June 18
is the 169th day of the year in the
Gregorian Calendar (170th in
leap years), with 196 days remaining.
*
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 -
French forces under the leadership of
Joan of Arc crush the main
English army under
Sir John Fastolf at the
Battle of Patay. This turns the tide of the
Hundred Years' War.
*
1767 -
Samuel Wallis, an
English sea captain, sighted
Tahiti and is considered the first
European to reach the island.
*
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 and 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 Longyu 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 held.
*
1940 -
Appeal of June 18 by
Charles de Gaulle.
*1940 -
"Finest Hour" speech by
Winston Churchill.
*
1945 -
William Joyce (
Lord Haw-Haw) is charged with
treason.
*
1946 -
Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia, a
Socialist called for a
Direct Action Day against the
Portuguese in
Goa. A road is named after this date in
Panjim.
*
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.
*
1981 -
AIDS is identified.
*
1983 -
Space Shuttle program:
STS-7,
Astronaut 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.
*
1994 - 43
baseball fans are injured in an
escalator accident at the two-year-old
Oriole Park at Camden Yards in
Baltimore, Maryland.
*
1996 -
Ted Kaczynski, suspected of being the
Unabomber, is indicted on ten criminal counts.
*
1999 - A global
Carnival against Capitalism.
*
2001 - Protests occur in
Manipur over the extension of the ceasefire between
Naga insurgents and the government of
India.
*
2006 - The first
Kazakh space
sattelite,
KazSat is launched.
*
1466 -
Ottaviano Petrucci, Italian printer (d.
1539)
*
1511 -
Bartolomeo Ammanati, Italian architect and sculptor (d.
1592)
*
1517 -
Emperor Ogimachi of Japan (d.
1593)
*
1552 -
Gabriello Chiabrera, Italian poet (d.
1637)
*
1667 -
Ivan Trubetskoy, Russian field marshal (d.
1750)
*
1716 -
Joseph-Marie Vien, French painter (d.
1809)
*
1757 -
Gervasio Antonio de Posadas, Argentine leader (d.
1833)
* 1757 -
Ignaz Pleyel, Austrian composer and piano manufacturer (d.
1831)
*
1812 -
Ivan Goncharov, Russian author (d.
1891)
*
1815 -
Ludwig Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen, German general (d.
1881)
*
1824 -
Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b.
1769)
*
1845 -
Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French physician, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.
1922)
*
1854 -
E.W. Scripps, American journalist and publisher (d.
1926)
*
1868 -
Miklós Horthy, Hungarian admiral and regent (d.
1957)
*
1877 -
James Montgomery Flagg, American illustrator (d.
1960)
*
1884 -
Édouard Daladier, French politician (d.
1970)
*
1886 -
Alexander Wetmore, American ornithologist (d.
1978)
*
1895 -
Blanche Sweet, American actress (d.
1986)
*
1901 - Grand Duchess
Anastasia Nicolaievna Romanova of Russia (d.
1918)
*
1903 -
Jeanette MacDonald, American actress and singer (d.
1965)
* 1903 -
Raymond Radiguet, French author (d.
1923)
*
1904 -
Keye Luke, Chinese-born actor (d.
1991)
* 1904 -
Manuel Rosenthal, French conductor and composer (d.
2003)
*
1907 -
Frithjof Schuon, Swiss metaphysician, poet, and painter (d.
1998)
*
1908 -
Bud Collyer, American game show host (d.
1969)
* 1908 -
Nedra Volz, American actress (d.
2003)
* 1908 -
Stanley Knowles, Canadian politician (d.
1997)
*
1910 -
E.G. Marshall, American actor (d.
1998)
* 1910 -
Ray McKinley, jazz drummer and bandleader (d.
1995)
*
1913 -
Sammy Cahn, American composer (d.
1993)
*
1915 -
Red Adair, American firefighter (d.
2004)
*
1916 -
Julio César Turbay Ayala, Colombian politician (d.
2005)
*
1917 -
Richard Boone, American actor (d.
1981)
* 1917 -
Arthur Tremblay, French Canadian politician (d.
1996)
*
1918 -
Jerome Karle, American chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate
* 1918 -
Franco Modigliani, Italian-born economist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
2003)
* 1918 -
Ajahn Chah, Buddhist meditation master
*
1920 -
Ian Carmichael, English actor
*
1922 -
Claude Helffer, French pianist (d.
2004)
*
1924 -
George Mikan, American basketball player (d.
2005)
*
1927 -
Paul Eddington, English actor (d.
1995)
*
1929 -
Jürgen Habermas, German sociologist and philosopher
*
1931 -
Fernando Henrique Cardoso,
President of Brazil from
1995 to
2002*
1932 -
Dudley R. Herschbach, American chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate
* 1932 -
Geoffrey Hill, English poet
*
1935 -
Hugh McColl, American banker
* 1935 -
John Spencer, English snooker player
*
1936 -
Denny Hulme, 1967
Formula One World Champion (d.
1992)
*
1937 -
Wray Carlton, American football player
* 1937 -
John D. Rockefeller IV, U.S. Senator
* 1937 -
Vitali Zholobov, cosmonaut
*
1938 -
Kevin Murray, Australian footballer
*
1939 -
Lou Brock, baseball player
*
1940 -
Michael Sheard, British actor (d.
2005)
*
1942 -
Roger Ebert, American film reviewer
* 1942 -
Sir Paul McCartney, English singer and songwriter (
The Beatles)
* 1942 -
Hans Vonk, Dutch conductor (d.
