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What happened in history on this day: June 18?
On June 18 in ...
- 1152 - Friedrich I (Barbarossa) is crowned Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by Pope Adrian IV in Rome.
- 1178 - In Canterbury, five men observe explosions on the Moon; likely the origin of lunar crater Giordano Bruno.
- 1429 - French forces under Joan of Arc defeat the main British army at the battle of Patay.
- 1642 - King Charles of England respons to the Ninteen propositions of Parliament, giving the position of a balanced government of King, Lords, Commons; he warns of chaos following civil war.
- 1681 - Birth of Feofan Prokopovich theologian, archbishop of Novgorod, westernizer.
- 1685 - Monmouth Rebellion begins in England, by an army of 83 led by James, Duke of Monmouth, son of Charles II, against King James II/VII.
- 1705 - Cornerstone is laid by Sir John Vanbrugh for Duke of Marlborough's house, also known as Blenheim Palace, in Oxfordshire, England.
- 1799 - Birth of William Lassell; discoverer of satellites of Uranus and Neptune.
- 1812 - Birth of Ivan Goncharov in Russia; novelist/travel writer (Oblomov).
- 1812 - War of 1812 begins as US declares war against Britain.
- 1815 - Battle of Waterloo: Napoléon defeated by Wellington and Blücher.
- 1822 - Part of US-Canadian boundary is determined.
- 1833 - Antonio López de Santa Anna becomes President (2nd time) of Mexico.
- 1873 - Susan B Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to vote for US President.
- 1877 - Birth of James Montgomery Flagg; illustrator "I want you" US recruiting poster.
- 1877 - Hot air balloon Buffalo carries mail from Nashville to Gallatin, Tennessee, USA; a privately-issued 5-cent postage stamp is used on 23 items, the first time a stamp is used for carrying mail by air.
- 1878 - C H F Peters discovers asteroid #188 Menippe.
- 1886 - Birth of George Mallory in England; mountain climber ("because it is there").
- 1892 - Macademia nuts are first planted in Hawaii.
- 1896 - Birth of Blanche Sweet in Chicago, Illinois, USA; actress (Home Sweet Home, Avenging Conscience).
- 1896 - Birth of Philip Barry; US dramatist (Philadelphia Story).
- 1901 - Birth of Jeanette MacDonald; actress/singer (When I'm Calling You).
- 1901 - Birth of Jimmy Dale in Bronx, New York City, New York, USA; orchestra leader (Sonny and Cher).
- 1903 - First transcontinental auto trip begins in San Francisco; arrives New York three months later.
- 1904 - Birth of Keye Luke in Canton, China; actor (Across the Pacific, The Yangtse Incident).
- 1904 - Birth of Manuel Rosenthal in Paris, France; composer (Bootleggers).
- 1906 - Birth of Kay Kyser in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, USA; orchestra leader (Kay Kyser's Kollege).
- 1907 - Birth of Benny Payne in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; pianist (Billy Daniels Show).
- 1907 - Birth of Froelich Rainey in Wisconsin, USA; quiz moderator (What in the World).
- 1908 - Birth of Bud Collyer in New York City, New York, USA; TV emcee (Beat the Clock, To Tell the Truth).
- 1910 - Birth of Avon Long in Baltimore, Maryland, USA; actor (Roots: The Next Generation).
- 1910 - Birth of Dick Foran in Flemington, New Jersey, USA; actor (OK Crackerby).
- 1910 - Birth of E.G. Marshall in Owatonna, Minnesota, USA; actor (Lawrence - The Defenders, Nixon, Absolute Power).
- 1910 - Birth of Ray McKinley in Fort Worth, Texas, USA; orchestra leader (Glenn Miller Time).
- 1912 - Birth of Henry Brandon in Berlin, Germany; actor (Drums of Fu Manchu).
- 1913 - Birth of Sammy Cahn; lyricist ("Three Coins in a Fountain").
- 1913 - Birth of Sylvia Porter; financial writer (Sylvia Porter's Money Book).
