June 18
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June 18 is the 169th day of the year (170th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 196 days remaining after June 18 until the end of the year.
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[change] Births
- 1511 – Bartolomeo Ammanati, Italian architect and sculptor (d. 1892)
- 1757 – Gervasio Antonio Posadas, Argentine political leader (d. 1833)
- 1799 – William Lassell, English astronomer (d. 1880)
- 1812 – Ivan Goncharov, Russian author (d. 1891)
- 1845 – Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French doctor, won the 1907 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1922)
- 1868 – Miklos Horthy, Hungarian regent (d. 1957)
- 1884 – Edouard Daladier, French politician (d. 1970)
- 1886 – George Mallory, English mountain climber (d. 1924)
- 1901 – Anastasia, daughter of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia (d. 1918)
- 1915 – Red Adair, American firefighter (d. 2004)
- 1918 – Jerome Karle, American chemist
- 1918 – Franco Modigliani, Italian economist (d. 2003)
- 1924 – George Mikan, American basketball player (d. 2005)
- 1929 – Juergen Habermas, German sociologist and philosopher
- 1931 – Fernando Henrique Cardoso, 34th President of Brazil, 1995 – 2003
- 1932 – Dudley R. Herschbach, American chemist
- 1936 – Norodom Monineath, Cambodian Queen Mother
- 1936 – Ronald Venetiaan, former President of Suriname
- 1937 – John D. Rockefeller IV, American politician
- 1941 – Delia Smith, British cookery writer
- 1941 – Roger Lemerre, French footballer and manager
- 1942 – Thabo Mbeki, former President of South Africa
- 1942 – Roger Ebert, American film critic
- 1942 – Sir James Paul McCartney, singer/songwriter, musician (The Beatles)
- 1946 – Fabio Capello, Italian football manager
- 1947 – Bernard Giraudeau, French actor, director and writer (d. 2010)
- 1949 – Jaroslaw Kaczynski, former Prime Minister of Poland
- 1949 – Lech Kaczynski, President of Poland (d. 2010)
- 1952 – Isabella Rosselini, Italian actress
- 1953 – Sandy Allen, American, world's tallest woman (d. 2008)
- 1954 – Tinna Gunnlaugsdottir, Icelandic actress
- 1961 – Alison Moyet, British singer
- 1962 – Mitsuharu Misawa, Japanese wrestler (d. 2009)
- 1974 – Vincenzo Montella, Italian footballer
- 1976 – Alana de la Garza, American actress
- 1982 – Nadir Belhadj, Algerian footballer
- 1983 – Richard Gasquet, French tennis player
[change] Deaths
- 1234 – Emperor Chukyo of Japan (b. 1218)
- 1629 – Piet Hein, Dutch naval commander (b. 1577)
- 1680 – Samuel Butler, English poet (b. 1612)
- 1886 – Prince Sigismund of Prussia (b. 1864)
- 1902 – Samuel Butler, English writer (b. 1835)
- 1917 – Titu Maiorescu, Romanian Prime Minister (b. 1840)
- 1928 – Roald Amundsen, Norwegian explorer (b. 1872)
- 1936 – Maxim Gorky, Russian writer (b. 1868)
- 1937 – Gaston Doumergue, French politician (b. 1863)
- 1947 – Shigematsu Sakaibara, Japanese admiral (b. 1898)
- 1959 – Ethel Barrymore, American actress (b. 1879)
- 1971 – Paul Karrer, Swiss chemist (b. 1889)
- 1974 – Georgy Zhukov, Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. 1896)
- 1986 – Frances Scott Fitzgerald, American writer (b. 1921)
- 1989 – I. F. Stone, American journalist (b. 1907)
- 1992 – Mordecai Ardon, Israeli painter (b. 1896)
- 2007 – Bernard Manning, English comedian (b. 1930)
- 2008 – Jean Delannoy, French film director and producer (b. 1908)
- 2010 – Jose Saramago, Portuguese writer (b. 1922)
- 2010 – Marcel Bigeard, French military officer (b. 1916)
- 2011 – Frederick Chiluba, 2nd President of Zambia (b. 1943)
- 2011 – Yelena Bonner, Russian human rights activist (b. 1923)
- 2011 – Ulrich Biesinger, German footballer (b. 1934)
- 2011 – Clarence Clemons, American musician and actor (b. 1942)
[change] Events
- 1815 – Battle of Waterloo: British, Russian and Prussian forces defeat a French army led by Napoleon Bonaparte.
- 1830 – The French colonisation of Algeria begins.
- 1908 – Japanese immigration to Brazil begins.
- 1908 – The University of the Philippines is founded.
- 1928 – As a passenger, Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean, from Newfoundland to Wales. Her pilot was Wilmer Shutz and Lou Gordon was her mechanic.
- 1928 – Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen goes missing on a rescue mission in the Arctic Ocean. His plane is most likely to have crashed near Svalbard.
- 1940 – Charles de Gaulle makes the appeal of June 18th, calling on the French to resist the Nazis.
- 1940 – Winston Churchill makes his famous "Finest Hour" speech, to raise the spirits of the British people during World War II.
- 1953 – Egypt becomes a Republic.
- 1953 – A US Air Force C-124 plane crashes and burns in Tokyo, Japan, killing 129 people.
- 1972 – The Staines Air Disaster occurs near London Heathrow Airport.
- 1982 – After defeat in the Falklands War, Argentine military leader Leopoldo Gualtieri resigns from office.
- 1983 – Sally Ride became the first American woman in space.
- 1996 – Ted Kaczynski, the suspected Unabomber, is indicted on ten criminal counts.
- 2006 – Kazakhstan launches its first space satellite, KazSat.
- 2009 – The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, a NASA robotic spacecraft, is launched.
- 2010 – The US' first execution by firing squad in 14 years occurs in the state of Utah.
[change] Observances
- Autistic Pride Day
- Evacuation Day (Egypt)
- International Sushi Day
- National Day (Seychelles)
