Notable Historical Events on July 18th
July 18th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
390 |
Roman-Gaulish Wars: Battle of the Allia - a Roman army is defeated by raiding Gauls, leading to the subsequent sacking of Rome. |
BC AD | |
64 |
Great Fire of Rome begins under the Emperor Nero |
1290 |
King Edward I of England orders expulsion of Jews |
1330 |
Battle of Velbuzd |
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. |
1536 |
Pope's authority declared void in England |
1572 |
Willem of Orange recognized as viceroy of Holland/Friesland/Utrecht |
1630 |
Spanish troops occupy Mantua |
1656 |
-20] Battle at Warsaw: Swedish king Karel X Gustaafbeats Johan II Kasimir & occupies Warsaw |
1696 |
Tsar Peter I's fleet occupies Azov at mouth of Don River |
1716 |
Decree orders all Jews expelled from Brussels |
1737 |
Battle at Banja Luka: Turkish army beats Austrians |
1743 |
1st half-page newspaper ad is published (NY Weekly Journal) |
1753 |
Lemuel Haynes, escapes from slave holder in Framingham Mass |
1766 |
Society of the Dutch Literary forms |
1768 |
Boston Gazette publishes "Liberty Song", America's 1st patriotic song |
1814 |
British capture Prairie du Chien (Wisc) |
1853 |
Completion of Grand Trunk Line, trains begin running over 1st North American railroad between Portland, Maine & Montreal |
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. |
1861 |
Battle of Blackburn's Ford, VA US57 CS68 - Manassas - |
1862 |
Battle of Newburgh, IN - captured by Union forces |
1863 |
Battle of Fort Wagner, SC - Second assault US1500 CS174 |
1864 |
President Lincoln asks for 500,000 volunteers for milt service |
1870 |
Pontifical infalliability proclaimed |
1872 |
The Ballot Act introduces the secret ballot in elections in Britain; previously votes were made openly. |
1882 |
Louisville Tony Mullane is 1st to pitch righty then lefty |
1893 |
Harry Graham scores 107 on cricket debut Australia v England, Lord's |
1894 |
11th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Blanche Hillyard beats E Austin (6-1 6-1) |
1894 |
18th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Joshua Pim beats Wilfred Baddeley (10-8 6-2 8-6) |
1896 |
2nd US Golf Open: James Foulis shoots a 152 at Shinnecock Hills NY |
1896 |
George Giffen is 1st to complete 1000/100 double, in 30th Test Cricket |
1896 |
Ranjitsinhji completes 154* on Test Cricket debut v Aust, Old Trafford |
1897 |
Cap Anson is 1st to get 3,000 hits |
1907 |
Florenz Ziegfeld's "Follies of 1907" premieres in NYC |
1907 |
French troops occupy Casablanca |
1912 |
Chicago Cubs get 21 hits but lose to Philadelphia Phillies in 11 innings |
1913 |
After 68 straight innings Christy Mathewson gives up a walk |
1914 |
US army air service 1st comes into being, in Signal Corps |
1914 |
Gandhi leaves South Africa after successfully leading campaigns of Passive Resistance |
1915 |
2nd Battle of Isonzo begins & ends with loss of 280,000 men |
1915 |
Boston Braves start move from last place to become world series champs |
1918 |
US & French forces launch Aisne-Marne offensive in WW I |
1921 |
Black Sox trial begins in Chicago |
1923 |
British House of Lords accepts new divorce law |
1924 |
KPD points out Rote Frontkampferbund against Nazi |
1925 |
Adolf Hitler publishes Mein Kampf (original title was the catchy "Four and a Half Years (of Struggle) Against Lies, Stupidity and Cowardice") |
1926 |
The South Africa author and journalist, Herman Charles Bosman, shoots and kills his stepbrother David Russell during a quarrel |
1927 |
Ty Cobb's 4,000th career hit |
1930 |
SHO soccer team forms in Old Beijerland |
1931 |
1st air-conditioned ship (Mariposa) launched |
1932 |
Belgium, Luxembourg & Netherlands sign Unity treaty |
1932 |
US & Canada sign a treaty to develop St Lawrence Seaway |
1935 |
Amsterdam city council accept city growth plan through the year 2000 |
1936 |
Spanish Civil War : General Francisco Franco issues manifesto and leds uprising with army in Morocco |
1936 |
Charles "Lucky" Luciano is sentenced to 30 to 50 years in state prison |
1938 |
Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan arrives in Ireland-left NY for Calif |
1940 |
1st successful helicopter flight, Stratford, Ct |
1940 |
Democratic Convention nominates FDR for a 3rd term |
1941 |
SS drowns 40 Jews in Dvina River, Belorussia |
1942 |
1st legal New Jersey horse race in 50 years; Garden State Park track opens |
1942 |
Test flight of German Messerschmitt Me-262 using only its jet engines for the first time. |
