What happend on 18th July

17.07
19.07
1969

After a party on Chappaquiddick Island, Senator Ted Kennedy from Massachusetts drives an Oldsmobile off a wooden bridge into a tide-swept pond and his passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne, dies.

1968

Intel incorporated.

1968

Vietnam War: The two-day Honolulu Conference begins in Honolulu, Hawaii between US President Lyndon B. Johnson and South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu.

1966

Gemini 10 launched.

1947

President Harry S. Truman signs the Presidential Succession Act into law which places the Speaker of the House and the Senate President Pro Tempore next in the line of succession after the United States Vice President.

1944

World War II: Hideki Tojo resigns as Prime Minister of Japan due to numerous setbacks in the war effort.

1942

World War II: The Germans test fly the Messerschmitt Me-262 using only its jets for the first time.

1938

Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan arrives in Ireland.

1925

Adolf Hitler publishes his personal manifesto Mein Kampf.

1914

The United States Army's Signal Corps is formed, giving definite status to its air service for the first time.