TV actor Don Keefer

Events in 1916 and 18-8

Events in US in the birth year of Don Keefer

• Congress authorizes a plan to expand the U.S. armed forces over the next five years (June).
• Montana voters elect 36-year-old Republican Jeannette Rankin, the first woman to serve in the U.S. Congress.
• U.S. National Park Service in the Department of the Interior is created by act of Congress (Aug. 20).
• Margaret Sanger opens the first birth control clinic in the country at 46 Amboy St., Brooklyn.

Birthday Don Keefer (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.