Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 18

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 * 1290 – King Edward I issued an edict to expel all Jews from England.
 * 1723 – Johann Sebastian Bach directed the first performance of his cantata Erforsche mich, Gott, und erfahre mein Herz in Leipzig.
 * 1863 – American Civil War: Led by Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, one of the first African-American military units in the Union Army, spearheaded an assault (pictured) on Fort Wagner, South Carolina.
 * 1936 – Nationalist rebels attempted a coup against the Second Spanish Republic, sparking the Spanish Civil War.
 * 1966 – Angered by racism and poverty, African American residents of the Hough neighborhood of Cleveland began to riot for six days.
 * 1976 – At the Olympic Games in Montreal, Nadia Comăneci (pictured) became the first person to score a perfect 10 in a modern Olympics gymnastics event.
 * 1984 – Parts of the dismembered body of Swedish prostitute Catrine da Costa were found in Stockholm.
 * 1989 – American actress Rebecca Schaeffer was shot and killed by Robert John Bardo, eventually prompting the passage of anti-stalking laws in California.
 * 1995 – Selena's album Dreaming of You, instrumental in popularizing Tejano music, was released posthumously.
 * 2012 – A suicide bomber attacked an Israeli tour bus at Burgas Airport, Bulgaria, resulting in the military branch of Hezbollah being designated a terrorist organization by the European Union.
 * 2014 – The conviction of former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, who had been found guilty of paying for an underage prostitute, was overturned on appeal.
 * Born/died this day: Abu'l-Hasan Ali ibn al-Furat|d|924| John Horsefield|b|1792| Jane Austen|d|1817| Lucy Smith Millikin|b|1821| Maria von Linden|b|1869| Clare Stevenson|b|1903| Beatrice Aitchison|b|1908| Nelson Mandela|b|1918| Aaron Beck|b|1921| Inge Sørensen |b|1924| M.I.A.|b|1975| Priyanka Chopra|b|1982 Hailie Deegan|b|2001| Amy Gillett|d|2005