07-18-2006, 05:18 AM
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July 18th
1817 ~ Death of Jane Austen, English Novelist.
1887 ~ Birthday of Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian Politician & Traitor.
1909 ~ Birthday of Andrei Gromyko, Soviet Diplomat & President.
1922 ~ Birthday of Thomas Kuhn, Philosopher of Science.
1925 ~ Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf was published.
1927 ~ Birthday of Kurt Masur, Conductor.
1942 ~ The Messerschmitt Me-262 was test flown using only its jets for the first time.
1969 ~ After a party, Senator Ted Kennedy drove his car off a wooden bridge, into a pond, and his passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne, died.
2001 ~ In Baltimore, Maryland, a 60-car train derailment occurred in a tunnel, sparking a fire that lasted days and virtually shut down downtown Baltimore.
2005 ~ Eric Rudolph was sentenced to life in prison for an abortion clinic bombing that killed an off-duty police officer.
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