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Today in History ~ July 18
National Day, celebrated in Spain
Events0064 - Great Fire of Rome begins, destroyed nearly two-thirds of Rome. (Nero didn't fiddle)
1290 - King Edward I of England orders expulsion of Jews
1536 - Pope's authority declared void in England
1572 - William of Orange recognized as viceroy of Holland/Friesland/Utrecht
1588 - Admiral Howard beats Spanish Armada
1716 - Decree orders all Jews expelled from Brussels
1737 - Battle at Banja Luka: Turkish army beats Austrians
1814 - British capture Prairie du Chien (Wisc)
1861 - Battle of Blackburn's Ford, VA US57 CS68 - Manassas -
1863 - Battle of Fort Wagner, SC - Second assault US1500 CS174
1864 - President Lincoln asks for 500 000 volunteers for military service
1870 - Pontifical infallibility proclaimed
1872 - Britain introduced the concept of voting by secret ballot.
1907 - Florenz Ziegfeld's "Follies of 1907," premieres in NYC
1914 - US army air service 1st comes into being in Signal Corps
1918 - US & French forces launch Aisne-Marne offensive in WW I After an artillery attack nearly four hundred Allied tanks rolled against the German positions and by nightfall the Germans were on the retreat and Paris was mostly in Allied control.
1921 - Black Sox trial begins in Chicago
1925 - Hitler publishes Mein Kampf or My Struggle became bible for the Nazi Party; book is filled with anti-Semitic writings disdain for morality, worship of power and the blueprints for world domination [H]
1927 - Ty Cobb hit safely for the four-thousandth time in his career.
1931 - 1st air-conditioned ship launched - "Mariposa"
1932 - US & Canada sign a treaty to develop St Lawrence Seaway
1936 - In Melilla Morocco the Spanish Civil War began when a faction of the Spanish army launched a rightist uprising against the liberal democratic government of Spain. General Francisco Franco [H]
1938 - Douglas `Wrong Way' Corrigan arrives in Ireland-left NY for Calif [H]
1940 - 1st successful helicopter flight Stratford Ct
1940 - The Democratic national convention in Chicago nominated President Roosevelt for an unprecedented third term in office.
1941 - SS drowns 40 Jews in Dvina River, Belorussia
1942 - Messerschmitt Me 262 Schwalbe, 1st jet fighter, takes 1st flight
1943 - British assault on Catania Sicily
1944 - British Mosquitos attack Cologne & Berlin
1944 - US troop march into St-Lo
1944 - Hideki Tojo was removed as Japanese premier and war minister because of setbacks suffered by his country in World War II.
1947 - British seize "Exodus 1947" ship of Jewish immigrants to Palestine
1947 - King George VI signs Indian Independence Bill
1947 - Tigers shut out Yanks 2-0 ending a 19 game win streak
1947 - US receives UN trusteeship over Pacific Is
1947 - President Truman signed the Presidential Succession Act, which placed the speaker of the House and the Senate president pro tempore next in the line of succession after the vice president.
1954 - Joe Adcock records 18 total bases (4 homers & a double)
1955 - 1st electric power generated from atomic energy sold commercially
1960 - 1st UN troops reach Congo
1964 - Race riot in Harlem (NYC); riots spread to Bedford-Stuyvesant (Bkln)
1966 - Gemini 10 launched.
1968 - Intel Corporation is incorporated.
1969 - A car driven by Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) plunged off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island near Martha's Vineyard. Passenger Mary Jo Kopechne died in the accident. [H]
1970 - Arthur Brown arrested for stripping on stage in Palemo Sicily
1972 - Egypt president Sadat throws 20 000 Russian military aids out
1974 - World's tallest structure, 646-m Polish radio mast, completed
1976 - Nadia Comaneci scored a perfect '10' in a gymnastic event.
1977 - Hugh Leonard's "Da," premieres in London
1977 - Vietnam becomes member of UN
1978 - Billy Martin suspends Reggie Jackson for not bunting.
1978 - Egyptian & Israeli officials begin 2 days of talks
1980 - Federal court voids Selective Service Act as it doesn't include women
1980 - The first Indian satellite Rohini RS-1 was launched.
