June 18
June 18 is the 169th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (170th in leap years), with 196 days remaining.
Events
- 1178 - Five Canterbury monks see what was possibly the Giordano Bruno crater being formed. It is believed that the current oscillations of the moon's distance (on the order of metres) are a result of this collision.
- 1264 - The Parliament of Ireland meets at Castledermot in County Kildare, the first definitively known meeting of this Irish legislature.
- 1429 - French forces under the leadership of Joan of Arc crush the main English army under Sir John Fastolf at the Battle of Patay. This turns the tide of the Hundred Years' War.
- 1767 - Samuel Wallis, an English sea captain, sighted Tahiti and is considered the first European to reach the island.
- 1778 - American Revolutionary War: British troops abandon Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- 1812 - War of 1812: The U.S. Congress declares war on the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
- 1815 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Waterloo leads to Napoleon Bonaparte abdicating the throne of France for a second and final time.
- 1858 - Charles Darwin receives from Alfred Russel Wallace a paper that included nearly identical conclusions about evolution as Darwin's own. This prompts Darwin to publish his theory.
- 1873 - Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election.
- 1887 - The Reinsurance Treaty is closed between Germany and Russia.
- 1900 - Empress Dowager Longyu of China orders all foreigners killed, including foreign diplomats and their families.
- 1923 - Checker Cab puts its first taxi on the streets.
- 1928 - Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean (she was a passenger; Wilmer Stutz was pilot and Lou Gordon,mechanic).
- 1930 - Groundbreaking ceremonies for the Franklin Institute held.
- 1940 - Appeal of June 18 by Charles de Gaulle.
- 1940 - "Finest Hour" speech by Winston Churchill.
- 1945 - William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) is charged with treason.
- 1946 - Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia, a Socialist called for a Direct Action Day against the Portuguese in Goa. A road is named after this date in Panjim.
- 1953 - The Republic of Egypt is declared and the monarchy is abolished.
- 1953 - A United States Air Force C-124 crashed and burned near Tokyo, Japan killing 129.
- 1954 - Pierre Mendès-France becomes Prime Minister of France.
- 1959 - Governor of Louisiana Earl K. Long is committed to a state mental hospital; he responds by having the hospital's director fired and replaced with a crony who proceeds to proclaim him perfectly sane.
- 1965 - Vietnam War: The United States uses B-52 bombers to attack National Liberation Front guerrilla fighters in South Vietnam.
- 1967 - Jimi Hendrix burns his guitar on stage at the Monterey Pop Festival.
- 1979 - SALT II is signed by the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
- 1983 - Space Shuttle program: STS-7, Astronaut Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space.
- 1984 - Major clash between about 5,000 Police and a similar number of Miners at Orgreave, South Yorkshire, during the 1984-1985 Miners Strike. Incident later known as the Battle of Orgreave.
- 1994 - 43 baseball fans are injured in an escalator accident at the two-year-old Oriole Park at Camden Yards in Baltimore, Maryland.
- 1996 - Ted Kaczynski, suspected of being the Unabomber, is indicted on ten criminal counts.
- 1999 - A global Carnival against Capitalism.
- 2001 - Protests occur in Manipur over the extension of the ceasefire between Naga insurgents and the government of India.
- 2006 - The first Kazakh space sattelite, KazSat is launched.
