八月十八日 August 18th

　　Today's Highlight in History:

　　On August 18th, 1920, Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, which guaranteed the right of all American women to vote.

　　On this date:

　　In 1227, the Mongol conqueror Genghis Khan died.

　　In 1587, Virginia Dare became the first child of English parents to be born on American soil, on what is now Roanoke Island, North Carolina.