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7/18/2015
« on: July 18, 2015, 12:00:12 AM »
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Re: 7/18/2015
« Reply #1 on: July 18, 2015, 04:37:02 AM »
Good morning guys.
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Re: 7/18/2015
« Reply #2 on: July 18, 2015, 04:37:22 AM »
Today is Saturday, July 18, the 199th day of 2015. There are 166 days left in the year.
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Re: 7/18/2015
« Reply #3 on: July 18, 2015, 04:38:10 AM »
Highlight in History

On July 18, 1947, President Harry S. Truman signed a Presidential Succession Act which placed the speaker of the House and the Senate president pro tempore next in the line of succession after the vice president.

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Re: 7/18/2015
« Reply #4 on: July 18, 2015, 04:38:36 AM »
On this date

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Re: 7/18/2015
« Reply #5 on: July 18, 2015, 04:39:18 AM »
In A.D. 64, the Great Fire of Rome began, consuming most of the city for about a week. (Some blamed the fire on Emperor Nero, who in turn blamed Christians.)

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Re: 7/18/2015
« Reply #6 on: July 18, 2015, 04:39:51 AM »
In 1792, American naval hero John Paul Jones died in Paris at age 45.
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Re: 7/18/2015
« Reply #7 on: July 18, 2015, 04:40:19 AM »
In 1872, Britain enacted voting by secret ballot.
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Re: 7/18/2015
« Reply #8 on: July 18, 2015, 04:41:01 AM »
In 1925, Adolf Hitler published the first volume of his autobiographical screed, "Mein Kampf (My Struggle)."
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Re: 7/18/2015
« Reply #9 on: July 18, 2015, 04:41:28 AM »
In 1932, the United States and Canada signed a treaty to develop the St. Lawrence Seaway.
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Re: 7/18/2015
« Reply #10 on: July 18, 2015, 04:42:12 AM »
In 1944, Hideki Tojo was removed as Japanese premier and war minister because of setbacks suffered by his country in World War II. American forces in France captured the Normandy town of St. Lo.

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Re: 7/18/2015
« Reply #11 on: July 18, 2015, 04:42:39 AM »
In 1955, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin, British Prime Minister Anthony Eden and French Premier Edgar Faure met for a summit in Geneva.

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Re: 7/18/2015
« Reply #12 on: July 18, 2015, 04:43:20 AM »
In 1969, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., left a party on Chappaquiddick Island near Martha's Vineyard with Mary Jo Kopechne (koh-PEHK'-nee), 28; some time later, Kennedy's car went off a bridge into the water. (Kennedy was able to escape, but Kopechne drowned.)
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Re: 7/18/2015
« Reply #13 on: July 18, 2015, 04:43:50 AM »
In 1976, at the Montreal Olympics, Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci received the first-ever perfect score of 10 with her routine on uneven parallel bars. (Comaneci would go on to receive six more 10s at Montreal.)

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Re: 7/18/2015
« Reply #14 on: July 18, 2015, 04:44:21 AM »
In 1984, gunman James Huberty opened fire at a McDonald's fast food restaurant in San Ysidro (ee-SEE'-droh), California, killing 21 people before being shot dead by police. Walter F. Mondale won the Democratic presidential nomination in San Francisco.
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