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What Happened on July 18th This Day in History

Year	Name
38791293	Roman-Gaulish Wars: Battle of the Allia: A Roman army is defeated by raiding Gauls, leading to the subsequent sacking of Rome.
2019	A man sets fire to an anime studio in Fushimi-ku, Kyoto, Japan, killing at least 35 people and injuring dozens of others.[16]
2014	The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant requires Christians to either accept dhimmi status, emigrate from ISIL lands, or be killed.
2013	The Government of Detroit, with up to $20 billion in debt, files for the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history.
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.
2002	A Consolidated PB4Y-2 Privateer crashes near Estes Park, Colorado, killing both crew members.
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 1,200 soldiers.
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.
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.
1992	A picture of Les Horribles Cernettes was taken, which became the first ever photo posted to the World Wide Web.
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.
1982	Two hundred sixty-eight Guatemalan campesinos ("peasants" or "country people") are slain in the Plan de Sánchez massacre.
1981	A Canadair CL-44 and Sukhoi Su-15 collide in mid-air near Yerevan, Armenia, killing four.
1976	Nadia Comăneci becomes the first person in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 in gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
1968	Intel is founded in Mountain View, California.
1966	Human spaceflight: Gemini 10 is launched from Cape Kennedy on a 70-hour mission that includes docking with an orbiting Agena target vehicle.
1966	A racially charged incident in a bar sparks the six-day Hough riots in Cleveland, Ohio; 1,700 Ohio National Guard troops intervene to restore order.
1944	World War II: Hideki Tōjō resigns as Prime Minister of Japan because of numerous setbacks in the war effort.
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.
1936	On the Spanish mainland, a faction of the army supported by fascists, rises up against the Second Spanish Republic in a coup d'état
1925	Adolf Hitler publishes Mein Kampf.
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.
1872	The Ballot Act 1872 in the United Kingdom introduced the requirement that parliamentary and local government elections be held by secret ballot.
1870	The First Vatican Council decrees the dogma of papal infallibility.
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.
1862	First ascent of Dent Blanche, one of the highest summits in the Alps.
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.
1841	Coronation of Emperor Pedro II of Brazil.
1812	The Treaties of Orebro end both the Anglo-Russian and Anglo-Swedish Wars.
1806	A gunpowder magazine explosion in Birgu, Malta, kills around 200 people.
1555	The College of Arms is reincorporated by Royal charter signed by Queen Mary I of England and King Philip II of Spain.
1507	In Brussels, Prince Charles I is crowned Duke of Burgundy and Count of Flanders,
1391	Tokhtamysh–Timur war: Battle of the Kondurcha River: Timur defeats Tokhtamysh of the Golden Horde in present-day southeast Russia.
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.
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.
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.
1195	Battle of Alarcos: Almohad forces defeat the Castilian army of Alfonso VIII and force its retreat to Toledo.
645	Chinese forces under general Li Shiji besiege the strategic fortress city of Anshi (Liaoning) during the Goguryeo–Tang War.
477	Battle of the Cremera as part of the Roman–Etruscan Wars. Veii ambushes and defeats the Roman army.
452	Sack of Aquileia: After an earlier defeat on the Catalaunian Plains, Attila lays siege to the metropolis of Aquileia and eventually destroys it.
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.

Famous People Born on July 18

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Year	Name
1933	Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Russian poet and playwright (d. 2017)
1902	Jessamyn West, American author (d. 1984)
1987	Tontowi Ahmad, Indonesian badminton player
1915	Carequinha, Brazilian clown and actor (d. 2006)
1893	David Ogilvy, 12th Earl of Airlie, Scottish peer, soldier and courtier (d. 1968)
1985	Chace Crawford, American actor
1978	Mélissa Theuriau, French journalist
1881	Larry McLean, Canadian-American baseball player (d. 1921)
1908	Peace Pilgrim, American mystic and activist (d. 1981)
1928	Baddiewinkle, American internet personality

Famous People Deaths On July 18

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Date	Name
1973	Jack Hawkins, English actor (b. 1910)
1863	Robert Gould Shaw, American colonel (b. 1837)
1884	Ferdinand von Hochstetter, Austrian geologist and academic (b. 1829)
1817	Jane Austen, English novelist (b. 1775)
1987	Gilberto Freyre, Brazilian sociologist, anthropologist, historian, writer, painter, journalist and congressman (b. 1907)
1947	Evald Tipner, Estonian footballer and ice hockey player (b. 1906)
1948	Herman Gummerus, Finnish historian, academic, and politician (b. 1877)
2001	Mimi Fariña, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1945)
2005	Amy Gillett, Australian cyclist and rower (b. 1976)
1756	Pieter Langendijk, Dutch poet and playwright (b. 1683)