Reuters historical calendar - July 18

LONDON, July 17 (Reuters) Following are some of the major events to have occurred on July 18 in history: 1925 - Adolf Hitler published the first volume of his personal manifesto, ''Mein Kampf''.

1936 - The Spanish Civil War began with a revolt at Melilla in what was then Spanish Morocco.

1969 - US Senator Edward Kennedy's car went off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts, killing his passenger Mary Jo Kopechne.

1972 - Egypt demanded that the Soviet Union remove its 20,000 advisers from the country, accusing it of failing to supply arms it had promised.

1994 - A bomb at a Jewish community centre in Buenos Aires killed 96 people.

1997 - American astronomer Eugene Shoemaker, who helped discover the giant Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet that slammed into the planet Jupiter in 1994, died in a car crash in Australia. He was 69.

1998 - South African President Nelson Mandela celebrated his 80th birthday by marrying Graca Machel, widow of Mozambican president Samora Machel.

1998 - The International Criminal Court (ICC) was created to try genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.

2003 - The body was found of David Kelly, a British Defence Ministry weapons scientist who was subsequently confirmed as the source for a BBC report that the government had exaggerated intelligence reports to justify war in Iraq.

2005 - Gen. William Westmoreland, commander of US military operations in the Vietnam War, died aged 91.

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