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July 18th is the 199th day of the year (200th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 166 days remaining in the year.
1536 • The authority of the Pope was declared void in England. 1872 • The Ballot Act was passed in Great Britain, providing for secret election ballots. 1925 • Adolf Hitler publishes his personal manifesto Mein Kampf. 1936 • The first Oscar Meyer Wienermobile rolled out of General Body Company’s factory in Chicago, IL. 1947 • President Truman signed the Presidential Succession Act, which placed the Speaker of the House and the Senate President Pro Tempore next in the line of succession after the vice president. 1968 • The Intel Corporation is founded in Santa Clara, CA. 1969 • After a party on Chappaquiddick Island, Senator Ted Kennedy from Massachusetts drives an Oldsmobile off a bridge and his passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne, dies. 1976 • Nadia Comineci became the first person in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 in gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics. 2013 • The Government of Detroit, with up to $20 billion in debt, files for the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history. |