At the moment is Monday, Aug. 18, the 230th day of 2025. There are 135 days left within the 12 months.
At the moment in historical past:
On Aug. 18, 2005, a decide in Wichita, Kansas, sentenced BTK serial killer Dennis Rader to 10 consecutive life phrases, the utmost the regulation would enable.
Additionally on this date:
In 1590, John White, the governor of the Roanoke Island colony (in present-day North Carolina), returned to Roanoke after almost three years overseas solely to seek out the settlement abandoned; the destiny of the “Misplaced Colony” stays a thriller.
In 1914, President Woodrow Wilson issued his Proclamation of Neutrality, aimed toward preserving the US out of World Conflict I.
In 1920, the nineteenth Modification to the Structure, guaranteeing American ladies’s proper to vote, was ratified as Tennessee turned the thirty sixth state to approve it.
In 1958 , Vladimir Nabokov’s novel Lolita was revealed in the US.
In 1963, James Meredith turned the primary Black scholar to graduate from the College of Mississippi.
In 1969, the Woodstock Music and Artwork Truthful in Bethel, New York, wound to an in depth after three nights with a mid-morning set by Jimi Hendrix.
In 1983, Hurricane Alicia slammed into the Texas coast, leaving 21 useless and inflicting greater than a billion {dollars}’ value of harm.
In 2004, in Athens, Paul Hamm (hahm) gained the lads’s gymnastics all-around Olympic gold medal by the closest margin ever within the occasion; controversy adopted after it was found {that a} scoring error value Yang Tae-young of South Korea the title.
In 2014, Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon ordered the Nationwide Guard to Ferguson, a suburb of St. Louis convulsed by protests over the deadly taking pictures of a Black 18-year-old, Michael Brown.
At the moment’s Birthdays:
- Actor-director Robert Redford is 89.
- Actor Carole Bouquet is 68.
- Actor Denis Leary is 68.
- Actor Madeleine Stowe is 67.
- ABC Information reporter Bob Woodruff is 64.
- Actor Edward Norton is 56.
- Actor Christian Slater is 56.
- Actor Kaitlin Olson is 50.
- Actor-comedian Andy Samberg is 47.
- Artist-model Frances Bean Cobain is 33.
- Actor-singer Maia Mitchell is 32.
- Actor Madelaine Petsch is 31.
- Olympic gold medal swimmer Summer season McIntosh is nineteen.
