On This Day

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Historical Events on July 18


1716  Decree orders all Jews expelled from Brussels

1753  Lemuel Haynes, escapes from slave holder in Framingham, Massachusetts

1768  Boston Gazette publishes "Liberty Song", America's 1st patriotic song

1853  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, Virginia

1862  Battle of Newburgh, Indiana - captured by Union forces

1863  Battle of Fort Wagner, South Carolina - Second assault

1864  US President Abraham Lincoln asks for 500,000 volunteers for military service

16th US President
Abraham Lincoln

1907  Florenz Ziegfeld's "Follies of 1907" premieres in NYC

1914  US army air service 1st comes into being, in Signal Corps

1925  Adolf Hitler publishes Mein Kampf (original title was the catchy "Four and a Half Years (of Struggle) Against Lies, Stupidity and Cowardice")

Dictator of Nazi Germany
Adolf Hitler

1932  US and Canada sign a treaty to develop St Lawrence Seaway

1936  Charles "Lucky" Luciano is sentenced to 30 to 50 years in state prison

NYC Gangster
Charles "Lucky" Luciano

1938  Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan arrives in Ireland after a 28 hours flight, supposedly left NY flying for California

Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan with his "Sunshine",
at Baldonnel Aerodrome, Ireland

1940  Democratic Convention nominates FDR for a 3rd term

32nd US President
Franklin D. Roosevelt

1941  SS drowns 40 Jews in Dvina River, Belorussia

1942  Test flight of German Messerschmitt Me-262 using only its jet engines for the first time

1943  British assault on Catania, Sicily

1944 

1944  RAF Mosquitos attack Cologne and Berlin

1944  British air raid on German convoy SW of Heligoland

1944  British troops occupy Bourquebus hill range, Normandy

1944  US troop march into St Lo

1947  British seize "Exodus 1947" ship of Jewish immigrants to Palestine

1947  US President Harry Truman signs Presidential Succession Act

1955  1st electric power generated from atomic energy sold commercially

1959  "The Nun's Story" based on the novel by Kathryn Hulme, starring Audrey Hepburn premieres in Los Angeles

Actress
Audrey Hepburn

1963  Failed military coup in Syria

1964  Race riot in Harlem (NYC); riots spread to Bedford-Stuyvesant (Brooklyn)

1967  Silver hits record $1.87 an ounce in NY

1968  The Intel Corporation is founded in Santa Clara, California

Semiconductor Pioneer and CEO of Intel
Andrew Grove

1972  200,000 attend Mt Pocono rock festival in Penns

1977  Vietnam becomes a member of the UN

1978  Egyptian and Israeli officials begin 2 days of talks

1979  Gold hits record $303.85 an ounce in London

1980  Billy Joel's "Glass Houses" album tops US charts, featuring "Its Still Rock 'n' Roll to Me"

Pianist, songwriter, and composer
Billy Joel

1980  Federal court voids Selective Service Act as it doesn't include women

1984 

  Walter Mondale wins the Democratic Party presidential nomination in San Francisco

1986  Videotapes released showing Titanic's sunken remains

1988  Shooting begins on Bond film "License to Kill"

1989  48 cm (1.57 Ft) rainfall at Rockport, West Virginia (state record)

1994  Comet Shoemaker-Levy's largest collision with Jupiter leaves black spot 12,000 km (7456.45 Miles) across

1994  Crayola announces introduction of scented crayons

1994  "Kiss From a Rose" released by Seal (Grammy Record and Song of the Year)

Musician & Songwriter
Seal

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

2012  Violence across Syria results in 97 deaths

2012  Syrian suicide bombing kills three high profile government officials, including Syria's Minister of Defense

2012  Kim Jong-un is officially appointed Supreme Leader of North Korea and given the rank of Marshal in the Korean People's Army

Supreme Leader and Dictator of North Korea
Kim Jong-un

2014  The Israeli Defense Force (IDF) call 18,000 additional reserves soldiers in campaign against Gaza

2015  PayPal is spun off from eBay as a separate publicly traded company on the NASDAQ

2018  Google fined record $5.1 billion by the EU for abusing its power in mobile phone market

2018  Turkey ends its two-year State of Emergency

2018  New Earth geological age announced, the Meghalayan Age 4,200 years ago to the present, by the International Commission on Stratigraphy

2018  Seventeen men charged with the gang-rape of a 12-year old girl in Chennai, India

2018  Lava from Kilauea volcano eruption has now destroyed 700 homes and added 700 acres to Big Island confirms Hawaii National Guard

2018  Cliff Richard wins privacy case against the BBC, for reporting he was being investigated over historic child sexual assaults

Singer
Cliff Richard