As we speak is Friday, July 18, the 199th day of 2025. There are 166 days left within the yr.
As we speak in historical past:
On July 18, 1976, on the Summer time Olympics in Montreal, Nadia Comaneci of Romania grew to become the primary gymnast to obtain an ideal rating of 10 from Olympic judges for her efficiency on the uneven bars.
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In 1536, the English Parliament handed an act declaring the authority of the pope void in England.
In 1863, in the course of the Civil Warfare, Union troops spearheaded by the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, made up of Black troopers, charged Accomplice-held Fort Wagner on Morris Island, S.C. The Confederates have been in a position to repel the Northerners, who suffered heavy losses; the 54th’s commander, Col. Robert Gould Shaw, was amongst those that have been killed.
In 1918, South African anti-apartheid chief and president Nelson Mandela was born within the village of Mvezo.
In 1925, Adolf Hitler revealed the primary quantity of his autobiographical manifesto, “Mein Kampf (My Struggle).”
In 1944, Hideki Tojo was eliminated as Japanese premier and conflict minister due to setbacks suffered by his nation in World Warfare II.
In 1947, President Harry S. Truman signed a Presidential Succession Act which positioned the speaker of the Home and the Senate president professional tempore subsequent within the line of succession after the vp.
In 1964, almost every week of rioting erupted in New York’s Harlem neighborhood following the deadly police capturing of a Black teenager, James Powell, two days earlier.
In 1994, a bomb hidden in a van destroyed a Jewish cultural middle in Buenos Aires, Argentina, killing 85.
In 2005, an unrepentant Eric Rudolph was sentenced in Birmingham, Alabama, to life in jail for an abortion clinic bombing that killed an off-duty police officer and maimed a nurse.
In 2013, Detroit grew to become the most important U.S. metropolis to file for chapter, its funds ravaged and its neighborhoods hollowed out by an extended, gradual decline in inhabitants and auto manufacturing.
As we speak’s Birthdays:
- Olympic gold medal determine skater Tenley Albright is 90.
- Film director Paul Verhoeven is 87.
- Singer Dion DiMucci is 86.
- Actor James Brolin is 85.
- Baseball Corridor of Famer Joe Torre is 85.
- Singer Martha Reeves is 84.
- Enterprise mogul Richard Branson is 75.
- Actor Margo Martindale is 74.
- Musician Ricky Skaggs is 71.
- World Golf Corridor of Famer Nick Faldo is 68.
- Actor Elizabeth McGovern is 64.
- Actor Vin Diesel is 58.
- Creator Elizabeth Gilbert is 56.
- Retired NBA All-Star Penny Hardaway is 54.
- Singer-songwriter M.I.A. is 50.
- Actor Elsa Pataky (“The Fast and the Furious” movies) is 49.
- Film director Jared Hess is 46.
- Actor Kristen Bell is 45.
- Actor Priyanka Chopra is 43.
- Actor Chace Crawford is 40.
- Boxer Canelo Alvarez is 35.
- Olympic sprinter Noah Lyles is 28.
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