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2015

The British daily newspaper The Sun published a controversial photo and video of Queen Elizabeth giving the Nazi salute in 1933.

2013

The city of Detroit in the United States files for bankruptcy. It has more than $20 billion in debt.

2012

Kim Jong-un becomes the supreme leader of North Korea, succeeding his father.

1996

Torrential rains hit Quebec, causing the Saguenay flood. Ten people lose their lives, and more than $1.5 billion in damage is caused.

1976

Fourteen-year-old Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci becomes the first person in history to receive a perfect 10 at the Montreal Olympics.

1968

Intel is founded in Mountain View, California.

1932

Canada and the United States sign an agreement to jointly develop the St. Lawrence Seaway.

1925

Adolf Hitler publishes the book Mein Kampf. The author sets forth his “worldview.”

1892

A human subject undergoes the first test of a cholera vaccine. The subject is Ukrainian bacteriologist Waldemar Huffkine, who risked his life to conduct this test.

It happened on… July 18

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