On this day: 18 June
Events, births and deaths on 18 June. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
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1 year ago2025
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10 years ago2016
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100 years ago1926
- Deaths · Olga Constantinovna of Russia
- Births · Allan Sandage
- Births · Philip B. Crosby
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1053 · Events · Battle of Civitate
- 1095 · Deaths · Sophia of Hungary
Events · 26
- 860(Julian date)Siege of Constantinople — 860 siege of the Rus'-Byzantine Wars
- 1053(Julian date)Battle of Civitate — 1053 middle ages battle
- 1156(Julian date)Treaty of Benevento — 1156 treaty between the Papacy and Normans
- 1391(Julian date)Battle of the Kondurcha River — 1391 battle
- 1429Battle of Patay — 1429 battle
- 1757Battle of Kolín — 1757 battle of the Third Silesian War
- 1803Blockade of Saint-Domingue — 1803 naval campaign fought during the first months of the Napoleonic Wars
- 1812War of 1812 — conflict between the United States and the British Empire from 1812 to 1815
- 1812United States declaration of war on the United Kingdom — act passed by the 12th United States Congress
- 1815Battle of Waterloo — 1815 battle during the War of the Seventh Coalition
- 1887Reinsurance Treaty — late 19th-century German-Russian agreement
- 19286th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party — 1928 congress of the Chinese Communist Party
- 1935Battle of Ballantyne Pier — labor action
- 1940Free France — 1940–1944 government-in-exile led by Charles de Gaulle during WWII
- 1940Appeal of 18 June — 1940 speech by Charles de Gaulle
- 1940This was their finest hour — 1940 speech by Winston Churchill
- 1953President of Egypt — head of state and government of Egypt
- 1953Tachikawa air disaster — aviation incident that occurred on the afternoon of Thursday, June 18, 1953 when a United States Air Force (USAF) Douglas C-124 Globemaster II aircraft crashed three minutes after takeoff from Tachikawa, Japan, killing all 129 people on board
- 19541954 Guatemalan coup d'état — coup d'état in Guatemala
- 1972British European Airways Flight 548 — The Staines air disaster (1972)
- 1979Strategic Arms Limitation Talks — two rounds of bilateral conferences and corresponding international treaties involving the United States and the Soviet Union
- 1994Loughinisland massacre — 1994 mass shooting in Loughinisland, Northern Ireland
- 1998Propair Flight 420 — 1998 aviation incident
- 20152015 Hong Kong electoral reform voting — 18 June 2015 Hong Kong Legislative Council vote
- 20182018 Osaka earthquake — earthquake in Japan
- 2023Titan submersible implosion — 2023 submersible implosion in the North Atlantic Ocean
Births · 60
- 1294(Julian date)Charles IV of France — King of France and Navarre from 1322 to 1328 (1294–1328)
- 1332(Julian date)John V Palaiologos — Byzantine emperor
- 1511(Julian date)Bartolomeo Ammannati — Italian architect and sculptor (1511-1592)
- 1517(Julian date)Ōgimachi — emperor of Japan
- 1769Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh — British politician (1769–1822)
- 1799William Lassell — English merchant and astronomer (1799–1880)
- 1845Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran — French physician
- 1868Miklós Horthy — Regent of Hungary from 1920 to 1944 (1868-1957)
- 1882(Julian date)Georgi Dimitrov — Bulgarian politician (1882–1949)
- 1884Édouard Daladier — French politician (1884-1970)
- 1886George Mallory — English mountaineer (1886-1924)
- 1901Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia — Grand Duchess of Russia (1901–1918); fourth child and youngest daughter of Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna (Alix of Hesse)
- 1903Raymond Radiguet — French writer (1903–1923)
- 1903Jeanette MacDonald — American singer and actress (1903-1965)
- 1907Frithjof Schuon — Swiss philosopher, poet and painter (1907-1998)
- 1912Glenn Morris — American track and field athlete (1912–1974)
- 1916Julio César Turbay — President of Colombia (1916-2005)
- 1918Franco Modigliani — Italian-American economist (1918–2003)
- 1918Jerome Karle — American physical chemist (1918–2013)
- 1924George Mikan — American basketball player, coach, commissioner
- 1929Jürgen Habermas — German sociologist and philosopher (1929–2026)
- 1931Fernando Henrique Cardoso — President of Brazil from 1995 to 2003
- 1932Dudley R. Herschbach — American chemist
- 1934Barack Obama Sr. — economist and father of Barack Obama Jr. (1934–1982)
- 1936Denny Hulme — New Zealand racing driver (1936–1992)
Deaths · 60
- 741(Julian date)Leo III the Syrian — emperor of Byzantine Empire
- 1234(Julian date)Emperor Chūkyō — Emperor of Japan
- 1250Theresa of Portugal — Queen of León (1178 – 1250)
- 1291Alfonso III of Aragon — King of Aragon
- 1408Taejo of Joseon — the first king of Joseon Dynasty in Korean history
- 1464(Julian date)Rogier van der Weyden — early Netherlandish painter (c. 1399–1464)
- 1629Piet Pieterszoon Hein — Dutch admiral (1578-1629)
- 1726Michel Richard Delalande — French composer
- 1772Gerard van Swieten — Dutch-Austrian doctor (1700-1772)
- 1804Archduchess Maria Amalia of Austria — Austrian archduchess
- 1815Sir Thomas Picton — Welsh general who served in the British Army (1758-1815)
- 1835William Cobbett — English pamphleteer, farmer and journalist (1763–1835)
- 1902Samuel Butler — English novelist and critic (1835–1902)
- 1905Carmine Crocco — Italian brigand (1830–1905)
- 1916Helmuth von Moltke the Younger — Chief of the German General Staff (1848–1916)
- 1916Max Immelmann — German flying ace (1890–1916)
- 1917Titu Maiorescu — Romanian literary critic, academic and politician (1840-1917)
- 1922Jacobus Kapteyn — Dutch astronomer, best known for his extensive studies of the Milky Way and as the first discoverer of evidence for galactic rotation (1851-1922)
- 1926Olga Constantinovna of Russia — Queen of the Hellenes (1851–1926)
- 1928Roald Amundsen — Norwegian explorer; first person to reach the South Pole (1872–1928)
- 1935Qu Qiubai — Chinese litterateur (1899-1935)
- 1936Maxim Gorky — Russian and Soviet writer (1868–1936)
- 1937Gaston Doumergue — French lawyer and statesman (1863–1937)
- 1945Florence Bascom — American geologist (1862–1945)
- 1945Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. — American lieutenant general during World War II (1886–1945)
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