July 18

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Holidays & Observances Mandela Day, Constitution Day Events 2013 Premios Juventud, MTV Africa Music Awards 2015 Famous birthdays Priyanka Chopra, Vin Diesel, Nelson Mandela, MIA, John Glenn

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July 18 is the 199th day of the year (200th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 166 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Monday, Wednesday or Saturday (58 in 400 years each) than on Thursday or Friday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Tuesday or Sunday (56).

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Events

477 BC – Battle of the Cremera as part of the Roman–Etruscan Wars. Veii ambushes and defeats the Roman army.

390 BC – Roman-Gaulish Wars: Battle of the Allia: A Roman army is defeated by raiding Gauls, leading to the subsequent sacking of Rome.

AD 64 – The Great Fire of Rome causes widespread devastation and rages on for six days, destroying half of the city.

362 – Roman–Persian Wars: Emperor Julian arrives at Antioch with a Roman expeditionary force (60,000 men) and stays there for nine months to launch a campaign against the Persian Empire.

452 – Sack of Aquileia: After an earlier defeat on the Catalaunian Plains, Attila lays siege to the metropolis of Aquileia and eventually destroys it.

645 – Chinese forces under general Li Shiji besiege the strategic fortress city of Anshi (Liaoning) during the Goguryeo–Tang War.

1195 – Battle of Alarcos: Almohad forces defeat the Castilian army of Alfonso VIII and force its retreat to Toledo.

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 – France and England agree to the Truce of Leulinghem, inaugurating a 13-year peace, the longest period of sustained peace during the Hundred Years' War.

1391 – Tokhtamysh–Timur war: Battle of the Kondurcha River: Timur defeats Tokhtamysh of the Golden Horde in present-day southeast Russia.

1555 – The College of Arms is reincorporated by Royal charter signed by Queen Mary I of England and King Philip II of Spain.

1812 – The Treaties of Orebro end both the Anglo-Russian and Anglo-Swedish Wars.

1841 – Coronation of Emperor Pedro II of Brazil.

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: Second Battle of Fort Wagner: One of the first formal African American military units, the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, supported by several white regiments, attempts an unsuccessful 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 official status to aircraft within the U.S. Army for the first time.

1925 – Adolf Hitler publishes Mein Kampf.

1942 – World War II: During the Beisfjord massacre in Norway, 15 Norwegian paramilitary guards help members of the SS to kill 288 political prisoners from Yugoslavia.

1942 – The Germans test fly the Messerschmitt Me 262 using its jet engines for the first time.

1944 – World War II: Hideki Tōjō resigns as Prime Minister of Japan because of numerous setbacks in the war effort.

1966 – Human spaceflight: Gemini 10 is launched from Cape Kennedy on a 70-hour mission that includes docking with an orbiting Agena target vehicle.

1968 – Intel is founded in Mountain View, California.

1976 – Nadia Comăneci becomes the first person in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 in gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics.

1982 – Two hundred sixty-eight Guatemalan campesinos ("peasants" or "country people") are slain in the Plan de Sánchez massacre.

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.

1992 – A picture of Les Horribles Cernettes was taken, which became the first ever photo posted to the World Wide Web.

1994 – The bombing of the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (Argentine Jewish Community Center) in Buenos Aires kills 85 people (mostly Jewish) and injures 300.

1994 – Rwandan genocide: The Rwandan Patriotic Front takes control of Gisenyi and north western Rwanda, forcing the interim government into Zaire and ending the genocide.

1995 – On the Caribbean island of Montserrat, the Soufrière Hills volcano erupts. Over the course of several years, it devastates the island, destroying the capital, 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 soldiers.

2012 – At least seven people are killed and 32 others are injured after a bomb explodes on an Israeli tour bus at Burgas Airport, Bulgaria.

2013 – The Government of Detroit, with up to $20 billion in debt, files for the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history.

