Major Events
- 64 Great Fire of Rome begins under the Emperor Nero
- 1334 Bishop of Florence blesses the first foundation stone for the new campanile (bell tower) of the Florence Cathedral, designed by artist Giotto di Bondone
- 1925 Adolf Hitler publishes Mein Kampf, original title was the catchy “Four and a Half Years (of Struggle) Against Lies, Stupidity and Cowardice”
- 1936 Spanish Civil War: General Francisco Franco issues manifesto and leads an uprising in the Spanish army stationed in Morocco
- 2012 Kim Jong-un is officially appointed Supreme Leader of North Korea and given the rank of Marshal in the Korean People’s Army
- 2013 Detroit, Michigan, files for bankruptcy, becoming the largest US municipal bankruptcy ever at $18.5 billion
- 2023 Wildfire season in British Columbia becomes the most destructive on record, burning 14,100 square kilometers of land, with 390 fires still alight (surpassing 2018 record) [1]
Jul 18 in Film & TV
- 1959 “The Nun’s Story” based on the novel by Kathryn Hulme, starring Audrey Hepburn premieres in Los Angeles
Jul 18 in Music
- 1980 Billy Joel‘s “Glass Houses” album tops US charts, featuring “It’s Still Rock ‘n’ Roll to Me”
Jul 18 in Sport
- 1976 Nadia Comăneci (14) becomes the first gymnast in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 score (doing so 7 times) at Montreal Games
Did You Know?
Fun Fact About July 18
Douglas “Wrong Way” Corrigan arrives in Ireland after a 28-hour flight, supposedly leaving New York flying for California
Famous Weddings
- 1877 Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (37) weds Antonina Miliukova (29) at the Church of Saint George in Moscow, Russia; separate six weeks later, but ever divorce
- 1922 British naval officer Louis Mountbatten (22) weds Lord Mount Temple’s daughter Edwina Cynthia Annette Ashley (20) at St. Margaret’s in Westminster, London
- 1933 American heavyweight boxing champ Jack Dempsey (38) weds American Broadway singer and actress Hannah Williams (22); divorce in 1943
Famous Divorces
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