Major Events
- 64 Great Fire of Rome begins under the Emperor Nero
- 1334 Bishop of Florence blesses the first foundation stone for the new campanile (bell tower) of the Florence Cathedral, designed by artist Giotto di Bondone
- 1925 Adolf Hitler publishes Mein Kampf, original title was the catchy "Four and a Half Years (of Struggle) Against Lies, Stupidity and Cowardice"
- 1936 Spanish Civil War: General Francisco Franco issues manifesto and leads an uprising in the Spanish army stationed in Morocco
- 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, becoming the largest US municipal bankruptcy ever at $18.5 billion
- 2023 Wildfire season in British Columbia becomes the most destructive on record, burning 14,100 square kilometers of land, with 390 fires still alight (surpassing 2018 record) [1]
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Jul 18 in Film & TV
- 1959 "The Nun's Story" based on the novel by Kathryn Hulme, starring Audrey Hepburn premieres in Los Angeles
Jul 18 in Music
- 1980 Billy Joel's "Glass Houses" album tops US charts, featuring "It's Still Rock 'n' Roll to Me"
Jul 18 in Sport
- 1976 Nadia Comăneci (14) becomes the first gymnast in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 score (doing so 7 times) at Montreal Games
Did You Know?
Robert Hooke
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George "Machine Gun" Kelly
Herbert Marcuse
Nelson Mandela
Hunter S. Thompson
Vin Diesel
Kristen Bell
Priyanka Chopra
Richard Branson
W. G. Grace
Tenley Albright
Joe Torre
Dennis Lillee
Nick Faldo
Canelo Álvarez
Fun Fact About July 18
Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan arrives in Ireland after a 28 hours flight, supposedly left NY flying for California
Famous Weddings
- 1877 Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (37) weds Antonina Miliukova (29) at the Church of Saint George in Moscow, Russia; separate six weeks later, but ever divorce
- 1922 British naval officer Louis Mountbatten (22) weds Lord Mount Temple's daughter Edwina Cynthia Annette Ashley (20) at St. Margaret's in Westminster, London
- 1933 American heavyweight boxing champ Jack Dempsey (38) weds American Broadway singer and actress Hannah Williams (22); divorce in 1943
Famous Divorces
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Oops, Wrong Way!
Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan with his "Sunshine", at Baldonnel Aerodrome, Ireland
July 18, 1938
Franklin Roosevelt – ‘Britain’s Greatest Friend’
On this day Franklin Delano Roosevelt was nominated by the Democratic Party in Chicago for an unprecedented third term as President of the United States.
July 18, 1940
