June 18 - Definition and Overview

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

Events

1100-1899

• 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.
• 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 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

1900-1999

• 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 - 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.

2000-2099

• 2001 - Protests occur in Manipur over the extension of the ceasefire between Naga insurgents and the government of India.

Births

1700-1899

• 1757 - Gervasio Antonio de Posadas, Argentine leader (d. 1833)
• 1812 - Ivan Goncharov, Russian author (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)

1900-1959

• 1901 - Grand Duchess Anastasia, Russian royal (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 - Red Adair, American oil well firefighter (d. 2004)
• 1917 - Richard Bopone, actor (d. 1981)
• 1918 - Jerome Karle, Nobel-winning crystallographer
• 1918 - Franco Modigliani, economist (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 - Wray Carlton, American football 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
• 1942 - Hans Vonk, conductor (d. 2004)
• 1949 - Chris Van Allsburg, author and illustrator

• 1949 - Prince Lincoln Thompson (d.1999 reggae musician and rasta

1950-1999

• 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

1200-1899

• 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

1900-1999

• 1901 - Josip Murn - Aleksandrov, Slovene poet (b. 1879)
• 1902 - Samuel Butler, English writer (b. 1835)
• 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)

2000-2099

• 2000 - Nancy Marchand, actress (b. 1928)
• 2002 - Jack Buck, Major League baseball announcer
• 2003 - Larry Doby, Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1923)

Holidays and observances

Autistic Pride Day, beginning in 2005

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