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On this day: July 18

POSTED: 03:56 PM PDT Jul 17, 2012 UPDATED: 11:00 PM PDT Jul 17, 2012

A Nobel Peace Prize winner and astronaut are born, a gymnast reaches Olympic perfection and an epic superhero hits summer theaters, all on this day.

OTD July 18 - Bill Wright — 21 / 42

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1959: Bill Wright becomes the first African-American to win a championship conducted by the United States Golf Association with his victory at the U.S. Amateur Public Links Championship at the Wellshire Golf Course in Denver.

OTD July 18 - King Edward I

OTD July 18 - Caravaggio

OTD July 18 - John Paul Jones

OTD July 18 - Jane Austen

OTD July 18 - Fort Wagner

OTD July 18 - Vatican Council

OTD July 18 - Machine Gun Kelly

OTD July 18 - Cap Anson

OTD July 18 - Hume Cronyn

OTD July 18 - Nelson Mandela

OTD July 18 - John Glenn

OTD July 18 - Mein Kampf

OTD July 18 - Ty Cobb

OTD July 18 - Oscar Mayer Wienermobile

OTD July 18 - Hunter S Thompson

OTD July 18 - Joe Torre

OTD July 18 - FDR

OTD July 18 - Harry Truman

OTD July 18 - Richard Branson

OTD July 18 - Elvis Presley

OTD July 18 - Bill Wright

OTD July 18 - National League expansion

OTD July 18 - Pete Rose

OTD July 18 - Gemni 10

OTD July 18 - Vin Diesel

OTD July 18 - Intel

OTD July 18 - Ted Kennedy

OTD July 18 - Nadia Comaneci

OTD July 18 - Kristen Bell

OTD July 18 - Walter Mondale

OTD July 18 - Aliens

OTD July 18 - Titanic

OTD July 18 - Ozzy Osbourne

OTD July 18 - My Sister Sam

OTD July 18 - Bobby Brown Whitney Houston

OTD July 18 - NBA lawsuit

OTD July 18 - Crayons

OTD July 18 - Soufriere Hills Volcano

OTD July 18 - iTunes

OTD July 18 - Eric Rudolph

OTD July 18 - The Dark Knight

OTD July 18 - Petraeus

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