July 18
NATIONAL Caviar Day
NATIONAL Sour Candy Day
Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
64 Great Fire of Rome begins
1877 Inventor Thomas Edison records the human voice for the first time
1925 The first volume of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf was published
1936 The Spanish Civil War began
1968 Intel is founded in Mountain View, California
1976 14-year-old Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci earned the first perfect score, a ten, at the Olympics and went on to score six more tens and win three gold medals
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