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July 18: Day of the Week
July 18, 2024 is the 200th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 166 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Thursday.
If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is jeudi.
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Zodiac & Birthstone
Cancer is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Ruby is the modern birthstone for this month. Ruby is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
July 18 Historical Event(s)
390 BCE
Roman-Gaulish Wars: Battle of the Allia – a Roman army is defeated by raiding Gauls, leading to the subsequent sacking of Rome.
1389
Kingdom of France and Kingdom of England agree to the Truce of Leulinghem, in inaugurating a 13 year peace; the longest period of sustained peace during the Hundred Years War.
1914
The U.S. Congress forms the Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps, giving definite status to aircraft within the U.S. Army for the first time.
1925
Adolf Hitler publishes his personal manifesto Mein Kampf.
1944
World War II: Hideki Tojo resigns as Prime Minister of Japan due to numerous setbacks in the war effort.
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.
1982
268 campesinos (“peasants” or “country people”) are slain in the Plan de Sánchez massacre in Ríos Montt’s Guatemala.
1984
McDonald’s massacre in San Ysidro, California: in a fast-food restaurant, James Oliver Huberty opens fire, killing 21 people and injuring 19 others before being shot dead by police.
1986
A tornado is broadcast live on KARE television in Minnesota when the station’s helicopter pilot makes a chance encounter.
1994
The bombing of the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (Argentinian Jewish Communal Center) in Buenos Aires kills 85 people (mostly Jewish) and injures 300.
Who were born on July 18?
1501
Isabella of Burgundy, wife of Christian II of Denmark (d. 1526)
1837
Vasil Levski, Bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1873)
1884
Alberto di Jorio, former head of the Vatican Bank and secretary of the 1958 conclave (d. 1979)
1886
Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr., American general (d. 1945)
1925
Hubert Doggart, English cricketer
1926
Margaret Laurence, Canadian writer (d. 1987)
1930
Burt Kwouk, English actor
1938
Paul Verhoeven, Dutch film director
1979
Jermaine Paul, American musician
1980
Kristen Bell, American actress
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