TODAY JULY 18 IN HISTORY

LEAD STORY
FDR nominated for
unprecedented third
term , 1940
AMERICAN REVOLUTION
Naval hero John Paul
Jones dies in Paris , 1792
AUTOMOTIVE
Juan Manuel Fangio
makes Formula One
debut, 1948
CIVIL WAR
Assault of Battery
Wagner and death of
Robert Gould Shaw , 1863
COLD WAR
Charges of communists
in the U.S. Army raised ,
1945
CRIME
Twenty-one people are
shot to death at
McDonald's , 1984
DISASTER
Nero's Rome burns , 64
GENERAL INTEREST
Fire of Rome , 64
Hitler publishes Mein
Kampf , 1925
Spanish Civil War breaks
out, 1936
Incident on
Chappaquiddick Island ,
1969
Video of Titanic
wreckage released , 1986
HOLLYWOOD
The Dark Knight opens
with highest-grossing
weekend , 2008
LITERARY
Hunter S. Thompson is
born, 1929
Barack Obama's
"Dreams from My
Father" is published,
1995
MUSIC
Fifteen-year-old Brenda
Lee earns a #1 hit with
"I'm Sorry" , 1960
OLD WEST
Singing Wobbly Joe Hill
sentenced to death ,
1914
PRESIDENTIAL
Truman signs second
Presidential Succession
Act, 1947
Congress preserves
birthplace and property
of Theodore Roosevelt ,
1962
SPORTS
David Cone pitches
perfect game, 1999
VIETNAM WAR
Soviet Union agrees to
grant Hanoi economic
aid , 1955
Johnson meets Thieu in
Honolulu , 1968
WORLD WAR I
Allies begin major
counter-offensive in
Second Battle of the
Marne, 1918
WORLD WAR II
Mein Kampf is
published, 1925