Births

1439 – John V, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg (d. 1507)

1501 – Isabella of Austria (d. 1526)

1504 – Heinrich Bullinger, Swiss pastor and reformer (d. 1575)

1552 – Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1612)

1634 – Johannes Camphuys, Dutch politician, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (d. 1695)

1659 – Hyacinthe Rigaud, French painter (d. 1743)

1670 – Giovanni Bononcini, Italian cellist and composer (d. 1747)

1718 – Saverio Bettinelli, Italian poet, playwright, and critic (d. 1808)

1720 – Gilbert White, English ornithologist and ecologist (d. 1793)

1724 – Duchess Maria Antonia of Bavaria (d. 1780)

1797 – Immanuel Hermann Fichte, German philosopher and academic (d. 1879)

1811 – William Makepeace Thackeray, English author and poet (d. 1863)

1818 – Louis Gerhard De Geer, Swedish lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1896)

1821 – Pauline Viardot, French soprano and composer (d. 1910)

1837 – Vasil Levski, Bulgarian priest and activist (d. 1873)

1845 – Tristan Corbière, French poet (d. 1875)

1848 – W. G. Grace, English cricketer and physician (d. 1915)

1853 – Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1928)

1864 – Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden, English politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (d. 1937)

1867 – Margaret Brown, American philanthropist and activist (d. 1932)

1871 – Sada Yacco, Japanese actress and dancer (d. 1946)

1881 – Larry McLean, Canadian-American baseball player (d. 1921)

1884 – Alberto di Jorio, Italian cardinal (d. 1979)

1886 – Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., American general (d. 1945)

1887 – Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian military officer and politician, Minister President of Norway (d. 1945)

1889 – Kōichi Kido, Japanese politician, 13th Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal of Japan (d. 1977)

1890 – Frank Forde, Australian educator and politician, 15th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1983)

1892 – Arthur Friedenreich, Brazilian footballer (d. 1969)

1893 – David Ogilvy, 12th Earl of Airlie, Scottish peer, soldier and courtier (d. 1968)

1895 – Olga Spessivtseva, Russian-American ballerina (d. 1991)

1895 – Machine Gun Kelly, American gangster (d. 1954)

1897 – Ernest Eldridge, English race car driver and engineer (d. 1935)

1898 – John Stuart, Scottish-English actor (d. 1979)

1899 – Ernst Scheller, German soldier and politician, 8th Mayor of Marburg (d. 1942)

1900 – Nathalie Sarraute, French lawyer and author (d. 1999)

1902 – Jessamyn West, American author (d. 1984)

1903 – Chill Wills, American actor (d. 1978)

1906 – S. I. Hayakawa, Canadian-American academic and politician (d. 1992)

1906 – Clifford Odets, American director, playwright, and screenwriter (d. 1963)

1908 – Peace Pilgrim, American mystic and activist (d. 1981)

1908 – Lupe Vélez, Mexican-American actress and dancer (d. 1944)

1908 – Beatrice Aitchison, American mathematician, statistician, and transportation economist (d. 1997)

1909 – Bishnu Dey, Indian poet, critic, and academic (d. 1982)

1909 – Andrei Gromyko, Belarusian-Russian economist and politician, Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 1989)

1909 – Mohammed Daoud Khan, Afghan commander and politician, 1st President of Afghanistan (d. 1978)

1909 – Harriet Nelson, American singer and actress (d. 1994)

1910 – Diptendu Pramanick, Indian businessman (d. 1989)

1911 – Hume Cronyn, Canadian-American actor, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2003)

1913 – Red Skelton, American actor and comedian (d. 1997)

1914 – Gino Bartali, Italian cyclist (d. 2000)

1917 – Henri Salvador, French singer and guitarist (d. 2008)

1918 – Nelson Mandela, South African lawyer and politician, 1st President of South Africa, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)

1920 – Eric Brandon, English race car driver and businessman (d. 1982)

1921 – Peter Austin, English brewer, founded Ringwood Brewery (d. 2014)

1921 – Aaron T. Beck, American psychiatrist and academic

1921 – John Glenn, American colonel, astronaut, and politician (d. 2016)

1921 – Richard Leacock, English-French director and producer (d. 2011)

1922 – Thomas Kuhn, American physicist, historian, and philosopher (d. 1996)

1923 – Jerome H. Lemelson, American engineer and businessman (d. 1997)

1923 – Michael Medwin, English actor

1924 – Inge Sørensen, Danish swimmer (d. 2011)

1924 – Tullio Altamura, Italian actor

1925 – Shirley Strickland, Australian runner and hurdler (d. 2004)

1925 – Friedrich Zimmermann, German lawyer and politician, German Federal Minister of the Interior (d. 2012)

1925 – Raymond Jones, Australian Modernist architect

1925 – Windy McCall, American relief pitcher

1926 – Margaret Laurence, Canadian author and academic (d. 1987)

