On August 18 in the history: that happened this day

In Saint Petersburg in 1782 the monument to Peter I "Bronze Horseman" is open. In 1845 Russian geographical association was founded. This day, but in 1859, Frenchman Jean Blonden passed on a rope through Niagara Falls. It held all way on the shoulders of the second acrobat. And in 1958 to United States of America the novel Nabokov Vladimir "Lolita" is published on August 18 were born the English mathematician Brooke Taylor (1685); the emperor of the Austrian empire Franz Joseph of I (1830), begun World War I; Soviet fighter pilot Litvyak Lydia (1921); English science fiction writer Brian Aldis (1925)...