On this day: August 18Adolf Hitler orders a temporary halt to Nazi Germany's systematic euthanasia of the mentally ill and the handicapped due to protests (1941)
Australia and New Zealand decide to withdraw their troops from Vietnam (1971)
President Barack Obama meets with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in the Oval Office (2009)
President Barack Obama calls for President of Syria Bashar al-Assad to step down (2011)
b: Walther Funk (1890), Mohammad Zia Ul-Haq (1924), Timothy Geithner (1961); d: Genghis Khan (1227)
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