On this day in History - Jun 18

• 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.
• 1250 - Teresa of Portugal dies (b. 1181). Princess, daughter of D. Sancho I
• 1264 - The Parliament of Ireland meets at Castledermot in County Kildare, the first definitively known meeting of this Irish legislature.
• 1291 - King Alfonso III of Aragon dies (b. 1265)
• 1429 - The French, under the leadership of Joan of Arc, crush the English under Sir John Fastolf at the Battle of Patay. It came to be recognized as the war's turning point.
• 1464 - Rogier van der Weyden dies. painter.
• 1629 - Piet Hein (Netherlands) dies (b. 1577). Naval commander and folk hero.
• 1649 - Juan de Martínez Montañés dies. Spanish sculptor.
• 1685 - The Monmouth Rebellion: James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, declares himself King of England at Taunton, Somerset.
• 1704 - Tom Brown, dies (b. 1662). English satirist.
• 1757 - Gervasio Antonio de Posadas, was born (d. 1833). Argentine leader.
• 1778 - American Revolutionary War: British troops abandon Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• 1794 - François Nicolas Leonard Buzot, dies (b. 1760). French Revolutionary leader
• 1812 - War of 1812: The U.S. Congress declares war on the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
• 1812 - Ivan Goncharov was born (d. 1891). Russian author.
• 1815 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Waterloo leads to Napoleon Bonaparte abdicating the throne of France for a second, final time .
• 1823 - Em Portugal, foi anulada a Constituição de 1822.
• 1823 - Jesús Jiménez Zamora was born. President of Costa Rica (1863-1866 and 1868-1870)
• 1824 - Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany dies (b. 1769)
• 1835 - William Cobbett dies (b. 1763). Journalist and author
• 1845 - Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran was born. French physicist 1907 Nobel Prize for Medicine laureate.
• 1845 - José Joaquín de Olmedo assume a presidência do Equador
• 1849 - António Bernardo da Costa Cabral assume o cargo de primeiro-ministro de Portugal
• 1854 - E.W. Scripps was born (d. 1926). Journalist, publisher.
• 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.
• 1861 - Trindade Coelho was born in Mogadouro (d. 18 Aug 1908). Portuguese writer and jurist.
• 1868 - Miklós Horthy was born (d. 1957). Hungarian admiral and regent.
• 1872 - Ana Osório was born. Portuguese writer.
• 1873 - Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election
• 1875 - António Feliciano de Castilho dies. Portuguese poet. /Morreu António Feliciano de Castilho. Poeta e escritor ultra-romântico português (n. 28 Jan 1800).
• 1877- James Montgomery Flagg was born (d. 1960). Illustrator.
• 1884 - Édouard Daladier was born (d. 1970). French Prime-Minister.
• 1886 - Alexander Wetmore was born (d. 1978). Ornithologist.
• 1887 - The Reinsurance Treaty is closed between Germany and Russia
• 1896 - First film exibition in Portugal / Realizou-se a primeira exibição cinematográfica em Portugal
• 1900 - Empress Dowager of China orders all foreigners killed, including foreign diplomats and their families.
• 1901 - Grand Duchess Anastasia Nicolaievna Romanova was born (d. 1918)
• 1901 - Josip Murn - Aleksandrov dies (b. 1879). Slovenian poet.
• 1902 - Samuel Butler dies (b. 1835). English writer
• 1903 - Jeanette MacDonald was born (d. 1965). American actress and singer.
• 1903 - Raymond Radiguet was born (d. 1923). French author.
• 1904 - Keye Luke was born (d. 1991). Actor.
• 1906 - Criação da Asociación Paraguaya de Fútbol
• 1906 - Helena D'Algy was born. Portuguese actress.
• 1907 - Frithjof Schuon was born (d. 1998). Metaphysician, poet and painter.
• 1908 - Bud Collyer was born (d. 1969). American game show host.
• 1909 - Willi Kramp was born (d. 1986). Writer.
• 1910 - E.G. Marshall was born (d. 1998). Actor.
• 1913 - Sammy Cahn was born (d. 1993). Composer.
• 1915 - Red Adair was born (d. 2004). American firefighter.
• 1917 - Richard Bopone was born (d. 1981). Actor.