- 1915 - Jerome Travers becomes the second amateur to win golf's US Open.
- 1916 - New York Yankees score in every inning but 8th beating Cleveland Indians 19-3.
- 1917 - Birth of Richard Boone in Los Angeles, California, USA; actor (Paladin - Have Gun Will Travel).
- 1918 - Birth of Bob Carroll; singer/actor (Stage Two Revue, The Stranger).
- 1919 - Birth of Mel Brandt in Brooklyn, New York, USA; actor (Faraway Hill).
- 1925 - Birth of Robert Arthur in Aberdeen, Washington, USA; actor (12 O'Clock High, Just For You).
- 1926 - Birth of Tom Wicker; columnist (New York Times).
- 1929 - Birth of Eva Bartok in Budapest, Hungary; actress (Assassin, Crimson Pirate).
- 1933 - Birth of Jean Wicki in Switzerland; four-man bobsled (Olympic-gold-1972).
- 1934 - US Highway planning surveys nationwide are authorized.
- 1935 - England and Germany sign a naval treaty, limiting the German surface fleet to 35 percent of British tonnage, and submarine fleet to 45 percent.
- 1936 - First bicycle traffic court in America established, Racine, Wisconsin.
- 1937 - Birth of Gail Godwin; American author (Perfectionists, Odd Woman).
- 1937 - Birth of John D (Jay) Rockefeller IV; American politician (Senator-Illinois).
- 1937 - Birth of Vitali M Zholobov; cosmonaut (Soyuz 21).
- 1939 - Birth of Lou Brock; one-time baseball stolen base leader (Saint Louis Cardinals).
- 1940 - Sweden receives a reply from Britain regarding expectations in Norway, indicating that Britain might have to make peace with Germany.
- 1940 - British Prime Minister Winston Churchill makes a speech in the House of Commons, including "The white fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war.".
- 1941 - Turkey and Germany sign a Treaty of Non-Aggression.
- 1942 - Birth of Paul McCartney; rocker (The Beatles - "Silly Love Songs").
- 1942 - Birth of Roger Ebert in Urbana, Illinois, USA; film critic (Siskel and Ebert at the Movies).
- 1942 - Eric Nessler of France stays aloft in a glider for 38 hours 21 minutes.
- 1943 - The British "RDF" or "radiolocation" technology is renamed "radar".
- 1945 - William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) British radio traitor, charged with treason.
- 1947 - Birth of Linda Thorson in Toronto, Ontario, Canada; actress (Tara - The Avengers, Julia - One Life to Live).
- 1947 - Cincinnati Reds' Ewell Blackwell no-hits Boston Braves, 6-0.
- 1948 - American Library Association adopts the Library Bill of Rights.
- 1948 - National Security Council authorizes covert operations for first time.
- 1948 - Philadelphia Phillies' pitching great Robin Roberts debuts, loses 2-0 to Pittsburgh Pirates.
- 1948 - United Nations Commission on Human Rights adopts International Declaration of Human Rights.
- 1952 - Birth of Carol Kane in Cleveland, Ohio, USA; actress (Dog Day Afternoon, Simka - Taxi).
- 1952 - Birth of Isabella Rossellini; actress (Blue Velvet, Tough Guys Don't Dance).
- 1953 - Egypt proclaimed a republic, General Neguib becomes president.
- 1953 - Eugene Stephens gets three hits and Boston Red Sox score 17 runs in one inning (7th).
- 1953 - US Air Force C124 Globemaster crashes near Tokyo, Japan, killing 129 servicemen.
- 1955 - CBS airs the last The Jackie Gleason Show TV show.
- 1956 - Last of foreign troops leave Egypt.
- 1957 - Birth of Andrea Evans; actress (The Young and the Restless, Tina - One Life to Live).
- 1957 - John Diefenbacker (Conservative) takes office as Prime Minister of Canada.
- 1958 - Birth of Daniels Koran; saxophonist (Atlantic Star - "Touch a Four Leaf Clover").
- 1959 - First telecast transmitted from England to US.