1984 - Svetlana Savitskaya accompanies Vladimir Dzhanibekov on EVA outside Salyut 7 becoming 1st woman to walk in space.
1984 - James Huberty opened fire at a McDonald's fast food restaurant in San Ysidro, Calif., killing 21 people before being shot dead by police.
1984 - Walter F. Mondale won the Democratic presidential nomination in San Francisco.
1986 - Videotapes released showing Titanic's sunken remains
1987 - Yanks Don Mattingly ties Major League record of HRs in 8 cons games
1988 - Abu Nidal terrorists kill 9 on City of Poros cruise ship
1991 - Shiite Muslim kidnappers in Lebanon demanded the release of two Lebanese brothers being held in Germany, warning there could be "grave consequences."
1992 - Youths rampaged for a second night in southwest England following the deaths of two young men on a stolen police motorcycle.
1994 - Almost 100 people were killed when a bomb ripped through a Buenos Aires Jewish community center. Several people were arrested including right-wing officers of the Armed Forces.
1994 - Crayola announces introduction of scented crayons
1995 - Opening statements were presented in the trial of Susan Smith, the South Carolina woman charged with drowning her two sons.
1996 - Recovery efforts continued off Long Island, N.Y., for the bodies of the 230 people who died in the fiery crash of TWA Flight 800; President Clinton, meanwhile, urged Americans not to immediately assume the crash was the work of terrorists.
1997 - German businessman Thomas Kramer was slapped with a record $323,000 penalty by the Federal Election Commission for making illegal U.S. political contributions.
1997 - All key systems on the Russian space station Mir returned to near-normal, about 24 hours after the already disabled spacecraft lost power
1999 - Authorities looking into the disappearance of the plane carrying John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife and sister-in-law announced that the search and rescue had become a search and recovery effort.
2000 - Shrugging off a veto threat from President Clinton, the Senate voted 61-to-38 in favor of eliminating the so-called "marriage penalty" by cutting taxes for virtually every married couple.
Birthdays Today
0718 - Horatio Alger whose lads always had enough pluck to succeed.
1534 - Zacharias Ursinus German theologian (Heidelberger Catechism)
1552 - Rudolf II, of Habsburg, emperor of Germany (1576-1612)
1670 - Giovanni Battista Bononcini Italian (opera)composer
1720 - Gilbert White, "the father of British naturalists."
1811 - William Makepeace Thackeray, England, Victorian novelist (Vanity Fair)
1848 - William Gilbert Grace, Victorian England's greatest cricketer
1853 - Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, Dutch physicist (Nobel 1902).
1887 - Vidkun Al Quisling, Norwegian minister of Defense/premier (1942-45)
1890 - Charles Wilson, Pres of General Motors (1940-53)/Sec of Def (1953-57)
1902 - Charles W J Mengelberg, Dutch composer/conductor
1903 - Chill Wills (actor: Billy the Kid, McClintock, Giant, The Yearling, Tarzan's New York Adventure, The Wheeler Dealers)
1906 - Clifford Odetts (playwright: Waiting for Lefty, Awake and Sing, The Golden Boy, The Big Knife, The Country Girl, The Flowering Peach)
1906 - S.I. (Samuel Ichiye) Hayakawa (U.S. Senator; President of San Francisco State College; writer: language textbooks; led initiative declaring English as official language of California)
1909 - Andrei Gromyko USSR diplomat/USSR President (1985-89)
1910 - Lou Busch (Joe 'Fingers' Carr) (musician: piano, arranger, composer: Sam's Song, Down Yonder, Portuguese Washerwoman)
1911 - Hume Cronyn (Blake) (actor: Sunrise at Campobello, The Seventh Cross, Cocoon, The Four Poster, Fox Fire, The Gin Game; Jessica Tandy's husband)
1912 - Harriet Nelson (Hilliard) (Peggy Lou Snyder) (singer: Ozzie Nelson's orchestra; actress: The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, Follow the Fleet, Rick & Dave's mother)
1913 - Marvin Miller (actor: Kiss Daddy Goodbye, Red Planet Mars)
1913 - Red (Richard) Skelton (Emmy Award-winning comedian: The Red Skelton Show [1951, 1960-61]; ATAS Governor's Award [1985-86]; recording artist: The Pledge of Allegiance; "Goodnight ... and may God Bless.")
