Pianist Adam Makowicz

Events in 1940 and 18-8

Events in the world in the birth year of Adam Makowicz

• Winston Churchill becomes Britain's Prime Minister.
• Trotsky is assassinated in Mexico.
• Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania annexed by U.S.S.R.
• Hitler invades Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, and Luxembourg.
• Lascaux caves with Cro-Magnon art discovered by French schoolboy.

Birthday Adam Makowicz (18-8) in history

• Day 18-8 year 1227: The great king of Mongolia, Genghis Khan died in China.
• Day 18-8 year 1587: Virginia Dare becomes the first British child born in the "New World" North America.
• Day 18-8 year 1894: Congress established the Bureau of Immigration, forerunner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
• Day 18-8 year 1920: When Tennessee ratified the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, the three-quarters of the states necessary was achieved and American women got the right to vote.
• Day 18-8 year 1936: Spanish poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca was shot and killed by Franco's soldiers during the Spanish Civil War .
• Day 18-8 year 1958: Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita was published.
• Day 18-8 year 1963: James Meredith became the first African American to graduate from the University of Mississippi.