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Today in History, July 18:
390 BCE -- Battle of the Allia -- a Roman army is defeated by raiding Gauls led by Brennus, leading to the subsequent sacking of Rome.
362 CE -- Roman--Persian Wars: Emperor Julian arrives at Antioch with a Roman expeditionary force and stays there for nine months to launch a campaign against the Persian Empire.
1290 -- King Edward I of England issues the Edict of Expulsion, banishing all Jews from England; this was Tisha B'Av on the Hebrew calendar, a day that commemorates many Jewish calamities.
1841 -- Coronation of Emperor Pedro II of Brazil, on 18 July.
1863 -- American Civil War: Second Battle of Fort Wagner -- one of the first formal African American military units, the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, supported by several white regiments, attempts an unsuccessful assault on Confederate-held Battery Wagner.
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.
1925 -- Adolf Hitler publishes his personal manifesto Mein Kampf.
1942 -- World War II: the Germans test fly the Messerschmitt Me 262 using its jet engines for the first time.
1944 -- World War II: Hideki Tōjō resigns as Prime Minister of Japan because of numerous setbacks in the war effort.
1969 -- After a party on Chappaquiddick Island, Senator Ted Kennedy from Massachusetts drives an Oldsmobile off a bridge and his passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne, dies.
1976 -- Nadia Comăneci became the first person in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 in gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
1984 -- McDonald's massacre in San Ysidro, California: in a fast-food restaurant, James Oliver Huberty opens fire, killing 21 people and injuring 19 others before being shot dead by police.
1994 -- Rwandan Genocide: The Rwandan Patriotic Front takes control of Gisenyi and north western Rwanda, forcing the interim government into Zaire and ending the genocide.
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.
2013 -- The Government of Detroit, with up to $20 billion in debt, files for the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history.

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