On 18^th July 1195,         

The Almohads were victorious over the forces of King Alfonso VIII of Castile in the Battle of Alarcos

On 18^th July 1817,

The English novelist Jane Austen, who wrote such classics as Sense and Sensibility (1811) and Pride and Prejudice (1813), died in Winchester, Hampshire, at age 41.

On 18^th July 1918,

French General Ferdinand Foch launched a counterstrike that forced the Germans into a hasty retreat during the Second Battle of the Marne, the last large German offensive of World War I.

On 18^th July 1918,        

Nelson Mandela, President of South Africa was Born, July 18, 1918. Mvezo, South Africa

On 18^th July 1921,         

John Glenn—the first U.S. astronaut to orbit Earth, completing three orbits in 1962—was born.

On 18^th July 1925,        

The first volume of Mein Kampf, the political manifesto written by Adolf Hitler that became the bible of Nazism in Germany’s Third Reich, was published, and two years later the second volume appeared.

On 18^th July 1927,        

American baseball player Ty Cobb collected his 4,000^th career hit.

On 18^th July 1944,         

Allied forces captured the French town of Saint-Lô, a vital communications centre, during World War II.

On 18^th July 1976,          

For her performance in the uneven parallel bars at the Olympic Games in Montreal, Nadia Comăneci of Romania became the first gymnast to be awarded a perfect score of 10 in an Olympic gymnastic event.