Today in History: July 18, Nadia’s perfect 10

In the modern day is Friday July the th day of There are days left in the year Nowadays in history On July at the Summer Olympics in Montreal Nadia Comaneci of Romania became the first gymnast to receive a perfect sum of from Olympic judges for her performance on the uneven bars Also on this date In the English Parliament passed an act declaring the authority of the pope void in England Related Articles Despite Trump s announcement about Coke shoppers increasingly want no sugar in their sodas DOJ announces plans to request information from multiple California county jails Trump says Coca-Cola will use cane sugar in its US flagship drink The company isn t confirming that Researchers try new methods of preserving more hearts for transplants Behind the masks Who are the people rounding up immigrants in California In during the Civil War Union troops spearheaded by the th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry made up of Black soldiers charged Confederate-held Fort Wagner on Morris Island S C The Confederates were able to repel the Northerners who suffered heavy losses the th s commander Col Robert Gould Shaw was among those who were killed In South African anti-apartheid leader and president Nelson Mandela was born in the village of Mvezo In Adolf Hitler published the first volume of his autobiographical manifesto Mein Kampf My Struggle In Hideki Tojo was removed as Japanese premier and war minister because of setbacks suffered by his country in World War II In President Harry S Truman signed a Presidential Succession Act which placed the speaker of the House and the Senate president pro tempore next in the line of succession after the vice president In nearly a week of rioting erupted in New York s Harlem neighborhood following the fatal police shooting of a Black teenager James Powell two days earlier In a bomb hidden in a van destroyed a Jewish cultural center in Buenos Aires Argentina killing In an unrepentant Eric Rudolph was sentenced in Birmingham Alabama to life in prison for an abortion clinic bombing that killed an off-duty police officer and maimed a nurse In Detroit became the biggest U S city to file for bankruptcy its finances ravaged and its neighborhoods hollowed out by a long slow decline in population and auto manufacturing Nowadays s Birthdays Olympic gold medal figure skater Tenley Albright is Movie director Paul Verhoeven is Singer Dion DiMucci is Actor James Brolin is Baseball Hall of Famer Joe Torre is Singer Martha Reeves is Business mogul Richard Branson is Actor Margo Martindale is Musician Ricky Skaggs is World Golf Hall of Famer Nick Faldo is Actor Elizabeth McGovern is Actor Vin Diesel is Author Elizabeth Gilbert is Retired NBA All-Star Penny Hardaway is Singer-songwriter M I A is Actor Elsa Pataky The Fast and the Furious films is Movie director Jared Hess is Actor Kristen Bell is Actor Priyanka Chopra is Actor Chace Crawford is Boxer Canelo Alvarez is Olympic sprinter Noah Lyles is