June 18

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.

Events

Up to 1900

• 618 – Tang Dynasty rule begins in China, with the accession of Emperor Gaozu of Tang (Li Yuan).
• 1053 – Battle of Civitate: 3,000 horsemen of Norman Count Humphrey of Hauteville heavily defeat the troops of Pope Leo IX.
• 1264 – The Parliament of Ireland meets at Castledermot in County Kildare, as the first known meeting of an Irish legislature.
• 1429 – French forces under the leadership of Joan of Arc defeat the English army under John Fastolf at the Battle of Patay, helping to turn the tide in the Hundred Years' War.
• 1633 – Charles I is crowned King of Scots at Saint Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh.
• 1757 – Battle of Polin: Between the Prussians under Frederick the Great and the Austrians in the Seven Years' War.
• 1767 – English captain Samuel Wallis sights Tahiti, possibly being the first European to sight the island in present–day French Polynesia.
• 1778 – American Revolutionary War: British troops abandon Philadelphia.
• 1812 – The United States declares war on the United Kingdom, starting the War of 1812.
• 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.
• 1897 – Kyoto University is founded.
• 1900 – Empress Dowager Longyu of China orders that all foreigners be killed.

1901 – 2000

• 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.
• 1946 – Italy is formally proclaimed a Republic after a referendum on June 2 when a majority of voters chose not to have the monarchy.
• 1953 – Egypt becomes a Republic.
• 1953 – A US Air Force C–124 plane crashes and burns in Tokyo, Japan, killing 129 people.
• 1954 – Pierre Mendès-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.
• 1981 – The Lockheed F–117 Nighthawk, the first operational aircraft initially designed around stealth technology, makes its first flight.
• 1981 – The Treaty of Basseterre is signed, creating the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States.
• 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.
• 1983 – Iranian teenager Mona Mahmudnizhad and 9 other women are executed for their membership of the Baha'i faith.
• 1994 – The Troubles: Members of the Ulster Volunteer Force attack a crowded bar in Loughinisland, Northern Ireland with assault rifles, killing 6 people.
• 1996 – Ted Kaczynski, the suspected Unabomber, is indicted on ten criminal counts.
• 2000 – Ethiopia and Eritrea sign an agreement to end their border war.

From 2001

• 2006 – Kazakhstan launches its first space satellite, KazSat.
• 2007 – The Charleston Sofa Super Store fire in Charleston, South Carolina kills 9 firefighters.
• 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.
• 2014 – 2014 FIFA World Cup: The Spain national football team, defending champion, is knocked out at the group stage by the Chile national football team. Four years earlier, then–defending champion, the Italy national football team, also got knocked out at this stage.

Births

Up to 1900

• 1269 – Eleanor of England, Countess of Bar (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)
• 1673 – Antonio de Libres, Spanish composer (d. 1747)
• 1677 – Antonio Maria Bononcini, Italian cellist and composer (d. 1726)
• 1757 – Gervasio Antonio de Posadas, Argentine political leader (d. 1833)
• 1757 – Ignaz Pleyel, Austrian–French composer and piano manufacturer (d. 1831)
• 1769 – Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, Anglo–Irish politician (d. 1822)
• 1799 – William Lassell, English astronomer (d. 1880)
• 1799 – Prosper Menière, French physician (d. 1862)
• 1812 – Ivan Goncharov, Russian writer (d. 1891)
• 1816 – Hélène Napoleone Bonaparte, daughter of Napoleon (d. 1907)
• 1816 – Jung Bahadur Rana, Nepali ruler (d. 1877)
• 1839 – William H. 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)
• 1850 – Richard Heuberger, Austrian composer and critic (d. 1914)
• 1857 – Henry Clay Folger, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1930)
• 1868 – Miklós Horthy, Hungarian regent (d. 1957)
• 1870 – Edouard Le Roy, French philosopher and mathematician (d. 1954)
• 1874 – George Tupou II, King of Tonga (d. 1918)
• 1877 – James Montgomery Flagg, American painter and illustrator (d. 1960)
• 1882 – Georgi Dimitrov, Bulgarian Communist leader (d. 1949)
• 1883 – Mary Alden, American actress (d. 1946)
• 1884 – Edouard Daladier, French politician (d. 1970)
• 1886 – George Mallory, English mountaineer (d. 1924)
• 1886 – Alexander Wetmore, American ornithologist and paleontologist (d. 1978)
• 1891 – Mae Busch, Australian–American actress (d. 1946)
• 1896 – Blanche Sweet, American actress (d. 1986)
• 1897 – Martti Marttelin, Finnish long–distance runner (d. 1940)