2004)
* 1942 -
Thabo Mbeki,
President of South Africa* 1942 -
Carl Radle, American bass guitarist
*
1943 -
Raffaella Carrà, Italian singer
*
1946 -
Fabio Capello, Italian football coach
* 1946 -
Bruiser Brody, Professional wrestler (d.
1988)
*
1949 -
Chris Van Allsburg, American author and illustrator
* 1949 -
Prince Lincoln Thompson, Jamaican musician (d.
1999)
* 1949 -
Lech Kaczynski, Polish president,
2005-present
* 1949 -
Jaroslaw Kaczynski, Polish politician, twin brother of Lech Kaczynski
*
1950 -
Jackie Leven aka Sir Vincent Lone Scottish singer and songwriter DXD
*
1952 -
Isabella Rossellini, Italian actress
* 1952 -
Carol Kane, American actress
*
1961 -
Andrés Galarraga, baseball player
* 1961 -
Alison Moyet, English pop singer
*
1963 -
Bruce Smith, American football player
*
1964 -
Uday Hussein, Iraqi leader (d.
2003)
*
1966 -
Kurt Browning, Canadian figure skater
*
1969 -
Vito LoGrasso, American professional wrestler
*
1971 -
Nathan Morris, American singer (
Boyz II Men)
* 1971 -
Jason McAteer, England-born Irish footballer
*
1974 -
Vincenzo Montella, Italian footballer
*
1975 -
Martin St. Louis, Canadian hockey player
* 1975 -
Aleksandrs Koliņko, Latvian footballer
* 1975 -
Marie Gillain, Belgian actress
* 1975 -
Jemma Griffiths, Welsh singer-songwriter
* 1975 -
Jamel Debbouze, French actor and producer
*
1978 -
Wang Liqin, Chinese table tennis player
*
1982 -
Sean Conant, Irish-American artist
*
1984 -
Mateus, Angolan footballer
*
1989 -
Renee Olstead, American child actress and singer
*
1234 -
Emperor Chukyo of Japan (b.
1218)
*
1291 - King
Alfonso III of Aragon (b.
1265)
*
1464 -
Roger van der Weyden, Flemish painter
*
1588 -
Robert Crowley, English printer and poet
*
1629 -
Piet Hein, Dutch naval commander and folk hero (b.
1577)
*
1650 -
Christoph Scheiner, German astronomer
*
1673 -
Jeanne Mance, French Canadian settler (b.
1606)
*
1680 -
Samuel Butler, English poet (b.
1612)
*
1704 -
Tom Brown, English satirist (b.
1662)
*
1726 -
Michel Richard Delalande, French organist and composer (b.
1657)
*
1742 -
John Aislabie, English politician (b.
1670)
*
1749 -
Ambrose Philips, English poet (b.
1674)
*
1772 -
Johann Ulrich von Cramer, German judge and philosopher (b.
1706)
* 1772 -
Gerard van Swieten, Dutch-born physician (b.
1700)
*
1788 -
Adam Gib, Scottish religious leader (b.
1714)
*
1794 -
François Nicolas Leonard Buzot, French Revolutionary leader (b.
1760)
* 1794 -
James Murray, British military officer and administrator
*
1815 -
Thomas Picton, British general (killed in battle) (b.
1758)
* 1815 -
Guillaume Philibert Duhesme, French general (b.
1766)
*
1835 -
William Cobbett, English journalist and author (b.
1763)
*
1902 -
Samuel Butler, English writer (b.
1835)
*
1922 -
Jacobus Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer (b.
1851)
*
1915 -
Eufemio Zapata, brother to Mexican revolutionist
Emiliano Zapata, killed by
Sidronio Comancho*
1928 -
Roald Amundsen, Norwegian explorer (b.
1872)
*
1936 -
Maxim Gorky, Russian author (b.
1868)
*
1937 -
Gaston Doumergue, French statesman (b.
1863)
*
1959 -
Ethel Barrymore, American actress (b.
1879)
*
1963 -
Pedro Armendáriz, Mexican actor (b.
1912)
*
1971 -
Paul Karrer, Swiss chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1889)
*
1973 -
Roger Delgado, British actor (b.
1918)
*
1974 -
Georgy Zhukov, Soviet General during WWII (b.
1896)
*
1980 -
André Leducq, French cyclist (b.
1904)
*
1982 -
John Cheever, American author (b.
1912)
* 1982 -
Curd Jürgens, German actor (b.
1915)
*
1984 -
Alan Berg, American radio talk show host (murdered)
*
1992 -
Mordecai Ardon, one of Israel's greatest painters (b.
1896)
* 1992 -
Peter Allen, Australian singer and songwriter (b.
1944)
*
1997 -
Lev Kopelev, Russian writer and dissident (b.
1912)
*
2000 -
Nancy Marchand, American actress (b.
1928)
*
2002 -
Jack Buck, baseball announcer (b.
1924)
*
2003 -
Larry Doby, baseball player (b.
1923)
*
2005 -
Syed Mushtaq Ali, Indian cricketer (b.
1914)
*
2006 -
Vincent Sherman, American film director (b.
1906)
*
Brazil -
Chemist's Day.
*
Seychelles -
National Day.
*
Autistic Pride Day, beginning in
2005.
*
Father's Day,
U.S.,
UK,
Chile (
2006).
Liturgical feasts
*
Saint Gregorius*
Saint Leontius*
Saint Marcellianus*
Saint Elisabeth*
Blessed Marina*
BBC: On This Day*
The History Channel: This Day in HistoryJune 17 -
June 19 -
May 18 -
July 18 --
listing of all days
