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  Robert Gould Shaw

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  54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry storming Fort Wagner

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  Messerschmitt Me 262

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  Silvio Berlusconi

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  Montserrat Soufrière Hills volcano

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  Ted Kennedy in 1967

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Blurb	Reason
Feast day of Bartolomé de las Casas (Episcopal and Lutheran churches)	unreferenced date
Constitution Day in Uruguay (1830)	unreferenced section
1389 – France and England agreed to the Truce of Leulinghem, establishing a 13-year peace during the Hundred Years' War.	single source
1870 – The First Vatican Council declared that the Pope is infallible when he solemnly declares a dogmatic teaching on faith as being contained in divine revelation.	citation style
1925 – The first volume of Adolf Hitler's personal manifesto Mein Kampf was published.	unreferenced section; section needs expansion
1942 – German engineers test flew the Messerschmitt Me 262 with jet engines for the first time.	refimprove section
1969 – After a party on Chappaquiddick Island in Massachusetts, United States Senator Ted Kennedy accidentally drove his car off a bridge, leading to the death of his passenger Mary Jo Kopechne, a former campaign worker.	refimprove section
1982 – Guatemalan military forces and their paramilitary allies slaughtered over 250 Mayans in the village of Plan de Sánchez, Baja Verapaz.	refimprove section
1992 – A university professor and nine students from La Cantuta University in Lima, Peru, were abducted and "disappeared" by a military death squad.	unreferenced section
1994 – Eighty-five people died when a bomb exploded at a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, making it Argentina's deadliest bombing ever.	refimprove section; many CN tags (7)
1995 – During the fifteenth stage of the 1995 Tour de France, Italian cyclist Fabio Casartelli suffered a fatal crash on the descent of the Col de Portet d'Aspet.	refimprove
1995 – After a long period of dormancy, the Soufrière Hills volcano began a still-ongoing eruption, devastating the island of Montserrat.	refimprove section
2005 – Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh and U.S. president George W. Bush announced the India–United States Civil Nuclear Agreement, a bilateral treaty on civil nuclear cooperation between their two countries.	refimprove section
2013 – With an estimated debt of $18–20 billion, the city of Detroit, Michigan, filed for bankruptcy, the largest in U.S. history by debt.	outdated, refimprove section
Boniface of Savoy |d|1270	date of death uncertain - some sources say 14 July, others say 18 July

Eligible

• 1290 – Edward I issued an edict expelling all Jews from England.
• 1863 – American Civil War: Led by Union Army colonel Robert Gould Shaw, the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, the first formal African-American military unit, spearheaded an assault on Fort Wagner, South Carolina.
• 1936 – Nationalist rebels attempted a coup d'état against the Second Spanish Republic, sparking the Spanish Civil War.
• 1966 – Angered by racism and poverty, African American residents of the Hough neighborhood of Cleveland began to riot for six days.
• 1984 – Parts of the dismembered body of Swedish prostitute Catrine da Costa were found in Stockholm.
• 1984 – A gunman massacred 21 people and injured 15 others at a McDonald's restaurant in the San Ysidro section of San Diego, California.
• 1995 – Selena's album Dreaming of You, instrumental in popularizing Tejano music, was released posthumously.
• 2012 – A suicide bomber attacked an Israeli tour bus at Burgas Airport, Bulgaria, which led the European Union to list the military branch of Hezbollah as a terrorist organization.
• 2014 – The conviction of former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, who had been found guilty of paying for an underage prostitute, was overturned on appeal.
• Born/died this day: | Jane Austen |d|1817| Hendrik Lorentz |b|1853| Clare Stevenson |b|1903| M.I.A. |b|1975| Priyanka Chopra |b|1982

Notes

• Battle of Castillon appears on July 17, so Truce of Leulinghem should not appear in the same year

July 18: Tisha B'Av (Judaism, 2021)

Nadia Comăneci on the balance beam

• 1806 – A gunpowder magazine explosion in Birgu, Malta, killed an estimated 200 people.
• 1841 – Pedro II, the last Emperor of Brazil, having reigned in minority since 1831, was acclaimed, crowned and consecrated.
• 1949 – Francisco Javier Arana, Chief of the Armed Forces of Guatemala, was killed in a shootout with supporters of President Juan José Arévalo.
• 1976 – At the Olympic Games in Montreal, Nadia Comăneci (pictured) became the first person to score a perfect 10 in a modern Olympics gymnastics event.
• 1989 – American actress Rebecca Schaeffer was shot and killed by Robert John Bardo, eventually prompting the passage of anti-stalking laws in California.

• Lucy Smith Millikin (b. 1821)
• Maria von Linden (b. 1869)
• John Glenn (b. 1921)

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