WillDekkard
07-18-2010, 05:13 AM
Hear are some notable events that happened on This Date in History
- July 18th
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* 390 BC Roman-Gaulish Wars: Battle of the Allia a Roman army is defeated by raiding Gauls, leading to the subsequent sacking of Rome.
* 64 Great fire of Rome: a fire begins to burn in the merchant area of Rome and soon burns completely out of control.
* 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.
* 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.
* 1389 Kingdom of France and Kingdom of England agree to the Truce of Leulinghem, in inaugurating a 13 year peace; the longest period of sustained peace during the Hundred Years War
* 1656 Polish-Lithuanian forces clash with Sweden and its Brandenburg allies in the start of what is to be known as The Battle of Warsaw which ends in a decisive Swedish victory.
* 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.
* 1862 First ascent of Dent Blanche, one of the highest summits in the Alps.
* 1863 American Civil War: Battle of Fort Wagner/Morris Island the first formal African American military unit, the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, fails in their assault on Confederate-held Battery Wagner.
* 1870 The First Vatican Council decrees the dogma of papal infallibility.
* 1914 The U.S. Congress forms the Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps, giving definite status to aircraft within the U.S. Army for the first time.
* 1925 Adolf Hitler publishes his personal manifesto Mein Kampf.
* 1936 In Spanish Morocco, military rebels attempt a coup d'้tat against the legitimacy of the Spanish government. This will lead to the Spanish Civil War.
* 1942 World War II: the Germans test fly the Messerschmitt Me-262 using only its jet engines for the first time.
* 1944 World War II: Hideki Tojo resigns as Prime Minister of Japan due to numerous setbacks in the war effort.
* 1965 Russian satellite Zond 3 launched.
* 1966 Gemini 10 launched.
* 1968 The Intel Corporation is founded in Santa Clara, California
* 1969 After a party on Chappaquiddick Island, Senator Ted Kennedy from Massachusetts drives an Oldsmobile off a bridge and his passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne, dies.
* 1976 Nadia Comăneci became the first person in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 in gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
* 1982 268 campesinos ("peasants" or "country people") are slain in the Plan de Sแnchez massacre in Rํos Montt's Guatemala.
* 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.
* 1986 A tornado is broadcast live on KARE television in Minnesota when the station's helicopter pilot makes a chance encounter.
* 1992 The ten victims of the La Cantuta massacre disappear from their university in Lima.
* 1994 The bombing of the Asociaci๓n Mutual Israelita Argentina (Argentinian Jewish Communal Center) in Buenos Aires kills 85 people (mostly Jewish) and injures 300.
* 1995 On the Caribbean island of Montserrat, the Soufriere Hills volcano erupts. Over the course of several years, it devastates the island, destroying the capital and forcing most of the population to flee.
* 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 1200 Army soldiers.
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- July 18th
c/p from Wikipedia
* 390 BC Roman-Gaulish Wars: Battle of the Allia a Roman army is defeated by raiding Gauls, leading to the subsequent sacking of Rome.
* 64 Great fire of Rome: a fire begins to burn in the merchant area of Rome and soon burns completely out of control.
* 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.
* 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.
* 1389 Kingdom of France and Kingdom of England agree to the Truce of Leulinghem, in inaugurating a 13 year peace; the longest period of sustained peace during the Hundred Years War
* 1656 Polish-Lithuanian forces clash with Sweden and its Brandenburg allies in the start of what is to be known as The Battle of Warsaw which ends in a decisive Swedish victory.
* 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.
* 1862 First ascent of Dent Blanche, one of the highest summits in the Alps.
* 1863 American Civil War: Battle of Fort Wagner/Morris Island the first formal African American military unit, the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, fails in their assault on Confederate-held Battery Wagner.
* 1870 The First Vatican Council decrees the dogma of papal infallibility.
* 1914 The U.S. Congress forms the Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps, giving definite status to aircraft within the U.S. Army for the first time.
* 1925 Adolf Hitler publishes his personal manifesto Mein Kampf.
* 1936 In Spanish Morocco, military rebels attempt a coup d'้tat against the legitimacy of the Spanish government. This will lead to the Spanish Civil War.
* 1942 World War II: the Germans test fly the Messerschmitt Me-262 using only its jet engines for the first time.
* 1944 World War II: Hideki Tojo resigns as Prime Minister of Japan due to numerous setbacks in the war effort.
* 1965 Russian satellite Zond 3 launched.
* 1966 Gemini 10 launched.
* 1968 The Intel Corporation is founded in Santa Clara, California
* 1969 After a party on Chappaquiddick Island, Senator Ted Kennedy from Massachusetts drives an Oldsmobile off a bridge and his passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne, dies.
* 1976 Nadia Comăneci became the first person in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 in gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
* 1982 268 campesinos ("peasants" or "country people") are slain in the Plan de Sแnchez massacre in Rํos Montt's Guatemala.
* 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.
* 1986 A tornado is broadcast live on KARE television in Minnesota when the station's helicopter pilot makes a chance encounter.
* 1992 The ten victims of the La Cantuta massacre disappear from their university in Lima.
* 1994 The bombing of the Asociaci๓n Mutual Israelita Argentina (Argentinian Jewish Communal Center) in Buenos Aires kills 85 people (mostly Jewish) and injures 300.
* 1995 On the Caribbean island of Montserrat, the Soufriere Hills volcano erupts. Over the course of several years, it devastates the island, destroying the capital and forcing most of the population to flee.
* 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 1200 Army soldiers.
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