Today is Tuesday, August 18, the 230th day of 2009. There are 135 days left in the year.
1587 _ First English child born in the New World (Virginia Dare)
1686 _ Cassini reports seeing a satellite orbiting Venus
1834 _ Mt. Vesuvius erupts
1868 _ Pierre Janssan discovers helium in solar spectrum during eclipse
1894 _ Congress creates Bureau of Immigration
1914 _ President Wilson issues Proclamation of Neutrality
1958 _ Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov, published
1960 _ First photograph bounced off a satellite, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
1961 _ Construction on Berlin Wall completed
1973 _ Hank Aaron's record 1,378 extra base hit surpasses Stan Musial record