Associated Press

On Aug. 18, 1914, President Woodrow Wilson issued his Proclamation of Neutrality, aimed at keeping the United States out of World War I.

In 1920, the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, guaranteeing American women’s right to vote, was ratified as Tennessee became the 36th state to approve it.

In 1958, Vladimir Nabokov’s novel Lolita was published in the United States.

In 1963, James Meredith became the first Black student to graduate from the University of Mississippi.

In 1969, the Woodstock Music and Art Fair in Bethel, New York, wound to a close after three nights.

In 2014, Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon ordered the National Guard to Ferguson, a St. Louis suburb convulsed by protests over the shooting of a Black teen, Michael Brown.