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- 0064 Great fire of Rome: A fire begins to burn in the merchant area of Rome and soon burns completely out of control while Emperor Nero reportedly plays his lyre and sings while watching the blaze from a safe distance.
- 0390 -BC- Battle of Allia-Gauls inflict heavy casualties on Romans
- 0390 BC - Roman-Gaulish Wars: Battle of the Allia - A Roman army is defeated by raiding Gauls, leading to the subsequent sacking of Rome.
- 1100 Jerusalem's Godfrey of Bouillon dies at age 39 after successful forays against the Seljuk Turks that have taken him as far as Damascus
- 1195 Battle of Alarcos, great victory of Almohad ruler Abu Yusuf Ya'qub al-Mansur over the Castilian King Alfonso VIII.
- 1536 Pope's authority declared void in England
- 1536 The authority of the Pope is declared void in England.
- 1656 Polish-Lithuanian forces clashes with Sweden and its Brandenburg allies in the start of what is to be known as The Battle of Warsaw which ends in a decisive Swedish victory.
- 1753 Lemuel Haynes, escapes from slaveholder in Framingham Mass
- 1779 Commodore Abraham Whipple's squadron captures 11 prizes in largest prize value of Revolutionary War.
- 1792 John Paul Jones dies in Paris, France
- 1813 U.S. Frigate President captures British Daphne, Eliza Swan, Alert and Lion.
- 1814 British capture Prairie du Chien (Wisc)
- 1830 Uruguay adopts its first constitution.
- 1848 Visitor posting - William Gilbert Grace born - Victorian England's greatest cricketer - United Kingdom
- 1853 The first train to cross the US-Canada boundary, Portland, Me.- Montréal, PQ
- 1857 Louis Faidherbe, French governor of Senegal, arrives to relieve French forces at Kayes, effectively ending El Hajj Umar Tall's war on the French.
- 1861 American Civil War: Skirmish at Blackburn's Ford prior to First Battle of Bull Run(1st Battle of Manassas).
- 1872 Britain introduces secret ballot voting
- 1872 The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland introduces voting by secret ballot.
- 1873 Oscar II of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Norway in Trondheim.
- 1914 The U.S. Congress forms the Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps, this gives definite status to aircraft within the U.S. Army for the first time.
- 1914 US army air service first comes into being, in the Signal Corps
- 1918 US & French forces launch Aisne-Marne offensive in WW I
- 1920 Naval aircraft sink ex-German cruiser Frankfurt in target practice.
- 1925 Adolf Hitler publishes his personal manifesto Mein Kampf.
- 1925 First edition of Mein Kampf is published.
- 1931 The first air-conditioned ship (Mariposa) launched
- 1932 US & Canada signed a treaty to develop St Lawrence Seaway
- 1936 Spanish Civil War: The rebellion reaches peninsular Spain and conquers Galicia, west Castile, west Andalucia and Aragon.
- 1938 Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan arrives in Ireland-left NY for Calif
- 1940 Democratic National Convention, Chicago: President Franklin D. Roosevelt is nominated for an unprecedented third term in office.
- 1940 The first successful helicopter flight, Stratford, Ct
- 1942 Messerschmitt Me 262 Schwalbe, first jet fighter, takes first flight
- 1942 The first legal NJ horse race in 50 years; Garden State Park track opens
- 1943 German submarine shoots down K-47, the first and only U.S. airship lost during WW II.
- 1944 World War II: Hideki Tojo resigns as Prime Minister of Japan due to numerous setbacks in the war effort.
- 1947 US receives UN trusteeship over Pacific Islands
- 1951 Jersey Joe Walcott KOs Ezzard Charles in 5 for heavyweight belt
- 1951 Uruguay accepts its constitution
- 1953 Rock star Elvis Presley made his first recording in Sun Studios.
