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 until the end of the year.
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Births [change]
- 1269 – Eleanor of England (d. 1298)
- 1318 – Princess Eleanor of Woodstock (d. 1355)
- 1466 – Ottaviano Petrucci, Italian printer (d. 1539)
- 1511 – Bartolomeo Ammanati, Italian architect and sculptor (d. 1892)
- 1517 – Emperor Ogimachi of Japan (d. 1593)
- 1667 – Ivan Trubetskoy, Russian field marshal (d. 1750)
- 1677 – Antonio Maria Bononcini, Italian cellist and composer (d. 1726)
- 1757 – Gervasio Antonio Posadas, Argentine political leader (d. 1833)
- 1799 – William Lassell, English astronomer (d. 1880)
- 1812 – Ivan Goncharov, Russian author (d. 1891)
- 1839 – William Henry Seward, Jr., Union Brigadier General in the American Civil War (d. 1920)
- 1845 – Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French doctor, won the 1907 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1922)
- 1845 – Gustav Storm, Norwegian historian, writer and professor (d. 1903)
- 1857 – Henry Clay Folger, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1930)
- 1868 – Miklos Horthy, Hungarian regent (d. 1957)
- 1882 – Georgi Dimitrov, Bulgarian Communist leader (d. 1949)
- 1884 – Edouard Daladier, French politician (d. 1970)
- 1886 – George Mallory, English mountaineer (d. 1924)
- 1901 – Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna 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)
- 1927 – Eva Bartok, Hungarian-American actress (d. 1998)
- 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 – Vitaly Zholobov, Soviet cosmonaut
- 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 Paul McCartney, English singer-songwriter and musician (The Beatles)
- 1942 – Hans Vonk, Dutch conductor
- 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
- 1958 – Peter Altmaier, German politician
- 1961 – Alison Moyet, British singer
- 1962 – Mitsuharu Misawa, Japanese wrestler (d. 2009)
- 1964 – Uday Hussein, son of Saddam Hussein (d. 2003)
- 1973 – Julie Depardieu, French actress
- 1974 – Vincenzo Montella, Italian footballer
- 1976 – Alana de la Garza, American actress
- 1979 – Yumiko Kobayashi, Japanese voice actress
- 1981 – Marco Streller, Swiss footballer
- 1982 – Nadir Belhadj, Algerian footballer
- 1984 – Janne Happonen, Finnish ski jumper
- 1986 – Richard Gasquet, French tennis player
- 2006 – Countess Zaria of Orange-Nassau, Jonkrouwe van Amsberg, Dutch royal
Deaths [change]
- 741 – Leo III the Issaurian, Byzantine Emperor (b. 685)
- 1234 – Emperor Chukyo of Japan (b. 1218)
- 1291 – King Alfonso III of Aragon (b. 1265)
- 1629 – Piet Hein, Dutch naval commander (b. 1577)
- 1673 – Jeanne Mance, French settler in New France, present-day Quebec (b. 1606)
- 1680 – Samuel Butler, English poet (b. 1612)
- 1794 – Francois Nicolas Leonard Buzet, French revolutionary figure (b. 1760)
- 1815 – Thomas Picton, British general (b. 1758)
- 1886 – Prince Sigismund of Prussia (b. 1864)
- 1902 – Samuel Butler, English writer (b. 1835)
- 1917 – Tito 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)
- 1963 – Pedro Armendariz, Mexican actor (b. 1912)
- 1967 – Beat Fehr, Swiss racing driver (b. 1942)
- 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)
Events [change]
- 1264 – The Parliament of Ireland meets at Castledermot in County Kildare, as the first known meeting of an Irish legislature.
- 1767 – English captain Samuel Wallis sights Tahiti, possibly being the first European to sight the island in present-day French Polynesia.
- 1815 – Battle of Waterloo: British, Russian and Prussian forces defeat a French army led by Napoleon Bonaparte.
- 1830 – The French colonisation of Algeria begins.
- 1858 – Charles Darwin receives a paper from Alfred Russel Wallace with almost-identical conclusions about Evolution.
- 1859 – First successful climb of the Aletschhorn mountain in the Swiss Alps.
- 1873 – Susan B. Anthony is fined for her attempt to vote in the 1872 US Presidential Election.
- 1900 – Empress Dowager Longyu of China orders that all foreigners be killed.
- 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.
- 1932 – FIBA, the world's governing authority on basketball, is founded in Geneva, Switzerland.
- 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.
- 1945 – William Joyce is charged with treason for his pro-German propaganda 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.
- 1954 – Pierre Mendes-France becomes Prime Minister of France.
- 1965 – The US uses B-52 bombers to attack National Liberation Front guerrillas in South Vietnam.
- 1972 – The Staines Air Disaster occurs near London Heathrow Airport.
- 1979 – US President Jimmy Carter and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev sign the SALT II arms reduction treaty in Vienna.
- 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.
Observances [change]
- Autistic Pride Day
- Evacuation Day (Egypt)
- International Sushi Day
- National Day (Seychelles)
