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Gravdigr · 07-18-2016, 11:14 AM

July 18

64 – The Great Fire of Rome causes widespread devastation and rages on for six days, destroying half of the city.

1290 – King Edward I of England issues the Edict of Expulsion, banishing all Jews (numbering about 16,000) from England; this was Tisha B'Av on the Hebrew calendar, a day that commemorates many Jewish calamities.

1391 – Tokhtamysh–Timur war: Battle of the Kondurcha River: Timur defeats Tokhtamysh of the Golden Horde in present-day southeast Russia.

1914 – The U.S. Congress forms the Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps, giving official status to aircraft within the U.S. Army for the first time.

1925 – Adolf Hitler publishes his personal manifesto Mein Kampf.

1942 – World War II: The Germans test fly the Messerschmitt Me 262 using its jet engines for the first time.

1953 - Truck driver Elvis Presley made his first ever recording when he paid $3.98 at the Memphis Recording Service, singing two songs, 'My Happiness' and 'That's When Your Heartaches Begin'.

1966 – Human spaceflight: Gemini 10 is launched from Cape Kennedy on a 70-hour mission that includes docking with an orbiting Agena target vehicle.

1966 – Australian children's television series Play School airs for the first time, going on to become the longest-running children's show in Australia, and the second longest running children's show in the world.

1968 – Intel is founded in Mountain View, California.

1969 – After a party on Chappaquiddick Island, Senator Ted Kennedy from Massachusetts drives his car off a bridge, his passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne, dies.

1972 - Members from Sly and the Family Stone were arrested after police found two pounds of marijuana in the group's motor home.

1976 – Nadia Comăneci becomes the first person in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 in gymnastics, at the 1976 Summer Olympics.

1978 - Def Leppard made their live debut at Westfield School, Sheffield, England in front of 150 students.

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.

1988 - Nico died after suffering a minor heart attack while riding a bicycle on holiday with her son in Ibiza, Spain.

Ike Turner was sentenced in Santa Monica, California to one year in jail for possessing and transporting cocaine. Police had stopped Turner, former husband of Tina Turner, in August 1987 for driving erratically and found about six grams of rock cocaine in his car.

1992, Bobby Brown married Whitney Houston at her New Jersey estate who was dressed in a $40,000 Marc Bouwer wedding gown.

1995 – On the Caribbean island of Montserrat, the Soufrière Hills volcano erupts. Over the course of several years, it devastates the island, destroying the capital and forcing most of the population to flee.

2001 - KISS added another product to their ever-growing merchandising universe: the "Kiss Kasket." The coffin featured the faces of the four founding members of the band, the Kiss logo and the words "Kiss Forever." Pantera guitarist Dimebag Darrell was buried in one after he was shot and killed on-stage in Dec 2004.

2013 – The Government of Detroit, Michigan, with up to $20 billion in debt, files for the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history.

Births

1811 – William Makepeace Thackeray; 1886 – Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr.; 1887 – Vidkun Quisling; 1895 – Machine Gun Kelly; 1903 – Chill Wills; 1906 – Clifford Odets; 1908 – Peace Pilgrim; 1909 – Andrei Gromyko, Harriet Nelson; 1911 – Hume Cronyn; 1913 – Red Skelton; 1918 – Nelson Mandela; 1921 – John Glenn; 1927 – Kurt Masur; 1929 – Dick Button (snicker), Screamin' Jay Hawkins; 1930 – Burt Kwouk ('Cato' in the Pink Panther movies); 1937 – Hunter S. Thompson

; 1938 – Paul Verhoeven (director RoboCop, Total Recall, Starship Troopers, Basic Instinct); 1939 – Dion DiMucci (Dion and The Belmonts); 1940 – James Brolin, Joe Torre; 1941 – Lonnie Mack

, Martha Reeves; 1947 – Steve Forbes; 1950 – Richard Branson, Glenn Hughes (the biker in Village People); 1954 – Ricky Skaggs; 1957 – Nick Faldo; 1960 – Anne-Marie Johnson ('Althea Tibbs' on In The Heat Of The Night); 1961 – Elizabeth McGovern; 1964 – Wendy Williams; 1967 – Vin Diesel; 1971 – Penny Hardaway; 1975 – Torii Hunter, M.I.A.; 1976 – Elsa Pataky

; 1980 – Kristen Bell

Deaths

1610 – Caravaggio; 1792 – John Paul Jones (no, not the bass player, there was another one); 1899 – Horatio Alger; 1944 – Thomas Sturge Moore; 1954 – Machine Gun Kelly; 1969 – Mary Jo Kopechne; 1988 – Nico; 2005 – William Westmoreland; 2015 – Alex Rocco

