On July 18

An arson attack at the studio of Kyoto Animation in Japan led to the deaths of 36 people.

The conviction of former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, who had been found guilty of paying for an underage prostitute, was overturned on appeal.

A suicide bomber attacked an Israeli tour bus at Burgas Airport, Bulgaria, resulting in the military branch of Hezbollah being designated a terrorist organization by the European Union.

Selena's album Dreaming of You, instrumental in popularizing Tejano music, was released posthumously.

American actress Rebecca Schaeffer was shot and killed by Robert John Bardo, eventually prompting the passage of anti-stalking laws in California.

A gunman massacred 21 people and injured 15 others at a McDonald's restaurant in the district of San Ysidro of San Diego, California.

Parts of the dismembered body of Swedish prostitute Catrine da Costa were found in Stockholm.

At the Olympic Games in Montreal, Nadia Comăneci (pictured) became the first person to score a perfect 10 in a modern Olympics gymnastics event.

Angered by racism and poverty, African American residents of the Hough neighborhood of Cleveland began to riot for six days.

Francisco Javier Arana, the chief of the Guatemalan armed forces, was killed in a shootout with supporters of President Juan José Arévalo.

Nationalist rebels attempted a coup against the Second Spanish Republic, sparking the Spanish Civil War.

Newsboys from Long Island City turned over a distribution wagon for the New York Journal, marking the start of the Newsboys' strike of 1899.

American Civil War: Led by Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, one of the first African-American military units in the Union Army, spearheaded an assault (pictured) on Fort Wagner, South Carolina.

Pedro II, the last emperor of Brazil, was crowned at the Old Cathedral of Rio de Janeiro.

An explosion at a gunpowder magazine in Birgu, Malta, killed an estimated 200 people.

Johann Sebastian Bach directed the first performance of his cantata Erforsche mich, Gott, und erfahre mein Herz in Leipzig.

King Edward I issued an edict to expel all Jews from England.