July 18

July 18 is the 199th day (200th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 166 days remaining.

Events

• 64 - Great Fire of Rome begins.
• 1863 -The 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, the first formal African American military unit assaulted Fort Wagner, an unsuccessful attack that still proved the worth of African American soldiers during the American Civil War
• 1996 - Storms provoke severe flooding on the Saguenay River in Quebec, beginning one of Canada's costliest natural disasters ever.

Births

• 1635 - Robert Hooke, scientist
• 1811 - William Makepeace Thackeray, author (+ 1863)
• 1821 - Pauline Garcia-Viardot, singer/composer (+ 1910)
• 1853 - Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate
• 1863 - Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria (+1914)
• 1864 - Ricarda Huch[?], writer (+ 1947)
• 1887 - Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian politician and famous traitor
• 1902 - Nathalie Sarraute[?], writer (+ 1999)
• 1902 - Jessamyn West[?], author (+ 1984)
• 1902 - Chill Wills[?], actor (+ 1978)
• 1906 - Clifford Odets[?], author, playwright (+ 1963)
• 1909 - Andrei Gromyko[?], USSR, diplomat and President 1985-1989 (+ 1989)
• 1911 - Hume Cronyn, actor (+ 2003)
• 1913 - Red Skelton, actor, comedian
• 1918 - Nelson Mandela, South Africa revolutionary and president
• 1921 - John Glenn, American astronaut and politician
• 1922 - Thomas Kuhn, philosopher (+ 1996)
• 1927 - Ludwig Harig[?], writer
• 1929 - Screamin' Jay Hawkins (+ 2000)
• 1929 - Dick Button[?], Olympic gold medal figure skater
• 1933 - Yevgeny Yevtushenko[?], poet
• 1937 - Hunter S. Thompson, journalist and author
• 1937 - Roald Hoffman, Nobel prize-winning theoretical chemist
• 1940 - James Brolin[?], actor
• 1940 - Joe Torre[?], baseball player, manager, New York Yankees
• 1941 - Martha Reeves[?], singer
• 1947 - Steve Forbes[?], entrepreneur, politician
• 1950 - Sir Richard Branson, entrepreneur

Deaths

• 1623 - Pope Gregory XV
• 1721 - Antoine Watteau, French painter
• 1792 - John Paul Jones, American naval commander
• 1817 - Jane Austen, British novelist
• 1988 - Nico (Christa Paffgen), German and American model and singer
• 2001 - Fabio Taglioni, automotive engineer

Holidays and observances

• Uruguay - Constitution Day[?]

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