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July 18

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Today in History
• 64 - Great Fire of Rome begins under the Emperor Nero
• 1290 - King Edward I orders expulsion of Jews from England
• 1536 - Pope's authority declared void in England
• 1716 - Decree orders all Jews expelled from Brussels
• 1743 - 1st half-page newspaper ad is published (New York Weekly Journal)
• 1766 - Society of the Dutch Literary forms
• 1768 - Boston Gazette publishes "Liberty Song", America's 1st patriotic song
• 1864 - President Lincoln asks for 500,000 volunteers for military service
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Holidays - Traditional and Obscure
• Birthday of Don Luis Munoz Rivera
• Hijri New Year's Day
• Insurance Nerd Day
• Islamic New Year
• National Sour Candy Day
• Nelson Mandela International Day
• Uruguay Constitution Day
• World Listening Day
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Birthdays
• 1340 - Philip van Artevelde, wine salesman/lord lt of Flanders
• 1552 - Rudolf II von Habsburg, Emperor of Germany (1576-1612)
• 1635 - Robert Hooke, Isle of Wight, physicist, Micrographia
• 1720 - Gilbert White, English naturalist (Natural History and Antiquities of Selborn)
• 1796 - Feargus O'Connor, Leader of English Chartists
• 1810 - Peter [Josef Anton] Singer, Austrian monk, organist and composer
• 1818 - Louis Gerhard De Geer, 1st Swedish Prime Minister (1876-80)
• 1853 - Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, Dutch physicist (electromagnetic radiation, Nobel 1902)