This Day In History

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  Interesting things that have happened, and people born and died on this date 
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Births:  
 
07/18/1340 Philip van Artevelde, wine salesman of Flanders 
07/18/1534 Zacharias Ursinus, German theologist (Heidelberger Catechism) 
07/18/1552 Rudolf II, of Habsburg, emperor of Germany 
07/18/1635 Robert Hooke, Isle of Wight, physicist (Micrographia) 
07/18/1670 Giovanni Bononcini, composer 
07/18/1711 Pierre-Joseph Le Blan, composer 
07/18/1720 Gilbert White, 'father of British naturalists' 
07/18/1766 Friedrich Fleischmann, composer 
07/18/1796 Feargus O'Connor, County Cork, leader of English Chartists 
07/18/1810 Peter Singer, composer 
07/18/1811 William Makepeace Thackeray, England, Victorian novelist (Vanity Fai

07/18/1823 Leonard Fulton Ross, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1901 
07/18/1827 Pierre L Goossens, archbishop of Mechelen/Cardinal 
07/18/1848 William Gilbert Grace, Victorian England's greatest cricketer 
07/18/1853 Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, Holland, physicist (Nobel 1902) 
07/18/1862 Napoleon V Bonaparte, French pretender to throne 
07/18/1862 Nikolaj N Joedenitsj, Russian general/counter-revolutionary 
07/18/1865 Laurence Housman, England, author/playwright (Victoria Regina) 
07/18/1870 Emil Mlynarski, composer 
07/18/1871 Giacomo Balla, Italian painter (Dog a/d dials) 
07/18/1872 Julius Fucik, composer 
07/18/1880 Otto Vrieslander, composer 
07/18/1882 Manuel Galvez, Argentina writer/poet/historian (Paraguay) 
07/18/1887 Vidkun Al Quisling, Norwegian minister of Defense/premier (1942-45) 
07/18/1888 Alexander Rosemeier, Indonesian/Dutch painter 
07/18/1890 Charles Wilson, Pres of General Motors (1940-53)/Sec of Def (1953-57

07/18/1891 Gene Lockhart, NYC, actor (Going My Way, Christmas Carol) 
07/18/1893 Josef Huttel, composer 
07/18/1894 Bernard Wagenaar, Arnhem Holland, composer (3 Songs for Chinese) 
07/18/1894 Richard Dix, US actor (10 Commandments, Cimarron) 
07/18/1898 Herbert Marcuse, German philosopher/sociologist (Eros & Civilization

07/18/1899 Willem Kernkamp, Dutch overseas minister (Islam & Woman) 
07/18/1902 Charles W J Mengelberg, composer/conductor 
07/18/1902 Nathalie Sarraute, [Tscherniak), Russian/French (stage]author 
07/18/1903 Bozidar Kunc, composer 
07/18/1903 Chill Wills, Seagoville Texas, actor (Fronteir Circus, Rounders) 
07/18/1906 Clifford Odets, US, dramatist (1961 Award of Merit-Golden Boy) 
07/18/1906 S I Hayakawa (Sen-R-CA), educator (Language in Action) 
07/18/1907 Yvonne Desportes, composer 
07/18/1909 Andrei Gromyko, USSR, diplomat/USSR President (1985-89) [7/5 OS] 
07/18/1910 Red Skelton, comedian (Clem Kadiddlehopper, Freddie the Freeloader) 
07/18/1911 Hume Cronyn, London Ontario, actor (World According to Garp, Cocoon)

07/18/1912 Henry L 'Hank' Miller, US pilot/lt adm (WW II-Pacific) 
07/18/1913 Jan Slot, mayor of Eethen/Hardenberg/Ede 
07/18/1913 Marvin Miller, St Louis Mo, actor (Space Patrol, Millionaire) 
07/18/1914 Harriet Hilliard Nelson, Des Moines, singer/actress (Ozzie & Harriet

07/18/1914 Herbert Collum, composer 
07/18/1914 John G Bearer, writer (Metro, Drunken Canary, Fast Heartbeat) 
07/18/1914 Jozef Cals, Dutch politician (KVP, Mammoth Law) 
07/18/1914 Mack Robinson, US, 200m dash (Olympic-silver-1932) 
07/18/1916 Isaac [Ietje] A Diepenhorst, Dutch lawyer/minister (East & West) 
07/18/1918 Jane Frazee, Duluth Minn, actress/singer (Alice-Beulah) 
07/18/1918 Nelson Mandela, Qunu S Africa, political prisoner (ANC)/Pres (1994- 