1926 – Nita Bieber, American actress

1926 – Bernard Pons, French politician and medical doctor

1926 – Maunu Kurkvaara, Finnish film director and screenwriter

1927 – Kurt Masur, German conductor and educator (d. 2015)

1927 – Antonio García-Trevijano, Spanish republican, political activist, and author

1927 – Keith MacDonald, Canadian politician

1928 – Andrea Gallo, Italian priest and author (d. 2013)

1928 – Franca Rame, Italian actress (d. 2013)

1928 – Baddiewinkle, American internet personality

1928 – Manuel Guerra, Spanish swimmer

1929 – Dick Button, American figure skater and actor

1930 – Burt Kwouk, English actor (d. 2016)

1932 – Robert Ellis Miller, American director and screenwriter

1932 – Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Russian poet and playwright

1933 – Jean Yanne, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2003)

1934 – Edward Bond, English director, playwright, and screenwriter

1934 – Darlene Conley, American actress (d. 2007)

1935 – Tenley Albright, American figure skater and physician

1935 – Jayendra Saraswathi, Indian guru, 69th Shankaracharya

1937 – Roald Hoffmann, Polish chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

1937 – Hunter S. Thompson, American journalist and author (d. 2005)

1938 – John Connelly, English footballer (d. 2012)

1938 – Lennart Hjulström, Swedish actor and director

1938 – Ian Stewart, Scottish keyboard player and manager (d. 1985)

1938 – Paul Verhoeven, Dutch director, producer, and screenwriter

1939 – Brian Auger, English keyboard player

1939 – Dion DiMucci, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1939 – Jerry Moore, American football player and coach

1940 – James Brolin, American actor

1940 – Joe Torre, American baseball player and manager

1941 – Frank Farian, German songwriter and producer

1941 – Lonnie Mack, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2016)

1941 – Martha Reeves, American singer and politician

1942 – Giacinto Facchetti, Italian footballer (d. 2006)

1942 – Adolf Ogi, Swiss politician, 84th President of the Swiss Confederation

1943 – Joseph J. Ellis, American historian and author

1944 – David Hemery, English hurdler and author

1945 – Pat Doherty, Irish republican politician

1946 – Leo Madder, Belgian actor and director

1946 – John Naughton, Scottish-Irish journalist, author, and academic

1947 – Steve Forbes, American publisher and politician

1948 – Carlos Colón Sr., Puerto Rican-American wrestler and promoter

1948 – Jeanne Córdova, American journalist and activist (d. 2016)

1948 – Hartmut Michel, German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

1949 – Dennis Lillee, Australian cricketer and coach

1950 – Richard Branson, English businessman, founded Virgin Group

1950 – Jack Dongarra, American computer scientist and academic

1950 – Kostas Eleftherakis, Greek footballer

1950 – Jack Layton, Canadian political scientist, academic, and politician (d. 2011)

1950 – Mark Udall, American educator and politician

1951 – Elio Di Rupo, Belgian chemist, academic, and politician, 68th Prime Minister of Belgium

1951 – Margo Martindale, American actress

1954 – Peter Crane, English-American botanist and academic

1954 – Ricky Skaggs, American singer-songwriter, mandolin player, and producer

1955 – Terry Chambers, English drummer

1955 – Bernd Fasching, Austrian painter and sculptor

1956 – Razor Shines, American baseball player, manager, and coach

1957 – Nick Faldo, English golfer and sportscaster

1957 – Keith Levene, English guitarist, songwriter, and producer

1957 – Alexander Titov, Russian bass player

1958 – Chris Ruane, Welsh educator and politician

1960 – Simon Heffer, English journalist and author

1961 – M.J. Alexander, American author and photographer

1961 – Elizabeth McGovern, American actress

1961 – Alan Pardew, English footballer and manager

1961 – Pasi Rautiainen, Finnish footballer, coach, and manager

1962 – Lee Arenberg, American actor and screenwriter

1962 – Jack Irons, American drummer

1962 – Shaun Micallef, Australian comedian, producer, and screenwriter

1963 – Marc Girardelli, Austrian-Luxembourgian skier

1963 – Mike Greenwell, American baseball player and race car driver

1963 – Al Snow, American wrestler, sportscaster, and actor

1963 – Martín Torrijos, Panamanian economist and politician, 35th President of Panama

