HISTORY AT A GLANCE

TODAY is Tuesday, July 18, the 199th day of 2017. There are 166 days left in the year. Highlights in history on this date:

1944 – World War II: Hideki Tojo resigns as Prime Minister of Japan because of numerous setbacks in the war effort.

1966 – Human spaceflight: Gemini 10 is launched from Cape Kennedy on a 70-hour mission that includes docking with an orbiting Agena target vehicle.

1968 – Intel is founded in Mountain View, California.

1976 – Nadia Comaneci becomes the first person in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 in gymnastics at the

1976 Summer Olympics.

1984 – McDonald’s massacre in San Ysidro, California: In a fast-food restaurant, James Oliver Huberty opens fire, killing 21 people and injuring 19 others before being shot dead by police.

1984 – The dismembered body of Swedish prostitute Catrine da Costa is found in Stockholm, the findings later led to a trial that ended in a mistrial for two accused doctors.

1994 – The bombing of the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (Argentine Jewish Community Centre) in Buenos Aires kills 85 people (mostly Jewish) and injures 300.

1994 – Rwandan Genocide: The Rwandan Patriotic Front takes control of Gisenyi and north western Rwanda, forcing the interim government into Zaire and ending the genocide.

1995 – On the Caribbean island of Montserrat, the Soufrière Hills volcano erupts. Over the course of several years, it devastates the island, destroying the capital and forcing most of the population to flee.

1995 – Dreaming of You by Selena, is released posthumously, became the best-selling Latin album in the United States.

1996 – Storms provoke severe flooding on the Saguenay River, beginning one of Quebec’s costliest natural disasters ever: The Saguenay Flood.

1996 – Battle of Mullaitivu: The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam capture the Sri Lanka Army’s base, killing over 1200 soldiers.

2012 – At least seven people are killed and 32 others are injured after a bomb explodes on an Israeli tour bus at Burgas Airport, Bulgaria.

2013 – The Government of Detroit, with up to $20 billion in debt, files for the largest municipal bankruptcy in US history.