On This Day:
Monday August 18, 2014 This is the 230th day of the year, with 135 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: deserts Deserts resulted from the progressive cooling and consequent aridification during the Cenozoic Ear (66.4 Mya to present) but only a few ancient primitive desert plants still occur in present-day deserts.
Holidays Feast day of St. Helena, Saints Florus and Laurus, St. Agapitus, St. Alipius, and St. Beatrice or Brites da Silva.
Events 1853 - The milk condensation process was patented by Gail Borden.
1872 - The first mail-order catalog was published, by Montgomery Ward.
1894 - Congress established the Bureau of Immigration.
1920 - The 19th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America, guaranteeing women the right to vote, was ratified by Tennessee, giving it the two-thirds majority of state ratification necessary to make it law.
1963 - James Meredith became the first African-American to graduate from the University of Mississippi.
2004 - The internet search engine Google went public and the price of shares was $85.
Births 1587 - Virginia Dare, the first child of English parents to be born on American soil, on what is now Roanoke Island, North Carolina.
1750 - Antonio Salieri, Italian composer.
1774 - Meriwether Lewis, American explorer of Lewis & Clark.
1830 - Franz Josef I, Austro-Hungarian emperor.
1834 - Marshall Field, American department store mogul.
1904 - Max Factor, American cosmetic mogul.
1934 - Roberto Clemente, Puerto Rican-born American baseball great.
1937 - Robert Redford, American actor, director.
Deaths 1227 - Genghis Khan, Mongolian warrior and ruler.
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