Births
- 1466 - Ottaviano Petrucci, Italian printer (d. 1539)
- 1511 - Bartolomeo Ammanati, Italian architect and sculptor (d. 1592)
- 1517 - Emperor Ogimachi of Japan (d. 1593)
- 1552 - Gabriello Chiabrera, Italian poet (d. 1637)
- 1667 - Ivan Trubetskoy, Russian field marshal (d. 1750)
- 1716 - Joseph-Marie Vien, French painter (d. 1809)
- 1757 - Gervasio Antonio de Posadas, Argentine leader (d. 1833)
- 1757 - Ignaz Pleyel, Austrian composer and piano manufacturer (d. 1831)
- 1812 - Ivan Goncharov, Russian author (d. 1891)
- 1815 - Ludwig Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen, German general (d. 1881)
- 1824 - Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1769)
- 1839 - William Henry Seward, Jr., Union Brigadier General in the American Civil War (d. 1920)
- 1845 - Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1922)
- 1854 - E.W. Scripps, American journalist and publisher (d. 1926)
- 1868 - Miklós Horthy, Hungarian admiral and regent (d. 1957)
- 1877 - James Montgomery Flagg, American illustrator (d. 1960)
- 1884 - Édouard Daladier, French politician (d. 1970)
- 1886 - Alexander Wetmore, American ornithologist (d. 1978)
- 1895 - Blanche Sweet, American actress (d. 1986)
- 1901 - Grand Duchess Anastasia Nicolaievna Romanova of Russia (d. 1918)
- 1903 - Jeanette MacDonald, American actress and singer (d. 1965)
- 1903 - Raymond Radiguet, French author (d. 1923)
- 1904 - Keye Luke, Chinese-born actor (d. 1991)
- 1904 - Manuel Rosenthal, French conductor and composer (d. 2003)
- 1907 - Frithjof Schuon, Swiss metaphysician, poet, and painter (d. 1998)
- 1908 - Bud Collyer, American game show host (d. 1969)
- 1908 - Nedra Volz, American actress (d. 2003)
- 1908 - Stanley Knowles, Canadian politician (d. 1997)
- 1910 - E.G. Marshall, American actor (d. 1998)
- 1910 - Ray McKinley, jazz drummer and bandleader (d. 1995)
- 1913 - Sammy Cahn, American composer (d. 1993)
- 1915 - Red Adair, American firefighter (d. 2004)
- 1916 - Julio César Turbay Ayala, Colombian politician (d. 2005)
- 1917 - Richard Boone, American actor (d. 1981)
- 1917 - Arthur Tremblay, French Canadian politician (d. 1996)
- 1918 - Jerome Karle, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1918 - Franco Modigliani, Italian-born economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2003)
- 1918 - Ajahn Chah, Buddhist meditation master
- 1920 - Ian Carmichael, English actor
- 1922 - Claude Helffer, French pianist (d. 2004)
- 1924 - George Mikan, American basketball player (d. 2005)
- 1927 - Paul Eddington, English actor (d. 1995)
- 1928 - David T. Lykken, American scientist
- 1929 - Jürgen Habermas, German sociologist and philosopher
- 1931 - Fernando Henrique Cardoso, President of Brazil from 1995 to 2002
- 1932 - Dudley R. Herschbach, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1932 - Geoffrey Hill, English poet
- 1935 - Hugh McColl, American banker
- 1935 - John Spencer, English snooker player
- 1936 - Denny Hulme, 1967 Formula One World Champion (d. 1992)
- 1937 - Wray Carlton, American football player
- 1937 - John D. Rockefeller IV, U.S. Senator
- 1937 - Vitali Zholobov, cosmonaut
- 1938 - Kevin Murray, Australian footballer
- 1939 - Lou Brock, baseball player
- 1940 - Michael Sheard, British actor (d. 2005)
- 1942 - Roger Ebert, American film reviewer
- 1942 - Sir Paul McCartney, English singer and songwriter (The Beatles)
- 1942 - Hans Vonk, Dutch conductor (d. 2004)
- 1942 - Thabo Mbeki, President of South Africa
- 1942 - Carl Radle, American bass guitarist
- 1943 - Raffaella Carrà, Italian singer
- 1946 - Fabio Capello, Italian football coach
- 1946 - Bruiser Brody, Professional wrestler (d. 1988)
- 1949 - Chris Van Allsburg, American author and illustrator
- 1949 - Prince Lincoln Thompson, Jamaican musician (d. 1999)
- 1949 - Lech Kaczyński, Polish president, 2005-present
- 1949 - Jarosław Kaczyński, Polish politician, twin brother of Lech Kaczyński
