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.
- 1234 - Emperor Chukyo of Japan dies (b. 1218)
- 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 forces 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 - Roger van der Weyden dies. Flemish painter
- 1466 - Ottaviano Petrucci was born (d. 1539). Italian printer.
- 1511 - Bartolomeo Ammanati was born (d. 1592). Italian architect and sculptor
- 1517 - Emperor Ogimachi of Japan was born (d. 1593)
- 1552 - Gabriello Chiabrera was born (d. 1637). Italian poet.
- 1588 - Robert Crowley dies. English printer and poet
- 1629 - Piet Hein (Netherlands) dies (b. 1577). Naval commander and folk hero.
- 1650 - Christoph Scheiner dies. German astronomer
- 1667 - Ivan Trubetskoy was borm (d. 1750). Russian field marshal.
- 1673 - Jeanne Mance dies (b. 1606). French Canadian settler.
- 1680 - Samuel Butler dies (b. 1612). English poet.
- 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.
- 1716 - Joseph-Marie Vien was born (d. 1809). French painter.
- 1726 - Michel Richard Delalande dies (b. 1657). French organist and composer.
- 1742 - John Aislabie dies (b. 1670). English politician.
- 1749 - Ambrose Philips dies (b. 1674). English poet.
- 1757 - Ignaz Pleyel was born (d. 1831). Austrian composer and piano manufacturer.
- 1757 - Gervasio Antonio de Posadas was born (d. 1833). Argentine leader.
- 1767 - Samuel Wallis, an English sea captain, sighted Tahiti and is considered the first European to reach the island.
- 1772 - Johann Ulrich von Cramer dies (b. 1706). German judge and philosopher.
- 1772 - Gerard van Swieten dies (b. 1700). Dutch-born physician.
- 1788 - Adam Gib dies (b. 1714). Scottish religious leader.
- 1794 - James Murray dies (b. 1721). British military officer and administrator.
- 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.
- 1815 - Ludwig Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen was born (d. 1881). German general.
- 1815 - Thomas Picton dies killed in battle (d. 1758). British general.
- 1815 - Guillaume Philibert Duhesme dies (b. 1766). French general.
- 1823 - Em Portugal, foi anulada a Constituição de 1822.
- 1824 - Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany dies (b. 1769)
- 1835 - William Cobbett dies (b. 1763). English journalist and author.
- 1839 - William Henry Seward, Jr. was born (d. 1920). Union Brigadier General in the American Civil War.
- 1845 - Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, was born. French physicist 1907 Nobel Prize for Medicine laureate.
- 1854 - E.W. Scripps was born (d. 1926). American journalist and 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.
- 1863 - George Essex Evans was borm (d. 1909). Australian poet.
- 1868 - Miklós Horthy was born (d. 1957). Hungarian admiral and regent.
- 1872 - Ana de Castro Osório was born in Mangualde (d. 1935). Portuguese writer.
- 1873 - Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election
- 1875 - Morreu António Feliciano de Castilho. Poeta e escritor ultra-romântico português (n. 28 Jan 1800).
- 1877 - James Montgomery Flagg was born (d. 1960). American illustrator.
- 1884 - Édouard Daladier was born (d. 1970). French politician, Prime-Minister.
- 1886 - Alexander Wetmore was born (d. 1978). American ornithologist.
- 1891 - Mae Busch was born (d. 1946). Australian actress.
- 1895 - Blanche Sweet was born (d. 1986). American actress.
- 1896 - 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). Chinese-born actor.
- 1904 - Manuel Rosenthal was born (d. 2003). French conductor and composer.
- 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.
- 1908 - Nedra Volz was born (d. 2003). American actress.
- 1908 - Stanley Knowles was born (d. 1997). Canadian politician.
- 1909 - Willy Kramp was born (d. 1986). German writer.
- 1910 - E.G. Marshall was born (d. 1998). American actor.
- 1910 - Ray McKinley was born (d. 1995). Jazz drummer and bandleader.
- 1910 - Dick Foran was born (d. 1979). American actor.
- 1913 - Sammy Cahn was born (d. 1993). American composer.
- 1913 - Sylvia Field Porter was born. American economist and journalist
- 1915 - Red Adair was born (d. 2004). American firefighter.
