JULY 18, 2025 | NATIONAL CAVIAR DAY | NATIONAL SOUR CANDY DAY | NATIONAL TROPICAL FRUIT DAY
JULY 18, 2025 | NATIONAL CAVIAR DAY | NATIONAL SOUR CANDY DAY | NATIONAL TROPICAL FRUIT DAY
NATIONAL CAVIAR DAY
On July 18, National Caviar Day recognizes a seafood delicacy with roe on toast. The day also raises awareness about the survival of the sturgeon. #NationalCaviarDay
NATIONAL SOUR CANDY DAY | July 18
NATIONAL SOUR CANDY DAYJuly 18 is National Sour Candy Day! Adults and children alike will enjoy lip-puckering, eye-watering flavors. Choose your favorite sour candy and celebrate! #NationalSourCandyDay
NATIONAL TROPICAL FRUIT DAY | July 18
NATIONAL TROPICAL FRUIT DAY
Today is July 18 on the National Day Calendar and we are celebrating the delicious food holiday National Tropical Fruit Day. This fruity National Day celebrates the variety of exotic tropical fruit from around the world and gives us the opportunity to get a taste of some sweet facts, too. #NATIONALTROPICALFRUITDAY
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National Days
TOSS AWAY THE “COULD HAVES” AND “SHOULD HAVES” DAY
NATIONAL WORDS WITH FRIENDS DAY
INTERNATIONAL RETAINER DAY
NATIONAL PLAY DAY
NATIONAL DAIQUIRI DAY
July 18th Celebrated History
1925
Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf is published.
1968
Gordon E. Moore and Robert Noyce founded the Intel Corporation.
1976
Judges at the Montreal Olympics awarded Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci the first perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics history. The perfect 10 came during the team compulsory competition and her routine on the uneven bars.
1992
Tim Berners posts the first photograph on the World Wide Web. The image was of the band Les Horribles Cernettes at a CERN event.
July 18th Celebrated Birthdays
Kelly Miller - 1863
The first African American graduate student admitted to Johns Hopkins University, Kelly Miller had a brilliant mind for mathematics. Despite these strengths, tuition increases and civil rights barriers prevented him from attaining his Masters' Degree from Johns Hopkins. Kelly returned to Howard University and earned a Master of Arts in Mathematics and a law degree. He turned his attention to the social sciences quickly became a central figure at Howard University for his entire career as Dean of the College of Arts and Science and wrote prolifically on his views of race.
Margaret Brown - 1867
The American socialite who survived the sinking of the Titanic became known as the Unsinkable Molly Brown.
Nelson Mandela - 1918
The anti-apartheid revolutionary became South Africa's first Black head of state and was elected to the presidency from 1994-1999.
John Glenn - 1921
In 1962, the astronaut became the first American to orbit the Earth aboard the Friendship7 spacecraft.
Charles Richard Branson - 1950
In 1972, Richard Branson founded Virgin Records. Today he is the billionaire founder of Virgin Group. On July 11, 2021, he became the first billionaire in space when he flew aboard Virgin Galactic's Spaceship Two Unity.