1918 - Nelson Mandela (Nobel Peace prize-winner [1993]; South African President; imprisoned for 28 years)
1918 - Pamela Brown,
1921 - Sen John Glenn Jr, astronaut (1st American in orbit) D-Ohio
1929 - Dick Button, Skating champion & commentator
1933 - Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Russian poet (Bratsk Station).
1935 - Tenley Albright (Olympic Hall of Famer: figure skating silver medal [1952], gold [1956]: first American woman to win event; International Women's Sports Hall of Famer)
1939 - Brian Auger (musician: keyboards: groups: Mahavishnu Players, Oblivion Express; played harpsichord for Yardbirds: For Your Love)
1939 - Dion DiMucci (Rock and Roll Hall of Famer: singer: group: Dion and the Belmonts: A Teenager in Love, Where or When; solo: Runaround Sue, The Wanderer, Abraham, Martin and John, Ruby Baby, Donna the Prima Donna)
1940 - James Brolin (Bruderlin) (actor: Hotel, Marcus Welby, M.D., Angel Falls, Westworld, Von Ryan's Express, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Fantastic Voyage, The Boston Strangler, The Amityville Horror)
1940 - Joe Torre (baseball player: Baseball Writer's Award: St. Louis Cardinals 3rd baseman [1971]; manager: St. Louis Cardinals, Atlanta Braves, NY Mets; broadcaster)
1941 - Lonnie Mack (McIntosh) musician: guitar
1941 - Martha Reeves (singer: group: Martha and the Vandellas: Power of Love, Heat Wave, Quicksand, Dancing in the Street, Nowhere to Run, Jimmy Mack, Come and Get These Memories)
1943 - Donald Awrey hockey
1944 - Rudy May (baseball)
1950 - Richard Branson, British music enterperneur (Virgin Atlantic)
1951 - Bruce Lietzke golfer
1954 - Ricky Skaggs (Grammy Award-winning instrumentalist [banjo, fiddle, guitar]: Wheel Hoss [1985]; singer: I Don't Care, Crying My Heart Out Over You; CMA Male Vocalist of the Year [1981], Entertainer of the Year [1985])
1959 - Audrey Landers (actress: Dallas, Somerset, California Casanova)
1961 - Elizabeth McGovern (actress: Ordinary People, Racing with the Moon, The Bedroom Window)
Famous deaths
1374 - Francesco Petrarch, Italian poet (Italia Mia), dies at 69
1710 - Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Italian painter, dies at 36
1721 - Jean Antoine Watteau, French painter
1792 - American naval hero John Paul Jones died in Paris at age 45.
1817 - Jane Austen, writer
1863 - William Dorsey Pender, US Confederate gen-mjr, dies of injuries at 29
1872 - Benito Juarez, Cuban justice/general (battle of Acapulco), dies at 66
1892 - Thomas Cook, English tour director (Thomas Cook & Son), dies at 83
1894 - Leconte de Lisle, writer, dies at 75
1899 - Horatio Alger Jr, Amer clergyman/author (Disagreeeable Woman),
1938 - Vladimir M Kirshon, Russian playwright, executed at 35
1950 - Carl Clinton Van Doren, US literary (The Nation), dies at 64
1966 - Bobby Fuller, leader of the rock-and-roll band The Bobby Fuller Four
1969 - Mary Jo Kopechne drowned at Chappaquiddick (Dike Bridge). [H]
1973 - Jack Hawkins, actor (Ben Hur, Bridge Over River Kwai), dies at 62
1984 - James Oliver Huberty, shot by police after killing 21 in McDonalds
1989 - Actress Rebecca Schaeffer, 21, was shot to death at her Los Angeles home by obsessed fan Robert Bardo, who was later sentenced to life in prison.
1990 - Dr. Karl Menninger, the dominant figure in American psychiatry for six decades, died four days short of his 97th birthday in Topeka, Kan.
2000 - Sen. Paul Coverdell (R-Ga.) died in Atlanta at age 61.
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