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What Happened on July 18th This Day in History

Year Name
38791293 Roman-Gaulish Wars: Battle of the Allia: A Roman army is defeated by raiding Gauls, leading to the subsequent sacking of Rome.
2019 A man sets fire to an anime studio in Fushimi-ku, Kyoto, Japan, killing at least 35 people and injuring dozens of others.[16]
2014 The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant requires Christians to either accept dhimmi status, emigrate from ISIL lands, or be killed.
2013 The Government of Detroit, with up to $20 billion in debt, files for the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history.
2012 At least seven people are killed and 32 others are injured after a bomb explodes on an Israeli tour bus at Burgas Airport, Bulgaria.
2002 A Consolidated PB4Y-2 Privateer crashes near Estes Park, Colorado, killing both crew members.
1996 Storms provoke severe flooding on the Saguenay River, beginning one of Quebec's costliest natural disasters ever.
1996 Battle of Mullaitivu: The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam capture the Sri Lanka Army's base, killing over 1,200 soldiers.
1995 On the Caribbean island of Montserrat, the Soufrière Hills volcano erupts. Over the course of several years, it devastates the island, destroying the capital, forcing most of the population to flee.
1994 The bombing of the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (Argentine Jewish Community Center) in Buenos Aires kills 85 people (mostly Jewish) and injures 300.
1994 Rwandan genocide: The Rwandan Patriotic Front takes control of Gisenyi and north western Rwanda, forcing the interim government into Zaire and ending the genocide.
1992 A picture of Les Horribles Cernettes was taken, which became the first ever photo posted to the World Wide Web.
1984 McDonald's massacre in San Ysidro, California: In a fast-food restaurant, James Oliver Huberty opens fire, killing 21 people and injuring 19 others before being shot dead by police.
1982 Two hundred sixty-eight Guatemalan campesinos ("peasants" or "country people") are slain in the Plan de Sánchez massacre.
1981 A Canadair CL-44 and Sukhoi Su-15 collide in mid-air near Yerevan, Armenia, killing four.
1976 Nadia Comăneci becomes the first person in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 in gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
1968 Intel is founded in Mountain View, California.
1966 Human spaceflight: Gemini 10 is launched from Cape Kennedy on a 70-hour mission that includes docking with an orbiting Agena target vehicle.
1966 A racially charged incident in a bar sparks the six-day Hough riots in Cleveland, Ohio; 1,700 Ohio National Guard troops intervene to restore order.
1944 World War II: Hideki Tōjō resigns as Prime Minister of Japan because of numerous setbacks in the war effort.
1942 World War II: During the Beisfjord massacre in Norway, 15 Norwegian paramilitary guards help members of the SS to kill 288 political prisoners from Yugoslavia.
1942 The Germans test fly the Messerschmitt Me 262 using its jet engines for the first time.
1936 On the Spanish mainland, a faction of the army supported by fascists, rises up against the Second Spanish Republic in a coup d'état
1925 Adolf Hitler publishes Mein Kampf.
1914 The U.S. Congress forms the Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps, giving official status to aircraft within the U.S. Army for the first time.
1872 The Ballot Act 1872 in the United Kingdom introduced the requirement that parliamentary and local government elections be held by secret ballot.
1870 The First Vatican Council decrees the dogma of papal infallibility.
1863 American Civil War: Second Battle of Fort Wagner: One of the first formal African American military units, the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, supported by several white regiments, attempts an unsuccessful assault on Confederate-held Battery Wagner.
1862 First ascent of Dent Blanche, one of the highest summits in the Alps.
1857 Louis Faidherbe, French governor of Senegal, arrives to relieve French forces at Kayes, effectively ending El Hajj Umar Tall's war against the French.
1841 Coronation of Emperor Pedro II of Brazil.
1812 The Treaties of Orebro end both the Anglo-Russian and Anglo-Swedish Wars.
1806 A gunpowder magazine explosion in Birgu, Malta, kills around 200 people.
1555 The College of Arms is reincorporated by Royal charter signed by Queen Mary I of England and King Philip II of Spain.
1507 In Brussels, Prince Charles I is crowned Duke of Burgundy and Count of Flanders,
1391 Tokhtamysh–Timur war: Battle of the Kondurcha River: Timur defeats Tokhtamysh of the Golden Horde in present-day southeast Russia.
1389 France and England agree to the Truce of Leulinghem, inaugurating a 13-year peace, the longest period of sustained peace during the Hundred Years' War.
1334 The bishop of Florence blesses the first foundation stone for the new campanile (bell tower) of the Florence Cathedral, designed by the artist Giotto di Bondone.
1290 King Edward I of England issues the Edict of Expulsion, banishing all Jews (numbering about 16,000) from England; this was Tisha B'Av on the Hebrew calendar, a day that commemorates many Jewish calamities.
1195 Battle of Alarcos: Almohad forces defeat the Castilian army of Alfonso VIII and force its retreat to Toledo.
645 Chinese forces under general Li Shiji besiege the strategic fortress city of Anshi (Liaoning) during the Goguryeo–Tang War.
477 Battle of the Cremera as part of the Roman–Etruscan Wars. Veii ambushes and defeats the Roman army.
452 Sack of Aquileia: After an earlier defeat on the Catalaunian Plains, Attila lays siege to the metropolis of Aquileia and eventually destroys it.
362 Roman–Persian Wars: Emperor Julian arrives at Antioch with a Roman expeditionary force (60,000 men) and stays there for nine months to launch a campaign against the Persian Empire.
Famous People Born on July 18

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Year Name
1926 Bernard Pons, French politician and medical doctor (d. 2022)
1978 Mélissa Theuriau, French journalist
1947 Steve Forbes, American publisher and politician
1950 Richard Branson, English businessman, founded Virgin Group
1937 Hunter S. Thompson, American journalist and author (d. 2005)
1908 Peace Pilgrim, American mystic and activist (d. 1981)
1935 Jayendra Saraswathi, Indian guru, 69th Shankaracharya (d. 2018)
1910 Mamadou Dia, Senegalese politician; 1st Prime Minister of Senegal (d. 2009)
1925 Raymond Jones, Australian Modernist architect (d. 2022)
1950 Mark Udall, American educator and politician
Famous People Deaths On July 18

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Date Name
1698 Johann Heinrich Heidegger, Swiss theologian and author (b. 1633)
1987 Gilberto Freyre, Brazilian sociologist, anthropologist, historian, writer, painter, journalist and congressman (b. 1907)
1270 Boniface of Savoy, Archbishop of Canterbury
1982 Roman Jakobson, Russian–American linguist and theorist (b. 1896)
1950 Carl Clinton Van Doren, American critic and biographer (b. 1885)
1756 Pieter Langendijk, Dutch poet and playwright (b. 1683)
2004 André Castelot, Belgian-French historian and author (b. 1911)
1949 Vítězslav Novák, Czech composer and educator (b. 1870)
1695 Johannes Camphuys, Dutch politician, Governor-general of the Dutch East Indies (b. 1634)
1989 Donnie Moore, American baseball player (b. 1954)