June 18

June 18 is the 169th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (170th in leap years), with 196 days remaining.

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Table of contents

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and observances

Events

1178 - Five Canterbury monks see what was possibly the Giordano Bruno crater being formed.
1778 - American Revolutionary War: British troops abandon Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1812 - War of 1812: The United States 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 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
1900 - Empress Dowager of China orders all foreigners killed, including foreign diplomats and their families.
1910 - The City of Glendale in Arizona is founded
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 - 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
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 of Oblomov (d. 1891)
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, Russian imperial family (d. 1918)
1903 - Jeanette MacDonald, actress, singer (d. 1965)
1903 - Raymond Radiguet, French author (d. 1923)
1904 - Keye Luke, actor (d. 1991)
1908 - Bud Collyer, 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 - Paul Neil "Red" Adair, fire fighter
1917 - Richard Bopone, actor (d. 1981)
1918 - Jerome Karle, crystallographer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in chemistry 1985
1918 - Franco Modigliani, economist, recipient of The Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1985 (d. 2003)
1924 - George Mikan, basketball star
1929 - Jürgen Habermas, sociologist and philosopher
1931 - Fernando Henrique Cardoso, ex-president of Brazil
1935 - John Spencer, English snooker player
1937 - Gail Godwin, author
1937 - Vitali Zholobov, cosmonaut
1939 - Lou Brock, baseball star
1942 - Roger Ebert, film reviewer
1942 - Sir Paul McCartney, singer, bassist, pianist, guitarist for The Beatles and Wings
1952 - Isabella Rossellini, actress
1952 - Carol Kane, actress
1963 - Bruce Smith, American football player
1964 - Uday Hussein, son of Saddam Hussein (d. 2003)
1966 - Kurt Browning, figure skater
1975 - Martin St. Louis, NHL star
1975 - Daron Malakian, rock musician, System of a Down

Deaths

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
1901 - Josip Murn - Aleksandrov, Slovene poet (b. 1879)
1922 - Jacobus Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer
1928 - Roald Amundsen, explorer
1959 - Ethel Barrymore, actress
1973 - Roger Delgado, actor (b. 1918)
1982 - John Cheever, author
1984 - Alan Berg, radio talk show host (murdered by members of a neo-nazi group)
2000 - Nancy Marchand, actress
2003 - Larry Doby, Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1923)

Holidays and observances

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