coast in 1983. Paul Hamm won the men's gymnastics all-around Olympic gold medal in 2004, and BTK serial killer Dennis Rader was sentenced to life in prison in 2005. In 2014, Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon deployed the National Guard to Ferguson, and in 2023, a former neonatal nurse was convicted of murdering babies. Lucy Letby was sentenced to life in prison without parole.

Celebrity birthdays today include Carole Bouquet, Denis Leary, Madeleine Stowe, Bob Woodruff, Edward Norton, Christian Slater, Kaitlin Olson, Andy Samberg, Frances Bean Cobain, Maia Mitchell, Madelaine Petsch, Josephine Langford, Clairo, and Summer McIntosh.