Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 18
This is a list of selected July 18 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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Soufrière Hills volcano erupting
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| Marine Day (Japan, 2011); | unreferenced stub |
| 1863 – American Civil War: Led by Union Army Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, the first formal African American military unit, spearheaded an assault on Fort Wagner near Charleston, South Carolina. | refimprove |
| 1925 – The first volume of Adolf Hitler's personal manifesto Mein Kampf was published. | Tagged with {{refimprove}} |
| 1992 – A university professor and nine students from La Cantuta University in Lima, Peru, were abducted and "disappeared" by a military death squad. | Tagged with {{citations needed}} |
| 1995 – During the fifteenth stage of the 1995 Tour de France, Italian cyclist Fabio Casartelli suffered a fatal crash on the descent of the Col de Portet d'Aspet. | refimprove |
Eligible
- 1389 – France and England agreed to the Truce of Leulinghem, establishing 13-year peace during the Hundred Years' War.
- 1942 – German engineers test flew the Messerschmitt Me 262 with jet engines for the first time.
- 1944 – General Hideki Tōjō was forced to resign as Prime Minister of Japan after a series of setbacks towards the end of World War II.
- 1969 – After a party on Chappaquiddick Island in Massachusetts, United States Senator Ted Kennedy drove his car off a wooden bridge into a tidal channel, killing his passenger Mary Jo Kopechne, a former campaign worker.
- 1984 – A gunman massacred 21 people and injured 15 others at a McDonald's restaurant in the San Ysidro section of San Diego, California.
- 1982 – Guatemalan military forces and their paramilitary allies slaughtered over 250 Mayans in the village of Plan de Sánchez, Baja Verapaz.
- 1989 – American actress Rebecca Schaeffer was shot and killed by stalker Robert John Bardo, eventually prompting the passage of anti-stalking laws in California.
- 1994 – A bomb exploded at a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, killing 85 people and injuring over 300 more.
- 2005 – In a joint statement, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and then U.S. President George W. Bush announced the Indo-U.S. civilian nuclear agreement, a bilateral accord on civil nuclear cooperation between their two respective countries.
July 18: Constitution Day in Uruguay (1830)
- 1841 – Pedro II, the last Emperor of Brazil, having reigned in minority since 1831, was acclaimed, crowned and consecrated.
- 1870 – The First Vatican Council declared that the Pope is infallible when he solemnly declares a dogmatic teaching on faith as being contained in divine revelation.
- 1976 – At the Olympic Games in Montreal, Nadia Comăneci (pictured) became the first person to score a perfect 10 in a modern Olympics gymnastics event.
- 1995 – After a long period of dormancy, the Soufrière Hills volcano began a still-ongoing eruption, devastating the island of Montserrat.