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This is a list of selected July 18 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

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54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry storming Fort Wagner
Robert Gould Shaw
Messerschmitt Me 262
Silvio Berlusconi
Montserrat Soufrière Hills volcano
Ted Kennedy in 1967
Rebecca Schaeffer
Nadia Comăneci on the balance beam

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
Feast day of Bartolomé de las Casas (Episcopal and Lutheran churches)	unreferenced date
Constitution Day in Uruguay (1830)	unreferenced section
1389 – France and England agreed to the Truce of Leulinghem, establishing a 13-year peace during the Hundred Years' War.	single source
1870 – The First Vatican Council declared that the Pope is infallible when he solemnly declares a dogmatic teaching on faith as being contained in divine revelation.	citation style
1925 – The first volume of Adolf Hitler's personal manifesto Mein Kampf was published.	unreferenced section; section needs expansion
1942 – German engineers test flew the Messerschmitt Me 262 with jet engines for the first time.	refimprove section
1969 – After a party on Chappaquiddick Island in Massachusetts, United States Senator Ted Kennedy accidentally drove his car off a bridge, leading to the death of his passenger Mary Jo Kopechne, a former campaign worker.	refimprove section
1982 – Guatemalan military forces and their paramilitary allies slaughtered over 250 Mayans in the village of Plan de Sánchez, Baja Verapaz.	refimprove section
1992 – A university professor and nine students from La Cantuta University in Lima, Peru, were abducted and "disappeared" by a military death squad.	unreferenced section
1994 – Eighty-five people died when a bomb exploded at a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, making it Argentina's deadliest bombing ever.	refimprove section; many CN tags (7)
1995 – During the fifteenth stage of the 1995 Tour de France, Italian cyclist Fabio Casartelli suffered a fatal crash on the descent of the Col de Portet d'Aspet.	refimprove
1995 – After a long period of dormancy, the Soufrière Hills volcano began a still-ongoing eruption, devastating the island of Montserrat.	refimprove section
2005 – Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh and U.S. president George W. Bush announced the India–United States Civil Nuclear Agreement, a bilateral treaty on civil nuclear cooperation between their two countries.	refimprove section
2013 – With an estimated debt of $18–20 billion, the city of Detroit, Michigan, filed for bankruptcy, the largest in U.S. history by debt.	outdated, refimprove section
Boniface of Savoy \|d\|1270	date of death uncertain - some sources say 14 July, others say 18 July
International Mandela Day since 2009	Too short
Hendrik Lorentz \|b\|1853\|	Date not cited in article

Eligible

1290 – King Edward I issued an edict to expel all Jews from England.
1723 – Johann Sebastian Bach directed the first performance of his cantata Erforsche mich, Gott, und erfahre mein Herz in Leipzig.
1863 – American Civil War: Led by Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, one of the first African-American military units in the Union Army, spearheaded an assault (pictured) on Fort Wagner, South Carolina.
1936 – Nationalist rebels attempted a coup against the Second Spanish Republic, sparking the Spanish Civil War.
1966 – Angered by racism and poverty, African American residents of the Hough neighborhood of Cleveland began to riot for six days.
1976 – At the Olympic Games in Montreal, Nadia Comăneci (pictured) became the first person to score a perfect 10 in a modern Olympics gymnastics event.
1984 – Parts of the dismembered body of Swedish prostitute Catrine da Costa were found in Stockholm.
1989 – American actress Rebecca Schaeffer was shot and killed by Robert John Bardo, eventually prompting the passage of anti-stalking laws in California.
1995 – Selena's album Dreaming of You, instrumental in popularizing Tejano music, was released posthumously.
2012 – A suicide bomber attacked an Israeli tour bus at Burgas Airport, Bulgaria, resulting in the military branch of Hezbollah being designated a terrorist organization by the European Union.
2014 – The conviction of former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, who had been found guilty of paying for an underage prostitute, was overturned on appeal.
Born/died this day: Abu'l-Hasan Ali ibn al-Furat|d|924| John Horsefield|b|1792| Jane Austen|d|1817| Lucy Smith Millikin|b|1821| Maria von Linden|b|1869| Clare Stevenson|b|1903| Beatrice Aitchison|b|1908| Nelson Mandela|b|1918| Aaron Beck|b|1921| Inge Sørensen |b|1924| M.I.A.|b|1975| Priyanka Chopra|b|1982 Hailie Deegan|b|2001| Amy Gillett|d|2005

Notes

Battle of Castillon appears on July 17, so Truce of Leulinghem should not appear in the same year

July 18

Coronation of Pedro II of Brazil

1806 – An explosion at a gunpowder magazine in Birgu, Malta, killed an estimated 200 people.
1841 – Pedro II, the last emperor of Brazil, was crowned (depicted) at the Old Cathedral of Rio de Janeiro.
1949 – Francisco Javier Arana, the chief of the Guatemalan armed forces, was killed in a shootout with supporters of President Juan José Arévalo.
1984 – A gunman massacred 21 people and injured 15 others at a McDonald's restaurant in the district of San Ysidro of San Diego, California.
2019 – An arson attack at the studio of Kyoto Animation in Japan led to the deaths of 36 people.

Abu'l-Hasan Ali ibn al-Furat (d. 924)
Philip Snowden (b. 1864)
James E. Boyd (b. 1906)
Inge Sørensen (b. 1924)

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