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 – The French, under the leadership of Joan of Arc, crush the English under Sir John Fastolf at the Battle of Patay. It came to be recognized as the war's turning point.
• 1685 – The Monmouth Rebellion: James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, declares himself King of England at Taunton, Somerset.
• 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, 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 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 are held
• 1940 – Appeal of June 18 by Charles de Gaulle
• 1945 – William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) is charged with treason
• 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 – 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
• 1996 – Ted Kaczynski, suspected of being the Unabomber, is indicted on ten criminals counts.
• 2001 – Protests occur in Manipur over the extension of the ceasefire between Naga insurgents and the government of India.

Births

• 1757 – Gervasio Antonio de Posadas, Argentine leader (d. 1833)
• 1812 – Ivan Goncharov, Russian author (d. 1891)
• 1824 – Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1769)
• 1854 – E.W. Scripps, journalist, publisher (d. 1926)
• 1868 – Miklós Horthy, Hungarian admiral and regent (d. 1957)
• 1877 – James Montgomery Flagg, illustrator (d. 1960)
• 1901 – Grand Duchess Anastasia Nicolaievna Romanova (d. 1918)
• 1903 – Jeanette MacDonald, American actress and singer (d. 1965)
• 1903 – Raymond Radiguet, French author (d. 1923)
• 1904 – Keye Luke, actor (d. 1991)
• 1907 – Frithjof Schuon, metaphysician, poet, and painter (d. 1998)
• 1908 – Bud Collyer, American game show host (d. 1969)
• 1909 – Willi Kramp, writer (d. 1986)
• 1910 – E.G. Marshall, actor (d. 1998)
• 1913 – Sammy Cahn, composer (d. 1993)
• 1915 – Red Adair, American firefighter (d. 2004)
• 1917 – Richard Bopone, actor (d. 1981)
• 1918 – Jerome Karle, Nobel Prize-winning crystallographer
• 1918  – Franco Modigliani, economist (d. 2003)
• 1924 – George Mikan, basketball star
• 1929 – Jürgen Habermas, sociologist and philosopher
• 1931 – Fernando Henrique Cardoso, President of Brazil
• 1935 – John Spencer, English snooker player
• 1937 – Wray Carlton, American football player
• 1937  – Gail Godwin, author
• 1937  – Vitali Zholobov, cosmonaut
• 1938 – Kevin Murray, Australian rules footballer
• 1939 – Lou Brock, baseball star
• 1942 – Roger Ebert, film reviewer
• 1942  – Sir Paul McCartney, singer and songwriter (Beatles and Wings)
• 1942  – Hans Vonk, conductor (d. 2004)
• 1949 – Chris Van Allsburg, author and illustrator
• 1949 – Prince Lincoln Thompson, musician (d.1999
• 1952 – Isabella Rossellini, actress
• 1952  – Carol Kane, actress
• 1961 – Andrés Galarraga, baseball player
• 1963 – Bruce Smith, American football player
• 1964 – Uday Hussein, Iraqi leader (d. 2003)
• 1966 – Kurt Browning, figure skater
• 1975 – Martin St. Louis, hockey star
• 1975 – Daron Malakian, rock musician

Deaths

• 1250 – Teresa of Portugal (b. 1181)
• 1291 – King Alfonso III of Aragon (b. 1265)
• 1629 – Piet Hein (Netherlands), naval commander and folk hero (b. 1577)
• 1704 – Tom Brown, English satirist (b. 1662)
• 1794 – François Nicolas Leonard Buzot, French Revolutionary leader (b. 1760)
• 1835 – William Cobbett, journalist and author (b. 1763)
• 1901 – Josip Murn – Aleksandrov, Slovene poet (b. 1879)
• 1902 – Samuel Butler, English writer (b. 1835)
• 1922 – Jacobus Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer (b. 1851)
• 1928 – Roald Amundsen, explorer (b. 1872)
• 1959 – Ethel Barrymore, actress (b. 1879)
• 1973 – Roger Delgado, actor (b. 1918)
• 1982 – John Cheever, author (b. 1912)
• 1984 – Alan Berg, radio talk show host (murdered)
• 2000 – Nancy Marchand, actress (b. 1928)
• 2002 – Jack Buck, Major League baseball announcer (b. 1924)
• 2003 – Larry Doby, Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1923)

Holidays and observances

• Seychelles – National Day
• Autistic Pride Day, beginning in 2005
• Philippines – Independence Day

External links

• BBC: On This Day

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