June 18

Events
 Up to 1900 
 618 – Tang Dynasty rule begins in China, with the accession of Emperor Gaozu of Tang (Li Yuan).
 1053 – Battle of Civitate: 3,000 horsemen of Norman Count Humphrey of Hauteville heavily defeat the troops of Pope Leo IX.
 1264 – The Parliament of Ireland meets at Castledermot in County Kildare, as the first known meeting of an Irish legislature.
 1429 – French forces under the leadership of Joan of Arc defeat the English army under John Fastolf at the Battle of Patay, helping to turn the tide in the Hundred Years' War.
 1633 – Charles I is crowned King of Scots at Saint Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh.
 1757 – Battle of Polin: Between the Prussians under Frederick the Great and the Austrians in the Seven Years' War.
 1767 – English captain Samuel Wallis sights Tahiti, possibly being the first European to sight the island in present–day French Polynesia.
 1778 – American Revolutionary War: British troops abandon Philadelphia.
 1812 – The United States declares war on the United Kingdom, starting the War of 1812.
 1815 – Battle of Waterloo: British, Russian and Prussian forces defeat a French army led by Napoleon Bonaparte.
 1830 – The French colonisation of Algeria begins.
 1858 – Charles Darwin receives a paper from Alfred Russel Wallace with almost–identical conclusions about Evolution.
 1859 – First successful climb of the Aletschhorn mountain in the Swiss Alps.
 1873 – Susan B. Anthony is fined for her attempt to vote in the 1872 US Presidential Election.
 1897 – Kyoto University is founded.
 1900 – Empress Dowager Longyu of China orders that all foreigners be killed.

 1901 – 2000 
 1908 – Japanese immigration to Brazil begins.
 1908 – The University of the Philippines is founded.
 1928 – As a passenger, Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean, from Newfoundland to Wales. Her pilot was Wilmer Shutz and Lou Gordon was her mechanic.
 1928 – Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen goes missing on a rescue mission in the Arctic Ocean. His plane is most likely to have crashed near Svalbard.
 1932 – FIBA, the world's governing authority on basketball, is founded in Geneva, Switzerland.
 1940 – Charles de Gaulle makes the appeal of June 18th, calling on the French to resist the Nazis.
 1940 – Winston Churchill makes his famous "Finest Hour" speech, to raise the spirits of the British people during World War II.
 1945 – William Joyce is charged with treason for his pro–German propaganda during World War II.
 1946 – Italy is formally proclaimed a Republic after a referendum on June 2 when a majority of voters chose not to have the monarchy.
 1953 – Egypt becomes a Republic.
 1953 – A US Air Force C–124 plane crashes and burns in Tokyo, Japan, killing 129 people.
 1954 – Pierre Mendès-France becomes Prime Minister of France.
 1965 – The US uses B–52 bombers to attack National Liberation Front guerrillas in South Vietnam.
 1972 – The Staines Air Disaster occurs near London Heathrow Airport.
 1979 – US President Jimmy Carter and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev sign the SALT II arms reduction treaty in Vienna.
 1981 – The Lockheed F–117 Nighthawk, the first operational aircraft initially designed around stealth technology, makes its first flight.
 1981 – The Treaty of Basseterre is signed, creating the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States.
 1982 – After defeat in the Falklands War, Argentine military leader Leopoldo Gualtieri resigns from office.
 1983 – Sally Ride became the first American woman in space.
 1983 – Iranian teenager Mona Mahmudnizhad and 9 other women are executed for their membership of the Baha'i faith.
 1994 – The Troubles: Members of the Ulster Volunteer Force attack a crowded bar in Loughinisland, Northern Ireland with assault rifles, killing 6 people.
 1996 – Ted Kaczynski, the suspected Unabomber, is indicted on ten criminal counts.
 2000 – Ethiopia and Eritrea sign an agreement to end their border war.

 From 2001 
 2006 – Kazakhstan launches its first space satellite, KazSat.
 2007 – The Charleston Sofa Super Store fire in Charleston, South Carolina kills 9 firefighters.
 2009 – The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, a NASA robotic spacecraft, is launched.
 2010 – The US' first execution by firing squad in 14 years occurs in the state of Utah.
 2014 – 2014 FIFA World Cup: The Spain national football team, defending champion, is knocked out at the group stage by the Chile national football team.  Four years earlier, then–defending champion, the Italy national football team, also got knocked out at this stage.