07/18/1918 Pamela Brown, England, actress (Alice in Wonderland, Dracula) 
07/18/1921 John H Glenn Jr, Cambridge Ohio, Col USMC astronaut (Mer 6, Sen-D-Oh

07/18/1923 Hector Tosar, composer 
07/18/1924 Howard Roberts, Burlington NJ, choral director (Leslie Uggams Show) 
07/18/1924 Inge S”rensen, Denmark, 200m breaststroke (Olympic-bronze-1936) 
07/18/1925 Shirley Strickland de la Hunty, Austria, 100m dash (Oly-bronze-1948)

07/18/1926 Jane Hylton, London England, actress (Adv of Sir Lancelot) 
07/18/1927 Kurt Masur, German actor(?) 
07/18/1928 Simon Vinkenoog, writer 
07/18/1929 'Screamin Jay' Hawkins, Cleveland, rocker (I Put a Spell on You) 
07/18/1929 Dick Totten Button, Englewood NJ, figure skater (Olympic-gold-48, 52

07/18/1930 Siegfried Kurz, composer 
07/18/1931 'Papa' Dee Allen, US percussionist (War-World is a Ghetto) 
07/18/1933 Aad Nuis, writer/Dutch 2nd Chamber member (D66) 
07/18/1933 Raymund Murray Schafer, Sarnia Ontario, Canada, composer (Patria) 
07/18/1933 Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Russia, poet (Bratsk Station) 
07/18/1935 Tenley Albright, Boston Mass, figure skater (Olympic-gold-1952, 56) 
07/18/1938 Britt Leach, Gadsen Ala, actor (Mickey-Spencer's Pilots) 
07/18/1939 Brian Auger, London, fusion keyboardist (Befour, Genesis) 
07/18/1939 Dion DiMucci, Bronx, rocker (Dion & Belmonts-Teenager in Love) 
07/18/1939 Hunter S Thompson, writer (Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas) 
07/18/1940 James Brolin, LA Calif, actor (Dr Kiley-Marcus Welby, Peter-Hotel) 
07/18/1940 Joseph Torre, outfield/manager (Braves, Mets, 1971 NL MVP) 
07/18/1941 Jack Jersey, [de N˜s], Indonesian/Dutch singer/producer 
07/18/1941 Lonnie Mack, Aurora Indiana, rocker (Baby What's Wrong) 
07/18/1941 Marcia Jones Smoke, Okla, 500m kayak (Olympic-bronze-1964) 
07/18/1941 Martha Reeves, Detroit Mich, singer (& Vandellas-Dancing in St) 
07/18/1942 Alexander EHAML, prince of the Belgians/son of Leopold III 
07/18/1943 Bobby Sherman, Santa Monica Calif, singer (Shindig, Here Comes Bride

07/18/1943 Calvin Peete, black PGA golfer 
07/18/1944 Jonelle Allen, NYC, actress (Bessie-Palmerstown USA, Berringers) 
07/18/1947 Ayn Rumen, Bkln NY, actress (Janet-McLean Stevenson Show) 
07/18/1947 Kurt Mann, Roslyn NY, actor 
07/18/1948 Cesar Zuiderw˜k, drummer (Golden Earring) 
07/18/1952 James Forbes, basketball player (Olympic-silver-1972) 
07/18/1954 Ricky Skaggs, Cordell Ky, country singer (Heartbroke, Toy Hearts) 
07/18/1954 Tobias Picker, composer 
07/18/1955 Teresa Ann Savoy, London England, actress (Caligula) 
07/18/1958 Margo [AM] Vliegenthart, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (PvdA) 
07/18/1958 Nigel Twist, rocker (Alarm-In the Summertime) 
07/18/1959 Audrey Landers, Phila, actress (Afton-Dallas, Chorus Line) 
07/18/1961 Elizabeth McGovern, Evanston Ill, actress (Once Upon a Time in Amer)

07/18/1970 Patrick Dancy, TV rocker (Guys Next Door-I Was Made For You) 
07/18/1994 Ricardo Dela Corte, Italy, test tube baby born to oldest (62) mother