1901 – 1950

• 1901 – Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1918)
• 1902 – Boris Barnet, Soviet movie director, actor and boxer (d. 1965)
• 1903 – Jeanette McDonald, American actress and singer (d. 1965)
• 1903 – Raymond Radiguet, French novelist and poet (d. 1923)
• 1904 – Manuel Rosenthal, French conductor and composer (d. 2003)
• 1907 – Frithjof Schuon, Swiss–American metaphysicist, philosopher and author (d. 1998)
• 1910 – Ray McKinley, American musician (d. 1995)
• 1912 – Glenn Morris, American decathlete and actor (d. 1974)
• 1913 – Robert Mondavi, American winemaker (d. 2008)
• 1915 – Red Adair, American firefighter (d. 2004)
• 1916 – Julio César Turbay Ayala, 25th President of Colombia (d. 2005)
• 1917 – Erik Ortvad, Danish painter (d. 2008)
• 1917 – Richard Boone, American actor (d. 1981)
• 1918 – Jerome Karle, American chemist (d. 2013)
• 1918 – Franco Modigliani, Italian economist (d. 2003)
• 1920 – Lode van den Bergh, Belgian writer
• 1922 – Claude Helffer, French pianist (d. 2004)
• 1922 – Donald Keene, Japanese and American scholor and expert of Japan studies (d. 2019)
• 1923 – Veronica Carstens, First Lady of Germany (d. 2012)
• 1923 – Szymon Szurmiej, Polish actor and director (d. 2014)
• 1924 – George Mikan, American basketball player (d. 2005)
• 1925 – Robert Arthur, American actor (d. 2008)
• 1927 – Eva Bartok, Hungarian–American actress (d. 1998)
• 1929 – Jürgen Habermas, German sociologist and philosopher
• 1929 – Ann Mara, American businesswoman (d. 2015)
• 1929 – Tibor Rubin, Hungarian–American soldier (d. 2015)
• 1931 – Fernando Henrique Cardoso, 34th President of Brazil, 1995–2003
• 1932 – Dudley R. Herschbach, American chemist
• 1932 – Geoffrey Hill, English poet (d. 2016)
• 1936 – Denny Hulme, New Zealand racing driver (d. 1992)
• 1936 – Barack Obama, Sr. (d. 1982), Kenyan father of Barack Obama
• 1936 – Norodom Monineath, Cambodian Queen Mother
• 1936 – Ronald Venetiaan, former President of Suriname
• 1937 – Vitaly Zholobov, Soviet cosmonaut
• 1937 – Jay Rockefeller, American politician
• 1939 – Jack Herer, American writer and activist (d. 2010)
• 1940 – Mirjam Pressler, German writer (d. 2019)
• 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 movie critic (d. 2013)
• 1942 – Sir Paul McCartney, English singer–songwriter and musician (The Beatles)
• 1942 – Hans Vonk, Dutch conductor (d. 2004)
• 1942 – Carl Radle, American bass player and producer
• 1943 – Raffaella Carra, Italian singer, dancer and actress
• 1944 – Salvador Sánchez Cerén, President of El Salvador
• 1946 – Maria Bethania, Brazilian singer
• 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)
• 1949 – Lincoln Thompson, Jamaican singer, songwriter and musician (d. 1999)
• 1950 – Annelie Ehrhardt, German athlete
• 1950 – Rod de'Ath, Welsh drummer (d. 2014)
• 1950 – Mike Johanns, 38th Governor of Nebraska

