June 18 - Definition


June 18 - Definition

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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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.
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 - 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 Mend�s-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.

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 - J�rgen 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

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