(The Blue Jays would play "home" games in the ballpark of their minor league affiliate in Buffalo, N.Y.) In 2020, Canadian officials said the Toronto Blue Jays baseball team would not be able to play its home games in Toronto during the shortened 2020 season because it wasn't safe for players to travel back and forth from the United States. In 2005, an unrepentant Eric Rudolph was sentenced in Birmingham, Alabama, to life in prison for an abortion clinic bombing that killed an off-duty police officer and maimed a nurse. Tutsi rebels declared an end to Rwanda's 14-week-old civil war. In 1994, a bomb hidden in a van destroyed a Jewish cultural center in Buenos Aires, Argentina, killing 85. Mondale won the Democratic presidential nomination in San Francisco. In 1984, gunman James Huberty opened fire at a McDonald's in San Ysidro (ee-SEE'-droh), California, killing 21 people before being shot dead by police. In 1964, nearly a week of rioting erupted in New York's Harlem neighborhood following the fatal police shooting of a Black teenager, James Powell, two days earlier. Truman signed a Presidential Succession Act which placed the speaker of the House and the Senate president pro tempore next in the line of succession after the vice president. American forces in France captured the Normandy town of St. In 1944, Hideki Tojo was removed as Japanese premier and war minister because of setbacks suffered by his country in World War II. In 1925, Adolf Hitler published the first volume of his autobiographical screed, "Mein Kampf (My Struggle)." In 1918, South African anti-apartheid leader and president Nelson Mandela was born in the village of Mvezo. Robert Gould Shaw, was among those who were killed. The Confederates were able to repel the Northerners, who suffered heavy losses the 54th's commander, Col. In 1863, during the Civil War, Union troops spearheaded by the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, made up of Black soldiers, charged Confederate-held Fort Wagner on Morris Island, S.C. In 1536, the English Parliament passed an act declaring the authority of the pope void in England. Kennedy was able to escape, but Kopechne drowned. Kennedy, D-Mass., left a party on Chappaquiddick (chap-uh-KWIH'-dihk) Island near Martha's Vineyard with Mary Jo Kopechne (koh-PEHK'-nee), 28 Kennedy's car later went off a bridge into the water. Today is Tuesday, July 18, the 199th day of 2023.
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