1951 – 1975

• 1951 – Jerry McNerney, American politician
• 1951 – Gyula Sax, Hungarian chess player (d. 2014)
• 1952 – John Carl Buechler, American visual effects artist and film director (d. 2019)
• 1952 – Isabella Rossellini, Italian actress
• 1952 – Marcella Bella, Italian singer
• 1952 – Denis Herron, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1952 – Lee Soo-man, South Korean businessman
• 1953 – Sandy Allen, American, world's tallest woman (d. 2008)
• 1953 – Vladislav Terzyul, Ukrainian mountaineer (d. 2004)
• 1954 – Tinna Gunnlaugsdottir, Icelandic actress
• 1955 – Misia, Portuguese singer
• 1957 – Andrea Evans, American actress
• 1957 – Miguel Angel Lotina, Spanish footballer
• 1957 – Irene Epple, German skier
• 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)
• 1965 – Robin Christopher, American actress
• 1970 – Ivan Kozak, Slovakian footballer
• 1970 – Katie Derham, English broadcaster
• 1971 – Nigel Owens, Welsh rugby referee
• 1971 – Jason McAteer, English–Irish footballer and manager
• 1971 – Gaute Kivistik, Estonian journalist and author
• 1972 – Anu Tali, Estonian pianist and conductor
• 1973 – Julie Depardieu, French actress
• 1973 – Ray LaMontagne, American singer-songwriter and musician
• 1973 – Alexandros Papadimitriou, Greek hammer thrower
• 1974 – Vincenzo Montella, Italian footballer
• 1974 – Sergey Sharikov, Russian fencer
• 1975 – Jem, Welsh singer–songwriter and producer
• 1975 – Jamel Debbouze, French–Moroccan actor and producer

From 1976

• 1976 – Alana de la Garza, American actress
• 1976 – Blake Shelton, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1978 – Wang Liqin, Chinese table tennis player
• 1978 – Lilia Kopylova, Russian–English professional dancer
• 1979 – Yumiko Kobayashi, Japanese voice actress
• 1980 – Kevin Bishop, English actor and comedian
• 1981 – Marco Streller, Swiss footballer
• 1982 – Nadir Belhadj, Algerian footballer
• 1982 – Marco Borriello, Italian footballer
• 1984 – Janne Happonen, Finnish ski jumper
• 1986 – Richard Gasquet, French tennis player
• 1986 – Richard Madden, Scottish actor
• 1987 – Omar Arellano, Mexican footballer
• 1987 – Melanie Iglesias, American model and actress
• 1987 – Marcelo Martins Moreno, Bolivian footballer
• 1988 – Elini Dimoutsos, Greek footballer
• 1988 – Islam Slimani, Algerian footballer
• 1988 – Josh Dun, American musician (Twenty One Pilots)
• 1989 – Renee Olstead, American actress and singer
• 1989 – Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Gabonese footballer
• 1990 – Luke Adam, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1990 – Sandra Izbasa, Romanian gymnast
• 1991 – Rei Okamoto, Japanese model and actress
• 1997 – Max Records, American actor
• 2006 – Countess Zaria of Orange-Nassau, Jonkrouwe van Amsberg, Dutch royal

Deaths

Up to 1950

• 741 – Leo III the Issaurian, Byzantine Emperor (b. 685)
• 1234 – Emperor Chukyo of Japan (b. 1218)
• 1291 – King Alfonso III of Aragon (b. 1265)
• 1464 – Rogier van der Weyden, Flemish painter (b. 1400)
• 1629 – Piet Hein, Dutch naval commander (b. 1577)
• 1650 – Christoph Scheiner, German astronomer (b. 1575)
• 1673 – Jeanne Mance, French settler in New France, present–day Quebec (b. 1606)
• 1680 – Samuel Butler, English poet (b. 1612)
• 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 jurist and philosopher (b. 1706)
• 1794 – François Nicolas Léonard 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)
• 1905 – Carmine Crocco, Italian soldier (b. 1830)
• 1915 – Eufemio Zapata, brother of Emiliano Zapata (b. 1873)
• 1916 – Max Immelmann, German flying ace (b. 1890)
• 1917 – Tito Maiorescu, Romanian Prime Minister (b. 1840)
• 1922 – Jacobus Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer (b. 1851)
• 1928 – Roald Amundsen, Norwegian explorer (b. 1872)
• 1929 – Carlo Airoldi, Italian marathon runner (b. 1869)
• 1936 – Maxim Gorky, Russian writer (b. 1868)
• 1937 – Gaston Doumergue, French politician (b. 1863)
• 1942 – Arthur Pryor, American trombonist and bandleader (b. 1870)
• 1945 – Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., American general (b. 1886)
• 1947 – Shigematsu Sakaibara, Japanese admiral (b. 1898)

