August 18th in History
August 18th
1612 Pendle Witch Trial begins with 10 people accused of witchcraft in Lancaster, England; the key witness is a nine-year-old boy.
1686 Giovanni Cassini reports seeing a satellite orbiting Venus.
1769 A lightning strike on the Bastion of San Nazaro in Brescia, Italy, ignites 90 tons of gunpowder, killing 3,000 people.
1826 Scottish explorer Alexander Gordon Laing travels across the Sahara and becomes the first European to reach the fabled trading city of Timbuktu; he is murdered near there a few weeks later.
1917 The Queen's Hospital opens to provide pioneering plastic surgery for WWI soldiers, led by Harold Gillies in Sidcup, England.
1932 Englishman James Mollison is the first to fly east to west over the Atlantic.
1958 United Kingdom issues regional stamps (Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales.
18 Aug 1962
Ringo Starr made his debut with The Beatles at the horticultural society Dance, Birkenhead, England, having had a two-hour rehearsal in preparation. This was the first appearance of The Beatles as the world would come to know them: John, Paul, George, and Ringo.
18 Aug 1969
Mick Jagger was accidentally shot in the hand during filming of Ned Kelly in Australia. The film was dogged by problems: Jagger's girlfriend of the time, Marianne Faithfull, had gone to Australia to play the lead female role (Ned's sister, Maggie), but the Jagger-Faithfull relationship was breaking up, and she took an overdose of sleeping tablets soon after arrival in Sydney resulting in being hospitalised in a coma, and pulling out of the film.
1612 Pendle Witch Trial begins with 10 people accused of witchcraft in Lancaster, England; the key witness is a nine-year-old boy.
1686 Giovanni Cassini reports seeing a satellite orbiting Venus.
1769 A lightning strike on the Bastion of San Nazaro in Brescia, Italy, ignites 90 tons of gunpowder, killing 3,000 people.
1826 Scottish explorer Alexander Gordon Laing travels across the Sahara and becomes the first European to reach the fabled trading city of Timbuktu; he is murdered near there a few weeks later.
1917 The Queen's Hospital opens to provide pioneering plastic surgery for WWI soldiers, led by Harold Gillies in Sidcup, England.
1932 Englishman James Mollison is the first to fly east to west over the Atlantic.
1958 United Kingdom issues regional stamps (Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales.
18 Aug 1962
Ringo Starr made his debut with The Beatles at the horticultural society Dance, Birkenhead, England, having had a two-hour rehearsal in preparation. This was the first appearance of The Beatles as the world would come to know them: John, Paul, George, and Ringo.
18 Aug 1969
Mick Jagger was accidentally shot in the hand during filming of Ned Kelly in Australia. The film was dogged by problems: Jagger's girlfriend of the time, Marianne Faithfull, had gone to Australia to play the lead female role (Ned's sister, Maggie), but the Jagger-Faithfull relationship was breaking up, and she took an overdose of sleeping tablets soon after arrival in Sydney resulting in being hospitalised in a coma, and pulling out of the film.
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