Genghis Khan, the Mongol leader who forged an empire stretching from Peking to the Caspian Sea, dies in camp during a campaign in China.
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August 18, 1227 – Genghis Khan dies
August 18, 1898 – Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov is published
On this day in 1958, Vladimir Nabokov’s controversial novel Lolita is published in the U.S.