Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 18
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54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry storming Fort Wagner
Robert Gould Shaw
Messerschmitt Me 262
Silvio Berlusconi
Montserrat Soufrière Hills volcano
Ted Kennedy in 1967
Rebecca Schaeffer
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Ineligible
| 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 |
| International Mandela Day since 2009 | Too short |
| Hendrik Lorentz |b|1853| | Date not cited in article |
| Tontowi Ahmad |b|1987| | Date not cited in article |
Eligible
- 1806 – An explosion at a gunpowder magazine in Birgu, Malta, killed an estimated 200 people.
- 1841 – Pedro II, the last emperor of Brazil, was crowned at the Old Cathedral of Rio de Janeiro.
- 1863 – American Civil War: Led by Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, one of the first African-American military units in the Union Army, spearheaded an assault (pictured) on Fort Wagner, South Carolina.
- 1899 – Newsboys from Long Island City turned over a distribution wagon for the New York Journal, marking the start of the Newsboys' strike of 1899.
- 1936 – Nationalist rebels attempted a coup against the Second Spanish Republic, sparking the Spanish Civil War.
- 1949 – Francisco Javier Arana, the chief of the Guatemalan armed forces, was killed in a shootout with supporters of President Juan José Arévalo.
- 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 district of San Ysidro of San Diego, California.
- 2012 – A suicide bomber attacked an Israeli tour bus at Burgas Airport, Bulgaria, resulting in the military branch of Hezbollah being designated a terrorist organization by the European Union.
- 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.
- 2019 – An arson attack at the studio of Kyoto Animation in Japan led to the deaths of 36 people.
- Born/died this day: Abu'l-Hasan Ali ibn al-Furat|d|924| John Horsefield|b|1792| Jane Austen|d|1817| Lucy Smith Millikin|b|1821| Philip Snowden|b|1864| Maria von Linden|b|1869| Lydia Becker|d|1890| Thomas Cook|d|1892| Clare Stevenson|b|1903| James E. Boyd |b|1906| Beatrice Aitchison|b|1908| Nelson Mandela|b|1918| Aaron Beck|b|1921| Inge Sørensen |b|1924| Eva Ionesco |b|1965| Priyanka Chopra|b|1982| Hailie Deegan|b|2001| Edwin Feulner|d|2025|
Notes
- Battle of Castillon appears on July 17, so Truce of Leulinghem should not appear in the same year
Nadia Comăneci on the balance beam
- 1290 – King Edward I issued an edict to expel all Jews from England.
- 1723 – Johann Sebastian Bach directed the first performance of his cantata Erforsche mich, Gott, und erfahre mein Herz in Leipzig.
- 1976 – At the Olympic Games in Montreal, Nadia Comăneci (pictured) became the first gymnast to score a perfect 10 for her routine on the uneven bars.
- 1989 – American actress Rebecca Schaeffer was shot and killed by Robert John Bardo, eventually prompting the passage of anti-stalking laws in California.
- 1995 – Selena's album Dreaming of You, instrumental in popularizing Tejano music, was posthumously released.
- Benito Juárez (d. 1872)
- Richard Branson (b. 1950)
- M.I.A. (b. 1975)
- Amy Gillett (d. 2005)