On This Progressive Day: August 18National German Socialist Workers Party boss Adolph Hitler orders a temporary halt to systematic euthanasia of mentally ill and handicapped Germans, due to protests (1941)
Australia and New Zealand decide to withdraw their troops from Vietnam (1971)
President B. Hussein Obama and his ambitious Secretary of State Hillary Clinton meet with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in the Oval Office (2009)
President B. Hussein Obama calls for President of Syria Bashar al-Assad to step down (2011)
While vacationing at Martha's Vineyard, President B. Hussein Obama plays his 140th round of golf as POTUS (2013)
b: Walther Funk (1890), Mohammad Zia Ul-Haq (1924), Roman Polanski (1933), Robert Redford (1936), Timothy Geithner (1961); d: Learned Hand (1961), Rose Friedman (2009), Robert Novak (2009)
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