July 18^th is

National Ice Cream Day!

Hug Your Kid Day

World Listening Day

Nelson Mandela International Day

World Festivals & National Holidays

Botswana – Presidents’ Day

Japan – Umi No Hi (Sea Day)

Laos – Boun Khao Phansa

Myanmar – Full Moon of Waso

South Africa – Nelson Mandela Day

Thailand – Public Holiday

Uruguay – Constitution Day

On This Day in HISTORY

64 – Great Fire of Rome during Emperor Nero’s reign

1870 – First Vatican Council decrees papal infallibility ex cathedra

1877 – Thomas Edison records the human voice for the first time

1918 – Nelson Mandela, future President of South Africa, is born

1925 – Adolf Hitler publishes Mein Kampf

1932 – U.S. and Canada sign treaty to develop the St. Lawrence Seaway

1936 – The Spanish Civil War begins woth army uprising led by General Franco

1936 – The first Oscar Meyer Wienermobile rolls off the assembly line

1942 – First flight of the German Me-262, the first jet-propelled combat plane

1947 – President Truman signs Presidential Succession Act – Speaker of the House, then Senate President Pro Tempore, next in line after Vice President

To see the major change in MUSIC  between 1960 and 1968, click

1960 – Elvis Presley releases “It’s Now or Never”

1968 – The Grateful Dead release their Anthem of the Sun album

1969 – Ted Kennedy’s car goes off bridge at Chappaquiddick, Mary Jo Kopechne killed

1976 – Nadia Comăneci becomes first person to score a perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics

1995 – Oldest known musical instrument, made from a 45,000-year-old bear bone, found in Indrijca River Valley, Slovenia