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August 18

4 sourced moments from August 18 in history: Virginia Dare was born in the Roanoke Colony (1587); Helium was found on the Sun 27 years before Earth (1868); American women won the constitutional right to vote (1920), plus 1 more.

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4 things happened on August 18

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1958 Culture & Arts · Literature

Lolita Published in America

After a string of nervous publishers said no, Nabokov's scandalous novel hit US shelves and sold faster than almost anything before it.

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1920 Society & Economy · Politics & Law

American women won the constitutional right to vote

One Tennessee lawmaker, swayed by a note from his mother, cast the vote that put women's suffrage into the Constitution.

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1868 Science · Chemistry

Helium was found on the Sun 27 years before Earth

Helium was spotted as an unexplained yellow line in sunlight in 1868, named as a metal, doubted for years, and only bottled on Earth in 1895.

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1587 History · Modern

Virginia Dare was born in the Roanoke Colony

The first English child born in the Americas arrived weeks before her colony vanished without a trace.

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