07-18-2016, 11:14 AM	#171
Gravdigr The Un-Tuckian Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: South Central...KY that is Posts: 39,517	July 18 64 – The Great Fire of Rome causes widespread devastation and rages on for six days, destroying half of the city. 1290 – King Edward I of England issues the Edict of Expulsion, banishing all Jews (numbering about 16,000) from England; this was Tisha B'Av on the Hebrew calendar, a day that commemorates many Jewish calamities. 1391 – Tokhtamysh–Timur war: Battle of the Kondurcha River: Timur defeats Tokhtamysh of the Golden Horde in present-day southeast Russia. 1914 – The U.S. Congress forms the Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps, giving official status to aircraft within the U.S. Army for the first time. 1925 – Adolf Hitler publishes his personal manifesto Mein Kampf. 1942 – World War II: The Germans test fly the Messerschmitt Me 262 using its jet engines for the first time. 1953 - Truck driver Elvis Presley made his first ever recording when he paid $3.98 at the Memphis Recording Service, singing two songs, 'My Happiness' and 'That's When Your Heartaches Begin'. 1966 – Human spaceflight: Gemini 10 is launched from Cape Kennedy on a 70-hour mission that includes docking with an orbiting Agena target vehicle. 1966 – Australian children's television series Play School airs for the first time, going on to become the longest-running children's show in Australia, and the second longest running children's show in the world. 1968 – Intel is founded in Mountain View, California. 1969 – After a party on Chappaquiddick Island, Senator Ted Kennedy from Massachusetts drives his car off a bridge, his passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne, dies. 1972 - Members from Sly and the Family Stone were arrested after police found two pounds of marijuana in the group's motor home. 1976 – Nadia Comăneci becomes the first person in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 in gymnastics, at the 1976 Summer Olympics. 1978 - Def Leppard made their live debut at Westfield School, Sheffield, England in front of 150 students. 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. 1988 - Nico died after suffering a minor heart attack while riding a bicycle on holiday with her son in Ibiza, Spain. Ike Turner was sentenced in Santa Monica, California to one year in jail for possessing and transporting cocaine. Police had stopped Turner, former husband of Tina Turner, in August 1987 for driving erratically and found about six grams of rock cocaine in his car. 1992, Bobby Brown married Whitney Houston at her New Jersey estate who was dressed in a $40,000 Marc Bouwer wedding gown. 1995 – On the Caribbean island of Montserrat, the Soufrière Hills volcano erupts. Over the course of several years, it devastates the island, destroying the capital and forcing most of the population to flee. 2001 - KISS added another product to their ever-growing merchandising universe: the "Kiss Kasket." The coffin featured the faces of the four founding members of the band, the Kiss logo and the words "Kiss Forever." Pantera guitarist Dimebag Darrell was buried in one after he was shot and killed on-stage in Dec 2004. 2013 – The Government of Detroit, Michigan, with up to $20 billion in debt, files for the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history. Births 1811 – William Makepeace Thackeray; 1886 – Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr.; 1887 – Vidkun Quisling; 1895 – Machine Gun Kelly; 1903 – Chill Wills; 1906 – Clifford Odets; 1908 – Peace Pilgrim; 1909 – Andrei Gromyko, Harriet Nelson; 1911 – Hume Cronyn; 1913 – Red Skelton; 1918 – Nelson Mandela; 1921 – John Glenn; 1927 – Kurt Masur; 1929 – Dick Button (snicker), Screamin' Jay Hawkins; 1930 – Burt Kwouk ('Cato' in the Pink Panther movies); 1937 – Hunter S. Thompson; 1938 – Paul Verhoeven (director RoboCop, Total Recall, Starship Troopers, Basic Instinct); 1939 – Dion DiMucci (Dion and The Belmonts); 1940 – James Brolin, Joe Torre; 1941 – Lonnie Mack, Martha Reeves; 1947 – Steve Forbes; 1950 – Richard Branson, Glenn Hughes (the biker in Village People); 1954 – Ricky Skaggs; 1957 – Nick Faldo; 1960 – Anne-Marie Johnson ('Althea Tibbs' on In The Heat Of The Night); 1961 – Elizabeth McGovern; 1964 – Wendy Williams; 1967 – Vin Diesel; 1971 – Penny Hardaway; 1975 – Torii Hunter, M.I.A.; 1976 – Elsa Pataky; 1980 – Kristen Bell Deaths 1610 – Caravaggio; 1792 – John Paul Jones (no, not the bass player, there was another one); 1899 – Horatio Alger; 1944 – Thomas Sturge Moore; 1954 – Machine Gun Kelly; 1969 – Mary Jo Kopechne; 1988 – Nico; 2005 – William Westmoreland; 2015 – Alex Rocco __________________ These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA, EPA, FBI, DEA, CDC, or FDIC. 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