July 18 is the 200th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 165 days remaining until the end of the year.
National Caviar Day
In 1290, King Edward I of England issued 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.
Parliament passed an act on July 18, 1536, declaring the authority of the Pope void in England.
Birthday of William Makepeace Thackeray (July 18, 1811), English novelist and satirist, author of “Vanity Fair”
The First Vatican Council of 1870 decreed the dogma of papal infallibility.
In 1914, the U.S. Congress formed the Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps, giving official status to aircraft within the U.S. Army for the first time.
Adolf Hitler published his personal manifesto, Mein Kampf, (My Struggle), in 1925.
An army uprising in Spanish Morocco started the Spanish Civil War in 1936.
Intel is founded in Santa Clara, California in 1968.
After a party on Chappaquiddick Island on July 18, 1969, Senator Ted Kennedy from Massachusetts drove an Oldsmobile off a bridge and his passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne, died.
Nadia Comăneci became the first person in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 in gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
On this date in 1999, David Cone of the New York Yankees pitched the 14th perfect game in modern major league baseball history in a game against the Montreal Expos.
2013 – The Government of Detroit, Michigan, , with up to $20 billion in debt, filed for the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history.