THE DAY IN HISTORY · JULY 18
July 18 in history
What happened on July 18: 2 moments from the Maps of History atlases, in 1863 and 1947, each linked to the map that shows it.
— Second Battle of Fort Wagner
18 Jul 1863 — The 54th Massachusetts, one of the first Black regiments, leads the assault on the battery in Charleston harbor and loses nearly half its strength. Colonel Shaw is buried with his men. Their courage makes an argument about Black soldiers’ place in the Union army: by the end of the war, 180,000 Black soldiers wear Union blue.
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— SS Exodus
18 Jul 1947 — Off Haifa, the Royal Navy boards Exodus, a former Chesapeake Bay steamer carrying about 4,500 Jewish refugees. Three people are killed. The passengers are sent back to France and refuse to land; in September they are forced ashore in Hamburg. The spectacle swayed opinion while the UN debated Palestine.
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