1943 |
British assault on Catania Sicily |
1943 |
Giants & Phillies strand record 30 baserunners, NY wins, 10-6 |
1944 |
7:45 Operation-Goodwood: British assault east of Caen |
1944 |
Allies air raid railways at Vaires Paris |
1944 |
Arne Andersson runs world record 1 mile (4:01.6) |
1944 |
RAF Mosquitos attack Cologne & Berlin |
1944 |
British air raid on German convoy SW of Helgoland |
1944 |
British troops occupy Bourquebus hill range, Normandy |
1944 |
Polish troops under Gen Anders occupy Ancona Italy |
1944 |
US troop march into St Lo |
1947 |
British seize "Exodus 1947" ship of Jewish immigrants to Palestine |
1947 |
King George VI signs Indian Independence Act |
1947 |
President Harry Truman signs Presidential Succession Act |
1947 |
Tigers shut out Yanks 2-0, end 19 game win streak |
1947 |
US begins administering Trust Territory of Pacific Islands |
1948 |
"Marinka" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 168 performances |
1948 |
Pat Seerey of Chicago White Sox hits 4 HRs in a game |
1948 |
White Sox Fat Pat Seerey, hits 4 HRs in 11 inning game |
1951 |
Uruguay accepts its constitution |
1951 |
Jersey Joe Walcott at 37 becomes oldest to win heavyweight champion |
1952 |
KWGN TV channel 2 in Denver, CO (IND) begins broadcasting |
1954 |
Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Inverness Four-Ball Golf Tournament |
1954 |
Cards losing 8-1 to Phillies begin stalling in 5th, they forfeit game |
1955 |
1st electric power generated from atomic energy sold commercially |
1955 |
280 mm rain in Martinstown, Dorset (UK-record) |
1956 |
Erno Gero succeeds Matyas Rákosi as party leader of Hungary |
1959 |
African American William 'Bill' Wright is the 1st coloured person to win a major golf tournament (U.S. Amateur Public Links Championships) |
1960 |
1st UN troops reach Congo |
1960 |
Baseball's NL votes to add Houston & NY franchises |
1960 |
Premier Kishi of Japan resigns |
1961 |
Commissioner Ford Frick rules Babe Ruth's record of 60 HR in 154-game sched in 1927, must be broken in 1st 154 of 162 games |
1962 |
Minnesota Twins Bob Allison & Harmon Killebrew hit grand slams in 1st inn & Harmon Killebrew connect in a club-record, 11-run 1st inning |
1962 |
Minn is 1st AL team to hit 2 grand slams in an inning as Bob Allison |
1963 |
Failed military coup in Syria |
1963 |
The United Nations Special Committee on Apartheid releases its second interim report pressing for international sanctions against South Africa, particularly the supply of arms, ammunition and petroleum |
1964 |
Race riot in Harlem (NYC); riots spread to Bedford-Stuyvesant (Bkln) |
1965 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Yankee Golf Open |
1965 |
Zond 3 launched to fly by Moon, enters solar orbit |
1966 |
Carl Sagan turns 1 billion seconds old |
1966 |
Gemini 10 launched (John Young & Michael Collins) |
1967 |
Silver hits record $1.87 an ounce in NY |
1968 |
The Intel Corporation is founded in Santa Clara, California |
1969 |
Joe Namath agrees to sell interest in Bachelors 3, to stay in NFL |
1970 |
"Boy Friend" closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after 119 performances |
1970 |
Arthur Brown arrested for stripping on stage in Palemo Sicily |
1970 |
Ron Hunt gets hit by a pitch for a record 119th time |
1970 |
WJCL TV channel 22 in Savannah, GA (ABC) begins broadcasting |
1970 |
Willie Mays becomes 10th baseball player to get 3,000 hits |
1971 |
Eddy Merckx wins his 3rd Tour de France |
1972 |
200,000 attend Mt Pocono rock festival in Penns |
1972 |
Egyptian president Anwar Sadat throws out 20,000 Russian military aids |
1972 |
Mike Procter 8-73 with hat-trick, plus 51 & 102, Gloucs v Essex |
1972 |
The 100th British soldier to die in the conflict is shot by a sniper in Belfast |
1972 |
Leader of the British Labour Party Harold Wilson holds meeting with representatives of the Irish Republican Army |
1974 |
US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site |
1974 |
World's tallest structure, 646-m Polish radio mast, completed |
1975 |
Jury can't decide on trial of Dave Forbes of Boston Bruins (1st athlete indicted for excessive violence during play) |
1976 |
"Something's Afoot" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 61 performances |
1976 |
Judy Rankin wins LPGA Borden Golf Classic |
1976 |
Lucien van Impe wins Tour de France |
1976 |
Stockhausens "Sirius" premieres in NYC |
1976 |
Thiokol conducts 2-min firing of space shuttle's SRB at Brigham, Ut |
1976 |