1964 – Wendy Williams, American talk show host

1965 – Vesselina Kasarova, Bulgarian soprano

1965 – Steve Webb, English academic and politician

1966 – Dan O'Brien, American decathlete and coach

1967 – Vin Diesel, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

1968 – Grant Bowler, New Zealand-Australian actor

1968 – Scott Gourley, Australian rugby player

1969 – Elizabeth Gilbert, American author

1969 – The Great Sasuke, Japanese wrestler and politician

1971 – Penny Hardaway, American basketball player and coach

1971 – Sukhwinder Singh, Indian singer-songwriter and actor

1974 – Alan Morrison, British poet

1975 – Torii Hunter, American baseball player

1975 – Daron Malakian, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

1975 – M.I.A., English rapper and producer

1976 – Elsa Pataky, Spanish actress

1976 – Go Soo-hee, South Korean actress

1977 – Alexander Morozevich, Russian chess player and author

1978 – Adabel Guerrero, Argentinian actress, singer, and dancer

1978 – Shane Horgan, Irish rugby player and sportscaster

1978 – Ben Sheets, American baseball player and coach

1978 – Mélissa Theuriau, French journalist

1978 – Joo Sang-wook, South Korean actor

1979 – Deion Branch, American football player

1979 – Joey Mercury, American wrestler and producer

1980 – Kristen Bell, American actress

1981 – Dennis Seidenberg, German ice hockey player

1982 – Ryan Cabrera, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1982 – Dominika Luzarová, Czech tennis player

1983 – Carlos Diogo, Uruguayan footballer

1983 – Aaron Gillespie, American singer-songwriter and drummer

1983 – Mikk Pahapill, Estonian decathlete

1983 – Jan Schlaudraff, German footballer

1985 – Panagiotis Lagos, Greek footballer

1986 – Natalia Mikhailova, Russian ice dancer

1987 – Tontowi Ahmad, Indonesian badminton player

1988 – Änis Ben-Hatira, German-Tunisian footballer

1988 – César Villaluz, Mexican footballer

1989 – Jamie Benn, Canadian ice hockey player

1989 – Sebastian Mielitz, German footballer

1989 – Yohan Mollo, French footballer

1991 – Karina Pasian, American singer and pianist

Deaths

707 – Emperor Monmu of Japan (b. 683)

715 – Muhammad bin Qasim, Umayyad general (b. 695)

912 – Zhu Wen, Chinese emperor (b. 852)

924 – Abu'l-Hasan Ali ibn al-Furat, Abbasid vizier (b. 855)

1100 – Godfrey of Bouillon, Frankish knight (b. 1016)

1185 – Stefan, first Archbishop of Uppsala (b. before 1143)

1194 – Guy of Lusignan, king consort of Jerusalem (b. c. 1150)

1232 – John de Braose, Marcher Lord of Bramber and Gower

1270 – Boniface of Savoy, Archbishop of Canterbury

1300 – Gerard Segarelli, Italian religious leader, founded the Apostolic Brethren (b. 1240)

1450 – Francis I, Duke of Brittany (b. 1414)

1488 – Alvise Cadamosto, Italian explorer (b. 1432)

1566 – Bartolomé de las Casas, Spanish bishop and historian (b. 1484)

1591 – Jacobus Gallus, Slovenian composer (b. 1550)

1608 – Joachim Frederick, Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1546)

1610 – Caravaggio, Italian painter (b. 1573)

1639 – Bernard of Saxe-Weimar, German general (b. 1604)

1695 – Johannes Camphuys, Dutch politician, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (b. 1634)

1698 – Johann Heinrich Heidegger, Swiss theologian and author (b. 1633)

1721 – Jean-Antoine Watteau, French painter (b. 1684)

1730 – François de Neufville, duc de Villeroy, French general (b. 1644)

1756 – Pieter Langendijk, Dutch poet and playwright (b. 1683)

1792 – John Paul Jones, Scottish-American admiral and diplomat (b. 1747)

1817 – Jane Austen, English novelist (b. 1775)

1837 – Vincenzo Borg, Maltese merchant and rebel leader (b. 1777)

1863 – Robert Gould Shaw, American colonel (b. 1837)

1872 – Benito Juárez, Mexican lawyer and politician, 26th President of Mexico (b. 1806)

1884 – Ferdinand von Hochstetter, Austrian geologist and academic (b. 1829)

1890 – Lydia Becker, English journalist, author, and activist, co-founded the Women's Suffrage Journal (b. 1827)

1892 – Thomas Cook, English travel agent, founded the Thomas Cook Group (b. 1808)

