Top Historical Events That Happened on July 18 Natural Disasters & Epidemics

1960  1st UN troops reach Congo.   

1961  Commissioner Ford Frick rules Babe Ruth's record of 60 HR in 154-game sched in 1927, must be broken in 1st 154 of 162 games.   

1961  Kit Guard, dies of cancer at 67.   

1962  Minn Twins Bob Allison and Harmon Killebrew hit grand slams in 1st inn and Harmon Killebrew connect in a club-record, 11-run 1st inning   

1963  Failed military coup in Syria.   

1963  A H C Cooper, S Africa cricketer (Test v England 1914), dies   

1964  Race riot in Harlem (NYC); riots spread to Bedford-Stuyvesant (Bkln)   

1965  Zond 3 launched to fly by Moon, enters solar orbit.   

1965  In this year, Kathy Whitworth claims LPGA Yankee Golf Open.   

1965  Shalva Mikhailovich Taktakishvili, composer, dies at 64   

1966  Bobby Fuller rocker (I Fought the Law), are discovered dead   

1966  Gemini 10 launched   

1966  Launch of Gemini 10 with LCDR John W. Young, USN as Command Pilot. Mission involved 43 orbits at an altitude of 412.2 nautical miles and lasted 2 days, 22 hours, and 46 minutes. Recovery was by HS-3 helicopter from USS Guadalcanal (LPH-7)   

1966  Carl Sagan turns 1 billion seconds old.   

1966  Bobby Fuller, rocker (I Fought the Law), are discovered dead at 22.   

1967  Silver hits record $1.87 an ounce in NY   

1967  Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco, Brazil pres (1964-87), dies at 66.   

1968  C Torres discovers asteroid #2654 Ristenpart   

1968  Intel incorporates   

1969  Barbara Pepper actress (Doris Ziffel-Green Acres), dies at 57.   

1969  Joe Namath agrees to sell interest in Bachelors 3, to stay in NFL   

1969  Mary Jo Kopechne and Sen Kennedy plunge off Chappaquiddick bridge.   

1970  Arthur Brown arrested for stripping on stage in Palemo Sicily   

1970  Ron Hunt gets hit by a pitch for a record 119th time   

1970  Willie Mays hits # 3000   

1970  Lucien H d'Azambuja, Fren astronomer (chromosphere of Sun), dies at 86   

1972  200000 attend Mt Pocono rock festival in Penns.   

1973  British actor Jack Hawkins actor, dies at 62.   

1973  Jack Hawkins, actor (Ben Hur, Ben-Four Just Men), dies at 62.   

1974  World's tallest structure, 646-m Polish radio mast, completed   

1975  Federico Ghisi, composer, dies at 74.   

1976  Thiokol conducts 2-min firing of space shuttle's SRB at Brigham, Ut.   

1978  Egyptian and Israeli officials begin 2 days of talks   

1979  Gold hits record $303.85 an ounce in London   

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