Today is July 18
Railroad Day
Cow Appreciation Day
Oscar Meyer Wienermobile Debuted
Perfect Family Day
Phonograph Birthday
Tony the Tiger Birthday (1952)
Food Holidays – July 18
National Caviar Day
Potato Blini with Caviar
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Today in History – Interesting Highlights
Holidays and Observances
Christian Feast Day:
Arnulf of Metz
Camillus de Lellis (optional memorial, United States only)
Frederick of Utrecht
Marina of Aguas Santas
Symphorosa
Teneu
Elizabeth Ferard (Church of England)
Bartolomé de las Casas (Episcopal Church (USA))
July 18 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Constitution Day (Uruguay)
Nelson Mandela International Day
In the News
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.
1925 – Adolf Hitler publishes his personal manifesto Mein Kampf.
1936 – An army uprising in Spanish Morocco starts Spanish Civil War.
1942 – World War II: the Germans test fly the Messerschmitt Me 262 using its jet engines for the first time.
1944 – World War II: Hideki Tōjō resigns as Prime Minister of Japan because of numerous setbacks in the war effort.
1966 – Human spaceflight: Gemini 10 is launched from Cape Kennedy on a 70-hour mission that includes docking with an orbiting Agena target vehicle.
1968 – Intel is founded in Mountain View, California.
1969 – After a party on Chappaquiddick Island, Senator Ted Kennedy from Massachusetts drives an Oldsmobile off a bridge and his passenger,Mary Jo Kopechne, dies.
1976 – Nadia Comăneci became the first person in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 in gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
1982 – 268 campesinos (“peasants” or “country people”) are slain in the Plan de Sánchez massacre in Ríos Montt’s Guatemala.
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.
1986 – A tornado is broadcast live on KARE television in Minnesota when the station’s helicopter pilot makes a chance encounter.
1992 – The ten victims of the La Cantuta massacre disappear from their university in Lima.
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 intoZaire and ending the genocide.
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 and forcing most of the population to flee.
1996 – Storms provoke severe flooding on the Saguenay River, beginning one of Quebec’s costliest natural disasters ever: the Saguenay Flood.
1996 – Battle of Mullaitivu: the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam capture the Sri Lanka Army’s base, killing over 1200 soldiers.
2012 – At least 7 people are killed and 32 others are injured after a bomb explodes on an Israeli tour bus at Burgas Airport, Bulgaria.
2013 – The Government of Detroit, with up to $20 billion in debt, files for the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history.
Movies
Movies to be Released on July 18
Sex Tape
The Purge: Anarchy
Planes: Fire and Rescue
Wish I Was Here
I Origins
Mood Indigo
Aftermath
Movies Released on July 18
Prom Night 1980
Zombie 1980 filmed in 1979 as Zombi 2
Vamp 1986
Aliens 1986
Arachnophobia 1990
Future Zone 1990
Jurassic Park III 2001
Insomnia 2001
Smash Cut 2009
Music
1953 – Elvis Presley recorded “My Happiness” as a gift for his mother. It was his first recording.
1960 – Hank Ballard and the Midnighters released “The Twist.” The song didn’t become a hit until later in the year when Chubby Checker covered it.
1960 - Elvis Presley’s “It’s Now Or Never” was released.
1968 – The Grateful Dead released their 2nd album, “Anthem of the Sun.”
1970 – Pink Floyd and Deep Purple played a free concert at London’s Hyde Park.
1974 – The U.S. Justice Department ordered John Lennon out of the country by September 10. The Immigration and Naturalization Service denied him an extension of his non-immigrant visa because of his guilty plea in England to a 1968 marijuana possession charge.
1988 -The Beach Boys single “Kokomo” was released.
1988 – A California appeals court upheld a lower courts’ decision to dismiss a case against Ozzy Osbourne and CBS Records. In 1984 a teenager allegedly killed himself after listening to Ozzy’s “Suicide Solution.”
1992 – Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown were married.
1995 – The oldest known musical instrument in the world was found in the Indrijca River Valley in Slovenia. The 45,000 year-old relic was a bear bone with four artificial holes along its length.
1995 – Selena’s “Dreaming of You” was posthumously released.
