June 18

June 18 is the 169th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (170th in leap years), with 196 days remaining.

Events:

• 1812 - The beginning of the War of 1812 -- United States President James Madison declares war against Britain, starting a two-year war and resulting in heavy losses for the United States troops.
• 1815 - Battle of Waterloo leads to Napoleon Bonaparte abdicating the French throne for a second time.
• 1858 - Charles Darwin receives from Alfred Russel Wallace a paper that included nearly identical conclusions about the evolution as Darwin's own. This prompted Darwin to publish his theory.

Births:

• 1757 - Gervasio Antonio de Posadas, Argentine leader
• 1901 - Anastasia Romanova, Russian imperial family (+ 1918)
• 1903 - Jeanette MacDonald, actress, singer (+ 1965)
• 1904 - Keye Luke, actor (+ 1991)
• 1908 - Bud Collyer, game show host (+ 1969)
• 1909 - Willi Kramp, writer (+ 1986)
• 1910 - E.G. Marshall, actor (+ 1998)
• 1913 - Sammy Cahn, composer (+ 1993)
• 1915 - [[Paul Neil Red Adair), fire fighter
• 1917 - Richard Bopone, actor (+ 1981)
• 1918 - Jerome Karle, crystallographer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in chemistry 1985
• 1918 - Franco Modigliani, economist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics 1985
• 1929 - Jürgen Habermas, sociologist and philosopher
• 1942 - Roger Ebert, film reviewer for the Chicago Sun Times, co-host of long-running show Siskel and Ebert at the Movies, now [after Siskel's death] renamed to "Ebert and Roeper at the Movies"
• 1942 - Paul McCartney, singer, bassist, pianist, guitarist for The Beatles and Wings
• 1952 - Isabella Rossellini, actress
• 1952 - Carol Kane, actress
• 1966 - Kurt Browning, figure skater

Deaths:

• 1928 - Roald Amundsen dies in the Arctic Ocean
• 1959 - Ethel Barrymore, actress
• 1982 - John Cheever, author

Holidays and Observances:

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See Also:

June 17 - June 19 - May 18 - July 18 -- listing of all days

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