Births
 Up to 1900 
 1269 – Eleanor of England, Countess of Bar (d. 1298)
 1318 – Princess Eleanor of Woodstock (d. 1355)
 1466 – Ottaviano Petrucci, Italian printer (d. 1539)
 1511 – Bartolomeo Ammanati, Italian architect and sculptor (d. 1892)
 1517 – Emperor Ogimachi of Japan (d. 1593)
 1667 – Ivan Trubetskoy, Russian field marshal (d. 1750)
 1673 – Antonio de Libres, Spanish composer (d. 1747)
 1677 – Antonio Maria Bononcini, Italian cellist and composer (d. 1726)
 1757 – Gervasio Antonio de Posadas, Argentine political leader (d. 1833)
 1757 – Ignaz Pleyel, Austrian–French composer and piano manufacturer (d. 1831)
 1769 – Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, Anglo–Irish politician (d. 1822)
 1799 – William Lassell, English astronomer (d. 1880)
 1799 – Prosper Menière, French physician (d. 1862)
 1812 – Ivan Goncharov, Russian writer (d. 1891)
 1816 – Hélène Napoleone Bonaparte, daughter of Napoleon (d. 1907) 
 1816 – Jung Bahadur Rana, Nepali ruler (d. 1877)
 1839 – William H. Seward Jr., Union Brigadier General in the American Civil War (d. 1920)
 1845 – Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French doctor, won the 1907 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1922)
 1845 – Gustav Storm, Norwegian historian, writer and professor (d. 1903)
 1850 – Richard Heuberger, Austrian composer and critic (d. 1914)
 1857 – Henry Clay Folger, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1930)
 1868 – Miklós Horthy, Hungarian regent (d. 1957)
 1870 – Edouard Le Roy, French philosopher and mathematician (d. 1954)
 1874 – George Tupou II, King of Tonga (d. 1918)
 1877 – James Montgomery Flagg, American painter and illustrator (d. 1960)
 1882 – Georgi Dimitrov, Bulgarian Communist leader (d. 1949)
 1883 – Mary Alden, American actress (d. 1946)
 1884 – Edouard Daladier, French politician (d. 1970)
 1886 – George Mallory, English mountaineer (d. 1924)
 1886 – Alexander Wetmore, American ornithologist and paleontologist (d. 1978)
 1891 – Mae Busch, Australian–American actress (d. 1946)
 1896 – Blanche Sweet, American actress (d. 1986)
 1897 – Martti Marttelin, Finnish long–distance runner (d. 1940)

 1901 – 1950 
 1901 – Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1918)
 1902 – Boris Barnet, Soviet movie director, actor and boxer (d. 1965)
 1903 – Jeanette McDonald, American actress and singer (d. 1965)
 1903 – Raymond Radiguet, French novelist and poet (d. 1923)
 1904 – Manuel Rosenthal, French conductor and composer (d. 2003)
 1907 – Frithjof Schuon, Swiss–American metaphysicist, philosopher and author (d. 1998)
 1910 – Ray McKinley, American musician (d. 1995)
 1912 – Glenn Morris, American decathlete and actor (d. 1974)
 1913 – Robert Mondavi, American winemaker (d. 2008)
 1915 – Red Adair, American firefighter (d. 2004)
 1916 – Julio César Turbay Ayala, 25th President of Colombia (d. 2005)
 1917 – Erik Ortvad, Danish painter (d. 2008)
 1917 – Richard Boone, American actor (d. 1981)
 1918 – Jerome Karle, American chemist (d. 2013)
 1918 – Franco Modigliani, Italian economist (d. 2003)
 1920 – Lode van den Bergh, Belgian writer
 1922 – Claude Helffer, French pianist (d. 2004)
 1922 – Donald Keene, Japanese and American scholor and expert of Japan studies (d. 2019)
 1923 – Veronica Carstens, First Lady of Germany (d. 2012)
 1923 – Szymon Szurmiej, Polish actor and director (d. 2014)
 1924 – George Mikan, American basketball player (d. 2005)
 1925 – Robert Arthur, American actor (d. 2008)
 1927 – Eva Bartok, Hungarian–American actress (d. 1998)
 1929 – Jürgen Habermas, German sociologist and philosopher
 1929 – Ann Mara, American businesswoman (d. 2015)
 1929 – Tibor Rubin, Hungarian–American soldier (d. 2015)
 1931 – Fernando Henrique Cardoso, 34th President of Brazil, 1995–2003
 1932 – Dudley R. Herschbach, American chemist
 1932 – Geoffrey Hill, English poet (d. 2016)
 1936 – Denny Hulme, New Zealand racing driver (d. 1992)
 1936 – Barack Obama, Sr. (d. 1982), Kenyan father of Barack Obama
 1936 – Norodom Monineath, Cambodian Queen Mother
 1936 – Ronald Venetiaan, former President of Suriname
 1937 – Vitaly Zholobov, Soviet cosmonaut
 1937 – Jay Rockefeller, American politician
 1939 – Jack Herer, American writer and activist (d. 2010)
 1940 – Mirjam Pressler, German writer (d. 2019)
 1941 – Delia Smith, British cookery writer
 1941 – Roger Lemerre, French footballer and manager
 1942 – Thabo Mbeki, former President of South Africa
 1942 – Roger Ebert, American movie critic (d. 2013)
 1942 – Sir Paul McCartney, English singer–songwriter and musician (The Beatles)
 1942 – Hans Vonk, Dutch conductor (d. 2004)
 1942 – Carl Radle, American bass player and producer
 1943 – Raffaella Carra, Italian singer, dancer and actress
 1944 – Salvador Sánchez Cerén, President of El Salvador
 1946 – Maria Bethania, Brazilian singer 
 1946 – Fabio Capello, Italian football manager
 1947 – Bernard Giraudeau, French actor, director and writer (d. 2010)
 1949 – Jaroslaw Kaczynski, former Prime Minister of Poland
 1949 – Lech Kaczynski, President of Poland (d. 2010)
 1949 – Lincoln Thompson, Jamaican singer, songwriter and musician (d. 1999)
 1950 – Annelie Ehrhardt, German athlete
 1950 – Rod de'Ath, Welsh drummer (d. 2014)
 1950 – Mike Johanns, 38th Governor of Nebraska