Nadia Comăneci became the first person in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 in gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics. |
1977 |
Hugh Leonard's "Da" premieres in London |
1977 |
Vietnam becomes member of UN |
1978 |
Egyptian & Israeli officials begin 2 days of talks |
1979 |
Gold hits record $303.85 an ounce in London |
1979 |
USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1980 |
Billy Joel's Glass Houses album tops charts |
1980 |
Failed attack on Iran ex-premier Bakhtiar in Neuilly, France |
1980 |
Federal court voids Selective Service Act as it doesn't include women |
1980 |
Quett Masire installed as president of Botswana |
1980 |
Rohini 1, 1st Indian satellite, launches into orbit |
1981 |
Part of Hyatt Regency Hotel KC caves in (113 killed) |
1981 |
Poland communist party selects ex-party leader Edward Gierek |
1982 |
"Blues in the Night" closes at Rialto Theater NYC after 53 perfs |
1982 |
111th British Golf Open: Tom Watson shoots a 284 at Royal Troon |
1982 |
Sally Little wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic |
1983 |
Despite being in 1st place in NL East, Phils fire manager Pat Corrales |
1984 |
James Huberty kills 21 McDonald's patrons in San Ysidro Calif |
1984 |
Walter F Mondale wins Democratic presidential nomination in SF |
1985 |
USSR performs underground nuclear Test |
1986 |
115th British Golf Open: Greg Norman shoots a 280 at Turnberry Scotld |
1986 |
Royals announce that manager Dick Howser, 50, has a brain tumor |
1986 |
Videotapes released showing Titanic's sunken remains |
1987 |
Molly Yard elected new pres of National Organization for Women |
1987 |
NY Yanks Don Mattingly ties record of HRs in 8 cons games |
1988 |
Abu Nidal terrorists kill 9 on City of Poros cruise ship |
1988 |
Shooting begins on "License to Kill" |
1989 |
48 cm rainfall at Rockport, West Virginia (state record) |
1991 |
Florida Marlins' logo unveiled |
1991 |
Mike Tyson meets Miss Black America contestants |
1992 |
Sharon Belden, of Florida, 25, crowned Miss World USA |
1992 |
The ten victims of the La Cantuta massacre disappear from their university in Lima. |
1993 |
122nd British Golf Open: Greg Norman shoots a 267 at Royal St George |
1993 |
Afghan president Ishaq Khan & prime minister Nawaz Sharif resign |
1993 |
Graeme Obree bicycles world record time (51,596 K) |
1993 |
Hiromi Kobayash wins LPGA JAL Big Apple Golf Classic |
1993 |
Liberal-Democratic Party loses Japan's parliamentary election |
1994 |
Bomb attack on Jewish center AMIA in Buenos Aires, 86 killed |
1994 |
Comet Shoemaker-Levy collides with Jupiter |
1994 |
Court upholds NBA salary cap and draft rights |
1994 |
Crayola announces introduction of scented crayons |
1994 |
Houston Astros tie NL comeback record, trailing 10-0, beat Cards 15-12 |
1994 |
NY Jets sign USA soccer goalkeeper Tony Miola as a place kicker |
1995 |
DC3 crashes at Antananarivo Madagaskar, 34 die |
1996 |
Storms provoke severe flooding on the Saguenay River, beginning one of Québec's costliest natural disasters ever. |
1996 |
The UN approves an Iraqi aid distribution plan, a major step forward in the direction of allowing Iraq to sell oil under Resolution 986 |
1999 |
128th British Golf Open: at Carnoustie Scot Paul Lawrie wins after play off |
2004 |
133rd British Golf Open: Todd Hamilton shoots a 274 at Royal Troon Golf Club |
2004 |
12th ESPY Awards: Lance Armstrong, Diana Taurasi win |
2009 |
Five members of one family are found murdered at Epping, New South Wales. |
2010 |
139th British Golf Open: Louis Oosthuizen shoots a 272 at St Andrews |
2012 |
6 Israeli tourists are killed and 30 injured after a bomb explodes on a tourist bus at Burgas Airport, Bulgaria |
2012 |
14 people are killed after a bomb explosion at Pakistan's Orakzai Agency |
2012 |
Violence across Syria results in 97 deaths |
2012 |
Syrian suicide bombing kills three high profile government officials, including Syria's Minister of Defence |
2012 |
24 people are killed after a ferry sinks off the coast of Zanzibar |
2012 |
Kim Jong-un is officially appointed Supreme Leader of North Korea and given the rank of Marshal in the Korean People's Army |
2013 |
Detroit, Michigan, files for bankruptcy to become the largest US municipal bankruptcy at $18.5 Billion |
2016 |
Baton Rouge shooter identified as ex-Marine Gavin Long |
2016 |
3 officers shot and killed in Baton Rouge |
2018 |
Boeing gets $3.9 billion contract for new Air Force One jets |
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