- 1960 - San Francisco Giants hire Tom Sheehan as baseball's oldest debuting manager (66).
- 1961 - Birth of Alison Moyet; rocker (Yaz, Alf).
- 1962 - Birth of Janice Merrill; track star (US record long distance holder 1979).
- 1963 - Birth of Bruce Smith; NFL defensive end (Buffalo Bills).
- 1967 - Houston Astros' Don Wilson no-hits Atlanta Braves, 2-0.
- 1968 - US Supreme Court bans racial discrimination in sale and rental of housing.
- 1971 - Birth of Nathan Morris [Alex Vanderpool] in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; rapper (Boyz II Men).
- 1972 - BEA Trident crashes after takeoff from Heathrow airport in England, killing 118.
- 1973 - NCAA makes urine testing mandatory for participants.
- 1974 - Birth of Bumper Robinson; actor (Webster, Night Court).
- 1974 - Georgi Zhukov, Russian Marshal (WW II), dies at age 78.
- 1975 - Faisal Ibn Mussed Abdul Aziz, Saudi prince, beheaded in Riyadh.
- 1975 - Fred Lynn gets ten RBIs in a Boston Red Sox 15-1 victory over Detroit Tigers.
- 1976 - NBA and ABA agree to merge.
- 1977 - Billy Martin and Reggie Jackson get into a dug-out altercation.
- 1977 - Space Shuttle test model Enterprise carries a crew aloft.
- 1979 - Billy Martin returns to dugout to manage the New York Yankees for second time.
- 1979 - Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev sign the SALT II agreement in Vienna.
- 1980 - C Shoemaker discovers asteroid #2891 McGetchin.
- 1980 - E Bowell discovers asteroid #2569 Madeline.
- 1981 - Death of Pamela Hansford Johnson, English poet, novelist, playwright, literary and social critic (born 1912).
- 1981 - US Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart retires.
- 1982 - Argentine military dictator Leopoldo Galtieri resigns, in the wake of his country's defeat in the Falklands War.
- 1983 - Irish Republican Army's Joseph Doherty arrested in New York City.
- 1983 - STS-7: Space Shuttle Challenger 2 mission launched; Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space.
- 1984 - Perth Observatory discovers asteroid #3541.
- 1986 - 52 die in plane/helicopter collision over Grand Canyon.
- 1986 - San Francisco Giants' Robby Thompson sets a major league record when he is thrown out four times trying to steal in the 12-inning 7-6 victory over the Cincinnati Reds.
- 1986 - Don Sutton of the California Angels becomes 19th pitcher to win 300 games.
- 1986 - Death of Frances Scott Fitzgerald, daughter of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre (born 1921).
- 1989 - Comet Churyunov-Gerasimenko at perihelion.
- 1989 - Curtis Strange wins his second US golf open.
- 1990 - First ever loss for Cameroon in the World Cup, USSR-4 Cameroon-0.
- 1990 - First sudden death US Open Golf Championship is won by Hale Irwin.
- 1991 - Death of Beatrice Joan Caulfield at age 69 following cancer surgery; actress (Liz Cooper - My Favorite Husband).
- 1991 - San Francisco Giants' pitcher Dave Dravecky's cancerous left arm is amputated.
- 1991 - New York Yankees' pitchers pick-off three Toronto Blue Jays.
- 1993 - Iraq refuses to allow UNSCOM weapons inspectors to install remote-controlled monitoring cameras at two missile engine test stands.
- 1993 - Columbia Pictures releases the film Last Action Hero to theaters in the USA.
- 1993 - John Sculley steps down as CEO of Apple Computer, remaining as chairman. The board of directors names Michael Spindler as new CEO.
- 1994 - The NBC TV network airs the last show of Nurses.
- 1994 - In South Island, New Zealand, a magnitude 6.8 earthquake occurs.
- 1999 - The Second Global Street Party is held around world including Bangladesh, USA, Uruguay, Spain, Germany, England (10,000 in London), Switzerland, Nigeria (10,000 in Port Harcourt).
