What happend on 18th August

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1909

Tokyo mayor Yukio Ozaki presents Washington, D.C. with 2,000 cherry trees, which President Taft decides to plant near the Potomac River.

1904

Chris Watson resigns as Prime Minister of Australia and is succeded by George Reid.

1903

German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flies his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright Brothers.

1877

Asaph Hall discovers Martian moon Phobos.

1868

French astronomer Pierre Jules César Janssen discovers helium.

1864

American Civil War: Battle of Weldon Railroad

1590

John White, the governor of the Colony of Roanoke, returns from a supply-trip to England and finds his settlement deserted.

1587

Virginia Dare, granddaughter of Gov. John White of the Colony of Roanoke, becomes the first English child born in the Americas.

1572

Wedding in Paris of the Huguenot King Henry III of Navarre with Marguerite de Valois, in a supposed attempt to reconcile Protestants and Catholics.

1541

A Portuguese ship drifts ashore in the ancient Japanese province of Higo (modern day Kumamoto Prefecture). (Traditional Japanese date: July 27, 1541)