1951 – 2010

• 1959 – Ethel Barrymore, American actress (b. 1879)
• 1963 – Pedro Armendariz, Mexican actor (b. 1912)
• 1967 – Beat Fehr, Swiss racing driver (b. 1942)
• 1967 – Geki, Italian racing driver (b. 1942)
• 1971 – Paul Karrer, Swiss chemist (b. 1889)
• 1974 – Georgy Zhukov, Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. 1896)
• 1978 – Walter C. Alvarez, American physician (b. 1884)
• 1980 – André Leducq, French cyclist (b. 1904)
• 1982 – Djuna Barnes, American writer (b. 1892)
• 1983 – Mona Mahmudnizhad, Iranian Baha'i
• 1986 – Frances Scott Fitzgerald, American writer (b. 1921)
• 1989 – I. F. Stone, American journalist (b. 1907)
• 1992 – Mordecai Ardon, Israeli painter (b. 1896)
• 1997 – Lev Kopelev, Russian writer and dissident (b. 1912)
• 2006 – Vincent Sherman, American actor and director (b. 1906)
• 2007 – Bernard Manning, English comedian (b. 1930)
• 2007 – Hank Medress, American singer (The Tokens) (b. 1938)
• 2008 – Jean Delannoy, French movie director and producer (b. 1908)
• 2010 – José Saramago, Portuguese writer (b. 1922)
• 2010 – Marcel Bigeard, French military officer (b. 1916)

From 2011

• 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)
• 2012 – Luis Edgardo Mercado Jarrin, 109th Prime Minister of Peru (b. 1919)
• 2013 – Michael Hastings, American journalist (b. 1980)
• 2014 – Claire Martin, Canadian author (b. 1914)
• 2014 – Vladimir Popovkin, Russian general, Director of the Russian Federal Space Agency (b. 1957)
• 2014 – Horace Silver, American jazz musician and composer (b. 1928)
• 2014 – Stephanie Kwolek, American chemist, invented Kevlar (b. 1923)
• 2014 – Johnny Mann, American musician, composer, conductor and entertainer (b. 1928)
• 2015 – Ralph J. Roberts, American businessman (b. 1920)
• 2015 – Jack Rollins, American movie producer (b. 1915)
• 2015 – Allen Weinstein, American historian (b. 1937)
• 2015 – Patrick Eisdell Moore, New Zealand surgeon (b. 1928)
• 2016 – Vittorio Merloni, Italian entrepreneur (b. 1933)
• 2016 – Paul Cox, Dutch–Australian film director (b. 1940)
• 2016 – Sverre Kjelsberg, Norwegian musician (b. 1946)
• 2016 – William J. Livsey, American army general (b. 1931)
• 2016 – Wu Jianmin, Chinese diplomat (b. 1939)
• 2017 – Pierluigi Chicca, Italian fencer (b. 1937)
• 2017 – Tim Hague, Canadian mixed martial artist (b. 1983)
• 2017 – Tony Liscio, American football player (b. 1940)
• 2017 – Shih Chun-jen, Taiwanese neurosurgeon (b. 1923)
• 2017 – Hans Breder, German–American artist (b. 1935)
• 2017 – Keith Farnham, American politician (b. 1947)
• 2018 – Walter Bahr, American soccer player (b. 1927)
• 2018 – Kostas Politis, Greek basketball player (b. 1942)
• 2018 – XXXTentacion, American rapper (b. 1998)
• 2018 – Big Van Vader, American professional wrestler (b. 1955)
• 2018 – Bertha Sanseverino, Uruguayan politician (b. 1946)
• 2018 – Nathan Shaham, Israeli writer (b. 1925)
• 2019 – Stephen Blaire, American bishop (b. 1941)
• 2020 – Tibor Benedek, Hungarian water polo player (b. 1972)
• 2020 – John Bredenkamp, Zimbabwean rugby union player and businessman (b. 1940)
• 2020 – Dame Vera Lynn, British singer and actress (b. 1917)

Observances

• Autistic Pride Day
• Evacuation Day (Egypt)
• International Sushi Day
• National Day (Seychelles)