July 18th
Today in America's Present Past
1768 | Boston Gazette published "Liberty Song," America's first patriotic song.
1792 | Naval hero John Paul Jones died.
1825 | America’s victory in the Arikara War.
1826 | Soldier and politician Isaac Shelby died.
1850 | Poet Rose Hartwick Thorpe was born.
1861 | Civil War: Battle of Blackburn's Ford, Virginia.
1862 | Civil War: Battle of Newburgh, Indiana.
1864 | POTUS: Republican President Lincoln asks for 500,000 more volunteers for military service.
1890 | Entrepreneur Charles Erwin Wilson was born.
1899 | Author Horatio Alger died.
1900 | Outlaw George “Machine Gun” Kelly was born.
1908 | Chaplin Father John Washington was born.
1909 | Actress Harriet (Hilliard) Nelson was born.
1913 | Comedian Red Skelton was born.
1921 | Astronaut John Glenn was born.
1937 | Author Hunter S. Thompson was born.
1942 | SCOTUS: Justice George Sutherland died.
1947 | POTUS: President Truman signs the Presidential Succession Act.
1950 | Author Carl Clinton Van Doren died.
1955 | The first electric power generated from atomic energy was sold commercially.
1966 | Civil Rights: Hough riots in Cleveland, Ohio.
1967 | Actor Vin Diesel was born.
1969 | Author Elizabeth Gilbert was born.
1971 | Civil Rights: Colonia, California riots start.
1980 | Actress Kristen Bell was born in Huntington Woods, Michigan.
1992 | Activist Willa Brown died.
2005 | General William Westmoreland died.
2016 | Photographer Billy Linich Jr. died.
2024 | Actor Bob Newhart died.
2024 | Journalist Lou Dobbs died.