- 1915 - Eufemio Zapata, brother to Mexican revolutionist Emiliano Zapata, killed by Sidronio Comancho
- 1916 - Julio César Turbay Ayala was born (d. 2005). Colombian politician.
- 1917 - Arthur Tremblay was born (d. 1996). French Canadian politician.
- 1917 - Richard Bopone was born (d. 1981). American actor.
- 1918 - Jerome Karle was born. Nobel Prize-winning crystallographer
- 1918 - Franco Modigliani was born (d.2003). Italian-born economist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1920 - Ian Carmichael was born. English actor
- 1922 - Claude Helffer was born (d. 2004). French pianist.
- 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.
- 1927 - Paul Eddington was born (d. 1995). English actor.
- 1927 - Eva Bartok was born. Hungarian-born British actress
- 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 - David T. Lykken was born. American scientist
- 1928 - Roald Amundsen dies (b. 1872). Norwegian explorer.
- 1929 - Jürgen Habermas was born. German sociologist and philosopher
- 1930 - Groundbreaking ceremonies for the Franklin Institute are held.
- 1931 - Fernando Henrique Cardoso was born. President of Brazil from 1995 to 2002
- 1932 - Dudley R. Herschbach was born. American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1932 - Geoffrey Hill was born. English poet.
- 1935 - Carlos Ibarguren is elected to President of Argentine Academy of Letters.
- 1935 - Hugh McColl was born. American banker.
- 1935 - John Spencer was born. English snooker player.
- 1936 - Denny Hulme was born (d. 1992). 1967 Formula One World Champion.
- 1936 - Maxim Gorky dies (b. 1868). Russian author.
- 1937 - Wray Carlton was born. American football player.
- 1937 - John D. Rockefeller IV was born. U.S. Senator.
- 1937 - Vitali Zholobov was born. Cosmonaut.
- 1937 - Gaston Doumergue dies (b. 1863). French statesman.
- 1937 - Wray Carlton was born. American football player.
- 1937 - Gail Godwin was born. Author.
- 1938 - Kevin Murray was born. Australian footballer.
- 1939 - Jean-Claude Germain was born. French Canadian author, journalist and historian
- 1939 - Lou Brock was born. Baseball star.
- 1940 - Appeal of June 18 by Charles de Gaulle
- 1940 - "Finest Hour" speech by Winston Churchill.
- 1940 - Michael Sheard was born (d. 2005). British actor.
- 1942 - Roger Ebert was born.American film reviewer.
- 1942 - Hans Vonk was born (d.2004). Dutch conductor.
- 1942 - Celly Campelo was born in São Paulo. Brazilian rock musician.
- 1942 - Roger Ebert was born. American film reviewer.
- 1942 - Thabo Mbeki was born. President of South Africa.
- 1942 - Carl Radle was born. American bass guitarist.
- 1943 - Raffaella Carrá was born. Italian singer.
- 1944 - Sandy Posey was born. American singer.
- 1945 - César Maia was born. Brazilian economist and politician.
- 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.
- 1946 - Maria Bethânia was born. Brazilian singer.
- 1946 - Lídia Jorge was born. portuguese writer.
- 1946 - Fabio Capello was born. Italian football coach.
- 1946 - Bruiser Brody was born (d. 1988). Professional wrestler.
- 1949 - Chris Van Allsburg was born. American author and illustrator.
- 1949 - Prince Lincoln Thompson was born (d. 1999). Jamaican musician.
- 1949 - Lech Kaczyński was born. Polish president, 2005-present.
- 1949 - Jarosław Kaczyński was born. Polish politician, twin brother of Lech Kaczyński.
- 1950 - Jackie Leven aka Sir Vincent Lone Scottish singer and songwriter.
- 1952 - Isabella Rossellini was born. Italian actress.
- 1952 - Carol Kane was born. American actress.
- 1953 - The Republic of Egypt is declared and the monarchy is abolished. Muhammad Naguib is the first President.
- 1954 - Pierre Mendès-France becomes Prime Minister of France.
- 1956 - Brian Benben was born. American actor.
- 1957 - Miguel Ángel Lotina was born. Spanish football manager.
- 1957 - Simon Wilson was born. English footballer.
- 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). American actress.
