Wikipedia:Selected_anniversaries/July

Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 18

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July 18: Constitution Day in Uruguay (1830)

64 – The Great Fire of Rome started among the shops around the Circus Maximus, eventually destroying four of fourteen Roman districts and severely damaging seven others.
1863 – American Civil War: Led by Union Army Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, the first formal African American military unit, spearheaded an assault on Fort Wagner near Charleston, South Carolina (pictured).
1925 – The first volume of Adolf Hitler's personal manifesto Mein Kampf was published.
1969 – After a party on Chappaquiddick Island in Massachusetts, United States Senator Ted Kennedy drove his car off a wooden bridge into a tidal channel, killing his passenger Mary Jo Kopechne, a former campaign worker.
1982 – Guatemalan military forces and their paramilitary allies slaughtered over 250 Mayans in the village of Plan de Sánchez, Baja Verapaz.

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