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Old 07-18-2005, 05:09 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 published Mein Kampf.

1927 ~ Birthday of Kurt Masur, Conductor.

1942 ~ The Messerschmitt Me-262 test flown using only its jets for the first time.

1969 ~ After a party on Chappaquiddick Island, Senator Ted Kennedy from Massachusetts drove his car off a wooden bridge into a pond and his passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne, died.

1986 ~ The motion picture Aliens opened in theaters.

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.
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