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Robert Gould Shaw
54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry storming Fort Wagner
Messerschmitt Me 262
Silvio Berlusconi
Montserrat Soufrière Hills volcano
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)
