Today in History - History - July 18th

1936Charles "Lucky" Luciano is sentenced to 30 to 50 years in state prison

1925Adolf Hitler publishes Mein Kampf (original title was the catchy "Four and a Half Years (of Struggle) Against Lies, Stupidity and Cowardice")

1982111th British Golf Open: Tom Watson shoots a 284 at Royal Troon

1954Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Inverness Four-Ball Golf Tournament

64Great Fire of Rome begins under the Emperor Nero

200412th ESPY Awards: Lance Armstrong, Diana Taurasi win

1965Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Yankee Golf Open

1991Mike Tyson meets Miss Black America contestants

1914Gandhi leaves South Africa after successfully leading campaigns of Passive Resistance

1696Tsar Peter I's fleet occupies Azov at mouth of Don River

1895George Machine Gun Kelly [Georgio Barnes], Memphis Tennessee, American gangster, (d. 1954)

1950Richard Branson, London, British music enterperneur (Virgin Atlantic)

1635Robert Hooke, Isle of Wight, Scientist (Micrographia)

1918Nelson Mandela, Qunu South Africa, political prisoner (ANC)/President (1994-1999)/ Nobel (1993)

1976Country singer Tammy Wynette (34) weds real-estate mogul Michael Tomlin

1938Physicist and Nobel laureate John Bardeen (30) weds Jane Maxwell

1933Heavyweight boxing champ Jack Dempsey (38) weds broadway singer Hannah Williams (22)

1998Nelson Mandela marries 3rd wife Graça Machel on his 80th birthday

1959Actress Louise Fletcher (25) weds producer Jerry Bick (36)

1992Singers Whitney Houston (28) & Bobby Brown (23) marry

1817Jane Austen, English novelist, dies at 41

1954George Machine Gun Kelly, American gangster, dies at 59