1899 – Horatio Alger, American novelist and journalist (b. 1832)

1916 – Benjamin C. Truman, American journalist and author (b. 1835)

1925 – Louis-Nazaire Bégin, Canadian cardinal (b. 1840)

1932 – Jean Jules Jusserand, French author and diplomat, French Ambassador to the United States (b. 1855)

1937 – Julian Bell, English poet and academic (b. 1908)

1938 – Marie of Romania (b. 1875)

1944 – Thomas Sturge Moore, English author, poet, and playwright (b. 1870)

1947 – Evald Tipner, Estonian footballer and ice hockey player (b. 1906)

1948 – Herman Gummerus, Finnish historian, academic, and politician (b. 1877)

1949 – Vítězslav Novák, Czech composer and educator (b. 1870)

1950 – Carl Clinton Van Doren, American critic and biographer (b. 1885)

1952 – Paul Saintenoy, Belgian architect and historian (b. 1862)

1953 – Sigfred Johansen, Danish actor (b. 1908)

1954 – Machine Gun Kelly, American gangster (b. 1895)

1966 – Bobby Fuller, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1942)

1968 – Corneille Heymans, Belgian physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)

1969 – Mary Jo Kopechne, American educator and secretary (b. 1940)

1973 – Jack Hawkins, English actor (b. 1910)

1975 – Vaughn Bodē, American illustrator (b. 1941)

1982 – Lionel Daunais, Canadian singer-songwriter (b. 1902)

1982 – Roman Jakobson, Russian–American linguist and theorist (b. 1896)

1984 – Lally Bowers English actress (b. 1914)

1984 – Grigori Kromanov, Estonian director and screenwriter (b. 1926)

1985 – Louisa Ghijs, Belgian-German actress (b. 1902)

1987 – Gilberto Freyre, Brazilian sociologist, anthropologist, historian, writer, painter, journalist and congressman (b. 1907)

1988 – Nico, German singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and actress (b. 1938)

1988 – Joly Braga Santos, Portuguese composer and conductor (b. 1924)

1989 – Donnie Moore, American baseball player (b. 1954)

1990 – Karl Menninger, American psychiatrist and author (b. 1896)

1990 – Yun Posun, South Korean politician, 2nd President of South Korea (b. 1897)

1995 – Fabio Casartelli, Italian cyclist (b. 1970)

1997 – Eugene Merle Shoemaker, American geologist and astronomer (b. 1928)

1999 – Meir Ariel, Israeli singer-songwriter (b. 1942)

2001 – Mimi Fariña, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1945)

2002 – Metin Toker, Turkish journalist and author (b. 1924)

2004 – André Castelot, Belgian-French historian and author (b. 1911)

2004 – Émile Peynaud, French wine maker (b. 1912)

2005 – William Westmoreland, American general (b. 1914)

2007 – Jerry Hadley, American tenor (b. 1952)

2007 – Kenji Miyamoto, Japanese politician (b. 1908)

2009 – Henry Allingham, English soldier (b. 1896)

2009 – Jill Balcon, English actress (b. 1925)

2012 – Yosef Shalom Eliashiv, Lithuanian-Israeli rabbi and author (b. 1910)

2012 – Jean François-Poncet, French politician and diplomat, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1928)

2012 – Dawoud Rajiha, Syrian general and politician, Syrian Minister of Defense (b. 1947)

2012 – Assef Shawkat, Syrian general and politician (b. 1950)

2012 – Hasan Turkmani, Syrian general and politician, Syrian Minister of Defense (b. 1935)

2013 – Vaali, Indian poet, songwriter, and actor (b. 1931)

2013 – Olivier Ameisen, French-American cardiologist and academic (b. 1953)

2014 – Andreas Biermann, German footballer (b. 1980)

2014 – João Ubaldo Ribeiro, Brazilian journalist, author, and academic (b. 1941)

2014 – Dietmar Schönherr, Austrian-Spanish actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1926)

2015 – Alex Rocco, American actor (b. 1936)

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day:

Arnulf of Metz

Camillus de Lellis (optional memorial, United States only)

Frederick of Utrecht

Marina of Aguas Santas

Symphorosa

Teneu

Elizabeth Ferard (Church of England)

Bartolomé de las Casas (Episcopal Church (USA))

July 18 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Constitution Day (Uruguay)

Nelson Mandela International Day

References

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