Daily Calendar for July 18th, 2019

The Old Farmer's Almanac daily calendar gives you quick reference for the significant events on any day throughout the year.

60s

• 64: 6-day, 7-night fire started in Rome

1790s

• Died 1792: John Paul Jones (naval commander)

1810s

• Born 1811: William Makepeace Thackeray (writer)

1850s

• 1853: First train ride between U.S. (Portland, Maine) and Canada (Montreal, Quebec)

1890s

• 1898: Pierre and Marie Curie announced the discovery of a new element and called it polonium

1900s

• 1908: Fireworks banned in Cleveland, Ohio

1910s

• Born 1911: Hume Cronyn (actor)

• Born 1913: Red Skelton (actor & comedian)

• Born 1918: Nelson Mandela (political activist)

1920s

• Born 1921: John Glenn, Jr. (astronaut)

1940s

• Born 1940: James Brolin (actor)

• 1942: The first jet combat plane was tested

• 1942: Garden State Park racetrack opened, Cherry Hill, New Jersey

• 1947: President Harry Truman signed the Presidential Succession Act into law which places the Speaker of the House and the Senate President Pro Tempore next in the line of succession after the United States Vice President

1960s

• Born 1963: Mike Greenwell (baseball player)

• Born 1967: Vin Diesel (actor)

1970s

• Born 1978: Ben Sheets (baseball player)

1980s

• Born 1980: Kristen Bell (actress)

• 1986: Video of RMS Titanic wreckage released

1990s

• Died 1997: Eugene Shoemaker (American astrogeologist)

2000s

• Died 2005: Gerry Thomas (invented the TV dinner and helped revolutionize food marketing and distribution)

• Died 2005: General William Westmoreland (commanded U.S. forces during the Vietnam War from 1964 to 1968)

• Died 2007: Jerry Hadley (tenor)

2010s

• Died 2015: Alex Rocco (actor)

• Died 2015: George Coe (actor)