2000 – Metallica played at the House of Blues in Los Angeles, CA. The crowd was 1,000 contest winners of the “Blind Date” competition organized by Miller Genuine Draft.
2001 – MTV premiered the original movie “Hysteria – The Def Leppard Story.”
2005 – The iTunes Music Store reached 500 million songs sold.
2006 – Carmen Electra filed for a divorce from Dave Navarro (Red Hot Chili Peppers).
Television
1952 - KWGN TV channel 2 in Denver, CO (IND) begins broadcasting
1970 - WJCL TV channel 22 in Savannah, GA (ABC) begins broadcasting
Sports
1942 - 1st legal NJ horse race in 50 years; Garden State Park track opens
1943 - Giants & Phillies strand record 30 baserunners, NY wins, 10-6
1948 - Pat Seerey of Chicago White Sox hits 4 HRs in a game
1948 - White Sox Fat Pat Seerey, hits 4 HRs in 11 inning game
1961 - Commissioner Ford Frick rules Babe Ruth’s record of 60 HR in 154-game sched in 1927, must be broken in 1st 154 of 162 games
1978 - Billy Martin suspends Reggie Jackson for not bunting
1999 - 128th British Golf Open: at Carnoustie Scot Paul Lawrie wins after play off
2010 - 139th British Golf Open: Louis Oosthuizen shoots a 272 at St Andrews
Famous Birthdays
1900 – Nathalie Sarraute, French lawyer and author (d. 1999)
1902 – Jessamyn West, American author (d. 1984)
1903 – Chill Wills, American actor and singer (d. 1978)
1906 – S. I. Hayakawa, Canadian-American educator and politician (d. 1992)
1906 – Clifford Odets, American director, playwright, and screenwriter (d. 1963)
1908 – Peace Pilgrim, American activist (d. 1981)
1908 – Lupe Vélez, Mexican-American actress and dancer (d. 1944)
1909 – Andrei Gromyko, Soviet economist and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Soviet Union (d. 1989)
1909 – Mohammed Daoud Khan, Afghan politician, 1st President of Afghanistan (d. 1978)
1909 – Harriet Nelson, American singer and actress (d. 1994)
1910 – Diptendu Pramanick, Indian businessman (d. 1989)
1911 – Hume Cronyn, Canadian-American actor, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2003)
1912 – Max Rousié, French rugby player (d. 1950)
1913 – Red Skelton, American actor and singer (d. 1997)
1913 – Marvin Miller, American actor (d. 1985)
1914 – Gino Bartali, Italian cyclist (d. 2000)
1916 – Johnny Hopp, American baseball player (d. 2003)
1917 – Henri Salvador, French singer (d. 2008)
1918 – Nelson Mandela, South African lawyer and politician, 1st President of South Africa, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
1920 – Eric Brandon, English race car driver (d. 1982)
1921 – Peter Austin, English brewer, founded Ringwood Brewery (d. 2014)
1921 – Aaron T. Beck, American psychiatrist and educator
1921 – John Glenn, American colonel, astronaut, and politician
1921 – Richard Leacock, English-French director and producer (d. 2011)
1922 – Thomas Kuhn, American physicist, historian, and philosopher (d. 1996)
1923 – Jerome H. Lemelson, American engineer (d. 1997)
1924 – Will D. Campbell, American minister, author, and activist (d. 2013)
1924 – Inge Sørensen, Danish swimmer (d. 2011)
1925 – Hubert Doggart, English cricketer
1925 – Shirley Strickland, Australian runner (d. 2004)
1925 – Friedrich Zimmermann, German lawyer and politician, German Federal Minister of the Interior (d. 2012)
1926 – Margaret Laurence, Canadian author (d. 1987)
1926 – Robert Sloman, English actor and journalist (d. 2005)
1927 – Don Bagley, American bassist (d. 2012)
1927 – Kurt Masur, Polish-German conductor
1928 – Andrea Gallo, Italian priest (d. 2013)
1928 – Billy Harrell, American baseball player (d. 2014)
1928 – Franca Rame, Italian actress and playwright (d. 2013)
1929 – Dick Button, American figure skater
1929 – Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (d. 2000)
1930 – Burt Kwouk, English actor
1932 – Robert Ellis Miller, American director
1932 – Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Russian poet and playwright
