July 18th in History
July 18th
64 Great Fire of Rome begins under the Emperor Nero.
1290 King Edward I orders expulsion of Jews from England, this edict will remain in place for 350 years.
1801 HMS Investigator sets off on a voyage to determine if New Holland (Australia) is one island or two, under command of Matthew Flinders, with botanist Robert Brown and artists Ferdinand Bauer and William Westall aboard.
1872 The Ballot Act introduces the secret ballot in elections in Britain; previously, votes were made openly.
18th July 1889 - Opening of the first dock basin at Barry.
1892 First human test of a vaccine against cholera; Ukrainian bacteriologist Waldemar Haffkine risks his life by successfully testing it on himself.
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The Cardiff Riots of 1911.
July 18th 1911, saw rioting and strikes in Cardiff, as the Great Unrest swept across South Wales. The disturbances were the results initially of the shipowners failure to recognise the Seamen's union but soon spread among dockers and other workers. On the 19th July a warehouse on the docks was set alight and when fire workers turned the hoses on the strikers, they retaliated by pelting stones at the firemen.
Elsewhere Chinese laundries were targeted, with all 30 within the city wrecked. Five hundred Lancashire Fusiliers and 350 Metropolitan Constabulary were deployed to assist in maintaining order and during repeated baton charges, 30 people including several police were seriously injured. During the summer, the discontent spread, culminating with copper workers in Swansea by October, but it also took in railway workers in Llanelli and colliers in the Valleys. Virtually no sector of Welsh society was untouched.
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1925 Adolf Hitler publishes Mein Kampf, original title was the catchy "Four and a Half Years (of Struggle) Against Lies, Stupidity and Cowardice"
1958 6th British Empire Games open in Cardiff, Wales.
2012 Kim Jong-un is officially appointed Supreme Leader of North Korea and given the rank of Marshal in the Korean People's Army.
18 Jul 1970
Pink Floyd, Roy Harper, Kevin Ayers, and the Edgar Broughton Band, all appeared at a free concert held in Hyde Park, London, England.
18 Jul 1970
UK BBC Radio 1 DJ Kenny Everett was sacked after he joked on air that the wife of the conservative transport minister Mary Peyton had 'crammed a fiver into the examiner's hand', when taking her driving test'.
Silly BBC.
18 Jul 1969
During sessions at Abbey Road studios, London, Ringo Starr recorded his vocal to 'Octopus's Garden', for the Abbey Road album. Starr had written the song when he 'quit' The Beatles the previous year and was staying on actorPeter Seller’s yacht in the Mediterranean.
18 Jul 1968
Working at Abbey Road studios The Beatles recorded 'Cry Baby Cry' and 'Helter Skelter'. One take of 'Helter Skelter' lasted 27' 11'', the longest Beatle recording ever.
64 Great Fire of Rome begins under the Emperor Nero.
1290 King Edward I orders expulsion of Jews from England, this edict will remain in place for 350 years.
1801 HMS Investigator sets off on a voyage to determine if New Holland (Australia) is one island or two, under command of Matthew Flinders, with botanist Robert Brown and artists Ferdinand Bauer and William Westall aboard.
1872 The Ballot Act introduces the secret ballot in elections in Britain; previously, votes were made openly.
18th July 1889 - Opening of the first dock basin at Barry.
1892 First human test of a vaccine against cholera; Ukrainian bacteriologist Waldemar Haffkine risks his life by successfully testing it on himself.
….
The Cardiff Riots of 1911.
July 18th 1911, saw rioting and strikes in Cardiff, as the Great Unrest swept across South Wales. The disturbances were the results initially of the shipowners failure to recognise the Seamen's union but soon spread among dockers and other workers. On the 19th July a warehouse on the docks was set alight and when fire workers turned the hoses on the strikers, they retaliated by pelting stones at the firemen.
Elsewhere Chinese laundries were targeted, with all 30 within the city wrecked. Five hundred Lancashire Fusiliers and 350 Metropolitan Constabulary were deployed to assist in maintaining order and during repeated baton charges, 30 people including several police were seriously injured. During the summer, the discontent spread, culminating with copper workers in Swansea by October, but it also took in railway workers in Llanelli and colliers in the Valleys. Virtually no sector of Welsh society was untouched.
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1925 Adolf Hitler publishes Mein Kampf, original title was the catchy "Four and a Half Years (of Struggle) Against Lies, Stupidity and Cowardice"
1958 6th British Empire Games open in Cardiff, Wales.
2012 Kim Jong-un is officially appointed Supreme Leader of North Korea and given the rank of Marshal in the Korean People's Army.
18 Jul 1970
Pink Floyd, Roy Harper, Kevin Ayers, and the Edgar Broughton Band, all appeared at a free concert held in Hyde Park, London, England.
18 Jul 1970
UK BBC Radio 1 DJ Kenny Everett was sacked after he joked on air that the wife of the conservative transport minister Mary Peyton had 'crammed a fiver into the examiner's hand', when taking her driving test'.
Silly BBC.
18 Jul 1969
During sessions at Abbey Road studios, London, Ringo Starr recorded his vocal to 'Octopus's Garden', for the Abbey Road album. Starr had written the song when he 'quit' The Beatles the previous year and was staying on actorPeter Seller’s yacht in the Mediterranean.
18 Jul 1968
Working at Abbey Road studios The Beatles recorded 'Cry Baby Cry' and 'Helter Skelter'. One take of 'Helter Skelter' lasted 27' 11'', the longest Beatle recording ever.
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