History for July 18 - On-This-Day.com
William Makepeace Thackeray 1811, Vidkum Quisling 1887, Richard "Red" Skelton 1913
Nelson Mandela 1918 - President of South Africa, John Glenn 1921 - Astronaut, Hunter S. Thompson 1937
1789 - Robespierre, a deputy from Arras, France, decided to back the French Revolution.
1914 - Six planes of the U.S. Army helped to form an aviation division called the Signal Corps.
1936 - The first Oscar Meyer Wienermobile rolled out of General Body Company’s factory in Chicago, IL.
1936 - The Spanish Civil War began as Gen. Francisco Franco led an uprising of army troops based in Spanish North Africa.
1942 - The German Me-262, the first jet-propelled aircraft to fly in combat, made its first flight.
1947 - U.S. President Truman signed the 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.
2001 - A train derailed, involving 60 cars, in a Baltimore train tunnel. The fire that resulted lasted for six days and virtually closed down downtown Baltimore for several days. (Maryland)
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