Once Upon A Time – July 18 – 2012 – Kim Jong-Un Officially Appointed Supreme Leader Of North Korea, Becomes Marshal In Korean People’s Army

64 Great Fire of Rome begins under the Emperor Nero

1925 Adolf Hitler publishes Mein Kampf (original title was the catchy “Four and a Half Years (of Struggle) Against Lies, Stupidity and Cowardice”)

1936 Spanish Civil War: General Francisco Franco issues manifesto and leads an uprising in the Spanish army stationed in Morocco

2012 Kim Jong-un is officially appointed Supreme Leader of North Korea and given the rank of Marshal in the Korean People’s Army

2013 Detroit, Michigan, files for bankruptcy, becoming the largest US municipal bankruptcy ever at $18.5 billion

HISTORICAL EVENTS TODAY

TODAY IN FILM & TV

1959 “The Nun’s Story” based on the novel by Kathryn Hulme, starring Audrey Hepburn premieres in Los Angeles

TODAY IN MUSIC

1980 Billy Joel’s “Glass Houses” album tops US charts, featuring “It’s Still Rock ‘n’ Roll to Me”

TODAY IN SPORT

1976 Nadia Comăneci (14) becomes the first gymnast in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 score (doing so 7 times) at Montreal Games

MORE FACTS….

1743 1st half-page newspaper ad is published (NY Weekly Journal)

1938 Douglas “Wrong Way” Corrigan arrives in Ireland after a 28 hours flight, supposedly left NY flying for California

FAMOUS WEDDINGS

1922 British naval officer Louis Mountbatten (22) weds Lord Mount Temple’s daughter Edwina Cynthia Annette Ashley (20) at St. Margaret’s in Westminster, London

1933 American heavyweight boxing champ Jack Dempsey (38) weds American Broadway singer and actress Hannah Williams (22); divorce in 1943

1938 Physicist and Nobel laureate John Bardeen (30) weds Jane Maxwell