 
 
Deaths:  
 
07/18/ 640 Arnulf, bishop of Metz (614-640)/politician, dies at about 58 
07/18/1100 Godfried IV van Bouillon, count of Antwerp, dies 
07/18/1374 Francesco Petrarch, Italian poet (Italia Mia), dies at 69 
07/18/1544 Ren‚ van Chalon, viceroy of Holland, dies in battle at 25 
07/18/1608 Joachim III Frederik, ruler (Brandenburg), dies at 61 
07/18/1610 Michelangelo Merisi, Italian painter, dies at 38 
07/18/1642 Willem earl of Nassau-Siegen, gov of Ft Emmerik/Heusden, dies 
07/18/1650 Christoph Scheiner, German astronomer, dies at 74 
07/18/1735 Johann Krieger, composer, dies at 83 
07/18/1831 Thomas Greatorex, composer, dies at 72 
07/18/1833 Joseph Comb, missionary to Moluccas, dies at 63 
07/18/1854 Abbas Hilmi I, viceroy of Egypt, dies at about 41 
07/18/1872 Benito Ju rez, Cuban justice/general (battle of Acapulco), dies at 6

07/18/1898 Emil Hartmann, composer, dies at 62 
07/18/1899 Horatio Alger Jr, Amer clergyman/author (Disagreeeable Woman), dies 
07/18/1901 Alfredo Carlo Piatti, composer, dies at 79 
07/18/1902 John White, composer, dies at 47 
07/18/1908 Jaime Nuno, composer, dies at 83 
07/18/1915 George William Louis Marshall-Hall, composer, dies at 53 
07/18/1938 Vladimir M Kirsjon, Russian playwright, executed at 35 
07/18/1939 Witold Maliszewski, composer, dies at 65 
07/18/1941 Dionyssios Lavrangas, composer, dies at 80 
07/18/1944 George A Hartland, English house leader (Norwich 1931-35), dies at 6

07/18/1944 Thomas Sturge Moore, English poet (Centaurs' Booty), dies at 74 
07/18/1949 V¡tezslav Augustin R Nov k, Slovak composer (Profundis), dies at 78 
07/18/1956 Willem Kerncamp, Dutch overseas minister (Islam & Woman), dies at 57

07/18/1958 Henry Farman, French aviation pioneer (double decker, dies at 84 
07/18/1965 Shalva Mikhailovich Taktakishvili, composer, dies at 64 
07/18/1966 Bobby Fuller, rocker (I Fought the Law), found dead 
07/18/1966 German Germanovich Galinin, composer, dies at 44 
07/18/1967 Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco, Brazil pres (1964-87), dies at 6

07/18/1969 Barbara Pepper, actress (Doris Ziffel-Green Acres), dies at 57 
07/18/1970 Lucien H d'Azambuja, French astronomer (chromosphere of Sun), dies 
07/18/1973 Jack Hawkins, actor (Ben Hur, Ben-Four Just Men), dies at 62 
07/18/1975 Federico Ghisi, composer, dies at 74 
07/18/1981 Wilhelm HC Tenhaeff, para-psychologist, dies at 87 
07/18/1984 James Oliver Huberty, shot by police after killing 21 in McDonalds 
07/18/1986 Stanley Rous, British soccer official, dies at 91 
07/18/1987 Gilberto Freye, Brazilian sociologist/writer, dies at 87 
07/18/1989 Rebecca Schaeffer, actress (My Sister Sam) is shot by a fan at 21 
07/18/1990 Georges Dargaud, French publisher (Asterix, Kuifje), dies 
07/18/1990 Karl Menninger, psychatrist (Menninger Clinic), dies at 96 of cancer

07/18/1991 Andr‚ Cools, Belgian budget minister, murdered 
07/18/1992 Jan Pelleboer, meteorologist, dies 
07/18/1992 Mollie Parnis, fashion designer, dies 
07/18/1992 Rudolf Ising, cartoonist (Looney Tunes, Merrie Melodies), dies at 88

