Today is Thursday, July 18, the two hundredth day of the yr 2024. There are 166 days left within the yr.
Today’s highlight of the story:
On July 18, 1976, Romanian Nadia Comaneci became the primary gymnast to receive the highest rating of 10 from the Olympic judges for her performance on the uneven bars on the Summer Olympics in Montreal.
Also on this date:
In 1536, the English Parliament passed an act declaring the Pope's authority in England invalid.
In 1863, in the course of the Civil War, Union troops led by the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment, which consisted of black soldiers, stormed the Confederate-held Fort Wagner on Morris Island, South Carolina. The Confederates succeeded in repelling the Northerners, who suffered heavy casualties, including the commander of the 54th Regiment, Col. Robert Gould Shaw, who was killed.
In 1918, South African anti-apartheid leader and President Nelson Mandela was born within the village of Mvezo.
In 1925, Adolf Hitler published the primary volume of his autobiographical manifesto “Mein Kampf”.
In 1944, Hideki Tojo was deposed as Japanese Prime Minister and Minister of War because of the setbacks his country had suffered during World War II.
In 1947, President Harry S. Truman signed a presidential succession law that placed the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate within the line of succession to the vice chairman.
In 1964, New York City's Harlem district was rioting for nearly weeks after police shot and killed black teenager James Powell two days earlier.
In 1994, a bomb hidden in a van destroyed a Jewish cultural center in Buenos Aires, Argentina, killing 85 people.
In 2005, unrepentant Eric Rudolph was sentenced to life in prison in Birmingham, Alabama, for bombing an abortion clinic that killed an off-duty police officer and maimed a nurse.
In 2013, Detroit became the Largest US city files for bankruptcyits funds are ruined and its neighborhoods are hollowed out by a protracted, slow decline in population and automobile production.
In 2020, Canadian officials declared that the Toronto Blue Jays baseball team wouldn’t have the ability to play its home games in Toronto in the course of the shortened 2020 season since it was not protected for players to travel forwards and backwards from the United States. (The Blue Jays would play their “home” games at their minor league affiliate team's stadium in Buffalo, NY.)
Today's birthdays:
- Figure skating champion and commentator Dick Button is 95.
- Figure skater and Olympic champion Tenley Albright is 89 years old.
- Film director Paul Verhoeven is 86.
- Singer Dion DiMucci is 85.
- Actor James Brolin is 84.
- Joe Torre, a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, is 84.
- Singer Martha Reeves is 83.
- Business magnate Richard Branson is 74.
- Actress Margo Martindale is 73.
- The musician Ricky Skaggs is 70.
- Nick Faldo, a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame, is 67.
- Actress Elizabeth McGovern is 63.
- Broadcaster Wendy Williams is 60.
- Actor Vin Diesel is 57.
- The writer Elizabeth Gilbert is 55.
- Former NBA All-Star Penny Hardaway is 53.
- Singer-songwriter MIA is 49.
- Actress Elsa Pataky (“The Fast and the Furious” movies) is 48.
- Film director Jared Hess is 45.
- Actress Kristen Bell is 44.
- Actress Priyanka Chopra is 42.
- Actor Chace Crawford is 39.
- Boxer Canelo Alvarez is 34.
- Olympic sprinter Noah Lyles is 27.
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