So, what strange, esoteric, interesting things have happened on this date in history?

18 August 1940 was a crucial day in the Battle of Britain when the RAF shot down 69 Luftwaffe planes, denied the Germans air supremacy and forced Hitler to reconsider his plans for the invasion of Britain. As Winston Churchill put it:

“What General Weygand has called The Battle of France is over. The battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilisation. Upon it depends our own British life and the long continuity of our institutions and our Empire. The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of a perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, “This was their finest hour.”

On this day in 1920, Tennessee ratified the 19th Amendment, tipping the “yes” votes to grant women the right to vote.

Not strange or esoteric, but damn awesome.

Also…

In 1587 Virginia Dare became the first child of English parents born in North America. So… the first anchor baby?

This day in history ended the Woodstock music festival with Jimi Hendrix closing it in 1969.
Elvis Presley’s funeral was held at Graceland in 1977.
The Doobie Brothers China Grove was released in 1973. Had to get that last one in there due to my name.

Strange?

Someone created a multicourse meal containing no animal products in 1994.

Augustlan was born on this date.

@chyna Your name is Doobie? ;-o

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AUGIE!!!