1590: Governor of Roanoke Island colony John White returns from England to find no trace of the colonists he left there three years earlier [or August 18, 1591]

1903: Joseph Pulitzer donates $1 million to Columbia University and begins the Pulitzer Prizes in the United States

1945: Korea is divided into North and South Korea along the 38th parallel

1945: Sukarno and Mohammad Hatta declare Indonesia (formerly the Dutch East Indies) independent from the Netherlands

1947: The Radcliffe Line is revealed, setting the border between Union of India and Dominion of Pakistan

1998: Monica Lewinsky scandal: US President Bill Clinton admits in taped testimony he had an “improper physical relationship” with the intern and on the same day admits before the nation he “misled people” about the relationship

Source: Onthisday.com