- 1950 - Jackie Leven aka Sir Vincent Lone Scottish singer and songwriter DXD
- 1952 - Isabella Rossellini, Italian actress
- 1952 - Carol Kane, American actress
- 1956 - Brian Benben, American actor
- 1961 - Andrés Galarraga, baseball player
- 1961 - Alison Moyet, English pop singer
- 1963 - Bruce Smith, American football player
- 1964 - Uday Hussein, Iraqi leader (d. 2003)
- 1966 - Kurt Browning, Canadian figure skater
- 1969 - Vito LoGrasso, American professional wrestler
- 1971 - Nathan Morris, American singer (Boyz II Men)
- 1971 - Jason McAteer, England-born Irish footballer
- 1974 - Vincenzo Montella, Italian footballer
- 1975 - Martin St. Louis, Canadian hockey player
- 1975 - Aleksandrs Koliņko, Latvian footballer
- 1975 - Marie Gillain, Belgian actress
- 1975 - Jemma Griffiths, Welsh singer-songwriter
- 1975 - Jamel Debbouze, French actor and producer
- 1978 - Wang Liqin, Chinese table tennis player
- 1981 - Kim Jae Won, South Korean actor
- 1981 - Teresa Cormack, New Zealand murder victim (d. 1987)
- 1982 - Sean Conant, Irish-American artist
- 1984 - Mateus, Angolan footballer
- 1989 - Renee Olstead, American singer and actress
- 1991 - Willa Holland, American actress
Deaths
- 1234 - Emperor Chukyo of Japan (b. 1218)
- 1291 - King Alfonso III of Aragon (b. 1265)
- 1464 - Roger van der Weyden, Flemish painter
- 1588 - Robert Crowley, English printer and poet
- 1629 - Piet Hein, Dutch naval commander and folk hero (b. 1577)
- 1650 - Christoph Scheiner, German astronomer
- 1673 - Jeanne Mance, French Canadian settler (b. 1606)
- 1680 - Samuel Butler, English poet (b. 1612)
- 1704 - Tom Brown, English satirist (b. 1662)
- 1726 - Michel Richard Delalande, French organist and composer (b. 1657)
- 1742 - John Aislabie, English politician (b. 1670)
- 1749 - Ambrose Philips, English poet (b. 1674)
- 1772 - Johann Ulrich von Cramer, German judge and philosopher (b. 1706)
- 1772 - Gerard van Swieten, Dutch-born physician (b. 1700)
- 1788 - Adam Gib, Scottish religious leader (b. 1714)
- 1794 - François Nicolas Leonard Buzot, French Revolutionary leader (b. 1760)
- 1794 - James Murray, British military officer and administrator
- 1815 - Thomas Picton, British general (killed in battle) (b. 1758)
- 1815 - Guillaume Philibert Duhesme, French general (b. 1766)
- 1835 - William Cobbett, English journalist and author (b. 1763)
- 1902 - Samuel Butler, English writer (b. 1835)
- 1922 - Jacobus Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer (b. 1851)
- 1915 - Eufemio Zapata, brother to Mexican revolutionist Emiliano Zapata, killed by Sidronio Comancho
- 1928 - Roald Amundsen, Norwegian explorer (b. 1872)
- 1936 - Maxim Gorky, Russian author (b. 1868)
- 1937 - Gaston Doumergue, French statesman (b. 1863)
- 1959 - Ethel Barrymore, American actress (b. 1879)
- 1963 - Pedro Armendáriz, Mexican actor (b. 1912)
- 1971 - Paul Karrer, Swiss chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1889)
- 1973 - Roger Delgado, British actor (b. 1918)
- 1974 - Georgy Zhukov, Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. 1896)
- 1974 - Júlio César de Mello e Souza, Brazilian writer (b. 1896)
- 1980 - André Leducq, French cyclist (b. 1904)
- 1982 - John Cheever, American author (b. 1912)
- 1982 - Curd Jürgens, German actor (b. 1915)
- 1984 - Alan Berg, American radio talk show host (murdered)
- 1992 - Mordecai Ardon, one of Israel's greatest painters (b. 1896)
- 1992 - Peter Allen, Australian singer and songwriter (b. 1944)
- 1997 - Lev Kopelev, Russian writer and dissident (b. 1912)
- 2000 - Nancy Marchand, American actress (b. 1928)
- 2002 - Jack Buck, baseball announcer (b. 1924)
- 2003 - Larry Doby, baseball player (b. 1923)
- 2005 - Syed Mushtaq Ali, Indian cricketer (b. 1914)
- 2005 - Manuel Sadosky, Argentine mathematician (b. 1914)
- 2006 - Vincent Sherman, American film director (b. 1906)
Holidays and observances
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