June 18

Events

• 1778 - American Revolutionary War: British troops abandon Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• 1812 - The beginning of the War of 1812 -- The United States Congress declares war against United Kingdom
• 1815 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Waterloo leads to Napoleon Bonaparte abdicating the throne of France for a second 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
• 1923 - Checker Cab puts its first taxi on the streets
• 1930 - Groundbreaking ceremonies for the Franklin Institute are held
• 1945 - William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) is charged with treason
• 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
• 1965 - Vietnam War: The United States uses B-52 bombers to attack Viet Cong encampments in South Vietnam
• 1979 - SALT II is signed by the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
• 1983 - Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space
• 1999 - Carnival Against Capitalism

Births

• 1757 - Gervasio Antonio de Posadas, Argentine leader († 1833)
• 1812 - Ivan Goncharov (†1891) Russian author of Oblomov
• 1854 - E.W. Scripps, journalist, publisher († 1926)
• 1868 - Miklós Horthy, Hungarian admiral and Regent († 1957)
• 1877 - James Montgomery Flagg, illustrator († 1960)
• 1901 - Grand Duchess Anastasia, 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 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1985
• 1924 - George Mikan, basketball star
• 1929 - Jürgen Habermas, sociologist and philosopher
• 1937 - Gail Godwin, author
• 1937 - Vitali Zholobov, cosmonaut
• 1939 - Lou Brock, baseball star
• 1942 - Roger Ebert, film reviewer
• 1942 - Sir Paul McCartney, singer, bassist, pianist, guitarist for The Beatles and Wings
• 1952 - Isabella Rossellini, actress
• 1952 - Carol Kane, actress
• 1964 - Uday Hussein, son of Saddam Hussein († 2003)
• 1966 - Kurt Browning, figure skater

Deaths

• 1291 - King Alfonso III of Aragon
• 1704 - Tom Brown, English satirist (* 1662)
• 1835 - William Cobbett, journalist and author
• 1922 - Jacobus Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer
• 1928 - Roald Amundsen, explorer
• 1959 - Ethel Barrymore, actress
• 1982 - John Cheever, author
• 1984 - Alan Berg, radio talk show host
• 2000 - Nancy Marchand, actress

Holidays and observances

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