07/18/1992 Viktor Louis, Russian journalist, dies 
07/18/1993 Jean Negulesco, director (3 Coins in a Fountain), dies at 93 
07/18/1993 John Beck, US producer (Harvey, Singing Nun), dies at 83 
07/18/1993 Sergei Y Vozovikov, Russian major/cosmonaut, dies in accident at 35 
07/18/1993 Vladimir Pavlovich Barmin, Chief designer of Soviet launch pads, die

 
 
Significant Events:  
 
07/18/  64 Great Fire of Rome begins (Nero didn't fiddle) 
07/18/ 390 -BC- Battle of Allia-Gauls inflict heavy casualties on Romans 
07/18/1290 King Edward I of England orders expulsion of Jews 
07/18/1330 Battle of Velbuzd 
07/18/1536 Pope's authority declared void in England 
07/18/1716 Jews are expelled from Brussels Belgium 
07/18/1753 Lemuel Haynes, escapes from slaveholder in Framingham Mass 
07/18/1766 Society of the Dutch Literary established 
07/18/1814 British capture Prairie du Chien (Wisc) 
07/18/1853 1st train to cross US-Canada boundary, Portland, Me.-Montr‚al, PQ 
07/18/1853 Completion of Grand Trunk Line, Americas 1st intl railroad 
07/18/1861 Battle of Blackburn's Ford, VA US57 CS68   - Manassas - 
07/18/1862 Battle of Newburgh, IN - captured by Union forces 
07/18/1863 Battle of Fort Wagner, SC - Second assault  US1500 CS174 
07/18/1870 Pontifical infalliability proclaimed 
07/18/1872 Britain introduces secret ballot voting 
07/18/1897 James Foulis wins US Open golf tournament 
07/18/1904 P Gotz discovers asteroid #538 Friederike 
07/18/1907 French troops attack Casablanca 
07/18/1913 After 68 straight innings Christy Mathewson gives up a walk 
07/18/1914 US army air service 1st comes into being, in Signal Corps 
07/18/1915 Boston Braves start move from last place to become world series cham

07/18/1918 US & French forces launch Aisne-Marne offensive in WW I 
07/18/1923 England's House of Lords accepts new divorce law 
07/18/1924 KPD points out Rote Frontk„mpferbund against Nazi 
07/18/1925 Hitler publishes Mein Kampf 
07/18/1927 Ty Cobb's 4,000th career hit 
07/18/1931 1st air-conditioned ship (Mariposa) launched 
07/18/1932 Belgium, Luxembourg & Netherland sign Unity treaty 
07/18/1932 US & Canada sign a treaty to develop St Lawrence Seaway 
07/18/1935 Amsterdam city council accept city growth plan throught the year 200

07/18/1936 Spanish Civil War begans, Gen Francisco Franco led uprising 
07/18/1938 Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan arrives in Ireland-left NY for Calif 
07/18/1940 1st successful helicopter flight, Stratford, Ct 
07/18/1940 British govt signs Bruma law under Japanese pressure 
07/18/1941 SS drowns 40 Jews in Dvina River, Belorussia 
07/18/1942 1st legal NJ horse race in 50 years; Garden State Park track opens 
07/18/1942 Messerschmitt Me 262 Schwalbe, 1st jet fighter, takes 1st flight 
07/18/1944 7:45 Operation-Goodwood: British assault at Caen 
07/18/1944 Allies air raid railways at Vaires Paris 
07/18/1944 Arne Andersson runs world record 1 mile (4:01.6) 
07/18/1944 British Mosquito's occupy Cologne & Berlin 
07/18/1944 British air raid on German convoy SW of Helgoland 
07/18/1944 Polish troops under gen Else occupy Ancona Italy 
07/18/1944 US troop march into St L“ 
07/18/1947 King George VI signs Indian Independence Bill 
07/18/1947 Tigers shut out Yanks 2-0, end 19 game win streak 
07/18/1947 US begins administerating Trust Territory of Pacific Islands 
07/18/1948 Pat Seerey of Chicago White Sox hits 4 HRs in a game 
07/18/1951 Jersey Joe Walcott KOs Ezzard Charles in 5 for heavyweight belt 
07/18/1951 Uruguay accepts its constitution 
07/18/1951 Jersey Joe Walcott at 37 becomes oldest to win heavyweight champion 
07/18/1952 KWGN TV channel 2 in Denver, CO (IND) begins broadcasting 
07/18/1954 Cards losing 8-1 to Phillies begin stalling in 5th, they forefeit ga

