A look back at historical events that occurred on July 18
In 1940, the Democratic national convention in Chicago nominated U.S. President Roosevelt for an unprecedented third term in office.
In 1976, Romanian Nadia Comaneci, performing on the uneven bars at the Montreal Olympics, scored the first perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastic history.In 1984, 21 people were killed by a gunman at a McDonald’s restaurant in San Ysidro, Calif.Article content In 1997, DNA tests cleared David Milgaard of the 1969 sexual assault and fatal stabbing of Saskatoon nursing aide Gail Miller. Milgaard served 23 years in prison for the crime. The Saskatchewan government apologized to Milgaard and compensated him, and ordered a public inquiry.
In 2010, Annie Welsh, who as a toddler survived the Dec. 6, 1917 Halifax Explosion and came to be known as Ashpan Annie, died at a Halifax seniors residence. She was 95. Her mother and brother died when the blast ripped through their Barrington Street home and she was thrown under the kitchen stove. Her father was a soldier overseas. Relief efforts were hampered by a major snowstorm, but she survived because the ashes in the ashpan kept her warm for 26 hours until soldiers rescued her.
In 2018, the European Commission fined U.S. tech giant Google a record US$5 billion for forcing cellphone makers that use the company’s Android operating system to install Google’s search and browser apps, thus restricting competition and reducing choices for consumers.
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