Today is Saturday, August 18, the 229th day of 2007. There are 136 days left in the year.
1587 _ 1st English child born in the New World (Virginia Dare)
1686 _ Cassini reports seeing a satellite orbiting Venus
1834 _ Mt Vesuvius erupts
1894 _ Congress creates Bureau of Immigration
1914 _ President Wilson issues Proclamation of Neutrality
1920 _ Tennessee ratifies 19th Amendment, guarantees women voting right
1938 _ FDR dedicates Thousand Islands Bridge connecting US & Canada
1947 _ Naval torpedo & mine factory explodes at Cadiz, Spain killing 300
1958 _ Fidel Castro makes a speech on Cuban pirate radio Rebelde
1958 _ Great Britain issues regional stamps (N Ireland, Scotland & Wales)
1967 _ Rolling Stones release “We Love You”
1976 _ USSR’s Luna 24 softlands on Moon