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Day of the year
June 18 is the 169th day of the year (170th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar ; 196 days remain until the end of the year.
Events
618 - Coronation of the Chinese governor Li Yuan as Emperor Gaozu of Tang , the new Emperor of China , initiating three centuries of the Tang Dynasty 's rule over China .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.1908 - Japanese immigration to Brazil begins when 781 people arrive in Santos aboard the Kasato-Maru ship1923 - 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 .1979 - SALT II is signed by the United States and the Soviet Union .1981 - The AIDS epidemic is formally recognized by medical professionals in San Francisco, California .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 .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 satellite , KazSat is launched.
Births
1269 - Princess 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. 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 )1839 - William Henry Seward, Jr. , Union Brigadier General in the American Civil War (d. 1920 )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 )1863 - George Essex Evans , Australian poet (d. 1909 )1868 - Miklós Horthy , Hungarian admiral and regent (d. 1957 )1877 - James Montgomery Flagg , American illustrator (d. 1960 )1882 - Georgi Dimitrov , Bulgarian Communist leader (d. 1949 )1884 - Édouard Daladier , French politician (d. 1970 )1886 - Alexander Wetmore , American ornithologist (d. 1978 )1891 - Mae Busch , Australian actress (d. 1946 )1895 - Blanche Sweet , American actress (d. 1986 )1895 - Manuela Fernández-Fojaco , Spanish supercentenarian 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 )
1910 - Dick Foran , American actor (d. 1979 )
1913 - Sammy Cahn , American composer (d. 1993 )1913 - Sylvia Field Porter , American economist and journalist
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 laureate1918 - Franco Modigliani , Italian-born economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2003 )
1920 - Ian Carmichael , English actor1922 - Claude Helffer , French pianist (d. 2004 )1924 - George Mikan , American basketball player (d. 2005 )1927 - Paul Eddington , English actor (d. 1995 )1927 - Eva Bartok , Hungarian-born British actress
1928 - David T. Lykken , American scientist1929 - Jürgen Habermas , German sociologist and philosopher1931 - Fernando Henrique Cardoso , President of Brazil from 1995 to 2002 1932 - Dudley R. Herschbach , American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate1932 - Geoffrey Hill , English poet
1934 - Mitsuteru Yokoyama , Japanese manga artist (d. 2004 )1935 - Hugh McColl , American banker1936 - Denis Hulme , New Zealand race car driver and one-time F1 world champion (d. 1992 )1937 - Wray Carlton , American football player1937 - John D. Rockefeller IV , U.S. Senator
1937 - Vitali Zholobov , Soviet cosmonaut
1938 - Kevin Murray , Australian rules footballer1939 - Lou Brock , American baseball player1939 - Jean-Claude Germain , French Canadian author, journalist and historian
1940 - Michael Sheard , British actor (d. 2005 )1942 - Roger Ebert , American film reviewer1942 - 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 (d. 1980 )
1943 - Raffaella Carrà , Italian singer1944 - Sandy Posey , American singer1946 - Russell Ash , British author1946 - Fabio Capello , Italian football coach1946 - Bruiser Brody , professional wrestler (d. 1988 )
1949 - Chris Van Allsburg , American author and illustrator1949 - Prince Lincoln Thompson , Jamaican musician (d. 1999 )
1949 - Lech Kaczyński , Polish president, 2005 -present
1949 - Jarosław Kaczyński , Polish prime minister, twin brother of Lech Kaczyński
1950 - Jackie Leven aka Sir Vincent Lone Scottish singer and songwriter1952 - Isabella Rossellini , Italian actress1952 - Carol Kane , American actress
1956 - Brian Benben , American actor1957 - Miguel Ángel Lotina , Spanish football manager1960 - Ralph Brown , British actor1961 - Andrés Galarraga , baseball player1961 - Alison Moyet , English pop singer