- 1955 The first electric power generated from atomic energy sold commercially
- 1959 The first black to win a major golf tournament (William Wright)
- 1963 Number one hit on UK music charts - Frank Ifield - Confessin'
- 1964 Race riot in Harlem (NYC); riots spread to Bedford-Stuyvesant (Bkln)
- 1965 Zond 3 launched to fly by Moon, enters solar orbit
- 1966 Bobby Fuller rocker (I Fought the Law), found dead
- 1966 Launch of Gemini 10 with LCDR John W. Young, USN as Command Pilot. Mission involved 43 orbits at an altitude of 412.2 nautical miles and lasted 2 days, 22 hours, and 46 minutes. Recovery was by HS-3 helicopter from USS Guadalcanal (LPH-7).
- 1967 Silver hits record $1.87 an ounce in NY
- 1968 Intel incorporates
- 1968 Vietnam War: The two-day Honolulu Conference begins in Honolulu, Hawaii between US President Lyndon B. Johnson and South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu.
- 1969 After a party on Chappaquiddick Island, Senator Ted Kennedy from Massachusetts drives an Oldsmobile off a wooden bridge into a tide-swept pond and his passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne, dies.
- 1969 Barbara Pepper actress (Doris Ziffel-Green Acres), dies at 57
- 1969 Joe Namath agrees to sell interest in Bachelors 3, to stay in NFL
- 1969 Mary Jo Kopechne & Sen Kennedy plunge off Chappaquiddick bridge
- 1970 Arthur Brown arrested for stripping on stage in Palemo Sicily
- 1970 Ron Hunt gets hit by a pitch for a record 119th time
- 1970 Willie Mays hits # 3,000
- 1972 200,000 attend Mt Pocono rock festival in Penns
- 1973 British actor Jack Hawkins actor, dies at 62
- 1974 World's tallest structure, 646-m Polish radio mast, completed
- 1976 Gymnast Nadia Comaneci, age 14, scores first ever perfect 10 at the Olympics.
- 1976 Thiokol conducts 2-min firing of space shuttle's SRB at Brigham, Ut
- 1977 Vietnam joins the United Nations.
- 1978 Egyptian & Israeli officials begin 2 days of talks
- 1979 Gold hits record $303.85 an ounce in London
- 1980 Billy Joel's Glass Houses album tops charts
- 1980 Rohini 1, first Indian satellite, launches into orbit
- 1982 268 campesinos ("peasants" or "country people") are slain in the Plan de Snchez massacre in Ros Montt's Guatemala.
- 1984 James Huberty kills 21 McDonalds patrons in San Ysidro Calif
- 1984 James Oliver Huberty shot by police after killing 21 in McDonalds
- 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.
- 1984 Walter F Mondale wins Democratic presidential nomination in SF
- 1986 A tornado is broadcast live on KARE television in Minnesota when the station's helicopter pilot makes a chance encounter.
- 1986 Videotapes released showing Titanic's sunken remains
- 1986 Visitor posting - July 18, 1986 Nicholas Camden Swaine was born in Kissimmee, Florida.
- 1987 Molly Yard elected new pres of Natl Org for Women
- 1987 Yanks Don Mattingly ties major league record of HRs in 8 cons games
- 1989 Actress Rebecca Schaeffer is shot by a crazed fan, prompting California to pass America's first anti-stalking law in 1990.
- 1992 The ten victims of the La Cantuta massacre disappeared from their university in Lima.
- 1992 Visitor posting - July 18 1992 Sandy McIlwain marries becoming Sandy Melcher
- 1995 On the Caribbean island of Montserrat, the Soufriere Hills volcano erupts. Over the course of several years, it devastates the island, destroying the capital and forcing most of the population to flee.
- 1995 Visitor posting - Michael Presley was born - USA
- 1996 In an event very similar to the Oklahoma tornado that would occur three years later, an F5 tornado hit the town of Oakfield, Wisconsin.
- 1996 Storms provoke severe flooding on the Saguenay River, beginning one of Qubec's costliest natural disasters ever.
- 1997 8000 low-caste Indians riot in Mumbai (Bombay) following a funeral for 10 children who had been killed by police.
- 1998 A 23-foot tidal wave kills nearly 3,000 people in Papua New Guinea.
- 2001 In Baltimore, Maryland, a 60-car train derails in a tunnel, sparking a fire that lasted for days and virtually brought downtown Baltimore to a standstill.
- 2009 Visitor posting - Rundell and Aleise married in Columbia, MS - USA
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