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Birthday July 18, 1720 Gilbert White, "the father of British naturalists." |
Birthday July 18, 1811 William Makepeace Thackeray, Victorian novelist (Vanity Fair). |
Birthday July 18, 1848 William Gilbert Grace, Victorian England's greatest cricketer |
Birthday July 18, 1853 Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, Dutch physicist (Nobel 1902). |
Birthday July 18, 1906 S.I. Hayakawa, (R), educator, US senator from California. |
Birthday July 18, 1906 Clifford Odets, dramatist |
Birthday July 18, 1911 Hume Cronyn |
Birthday July 18, 1913 Red Skelton, comedian |
Birthday July 18, 1916 Harriet Hilliard Nelson, singer, Actress. |
Birthday July 18, 1918 Pamela Brown |
Birthday July 18, 1921 Sen John Glenn, Jr, astronaut (1st American in orbit) D-Ohio |
Birthday July 18, 1929 Dick Button, Skating champion & commentator |
Birthday July 18, 1929 Hunter S. Thompson is born |
Birthday July 18, 1933 Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Russian poet (Bratsk Station). |
Birthday July 18, 1941 Martha Reeves, in Detroit Michigan & the Vandellas |
Birthday July 18, 1941 Marcia Jones Smoke, canoer. |
Birthday July 18, 1961 Elizabeth McGovern, in Evanston Illinois |
History July 18, 0000 Nero's Rome burns |
History July 18, 0000 Fire of Rome |
History July 18, 0064 Great Fire of Rome begins (Nero didn't fiddle) |
History July 18, 1536 Pope's authority declared void in England. |
History July 18, 1792 Naval hero John Paul Jones dies in Paris |
History July 18, 1863 Assault of Battery Wagner and death of Robert Gould Shaw |
History July 18, 1872 Britain introduces secret ballot voting |
History July 18, 1914 Singing Wobbly Joe Hill sentenced to death |
History July 18, 1918 Allies begin major counter-offensive in Second Battle of the Marne |
History July 18, 1925 Mein Kampf is published |
History July 18, 1925 Hitler publishes Mein Kampf |
History July 18, 1927 Ty Cobb's 4000th career hit |
History July 18, 1931 1st air-conditioned ship launched - "Mariposa" |
History July 18, 1932 US & Canada signed a treaty to develop St. Lawrence Seaway. |
History July 18, 1936 Spanish Civil War breaks out |
History July 18, 1936 Spanish Civil War begans Gen. Francisco Franco led uprising |
History July 18, 1938 Douglas `Wrong Way' Corrigan arrives in Ireland-left NY for Calif |
History July 18, 1940 1st successful helicopter flight Stratford Ct |
History July 18, 1945 Charges of communists in the U.S. Army raised |
History July 18, 1947 Truman signs second Presidential Succession Act |
History July 18, 1947 US receives UN trusteeship over Pacific Is |
History July 18, 1947 Tigers shut out Yanks 2-0 ending a 19 game win streak |
History July 18, 1948 Juan Manuel Fangio makes Formula One debut |
History July 18, 1954 Joe Adcock records 18 total bases (4 homers & a double) |
History July 18, 1955 Soviet Union agrees to grant Hanoi economic aid |
History July 18, 1955 1st electric power generated from atomic energy sold commercially |
History July 18, 1960 Fifteen-year-old Brenda Lee earns a #1 hit with I'm Sorry |
History July 18, 1962 Congress preserves birthplace and property of Theodore Roosevelt |
History July 18, 1966 Gemini 10 launched. |
History July 18, 1966 Carl Sagan turns one billion seconds old |
History July 18, 1968 Intel is incorporated. |
History July 18, 1968 Johnson meets Thieu in Honolulu |
History July 18, 1969 Mary Jo Kopechne & Sen Kennedy plunge off Chappaquiddick bridge |
History July 18, 1969 Incident on Chappaquiddick Island |
History July 18, 1978 Billy Martin suspends Reggie Jackson for not bunting. |
History July 18, 1980 Rohini 1 1st Indian satellite is launched. |
History July 18, 1984 Walter F. Mondale wins Democratic presidential nomination in SF. Also Gunman opens fire at McDonald's in San Ysidro Cal killing 21 |
History July 18, 1984 Svetlana Savitskaya accompanies Vladimir Dzhanibekov on EVA outside Salyut 7 becoming 1st woman to walk in space. |
History July 18, 1984 Twenty-one people are shot to death at McDonald's |
History July 18, 1986 Video of Titanic wreckage released |
History July 18, 1986 Videotapes released showing Titanic's sunken remains |
History July 18, 1987 Yanks Don Mattingly ties Major League record of HRs in 8 cons games |
History July 18, 1995 Barack Obama's Dreams from My Father is published |
History July 18, 1999 David Cone pitches perfect game |
History July 18, 2008 The Dark Knight opens with highest-grossing weekend |