- 1960 - Ralph Brown was born. British actor.
- 1961 - Andrés Galarraga was born. Baseball player.
- 1961 - Alison Moyet was born. English pop singer.
- 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.
- 1967 - Beat Fehr dies (b. 1942). Swiss racing driver.
- 1969 - Pål Pot Pamparius was born. Norwegian musician (Turbonegro)
- 1969 - Vito LoGrasso was born. American professional wrestler.
- 1969 - Christopher Largen was born. American author.
- 1971 - Nathan Morris was born. American singer (Boyz II Men)
- 1971 - Jason McAteer was born. England-born Irish footballer.
- 1971 - Paul Karrer dies (b. 1889). Swiss chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
- 1972 - Michal Yannai was born. Israeli actress and model.
- 1973 - Alexandros Papadimitriou was born. Greek hammer thrower.
- 1973 - Julie Depardieu was born. French actress.
- 1973 - Roger Delgado dies (b. 1918). British actor.
- 1974 - Vincenzo Montella was born. Italian footballer.
- 1974 - Georgy Zhukov dies (b. 1896). Marshal of the Soviet Union
- 1974 - Júlio César de Mello e Souza dies (b. 1896). Brazilian writer.
- 1975 - Martin St. Louis was born. Canadian hockey player.
- 1975 - Aleksandrs Koliņko was born. Latvian footballer.
- 1975 - Marie Gillain was born. Belgian actress.
- 1975 - Jemma Griffiths was born. Welsh singer-songwriter.
- 1975 - Jamel Debbouze was born. French actor and producer.
- 1975 - Martin St. Louis was born. Hockey star.
- 1975 - Daron Malakian was born. Rock musician.
- 1976 - Alana de la Garza was born. American actress.
- 1978 - Tara Platt was born. American actress.
- 1978 - Wang Liqin was born. Chinese table tennis player.
- 1979 - Procópio Ferreira dies (b. 1898). Brazilian actor and theatre director
- 1980 - Antonio Gates was born. American football player
- 1980 - Ivana Wong was born. Hong Kong singer and songwriter
- 1980 - André Leducq dues (b. 1904). French cyclist.
- 1980 - Terence Fisher dies (b. 1904). English film director.
- 1981 - Kim Jae Won was born. South Korean actor
- 1981 - Teresa Cormack was born (d. 1987). New Zealand murder victim.
- 1981 - Ella (Jiahua) Chen was born. Member of the Taiwanese girl-group S.H.E
- 1982 - Sean Conant was born. Irish-American artist.
- 1982 - Curd Jürgens dies (b. 1915). German actor.
- 1982 - John Cheever dies (b. 1912). American author.
- 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
- 1984 - Mateus was born. Angolan footballer.
- 1984 - Fernanda Souza was born. Brazilian actress.
- 1984 - Alan Berg dies murdered. American radio talk show host.
- 1986 - Richard Gasquet was born. French tennis player
- 1989 - Renee Olstead was born. American singer and actress
- 1991 - Willa Holland was born. American actress.
- 1992 - Mordecai Ardon dies (b. 1896). One of Israel's greatest painters.
- 1992 - Peter Allen dies (b. 1944). Australian singer and songwriter.
- 1994 - 43 baseball fans are injured in an escalator accident at the two-year-old Oriole Park at Camden Yards in Baltimore, Maryland.
- 1996 - Ted Kaczynski, suspected of being the Unabomber, is indicted on ten criminals counts.
- 1997 - Lev Kopelev dies (b. 1912). Russian writer and dissident.
- 1997 - Hector Yazalde dies (b. 1946). Argentine football player who represented the colours of Sporting Club de Portugal - best european scorer in 1973/1974.
- 1999 - A global Carnival against Capitalism.
- 1999 - Frank C. Starr dies (b. 1958). American musician (The Four Horsemen).
- 2000 - Nancy Marchand dies (b. 1928). American actress.
- 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.
- 2005 - Manuel Sadosky dies (b. 1914). Argentine mathematician
- 2006 - Countess Zaria of Orange-Nassau, Jonkvrouwe van Amsberg was born.
- 2006 - Vincent Sherman dies (b. 1906). American film director.
- Seychelles - National Day
- Brazil - Chemist's Day
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