1933 – Syd Mead, American set designer
1933 – Jean Yanne, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2003)
1934 – Darlene Conley, American actress (d. 2007)
1934 – Roger Reynolds, American composer and educator
1935 – Jayendra Saraswathi, Indian guru, 69th Shankaracharya
1936 – Ted Harris, Canadian ice hockey player
1937 – Roald Hoffmann, Polish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1937 – Hunter S. Thompson, American journalist and author (d. 2005)
1938 – Ian Stewart, Scottish keyboard player (The Rolling Stones and Rocket 88) (d. 1985)
1938 – Paul Verhoeven, Dutch director, producer, and screenwriter
1939 – Brian Auger, English keyboard player (Brian Auger and the Trinity, CAB, and The Steampacket)
1939 – Dion DiMucci, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Dion and the Belmonts)
1939 – Edward Gramlich, American economist and educator (d. 2007)
1939 – Jerry Moore, American football player and coach
1940 – James Brolin, American actor, director, and producer
1940 – Joe Torre, American baseball player and manager
1941 – Frank Farian, German songwriter and producer
1941 – Lonnie Mack, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1941 – Martha Reeves, American singer, actress, and politician (Martha and the Vandellas and The Fascinations)
1942 – Adolf Ogi, Swiss politician, 84th President of the Swiss Confederation
1942 – Bobby Susser, American songwriter and producer
1942 – Giacinto Facchetti, Italian footballer (d. 2006)
1943 – Joseph J. Ellis, American historian and author
1944 – David Hemery, English hurdler
1946 – Leo Madder, Belgian actor and director
1946 – Doug McFarland, American politician and academic
1947 – Steve Forbes, American publisher and politician
1947 – Steve Mahoney, Canadian politician
1948 – Carlos Colón, Sr., Puerto Rican wrestler
1948 – Hartmut Michel, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1949 – Dennis Lillee, Australian cricketer
1950 – Jerome Barkum, American football player
1950 – Richard Branson, English businessman, founded Virgin Group
1950 – Kostas Eleftherakis, Greek footballer
1950 – Glenn Hughes, American singer, dancer, and actor (Village People) (d. 2001)
1950 – Jack Layton, Canadian politician (d. 2011)
1950 – Mark Udall, American politician
1951 – Elio Di Rupo, Belgian politician, 68th Prime Minister of Belgium
1951 – Margo Martindale, American actress
1953 – Warren Wiebe, American singer (d. 1998)
1954 – Ricky Skaggs, American singer-songwriter, mandolin player, and producer (New South)
1954 – Tiit Trummal, Estonian architect
1955 – Terry Chambers, English drummer (XTC and Dragon)
1955 – Bernd Fasching, Austrian painter and sculptor
1956 – Razor Shines, American baseball player, manager, and coach
1957 – Nick Faldo, English golfer
1957 – Keith Levene, English guitarist, songwriter, and producer (Public Image Ltd, The Flowers of Romance, and The Clash)
1959 – Pauline Quirke, English actress
1960 – Anne-Marie Johnson, American actress
1961 – M.J. Alexander, American author and photographer
1961 – Elizabeth McGovern, American actress
1961 – Alan Pardew, English football player and manager
1961 – Pasi Rautiainen, Finnish football player, coach and manager
1962 – Lee Arenberg, American actor
1962 – Jensen Buchanan, American actress
1962 – Jack Irons, American drummer (Spinnerette, What Is This?, The Wallflowers, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Pearl Jam, and Eleven)
1962 – Shaun Micallef, Australian comedian, actor, screenwriter, and producer
1963 – Marc Girardelli, Austrian skier
1963 – Mike Greenwell, American baseball player
1963 – Al Snow, American wrestler and actor
1963 – Martín Torrijos, Panamanian politician, 35th President of Panama
1964 – Wendy Williams, American talk show host, actress, and author
1965 – Jim Bob Duggar, American real estate agent, author, and politician
1965 – Vesselina Kasarova, Bulgarian soprano