07/18/1955 1st electric power generated from atomic energy sold commercially 
07/18/1955 280 mm rain in Martinstown, Dorset (UK-record) 
07/18/1956 Ern” Ger” succeeds Matyas R kosi as party leader of Hungary 
07/18/1959 1st black to win a major golf tournament (William Wright) 
07/18/1960 1st UN troops reach Congo 
07/18/1960 Baseball's NL votes to add Houston & NY franchises 
07/18/1960 Premier Kishi of Japan, resigns 
07/18/1963 Failed military coup in Syria 
07/18/1964 Race riot in Harlem (NYC); riots spread to Bedford-Stuyvesant (Bkln)

07/18/1965 Zond 3 launched to fly by Moon, enters solar orbit 
07/18/1966 Carl Sagan turns 1 billion seconds old 
07/18/1966 Gemini 10 launched (John Young & Michael Collins) 
07/18/1967 Silver hits record $1.87 an ounce in NY 
07/18/1968 C Torres discovers asteroid #2654 Ristenpart 
07/18/1968 Intel incorporates 
07/18/1969 Joe Namath agrees to sell interest in Bachelors 3, to stay in NFL 
07/18/1969 Mary Jo Kopechne & Sen Kennedy plunge off Chappaquiddick bridge 
07/18/1970 Arthur Brown arrested for stripping on stage in Palemo Sicily 
07/18/1970 Ron Hunt gets hit by a pitch for a record 119th time 
07/18/1970 WJCL TV channel 22 in Savannah, GA (ABC) begins broadcasting 
07/18/1970 Willie Mays hits # 3,000 
07/18/1971 Eddy Merckx wins his 3rd Tour de France 
07/18/1972 200,000 attend Mt Pocono rock festival in Penns 
07/18/1972 Egypt president Sadat throws 20,000 Russian military aids out 
07/18/1974 World's tallest structure, 646-m Polish radio mast, completed 
07/18/1976 Lucien van Impe wins Tour de France 
07/18/1976 Thiokol conducts 2-min firing of space shuttle's SRB at Brigham, Ut 
07/18/1978 Billy Martin suspends Reggie Jackson for not bunting 
07/18/1978 Egyptian & Israeli officials begin 2 days of talks 
07/18/1979 Gold hits record $303.85 an ounce in London 
07/18/1980 Billy Joel's Glass Houses album tops charts 
07/18/1980 Failed attack on Iran ex-premier Bakhtiar in Neuilly France 
07/18/1980 Quett Masire installed as president of Botswana 
07/18/1980 Rohini 1, 1st Indian satellite, launches into orbit 
07/18/1981 Poland communist party selects ex-party leader Edward Gierek 
07/18/1984 James Huberty kills 21 McDonalds patrons in San Ysidro Calif 
07/18/1984 Walter F Mondale wins Democratic presidential nomination in SF 
07/18/1986 Videotapes released showing Titanic's sunken remains 
07/18/1987 Molly Yard elected new pres of Natl Org for Women 
07/18/1987 Yanks Don Mattingly ties record of HRs in 8 cons games 
07/18/1988 Abu Nidal terrorists kill 9 on City of Poros cruise ship 
07/18/1988 Shooting begins on 'Licence to Kill' 
07/18/1989 48 cm rainfall at Rockport, West Virginia (state record) 
07/18/1991 Florida Marlins' logo unveiled 
07/18/1992 Film critic Roger Ebert marries Chaz Hammel-Smith 
07/18/1992 Helen Windsor (daughter of English prince Edward) weds Timothy Taylo

07/18/1992 Singers Whitney Houston & Bobby Brown marry 
07/18/1993 Afghanistan president Ishaq Khan & premier Nawaz Sharif flee 
07/18/1993 Liberal-Democratic Party loses Japan's parliamentary election 
07/18/1994 Comet Shoemaker-Levy collides with Jupiter 
07/18/1994 Court upholds NBA salary cap and draft rights 
07/18/1994 Crayola announces introduction of scented crayons 
07/18/1994 Houston Astros tie NL comeback record, trailing 10-0, beat Cards 15-

07/18/1994 NY Jets sign USA soccer goalkeeper Tony Miola as a place kicker 
  
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