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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 - Cap Anson — 8 / 42

Library of Congress

1897: Cap Anson becomes the first professional baseball player to get 3,000 hits. However, in that total were 60 walks, which during the 1887 season were counted as hits. Those hits were counted at first, removed by Major League Baseball, then restored again in 2001.

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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