1966 – Lori Alan, American actress
1966 – Dan O’Brien, American decathlete
1967 – Vin Diesel, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1968 – Grant Bowler, New Zealand-Australian actor
1968 – Alex Désert, Haitian-American actor and singer (Hepcat)
1969 – Elizabeth Gilbert, American author
1969 – Great Sasuke, Japanese wrestler and politician
1970 – Cheryl Casone, American journalist
1971 – Penny Hardaway, American basketball player
1971 – Sarah McLeod, New Zealand actress
1973 – Jasse Jalonen, Finnish footballer
1974 – Alan Morrison, English poet
1975 – M.I.A., English rapper and producer
1975 – Torii Hunter, American baseball player
1975 – Daron Malakian, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (System of a Down and Scars on Broadway)
1976 – Valerie Cruz, American actress
1976 – Elsa Pataky, Spanish-American actress
1977 – Dylan Lane, American game show host
1977 – Alexander Morozevich, Russian chess player
1977 – Kelly Reilly, English actress
1977 – Alfian Sa’at, Singaporean poet and playwright
1978 – Shane Horgan, Irish rugby player
1978 – Annie Mac, Irish radio and television host
1978 – Verónica Romeo, Spanish singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
1978 – Ben Sheets, American baseball player
1978 – Mélissa Theuriau, French journalist
1978 – Adabel Guerrero, Argentine burlesque dancer, actress, and supervedette
1979 – Adam Birch, American wrestler
1979 – Deion Branch, American football player
1979 – Jared Hess, American director and screenwriter
1979 – Jason Weaver, American actor and singer
1980 – Kristen Bell, American actress, singer, and producer
1980 – Ryōko Hirosue, Japanese actress and singer
1981 – Dennis Seidenberg, German ice hockey player
1982 – Ryan Cabrera, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1982 – Priyanka Chopra, Indian model, actress, and singer, Miss World 2000
1982 – Dominika Luzarová, Czech tennis player
1983 – Carlos Diogo, Uruguayan footballer
1983 – Aaron Gillespie, American singer-songwriter and drummer (Underoath and The Almost)
1983 – Mikk Pahapill, Estonian decathlete
1983 – Jan Schlaudraff, German footballer
1984 – Allen Craig, American baseball player
1984 – Lee Barnard, English footballer
1985 – Hopsin, American rapper, producer, and actor
1985 – Chace Crawford, American actor
1985 – Panagiotis Lagos, Greek footballer
1986 – Deniss Karpak, Estonian sailor
1986 – Natalia Mikhailova, Russian ice dancer
1988 – Änis Ben-Hatira, German-Tunisian footballer
1988 – Sofia Kvatsabaia, Georgian tennis player
1988 – César Villaluz, Mexican footballer
1989 – Jamie Benn, Canadian ice hockey player
1989 – Sebastian Mielitz, German footballer
1989 – Yohan Mollo, French footballer
1991 – Karina Pasian, American singer and pianist
1991 – Eugenio Suárez, Venezuelan baseball player
1993 – Lee Taemin, South Korean singer, dancer, and actor (Shinee)
Deaths
1916 – Benjamin C. Truman, American journalist and author (b. 1835)
1918 – Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine (b. 1864)
1925 – Louis-Nazaire Bégin, Canadian cardinal (b. 1840)
1932 – Jean Jules Jusserand, French author and diplomat (b. 1855)
1937 – Julian Bell, English poet (b. 1908)
1938 – Marie of Romania (b. 1875)
1944 – Thomas Sturge Moore, English poet and author (b. 1870)
1947 – Heiti Talvik, Estonian poet (b. 1904)
1947 – Evald Tipner, Estonian football, ice hockey and bandy player (b. 1906)
1948 – Herman Gummerus, Finnish historian and politician (b. 1877)
1949 – Vítězslav Novák, Czech composer (b. 1870)
1950 – Carl Clinton Van Doren, American author and critic (b. 1885)
1952 – Jack Earle, American actor (b. 1906)
1952 – Paul Saintenoy, Belgian architect (b. 1862)
1953 – Lucy Booth, English-Swedish daughter of William and Catherine Booth (b. 1868)
1954 – Machine Gun Kelly, American gangster (b. 1895)
1966 – Bobby Fuller, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Bobby Fuller Four) (b. 1942)
