Today In History 18 July 2020: Nurses Strike, OAU Supports PF Rebels

Notable Events 

1. 2006 Jul 18, Nearly 300 striking doctors in Zimbabwe ignored government demands for them to return to hospital wards.
2. 18 July 2005 United Nations published the findings of its factfinding mission to Zimbabwe which found that Operation Murambatsvina cost some 700,000 citizens their homes or livelihoods or both and otherwise affected nearly a fifth of Zimbabwe’s population.
3. Today in history; 18 July 2009 AIDS activists warned that thousands of people suffering from the disease were dying prematurely because they couldn’t access CD4 count machines to determine their requirements for anti-retroviral therapy.
4. Today in history; 18 July 1978 OAU foreign ministers expressed support for PF rebels on July 18, 1978, and OAU heads-of-state expressed support for PF rebels on July 22, 1978.
5. 1988-07-18 British Open Men’s Golf, Royal Lytham & St. Annes: Spaniard Seve Ballesteros wins his 3rd Open title by 2 shots from Nick Price of Zimbabwe