June, 18th in History

[Spiritus Temporis]

Events

Monday 18, 2001:
Protests occur in Manipur over the extension of the ceasefire between Naga insurgents and the government of India.

Tuesday 18, 1996:
Ted Kaczynski, suspected of being the Unabomber, is indicted on ten criminals counts.

Monday 18, 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

Saturday 18, 1983:
Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space

Monday 18, 1979:
SALT II is signed by the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Sunday 18, 1967:
Jimi Hendrix burns his guitar on stage at the Monterey Pop Festival.

Friday 18, 1965:
Vietnam War: The United States uses B-52 bombers to attack National Liberation Front guerrilla fighters in South Vietnam

Thursday 18, 1959:
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.

Friday 18, 1954:
Pierre Mendès-France becomes Prime Minister of France

Thursday 18, 1953:
A United States Air Force C-124 crashed and burned near Tokyo, Japan killing 129

Tuesday 18, 1946:
Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya, a Socialist called for a Direct Action Day against the Portuguese in Goa. A road is named after this date in Panjim.

Monday 18, 1945:
William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) is charged with treason

Tuesday 18, 1940:
Finest Hour speech by Winston Churchill

Wednesday 18, 1930:
Groundbreaking ceremonies for the Franklin Institute are held

Monday 18, 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).

Monday 18, 1923:
Checker Cab puts its first taxi on the streets

Monday 18, 1900:
Empress Dowager of China orders all foreigners killed, including foreign diplomats and their families.

Saturday 18, 1887:
The Reinsurance Treaty is closed between Germany and Russia

Wednesday 18, 1873:
Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election

Friday 18, 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.

Sunday 18, 1815:
Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Waterloo leads to Napoleon Bonaparte abdicating the throne of France for a second, final time

Thursday 18, 1812:
War of 1812: The U.S. Congress declares war on the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

Thursday 18, 1778:
American Revolutionary War: British troops abandon Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Thursday 18, 1767:
Samuel Wallis, an English sea captain, sighted Tahiti and is considered the first European to reach the island.

Monday 18, 1685:
The Monmouth Rebellion: James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, declares himself King of England at Taunton, Somerset.

Thursday 18, 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.

Wednesday 18, 1264:
The Parliament of Ireland meets at Castledermot in County Kildare, the first definitively known meeting of this Irish legislature.

Sunday 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.

Source: http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/18-june/on-this-day.html


People born on June 18

1978:
Wang Liqin, Chinese table tennis player (b: June 18, 1978) (Biography of Wang Liqin)

1975:
Martin St. Louis, Canadian hockey player (b: June 18, 1975) (Biography of Martin St. Louis)

1974:
Vincenzo Montella, Italian footballer (b: June 18, 1974) (Biography of Vincenzo Montella)

1966:
Kurt Browning, Canadian figure skater (b: June 18, 1966) (Biography of Kurt Browning)

1964:
Uday Hussein, Iraqi leader (b: June 18, 1964 ; d: July 22, 2003) (Biography of Uday Hussein)

1963:
Bruce Smith, American football player (b: June 18, 1963) (Biography of Bruce Smith)

1961:
Andrés Galarraga, baseball player (b: June 18, 1961) (Biography of Andrés Galarraga)

1952:
Isabella Rossellini, Italian actress (b: June 18, 1952) (Biography of Isabella Rossellini)
Carol Kane, American actress (b: June 18, 1952) (Biography of Carol Kane)

1949:
Prince Lincoln Thompson, Jamaican musician (b: June 18, 1949 ; d: January 23, 1999) (Biography of Prince Lincoln Thompson)
Chris Van Allsburg, American author and illustrator (b: June 18, 1949) (Biography of Chris Van Allsburg)

1942:
Roger Ebert, American film reviewer (b: June 18, 1942) (Biography of Roger Ebert)
Sir Paul McCartney, English singer and songwriter (Beatles) (b: June 18, 1942) (Biography of Paul McCartney)
Hans Vonk, Dutch conductor (b: June 18, 1942 ; d: August 29, 2004) (Biography of Hans Vonk)
Thabo Mbeki, President of South Africa (b: June 18, 1942) (Biography of Thabo Mbeki)

1940:
Michael Sheard, British actor (b: June 18, 1940 ; d: August 31, 2005) (Biography of Michael Sheard)

1939:
Lou Brock, baseball player (b: June 18, 1939) (Biography of Lou Brock)

1938:
Kevin Murray, Australian footballer (b: June 18, 1938) (Biography of Kevin Murray)

