What are the important events that happened on July 18? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

July 18: Facts & Myths About This Day

July 18 is the 200^th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 166 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is July 5, 2024 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 28,687,680 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectagon’ day.

Cancer is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Ruby is the modern birthstone for this month. Ruby is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 195 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,227 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

July 18 Historical Events

• 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.
• 1389 –
  Kingdom of France and Kingdom of England agree to the Truce of Leulinghem, in inaugurating a 13 year peace; the longest period of sustained peace during the Hundred Years War.
• 1656 –
  Polish-Lithuanian forces clash with Sweden and its Brandenburg allies in the start of what is to be known as The Battle of Warsaw which ends in a decisive Swedish victory.
• 1857 –
  Louis Faidherbe, French governor of Senegal, arrives to relieve French forces at Kayes, effectively ending El Hajj Umar Tall’s war against the French.
• 1914 –
  The U.S. Congress forms the Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps, giving definite status to aircraft within the U.S. Army for the first time.
• 1944 –
  World War II: Hideki Tojo resigns as Prime Minister of Japan due to numerous setbacks in the war effort.
• 1966 –
  Human spaceflight: Gemini 10 is launched from Cape Kennedy on a 70-hour mission that includes docking with an orbiting Agena target vehicle.
• 1968 –
  The Intel Corporation is founded in Santa Clara, California.
• 1982 –
  268 campesinos (“peasants” or “country people”) are slain in the Plan de Sánchez massacre in Ríos Montt’s Guatemala.
• 1992 –
  The ten victims of the La Cantuta massacre disappear from their university in Lima.

Who were born on July 18?

• 1862 –
  Nikolai Nikolaevich Yudenich, Russian general (d. 1933)
• 1914 –
  Gino Bartali, Italian cyclist (d. 2000)
• 1927 –
  Kurt Masur, Silesian-born conductor
• 1934 –
  Darlene Conley, American actress (d. 2007)
• 1939 –
  Jerry Moore, American football coach
• 1951 –
  Elio Di Rupo, Belgian politician
• 1955 –
  Terry Chambers, English drummer (XTC)
• 1963 –
  Martín Torrijos Espino, President of Panama
• 1975 –
  Torii Hunter, baseball player
• 1979 –
  Jared Hess, American film director and screenwriter

Who died on July 18?

• 1488 –
  Alvise Cadamosto, Italian explorer (b. 1432)
• 1817 –
  Jane Austen, English novelist (b. 1775)
• 1892 –
  Thomas Cook, English travel agent (b. 1808)
• 1899 –
  Horatio Alger, Jr., American writer (b. 1832)
• 1916 –
  Benjamin C. Truman, American journalist and author (b. 1835)
• 1948 –
  Herman Gummerus, Finnish historian and politician (b. 1877)
• 1973 –
  Jack Hawkins, English film actor (b. 1910)
• 1988 –
  Joly Braga Santos, Portuguese composer and conductor (b. 1924)
• 1989 –
  Rebecca Schaeffer, American actress (b. 1967)
• 1995 –
  Srinagarindra, Mother of King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand (b. 1900)