 1951 – 1975 
 1951 – Jerry McNerney, American politician
 1951 – Gyula Sax, Hungarian chess player (d. 2014)
 1952 – John Carl Buechler, American visual effects artist and film director (d. 2019)
 1952 – Isabella Rossellini, Italian actress
 1952 – Marcella Bella, Italian singer
 1952 – Denis Herron, Canadian ice hockey player
 1952 – Lee Soo-man, South Korean businessman
 1953 – Sandy Allen, American, world's tallest woman (d. 2008)
 1953 – Vladislav Terzyul, Ukrainian mountaineer (d. 2004)
 1954 – Tinna Gunnlaugsdottir, Icelandic actress
 1955 – Misia, Portuguese singer
 1957 – Andrea Evans, American actress
 1957 – Miguel Angel Lotina, Spanish footballer
 1957 – Irene Epple, German skier
 1958 – Peter Altmaier, German politician
 1961 – Alison Moyet, British singer
 1962 – Mitsuharu Misawa, Japanese wrestler (d. 2009)
 1964 – Uday Hussein, son of Saddam Hussein (d. 2003)
 1965 – Robin Christopher, American actress
 1970 – Ivan Kozak, Slovakian footballer
 1970 – Katie Derham, English broadcaster
 1971 – Nigel Owens, Welsh rugby referee
 1971 – Jason McAteer, English–Irish footballer and manager
 1971 – Gaute Kivistik, Estonian journalist and author
 1972 – Anu Tali, Estonian pianist and conductor
 1973 – Julie Depardieu, French actress
 1973 – Ray LaMontagne, American singer-songwriter and musician
 1973 – Alexandros Papadimitriou, Greek hammer thrower
 1974 – Vincenzo Montella, Italian footballer
 1974 – Sergey Sharikov, Russian fencer
 1975 – Jem, Welsh singer–songwriter and producer
 1975 – Jamel Debbouze, French–Moroccan actor and producer

 From 1976 
 1976 – Alana de la Garza, American actress
 1976 – Blake Shelton, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
 1978 – Wang Liqin, Chinese table tennis player
 1978 – Lilia Kopylova, Russian–English professional dancer
 1979 – Yumiko Kobayashi, Japanese voice actress
 1980 – Kevin Bishop, English actor and comedian
 1981 – Marco Streller, Swiss footballer
 1982 – Nadir Belhadj, Algerian footballer
 1982 – Marco Borriello, Italian footballer
 1984 – Janne Happonen, Finnish ski jumper
 1986 – Richard Gasquet, French tennis player
 1986 – Richard Madden, Scottish actor
 1987 – Omar Arellano, Mexican footballer
 1987 – Melanie Iglesias, American model and actress
 1987 – Marcelo Martins Moreno, Bolivian footballer
 1988 – Elini Dimoutsos, Greek footballer
 1988 – Islam Slimani, Algerian footballer
 1988 – Josh Dun, American musician (Twenty One Pilots)
 1989 – Renee Olstead, American actress and singer
 1989 – Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Gabonese footballer
 1990 – Luke Adam, Canadian ice hockey player
 1990 – Sandra Izbasa, Romanian gymnast
 1991 – Rei Okamoto, Japanese model and actress
 1997 – Max Records, American actor
 2006 – Countess Zaria of Orange-Nassau, Jonkrouwe van Amsberg, Dutch royal