• 1918 - Jerome Karle was born. Nobel Prize-winning crystallographer
• 1918 - Franco Modigliani was born (d.2003). Economist.
• 1922 - Jacobus Kapteyn dies (b. 1851). Dutch astronomer.
• 1923 - Checker Cab puts its first taxi on the streets
• 1924 - George Mikan was born (d. 2005). American professional basketball player.
• 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).
• 1928 - Roald Amundsen dies (b. 1872). Explorer.
• 1929 - Jürgen Habermas was born. Sociologist and philosopher
• 1930 - Groundbreaking ceremonies for the Franklin Institute are held.
• 1931 - Fernando Henrique Cardoso, was born. President of Brazil
• 1932 - Geoffrey Hill was born. English poet.
• 1933 - Antonio López de Santa Ana assume (pela 2º vez) a presidência do México.
• 1935 - John Spencer was born. English snooker player .
• 1935 - Carlos Ibarguren is elected to President of Argentine Academy of Letters
• 1936 - Maxim Gorky dies (b. 1868). Russian author
• 1937 - Gaston Doumergue dies (b. 1863). French statesman
• 1937 - Wray Carlton was born. American football player
• 1937 - Gail Godwin was born. Author
• 1937 - Vitali Zholobov was born. Cosmonaut
• 1938 - Kevin Murray was born. Australian rules footballer
• 1939 - Lou Brock was born. Baseball star
• 1940 - Appeal of June 18 by Charles de Gaulle
• 1942 - Roger Ebert was born. Film reviewer
• 1942 - Sir Paul McCartney, was born. Singer and songwriter (Beatles and Wings)
• 1942 - Hans Vonk, was born (d.2004). Conductor .
• 1942 - Celly Campelo was born in São Paulo. Brazilian rock musician.
• 1945 - William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) is charged with treason
• 1946 - Maria Betânia was born. Brazilian singer.
• 1946 - Lídia Jorge was born. portuguese writer.
• 1949 - Chris Van Allsburg was born. Author and illustrator
• 1949 - Prince Lincoln Thompson was born (d. 1990). Musician
• 1952 - Isabella Rossellini was born. Italian actress.
• 1952 - Carol Kane was born. Actress
• 1953 - The Republic of Egypt is declared and the monarchy is abolished. Muhammad Aguib is the first President.
• 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.
• 1959 - Ethel Barrymore dies (b. 1879). Actress
• 1961 - Andrés Galarraga was born. Baseball player
• 1963 - Bruce Smith was born. American football player.
• 1963 - Pedro Armendáriz dies. mexican actor.
• 1964 - Uday Hussein was born (d. 2003) Iraqi leader.
• 1965 - Vietnam War: The United States uses B-52 bombers to attack National Liberation Front guerrilla fighters in South Vietnam
• 1966 - Kurt Browning was born. Canadian figure skater
• 1967 - Jimi Hendrix burns his guitar on stage at the Monterey Pop Festival.
• 1971 - Paul Karrer, dies (b. 1889). Swiss chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1973 - Roger Delgado, dies (b. 1918). Actor.
• 1975 - Martin St. Louis, was born. Hockey star
• 1975 - Daron Malakian, was born. Rock musician.
• 1979 - SALT II is signed by the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
• 1980 - Kazimierz Kuratowski dies. Polish mathematician.
• 1982 - John Cheever dies (b. 1912). Author.
• 1983 - 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
• 1984 - Alan Berg dies murdered. Radio talk show host.
• 1989 - Giscard d'Estaing (França) é eleito para o Parlamento Europeu
• 1996 - Ted Kaczynski, suspected of being the Unabomber, is indicted on ten criminals counts.
• 2000 - Nancy Marchand dies (b. 1928). Actress.
• 2001 - Protests occur in Manipur over the extension of the ceasefire between Naga insurgents and the government of India.
• 2002 - Jack Buck dies (b. 1924). Major League Baseball announcer.
• 2002 - Abertura da 4ª. Bienal Internacional de Roma
• 2003 - Larry Doby dies (b. 1923). Baseball Hall of Famer.
• 2005 - Syed Mushtaq Ali dies (b. 1914). Indian cricketer.
• Seychelles - National Day
• Autistic Pride Day, beginning in 2005
• Philippines - Independence Day
• Brazil - Chemist's Day
• Father's Day, US (2006)