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What Happened on June 18th This Day in History

Year Name
2018 An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 strikes northern Osaka.
2009 The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), a NASA robotic spacecraft is launched.
2007 The Charleston Sofa Super Store fire happened in Charleston, South Carolina, killing nine firefighters.
2006 The first Kazakh space satellite, KazSat-1 is launched.
1998 Propair Flight 420 crashes near Montréal–Mirabel International Airport in Quebec, Canada, killing 11.
1994 The Troubles: Members of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) attack a crowded pub with assault rifles in Loughinisland, Northern Ireland. Six Catholic civilians are killed and five wounded. It was crowded with people watching the 1994 FIFA World Cup.
1984 A major clash between about 5,000 police and a similar number of miners takes place at Orgreave, South Yorkshire, during the 1984–85 UK miners' strike.
1983 Space Shuttle program: STS-7, Astronaut Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space.
1983 Mona Mahmudnizhad, together with nine other women of the Baháʼí Faith, is sentenced to death and hanged in Shiraz, Iran over her religious beliefs.
1982 Italian banker Roberto Calvi's body is discovered hanging beneath Blackfriars Bridge in London, England.
1981 The Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk, the first operational aircraft initially designed around stealth technology, makes its first flight.
1979 SALT II is signed by the United States and the Soviet Union.
1972 Staines air disaster: One hundred eighteen people are killed when a BEA H.S. Trident crashes minutes after takeoff from London's Heathrow Airport.
1965 Vietnam War: The United States Air Force uses B-52 bombers to attack guerrilla fighters in South Vietnam.
1954 Carlos Castillo Armas leads an invasion force across the Guatemalan border, setting in motion the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état.
1953 The Egyptian revolution of 1952 ends with the overthrow of the Muhammad Ali dynasty and the declaration of the Republic of Egypt.
1953 A United States Air Force C-124 crashes and burns near Tachikawa, Japan, killing 129.
1948 Columbia Records introduces the long-playing record album in a public demonstration at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City.
1948 Britain, France and the United States announce that on June 21, the Deutsche Mark will be introduced in western Germany and West Berlin. Over the next six days, Communists increasingly restrict access to Berlin.
1946 Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia, a Socialist, calls for a Direct Action Day against the Portuguese in Goa.
1945 William Joyce ("Lord Haw-Haw") is charged with treason for his pro-German propaganda broadcasting during World War II.
1940 Appeal of 18 June by Charles de Gaulle.
1940 The "Finest Hour" speech is delivered by Winston Churchill.
1935 Police in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, clash with striking longshoremen, resulting in a total of 60 injuries and 24 arrests.
1928 Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean (she is a passenger; Wilmer Stultz is the pilot and Lou Gordon the mechanic).
1908 Japanese immigration to Brazil begins when 781 people arrive in Santos aboard the ship Kasato-Maru.
1908 The University of the Philippines is established.
1900 Empress Dowager Cixi of China orders all foreigners killed, including foreign diplomats and their families.
1887 The Reinsurance Treaty between Germany and Russia is signed.
1873 Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election.
1859 First ascent of Aletschhorn, second summit of the Bernese Alps.
1858 Charles Darwin receives a paper from Alfred Russel Wallace that includes nearly identical conclusions about evolution as Darwin's own, prompting Darwin to publish his theory.
1822 Konstantinos Kanaris blows up the Ottoman navy's flagship at Chios, killing the Kapudan Pasha Nasuhzade Ali Pasha.
1815 Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Waterloo results in the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte by the Duke of Wellington and Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher forcing him to abdicate the throne of France for the second and last time.
1812 The United States declaration of war upon the United Kingdom is signed by President James Madison, beginning the War of 1812.
1803 Haitian Revolution: The Royal Navy led by Rear-Admiral John Thomas Duckworth commence the blockade of Saint-Domingue against French forces.
1799 Action of 18 June 1799: A frigate squadron under Rear-admiral Jean-Baptiste Perrée is captured by the British fleet under Lord Keith.
1778 American Revolutionary War: The British Army abandons Philadelphia.
1757 Battle of Kolín between Prussian forces under Frederick the Great and an Austrian army under the command of Field Marshal Count Leopold Joseph von Daun in the Seven Years' War.
1684 The charter of the Massachusetts Bay Colony is revoked via a scire facias writ issued by an English court.
1633 Charles I is crowned King of Scots at St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh.
1429 Charles VII's army defeats an English army under John Talbot at the Battle of Patay during the Hundred Years' War. The English lost 2,200 men, over half their army, crippling their efforts during this segment of the war.
1265 A draft Byzantine–Venetian treaty is concluded between Venetian envoys and Emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos, but is not ratified by Doge Reniero Zeno.
1264 The Parliament of Ireland meets at Castledermot in County Kildare, the first definitively known meeting of this Irish legislature.
1178 Five Canterbury monks see an event believed to have been the formation of the Giordano Bruno crater on the moon. It is believed that the current oscillations of the Moon's distance from the Earth (on the order of meters) are a result of this collision.
1053 Battle of Civitate: Three thousand Norman horsemen of Count Humphrey rout the troops of Pope Leo IX.
860 Byzantine–Rus' War: A fleet of about 200 Rus' vessels sails into the Bosphorus and starts pillaging the suburbs of the Byzantine capital Constantinople.
656 Ali becomes Caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate.
618 Li Yuan becomes Emperor Gaozu of Tang, initiating three centuries of Tang dynasty rule over China.
Famous People Born on June 18

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Year Name
1920 Aster Berkhof, Belgian author and academic (d. 2020)
1854 E. W. Scripps, American publisher, founded the E. W. Scripps Company (d. 1926)
1942 Roger Ebert, American journalist, critic, and screenwriter (d. 2013)
1946 Russell Ash, English journalist and author (d. 2010)
1922 Claude Helffer, French pianist and educator (d. 2004)
1910 Avon Long, American actor and singer (d. 1984)
1994 Sean McMahon, Australian rugby player
1862 Carolyn Wells, American novelist and poet (d. 1942)
1961 Alison Moyet, English singer-songwriter
1953 Peter Donohoe, English pianist and educator
Famous People Deaths On June 18

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Date Name
1916 Max Immelmann, German lieutenant and pilot (b. 1890)
1998 Felix Knight, American actor and tenor (b. 1908)
2006 Vincent Sherman, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1906)
1986 Frances Scott Fitzgerald, American journalist (b. 1921)
1937 Gaston Doumergue, French politician, 13th President of France (b. 1863)
1964 Giorgio Morandi, Italian painter (b. 1890)
1978 Walter C. Alvarez, American physician and author (b. 1884)
1959 Ethel Barrymore, American actress (b. 1879)
2022 Uffe Ellemann-Jensen, Danish politician, minister of foreign affairs (b. 1941)
1926 Olga Constantinovna of Russia, Queen consort of the Hellenes (b. 1851)