1968 – Corneille Heymans, Belgian physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
1968 – Manfred Toeppen, American water polo player (b. 1887)
1969 – Mary Jo Kopechne, American educator and secretary (b. 1940)
1973 – Jack Hawkins, English actor (b. 1910)
1975 – Vaughn Bodē, American illustrator (b. 1941)
1982 – Lionel Daunais, Canadian singer-songwriter (b. 1902)
1982 – Roman Jakobson, Russian–American linguist and literary theorist (b. 1896)
1984 – Lally Bowers English actress and singer (b. 1914)
1984 – Grigori Kromanov, Estonian director (b. 1926)
1985 – Shahnawaz Bhutto, Pakistani son of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto (b. 1958)
1985 – Louisa Ghijs, Belgian actress (b. 1902)
1988 – Nico, German singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and actress (b. 1938)
1988 – Joly Braga Santos, Portuguese composer and conductor (b. 1924)
1989 – Donnie Moore, American baseball player (b. 1954)
1989 – Marika Nezer, Greek actress (b. 1906)
1989 – Rebecca Schaeffer, American actress (b. 1967)
1990 – Yoon Boseon, South Korean politician and activist, 4th President of South Korea (b. 1897)
1990 – Karl Menninger, American psychiatrist (b. 1896)
1990 – Gerry Boulet, Canadian singer-songwriter (Offenbach) (b. 1946)
1990 – Johnny Wayne, Canadian actor and screenwriter (b. 1918)
1995 – Srinagarindra, Thai wife of Mahidol Adulyadej (b. 1900)
1995 – Fabio Casartelli, Italian cyclist (b. 1970)
1997 – Eugene Merle Shoemaker, American geologist (b. 1928)
1999 – Meir Ariel, Israeli singer-songwriter (b. 1942)
2001 – Mimi Fariña, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1945)
2001 – James Hatfield, American author (b. 1958)
2001 – Fabio Taglioni, Italian engineer (b. 1920)
2002 – Victor Emery, English physicist (b. 1933)
2002 – Louis Laberge, Canadian union leader (b. 1924)
2004 – André Castelot, Belgian-French historian and author (b. 1911)
2004 – Paul Foot, Israeli-English journalist (b. 1937)
2004 – Émile Peynaud, French wine maker (b. 1912)
2005 – William Westmoreland, American general (b. 1914)
2005 – Bill Hicke, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager (b. 1938)
2007 – Jerry Hadley, American tenor (b. 1952)
2007 – John Kronus, American wrestler (b. 1969)
2007 – Kenji Miyamoto, Japanese politician (b. 1908)
2008 – Khosrow Shakibai, Iranian actor (b. 1944)
2009 – Henry Allingham, English soldier (b. 1896)
2009 – Jill Balcon, English actress (b. 1925)
2011 – Georgess McHargue, American author and poet (b. 1941)
2012 – Robert Creamer, American journalist (b. 1922)
2012 – Yosef Shalom Eliashiv, Lithuanian-Israeli rabbi (b. 1910)
2012 – Jean François-Poncet, French politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for France (b. 1928)
2012 – Rajesh Khanna, Indian actor, producer, politician (b. 1942)
2012 – Seppo Liitsola, Finnish ice hockey player and coach (b. 1933)
2012 – Pancho Martin, Cuban-American horse trainer (b. 1925)
2012 – Jack Matthews, Welsh rugby player and physician (b. 1920)
2012 – Dawoud Rajiha, Syrian general and politician, Minister of Defense for Syria (b. 1947)
2012 – Assef Shawkat, Syrian general and politician (b. 1950)
2012 – Hasan Turkmani, Syrian general and politician (b. 1935)
2013 – Vaali, Indian poet, songwriter, and actor (b. 1931)
2013 – Olivier Ameisen, French-American cardiologist and educator (b. 1953)
2013 – John R. Deane, Jr., American general (b. 1919)
2013 – Abdul Razak Abdul Hamid, Malaysian academic (b. 1925)
2013 – Francis X. Kane, American colonel and engineer (b. 1918)
2013 – Willie Louis, American witness in the Emmett Till murder trial (b. 1937)
2013 – John H. Moore II, American lawyer and judge (b. 1927)
2013 – Samar Mukherjee, Indian politician (b. 1913)
2013 – Vaughn Ross, American murderer (b. 1971)
2013 – Norman Sillman, English-Australian sculptor (b. 1921)
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