1963 - Bruce Smith , American football player1963 - Dizzy Reed , aka Darren Arthur Reed keyboardist for (former) Guns N' Roses and Velvet Revolver
1964 - Uday Hussein , Iraqi leader (d. 2003 )1966 - Kurt Browning , Canadian figure skater1969 - Pål Pot Pamparius , Norwegian musician (Turbonegro )1969 - Vito LoGrasso , American professional wrestler
1969 - Christopher Largen , American author
1971 - Nathan Morris , American singer (Boyz II Men )1971 - Jason McAteer , England-born Irish footballer
1972 - Michal Yannai , Israeli actress and model.1973 - Alexandros Papadimitriou , Greek hammer thrower1973 - Eddie Cibrian , American actor1973 - Julie Depardieu , French actress
1974 - Vincenzo Montella , Italian footballer1975 - Martin St. Louis , Canadian hockey player1975 - Aleksandrs Koliņko , Latvian footballer
1975 - Marie Gillain , Belgian actress
1975 - Jemma Griffiths , Welsh singer-songwriter
1975 - Jamel Debbouze , French actor and producer
1976 - Alana de la Garza , American actress1976 - Witte Wartena , Dutch artist
1976 - Blake Shelton , American Country Singer
1978 - Wang Liqin , Chinese table tennis player
1980 - Antonio Gates , American football player1980 - Tara Platt , American actress
1980 - Ivana Wong , Hong Kong singer and songwriter
1980 - Craig Mottram , Australian middle distance runner
1981 - Teresa Cormack , New Zealand murder victim (d. 1987 )
1981 - Ella (Jiahua) Chen , member of the Taiwanese girl-group S.H.E
1982 - Sean Conant , Irish-American artist1984 - Mateus , Angolan footballer1986 - Richard Gasquet , French tennis player1989 - Renee Olstead , American singer and actress1989 - Chris De Santis , UNC Football star1991 - Willa Holland , American actress1991 - Tommy Lowden, Table-tennis player2006 - Countess Zaria of Orange-Nassau, Jonkvrouwe van Amsberg
Deaths
1234 - Emperor Chukyo of Japan (b. 1218 )1291 - King Alfonso III of Aragon (b. 1265 )1464 - Roger van der Weyden , Flemish painter1536 - Henry Fitzroy , (b. 1519) bastard son of Henry VIII 1588 - Robert Crowley , English printer and poet1629 - Piet Hein , Dutch naval commander and folk hero (b. 1577 )1650 - Christoph Scheiner , German astronomer1673 - 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 (b. 1721 )
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 )1889 - Jacques Damala , Greek military officer and actor (b. 1855 )1902 - Samuel Butler , English writer (b. 1835 )1915 - Eufemio Zapata , brother to Mexican revolutionist Emiliano Zapata , killed by Sidronio Comancho 1916 - Max Immelmann , German flying ace (b. 1890 )1922 - Jacobus Kapteyn , Dutch astronomer (b. 1851 )1928 - Roald Amundsen , Norwegian explorer (b. 1872 )1936 - Maxim Gorky , Russian author (b. 1868 )1937 - Gaston Doumergue , French statesman (b. 1863 )1947 - Shigematsu Sakaibara , Japanese admiral (b. 1898 )1959 - Ethel Barrymore , American actress (b. 1879 )1963 - Pedro Armendáriz , Mexican actor (b. 1912 )1967 - Beat Fehr , Swiss racing driver (b. 1942 )1971 - Paul Karrer , Swiss chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1889 )1973 - Roger Delgado , British actor (b. 1918 )1974 - Georgy Zhukov , Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. 1896 )1974 - Júlio César de Mello e Souza , Brazilian writer (b. 1896 )
1980 - André Leducq , French cyclist (b. 1904 )1980 - Terence Fisher , English film director (b. 1904 )
1982 - John Cheever , American author (b. 1912 )1982 - Curd Jürgens , German actor (b. 1915 )
1984 - Alan Berg , American radio talk show host1985 - Paul Colin , French poster designer (b. 1892 )1986 - Frances Scott Fitzgerald , Daughter of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre . (b. 1921 )1989 - I. F. Stone , American journalist (b. 1907 )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 , American baseball announcer (b. 1924 )2003 - Larry Doby , American baseball player (b. 1923 )2005 - Syed Mushtaq Ali , Indian cricketer (b. 1914 )2005 - Manuel Sadosky , Argentine mathematician (b. 1914 )
2006 - Vincent Sherman , American film director (b. 1906 )2007 - Bernard Manning , British comedian (b. 1930 )2007 - Georges Thurston , Canadian singer (b. 1951 )
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