On This Day July 18th

  OTD

July 18th is the one-hundred-ninety-seventh day of the year, and there are 166 days remaining until the end of the year.

 

Events

452 – Sack of Aquileia: After an earlier defeat on the Catalaunian Plains, Attila lays siege to the metropolis of Aquileia and eventually destroys it.

1389 – France and England agree to the Truce of Leulinghem, inaugurating a 13-year peace, the longest period of sustained peace during the Hundred Years' War.

1723 – Johann Sebastian Bach leads the first performance of his cantata Erforsche mich, Gott, und erfahre mien Herz, BWV 136, in Leipzig on the eighth Sunday after Trinity.

1870 – The First Vatican Council decrees the dogma of papal infallibility.

1914 – The U.S. Congress forms the Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps, giving official status to aircraft within the U.S. Army for the first time

1942 – The Germans test fly the Messerschmitt Me 262 using its jet engines for the first time.

1968 – Intel is founded in Mountain View, California.

1976 – Nadia Comaneci becomes the first person in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 in gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics.

1992 – A picture of Les Horribles Cernettes was taken, and it became the first photo posted to the World Wide Web.

1995—On the Caribbean Island of Montserrat, the Soufrière Hills volcano erupts. Over the course of several years, it devastates the island, destroying the capital and forcing most of the population to flee.

 

Birthdays

1013 – Hermann of Reichenau, German composer, mathematician, and astronomer (b. 1013)

1670 – Giovanni Bononcini, Italian cellist, and composer (d. 1747)

1811 – William Makepeace Thackeray, English author and poet (d. 1863)

1843 – Virgil Earp, American marshal (d. 1905)

1867 – Margaret (Unsinkable Molly) Brown, American philanthropist and activist (d. 1932)

1895 – Machine Gun Kelly, American gangster (d. 1954)

1909 – Harriet Nelson, American singer and actress (d. 1994)

1918 – Nelson Mandela, South African lawyer, and politician, 1st President of South Africa, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)

1921 – John Glenn, American colonel, astronaut, and politician (d. 2016)

1929 – Screaming' Jay Hawkins, American R&B singer-songwriter, musician, and actor (d. 2000)

1971 – Penny Hardaway, American basketball player and coach

 

Highlighted Holiday

WORLD LISTENING DAY

July 18 marks World Listening Day, which celebrates the birthday of Raymond Murray Schafer, a Canadian composer and environmentalist known as the founder of acoustic ecology. He established the World Soundscape Project in the 1970s, laying the groundwork for the ideas and practices of acoustic ecology. The holiday, established in 2010, has a different theme each year, such as 'H20,' 'Sounds Lost & Found,' and 'Listen to You!' In 2017, the theme was 'Listening to the Ground,' in honor of American composer Pauline Oliveros. This year's theme for World Listening Day 2021 is 'The Unquiet Earth,' created by filmmaker and organizer Raquel Castro. Listening is an art that demands full attention and patience, benefiting both the listener and the speaker. It helps improve listening skills and heightens awareness of our environment. Despite its significance, we often fail to use our sense of hearing effectively, tuning out most sounds and voices.

 

Holidays And Observance.

Get to Know Your Customer Day

Insurance Nerd Day

National Caviar Day

National Sour Candy Day

Nelson Mandela International Day

Perfect Family Day

World Listening Day

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