Today in History

08/18/1986 - Crockett's Tavern opens in Fort Wilderness

08/18/1982 - 1st time NYSE tops 100 million figure 132.69 million shares traded

08/18/1976 - USSR's Luna 24 softlands on the Moon

08/18/1963 - James Meredith became 1st black graduate from U of Mississippi

08/18/1960 - 1st photograph bounced off a satellite Cedar Rapids Iowa

08/18/1958 - Lolita - by Vladimir Nabokov published.

08/18/1958 - Investigation starts of TV Game show scandal

08/18/1954 - Asst Sec of Labor James Wilkins became 1st black to attend Cabinet

08/18/1938 - FDR dedicates the Thousand Islands Bridge connecting US & Canada.

08/18/1920 - Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the 19th Amendment which guarantees the right of all American women to vote.

08/18/1914 - Pres Wilson issues Proclamation of Neutrality

08/18/1868 - Pierre Janssan discovers helium in solar spectrum during eclipse

08/18/1846 - US forces led by Gen. Stephen W. Kearney captured Santa Fe NM

08/18/1835 - The last of the Pottawatomie Indians leave Chicago

08/18/1587 - Virginia Dare 1st child of English parents to be born in America

08/18/1227 - Mongol conqueror Genghis Khan died.