(Wednesday, July 18, 1984, evening PDT) — Former Vice President Walter Mondale was nominated for president tonight on the first ballot at the 1984 Democratic National Convention in San Francisco, defeating Sen. Gary Hart of Colorado 2,191-1,201. Continue reading Democrats nominate Mondale-Ferraro ticket 30 years ago tonight (July 18 1984)
Video: 'NYC Riots 1964
(Saturday, July 18, 1964, about 10:00 p.m. EDT; during the African-American Civil Rights Movement (1954–68)) — Nearly a week of rioting erupted tonight in New York’s Harlem neighborhood, two days after the fatal police shooting of a black teenager, James Powell.
(Tuesday, July 18, 1944; during the Pacific War of World War II) — Nine days after the fall of Saipan, Hideki Tojo resigned today as the 40th Prime Minister of Japan and Minister of War because of a series of setbacks suffered by his country in the war, effective July 22, 1944.
Video: 'The Great Port Chicago Explosion'
(Monday, July 17, 1944, 10:20 p.m. PWT; during World War II) — 320 men, two-thirds of them African-Americans, were killed tonight when a pair of ammunition ships exploded at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine in Port Chicago, California. Another 390 people were injured.
