The July 18th is the 199e Jour of the Année (200e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

1 to 1900

  • 1323 : Canonization of Thomas d' Aquin († 1274) by the Pope Jean XXII.

  • 1658 : Léopold Ier is elected sovereign Germanic Holy roman Empire Romain.
  • 1776 : Public reading of the Declaration of independence from the United States of America in Boston, Massachusetts.
  • 1812 : By the treaty of Orebro, England is combined in Sweden and Russia against France.
  • 1830 : the Uruguay adopts its first constitution.
  • 1870 : the Concile of the Vatican I defines the Dogme pontifical Infaillibilité.

20th century

  • 1918 : First World War: French counter-offensive in Champagne

  • 1925: Adolf Hitler publishes its book Mein Kampf
  • 1936: Beginning of the War of Spain.
  • 1947 : The Britanniques drive back the Exodus arrived in Palestine with 4500 Juifs on its board.
  • 1962 : With the Peru, a military coup d'etat reverses the president Manuel Prado Ugarteche.
  • 1976 : With the Olympic Games of Montreal, Nadia Comăneci obtains a note of 10 with the asymmetric bars.
  • 1984 : 21 people are killed by James Oliver Huberty in a restaurant McDonald's of San Ysidro, in California. James Oliver Huberty is killed in his turn by a marksman of the police force.
  • 1989 : inauguration of the Grande Arche with Defense, close to Paris.
  • 1991 : Assassination of the Belgian socialist politician Andre Cools.
  • 1993 : The open political crisis in April by the dismissal of the Prime Minister Pakistan board Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif by the president Ghulam Ishaq Khan, returned acuter by the decision of the supreme court to restore in May the Sharif government, is solved by the joint resignation of the two men.
  • 1994 : Rosanna Beyond Corte, Italy, does not beat the record of the oldest mother of the world by giving birth by Cesarean to a boy, the 62 years and 7 months age.
  • 1998 :
    • the body of Eric Tabarly is found by a French trawler in Irish Sea with 30 miles in the south-west of Milford Haven (Wales).
    • Creation of the first permanent and international court, the International penal court (CPI), charged to judge the war crimes and crimes against humanity. First universal and permanent jurisdiction, its statute is signed on July 18th 1998 with Rome by 120 countries and now by 139.
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21e century

  • 2002 :

    • the Indian members of Parliament elect as Head of State A.P.J Abdul Kalam, father of the Indian nuclear deterrence and third president resulting from the Moslem minority.
    • the French of Moroccan origin Zacarias Moussaoui, only person continued within the framework of the attacks of the September 11th, tries to plead guilty, but the judge imposes one week of additional reflection to him.
  • 2003 : A gigantic fire having started the day before, destroyed 10.000 hectares of pine forest and scrubland in the Massive of the Moors.
  • 2007 : A conduit of underground vapor explodes in New York, towards 18:00, with the intersection of Lexington Avenue and of the 41e Rue of Manhattan, causing the death of a person and a score of casualties, of which some seriously. A vapor and ebullient and brownish water jet rises like a geyser to forty meters height above a crater six meters width. The incident created of strong disturbances in full rush hour. Nearly 200 firemen precipitate on the spot, as well as ambulances and police officers.

Births

Death

Celebrations

First names

  • Olivier
  • Frederic, Frederique

Catholic and orthodoxe saints of the day

  • Arnoul of Metz (+ 640), bishop.
  • Arnoul of Yvelines (Life century), martyr.
  • Émilien de Durostorum (+ 363), martyr in Scythie.
  • Frederic of Utrecht (+ 838), bishop martyr.
  • Pambo de Nitrie (IVe century), hermit, Father of the Desert.

Catholic saints of the day

  • Brunon de Ségni († 1125), bishop.

See too

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