Tuesday, August 18, 2026


Tomorrow in
Misc. History


1909 - The first car race to be run on brick occurred at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

1934 - Adolf Hitler was approved for sole executive power in Germany as Fuehrer.

1960 - Francis Gary Powers, an American U-2 pilot, was convicted of espionage in Moscow.

1964 - The first American tour by the Beatles began in San Francisco, CA. The tour would cover 26 cities.

1981 - The final episode of "Charlie's Angels was aired on ABC-TV.

1991 - Soviet hard-liners announced that President Mikhail Gorbachev had been removed from power. Gorbachev returned to power two days later.

1993 - "Cheers" ended an 11-year run on NBC-TV. The show debuted on September 30, 1982.

1998 - The first piece of the 351 foot bronze statue of Christopher Columbus arrived in San Juan, Puerto Rico.


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All these tumultuous desires and daring words under the night sky will not amount to anything basically; they will pass beneath the great and permanent realities of the world and become lost where all desires and winds are stilled.
- Ivo Andric



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