Thursday, July 18, 2013

This will be 199th day of the year and 166 days will remain in the year.

Hebrew calendar — 11 Av 5773
Chinese calendar — the 11th day of the 6th month of 4711 (Kui Si)
Islamic calendar — (note)

July 18 Birthdays

Nelson Mandela
Pronunciation: [nel´sun rOlEhlä´lä mändA´lä]
1918–, South African political leader.

Robert Hooke
physicist, mathematician, and inventor (1635)

William Thackeray
novelist (1811)

Jessamyn West
novelist (1902)

S. I. Hayakawa
scholar, former U.S. Senator (1906)

John Glenn
astronaut (1921)

Dick Button
figure skater (1929)

Yevgeny Yevtushenko
poet (1933)

July 2013

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July 18 in History

64

A great fire began that ultimately destroyed most of Rome. The emperor Nero blamed it on Christians and began the first Roman persecution of them.

1925

The first volume of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf was published.

1936

The Spanish Civil War began.

1947

President Harry S. Truman signed the Presidential Succession Act.

1976

14-year-old Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci earned the first perfect score, a ten, at the Olympics and went on to score six more tens and win three gold medals.

1999

New York Yankee David Cone pitched the 16th perfect game in baseball history.

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Note: Dates in the Islamic calendar are provided for planning purposes only, and calculated with the hdate Islamic calendar program for moonrise in Boston, Masschusetts. Depending on your location and other factors, this result may differ from actual religious observances by one day. Please consult your local religious authority for any religious determinations of hejiric date.