Talk:July 18

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July 18: Image:The Storming of Ft. Wagner-cropped.JPG 64 – The Great Fire of Rome started among the shops around the Circus Maximus selling flammable goods, eventually destroying four of fourteen Roman districts and severely damaging seven others. 1863 – American Civil War: Led by Union Army Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry (pictured), the first formal African American military unit, spearheaded an assault on Fort Wagner near Charleston, South Carolina. 1982 – Guatemalan military forces and their paramilitary allies slaughtered over 250 Mayan campesinos in the village of Plan de Sánchez, Baja Verapaz department. 1995 – During the fifteenth stage of the 1995 Tour de France, Italian cyclist Fabio Casartelli suffered a fatal crash on the descent of the Col de Portet d'Aspet. 1996 – Paris-bound TWA Flight 800 exploded at 00:31 UTC (20:31, July 17 EDT) off the coast of Long Island, New York, killing all 230 on board. More events: July 17 – July 18 – July 19 Archive – By email – More anniversaries... It is now 16:39, June 14, 2008 (UTC) – Refresh this page

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[edit] Barthélemy Faujas de Saint - Error with years of birth/death

The page currently has: "1819 - Barthélemy Faujas de Saint, French geologist (b. 1741)" under the births section. So why does it say b. 1741?! If no one responds by 1/27/2006, I think I'll try to do some reseearch on her (there's no wikipedia article), otherwise, I'm deleting this line. Reuvenk 23:25, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Conflict with article?

Should the bit about the Great Fire of Rome state "while Roman Emperor Nero reportedly played his lyre and sang as he watched the blaze from a safe distance" when the article contradicts that? While "reportedly" is used, the report in question is, well, questionable, as the article explains. PoptartKing 01:59, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] TWA flight 800

Why is TWA Flight 800 listed on both July 17 and July 18 when the explosion and crash happened on July 17 local time? I think that it would be prudent to have only 1 listing of this (on July 17). The UTC time can still be there, for reference. Just a thought... Fitzharry 13:42, 18 July 2007 (UTC)