- 2000 - The Oakland Athletics beat the Kansas City Royals 21-3; the 18-run difference is largest margin of victory for the Athletics and the largest margin of defeat for the Royals in the teams' respective histories.
- 2000 - Death of Nancy Marchand; American actress (The Sopranos TV show) (born 1928).
- 2002 - Death of Jack Buck at age 77 of lung cancer; sportscaster (baseball play-by-play of the St. Louis Cardinals, NFL football, World Series Baseball, Monday Night Football for CBS radio).
- 2002 - Arizona experiences its worst forest fire, burning 462,606 acres (1,872 square km) near the Mogollon Rim.
- 2004 - European delegates agree on the EU constitution. It is anticipated that an additional two years will be required to finish the text and complete the ratification process.
- 2006 - Death of Chris and Cru Kahui, infant twin brothers murdered in New Zealand (born 2006).
- 2006 - Birth of Countess Zaria of Orange-Nassau, Jonkvrouwe van Amsberg, daughter of Princess Mabel of Orange-Nassau and Prince Friso of Orange-Nassau.
- 2006 - The first Kazakh space satellite "KazSat" is launched.
- 2007 - Three people are injured and one dead in a shooting near Flinders Street in Melbourne, Australia.
- 2007 - Nine Charleston, South Carolina firefighters are killed by a roof collapse while battling a furniture store fire.
- 2008 - Death of Jean Delannoy, French film director (born 1908).
- 2009 - America's NASA successfully launches two spacecraft to the Moon on missions to prepare for a return to the lunar surface by US astronauts. One mission will send a rocket crashing into the surface, so that the debris plume can be scanned for evidence of water. The other mission will help plan for future landing sites, and for construction of an outpost.
- 2010 - John Lennon's January 17, 1967 handwritten lyrics to the song "A Day in the Life" (The Beatles' album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band") sells at Sotheby's auction in New York for US$1.2 million.
- 2010 - The Swedish parliament narrowly approves (174 to 172) the replacement of old nuclear reactors with new ones, reversing the 1980 decision to phase out nuclear reactors by 2010.
- 2010 - Portuguese novelist Jose Saramago (Blindness, Memorial do Convento, Nobel Prize for literature 1998), dies at age 87.
- 2010 - Buena Vista releases the film Toy Story 3 to theaters.
- 2010 - Convicted murderer Ronnie Lee Gardner (age 49) is executed by firing squad in Draper (Salt Lake City), Utah, USA. Gardner spent 25 years in prison on death row for the murder of a lawyer during an attempt to escape a court hearing. This is the first execution by firing squad in the USA in 14 years.
- 2011 - Death of Frederick Chiluba, 2nd President of Zambia (born 1943).
- 2016 - Iraq regains control of Fallujah from Daesh.
- 2017 - Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps fire six surface-to-surface mid-range ballistic missiles from domestic bases targeting Daesh forces in the Syrian Deir ez-Zor Governorate in response to the terrorist attacks in Tehran earlier in the month.
- 2019 - Facebook announces the Libra global payments system and currency, to be launched in 2020.
- 2019 - The U.S. sends an additional 1,000 troops to the Middle East as tensions build with Iran.
- 2020 - Death of Vera Lynn at age 104 (born 1917); English entertainer and singer; ("We'll Meet Again", "The White Cliffs of Dover").
- 2020 - Death of Jules Sedney, 5th Prime Minister of Suriname (born 1922).
- 2022 - Flooding washes out a road into Yellowstone National Park, closing the park for several days.
- 2023 - The Titan submersible of OceanGate Expeditions implodes underwater while on an expedition to explore the wreckage of the Titanic. All five passengers are killed.
- 2023 - Death of Stockton Rush at age 61 in underwater implosion in the Atlantic Ocean; American aerospace engineer, CEO of OceanGate Expeditions.
- 2023 - Death of Milton Powell AKA Big Pokey at age 48, collapsed on stage in Beaumont, Texas, USA; rapper (Screwed Up Click group).
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