Reality star Meg Caswell

Events in 1977 and 18-8

Events in US in the birth year of Meg Caswell

• First woman Episcopal priest ordained (Jan. 1).
• Scientists identify previously unknown bacterium as cause of mysterious "legionnaire's disease" (Jan. 18).
• Carter pardons Vietnam war draft evaders (Jan. 21).
• Supreme Court rules that states are not required to spend Medicaid funds on elective abortions (June 20).

Birthday Meg Caswell (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.