On This Day for July 18 - Publication of Mein Kampf, Nelson Mandela is featured, and more

Created: 2020-07-18 10:02 Updated: 2020-07-18 10:02 Notebook: On this Day in History

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July 18

FEATURED BIOGRAPHY

Nelson Mandela

FEATURED EVENT

1925

Publication of Mein Kampf

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MORE EVENTS ON THIS DAY

2013: Detroit submitted a claim for Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection, the largest such filing for a U.S. city ever; the city officially emerged from bankruptcy the following year.

1976: For her performance in the uneven parallel bars at the Olympic Games in Montreal, Nadia Comăneci of Romania became the first gymnast to be awarded a perfect score of 10 in an Olympic gymnastic event. [ Sort fact from fiction in our gymnastics quiz.]

1944: Allied forces captured the French town of Saint-Lô, a vital communications centre, during World War II. [Sort fact from fiction in our World War II quiz.]

1927: American baseball player Ty Cobb collected his 4,000th career hit. [ See where Ty Cobb ranks on our list of the 10 greatest baseball players of all time.]

1921: John Glenn—the first U.S. astronaut to orbit Earth, completing three orbits in 1962—was born. [ Take our quiz of famous astronauts and cosmonauts.]

1918: French General Ferdinand Foch launched a counterstrike that forced the Germans into a hasty retreat during the Second Battle of the Marne, the last large German offensive of World War I. [ Sort fact from fiction in our quiz about World War I.]

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ALSO BORN ON THIS DAY

1918

Nelson Mandela
president of South Africa

1967

Vin Diesel
American actor and producer

1950

Richard Branson
British entrepreneur

1975

M.I.A.
British-born Sri Lankan rapper

1937

Hunter S. Thompson
American journalist