1937:
Wray Carlton, American football player (b: June 18, 1937) (Biography of Wray Carlton)
John D. Rockefeller IV, U.S. Senator (b: June 18, 1937) (Biography of John D. Rockefeller IV)
Vitali Zholobov, cosmonaut (b: June 18, 1937) (Biography of Vitali Zholobov)

1935:
John Spencer, English snooker player (b: June 18, 1935) (Biography of John Spencer (snooker player))

1932:
Geoffrey Hill, English poet (b: June 18, 1932) (Biography of Geoffrey Hill)

1931:
Fernando Henrique Cardoso, President of Brazil (b: June 18, 1931) (Biography of Fernando Henrique Cardoso)

1929:
Jürgen Habermas, German sociologist and philosopher (b: June 18, 1929) (Biography of Jürgen Habermas)

1924:
George Mikan, American basketball player (b: June 18, 1924 ; d: June 2, 2005) (Biography of George Mikan)

1922:
Claude Helffer, French pianist (b: June 18, 1922) (Biography of Claude Helffer)

1918:
Jerome Karle, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b: June 18, 1918) (Biography of Jerome Karle)
Franco Modigliani, Italian-born economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b: June 18, 1918 ; d: September 25, 2003) (Biography of Franco Modigliani)

1916:
Julio César Turbay Ayala, Colombian politician (b: June 18, 1916 ; d: September 13, 2005) (Biography of Julio César Turbay Ayala)

1915:
Red Adair, American firefighter (b: June 18, 1915 ; d: August 7, 2004) (Biography of Red Adair)

1913:
Sammy Cahn, American composer (b: June 18, 1913 ; d: January 15, 1993) (Biography of Sammy Cahn)

1910:
E.G. Marshall, American actor (b: June 18, 1910 ; d: August 24, 1998) (Biography of E.G. Marshall)

1908:
Nedra Volz, American actress (b: June 18, 1908 ; d: January 20, 2003) (Biography of Nedra Volz)
Bud Collyer, American game show host (b: June 18, 1908 ; d: September 8, 1969) (Biography of Bud Collyer)

1907:
Frithjof Schuon, Swiss metaphysician, poet, and painter (b: June 18, 1907) (Biography of Frithjof Schuon)

1904:
Keye Luke, Chinese-born actor (b: June 18, 1904 ; d: January 12, 1991) (Biography of Keye Luke)

1903:
Jeanette MacDonald, American actress and singer (b: June 18, 1903 ; d: January 14, 1965) (Biography of Jeanette MacDonald)
Raymond Radiguet, French author (b: June 18, 1903 ; d: December 12, 1923) (Biography of Raymond Radiguet)

1901:
Grand Duchess Anastasia Nicolaievna Romanova of Russia (b: June 18, 1901) (Biography of Anastasia Nicolaievna Romanova)

1895:
Blanche Sweet, American actress (b: June 18, 1895 ; d: September 6, 1986) (Biography of Blanche Sweet)

1886:
Alexander Wetmore, American ornithologist (b: June 18, 1886 ; d: December 7, 1978) (Biography of Alexander Wetmore)

1877:
James Montgomery Flagg, American illustrator (b: June 18, 1877 ; d: May 27, 1960) (Biography of James Montgomery Flagg)

1868:
Miklós Horthy, Hungarian admiral and regent (b: June 18, 1868 ; d: February 9, 1957) (Biography of Miklós Horthy)

1854:
E.W. Scripps, American journalist, publisher (b: June 18, 1854) (Biography of E.W. Scripps)

1824:
Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1769) (b: June 18, 1824) (Biography of Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany)

1812:
Ivan Goncharov, Russian author (b: June 18, 1812 ; d: September 27, 1891) (Biography of Ivan Goncharov)

1757:
Gervasio Antonio de Posadas, Argentine leader (b: June 18, 1757 ; d: July 2, 1833) (Biography of Gervasio Antonio de Posadas)

1667:
Ivan Trubetskoy, Russian field marshal (b: June 18, 1667 ; d: January 16, 1750) (Biography of Ivan Trubetskoy)

1552:
Gabriello Chiabrera, Italian poet (b: June 18, 1552 ; d: October 14, 1637) (Biography of Gabriello Chiabrera)

1517:
Emperor Ogimachi of Japan (b: June 18, 1517 ; d: February 6, 1593) (Biography of Emperor Ogimachi of Japan)

1511:
Bartolomeo Ammanati, Italian architect and sculptor (b: June 18, 1511 ; d: April 22, 1592) (Biography of Bartolomeo Ammanati)

1466:
Ottaviano Petrucci, Italian printer (b: June 18, 1466 ; d: May 7, 1539) (Biography of Ottaviano Petrucci)

Source: http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/18-june/births.html