Deaths
 Up to 1950 
 741 – Leo III the Issaurian, Byzantine Emperor (b. 685)
 1234 – Emperor Chukyo of Japan (b. 1218)
 1291 – King Alfonso III of Aragon (b. 1265)
 1464 – Rogier van der Weyden, Flemish painter (b. 1400)
 1629 – Piet Hein, Dutch naval commander (b. 1577)
 1650 – Christoph Scheiner, German astronomer (b. 1575)
 1673 – Jeanne Mance, French settler in New France, present–day Quebec (b. 1606)
 1680 – Samuel Butler, English poet (b. 1612)
 1726 – Michel Richard Delalande, French organist and composer (b. 1657)
 1742 – John Aislabie, English politician (b. 1670)
 1749 – Ambrose Philips, English poet (b. 1674)
 1772 – Johann Ulrich von Cramer, German jurist and philosopher (b. 1706)
 1794 – François Nicolas Léonard Buzet, French revolutionary figure (b. 1760)
 1815 – Thomas Picton, British general (b. 1758)
 1886 – Prince Sigismund of Prussia (b. 1864)
 1902 – Samuel Butler, English writer (b. 1835)
 1905 – Carmine Crocco, Italian soldier (b. 1830)
 1915 – Eufemio Zapata, brother of Emiliano Zapata (b. 1873)
 1916 – Max Immelmann, German flying ace (b. 1890)
 1917 – Tito Maiorescu, Romanian Prime Minister (b. 1840)
 1922 – Jacobus Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer (b. 1851)
 1928 – Roald Amundsen, Norwegian explorer (b. 1872)
 1929 – Carlo Airoldi, Italian marathon runner (b. 1869)
 1936 – Maxim Gorky, Russian writer (b. 1868)
 1937 – Gaston Doumergue, French politician (b. 1863)
 1942 – Arthur Pryor, American trombonist and bandleader (b. 1870)
 1945 – Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., American general (b. 1886)
 1947 – Shigematsu Sakaibara, Japanese admiral (b. 1898)

 1951 – 2010 
 1959 – Ethel Barrymore, American actress (b. 1879)
 1963 – Pedro Armendariz, Mexican actor (b. 1912)
 1967 – Beat Fehr, Swiss racing driver (b. 1942)
 1967 – Geki, Italian racing driver (b. 1942)
 1971 – Paul Karrer, Swiss chemist (b. 1889)
 1974 – Georgy Zhukov, Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. 1896)
 1978 – Walter C. Alvarez, American physician (b. 1884)
 1980 – André Leducq, French cyclist (b. 1904) 
 1982 – Djuna Barnes, American writer (b. 1892)
 1983 – Mona Mahmudnizhad, Iranian Baha'i
 1986 – Frances Scott Fitzgerald, American writer (b. 1921)
 1989 – I. F. Stone, American journalist (b. 1907)
 1992 – Mordecai Ardon, Israeli painter (b. 1896)
 1997 – Lev Kopelev, Russian writer and dissident (b. 1912)
 2006 – Vincent Sherman, American actor and director (b. 1906)
 2007 – Bernard Manning, English comedian (b. 1930)
 2007 – Hank Medress, American singer (The Tokens) (b. 1938)
 2008 – Jean Delannoy, French movie director and producer (b. 1908)
 2010 – José Saramago, Portuguese writer (b. 1922)
 2010 – Marcel Bigeard, French military officer (b. 1916)

 From 2011 
 2011 – Frederick Chiluba, 2nd President of Zambia (b. 1943)
 2011 – Yelena Bonner, Russian human rights activist (b. 1923)
 2011 – Ulrich Biesinger, German footballer (b. 1934)
 2011 – Clarence Clemons, American musician and actor (b. 1942)
 2012 – Luis Edgardo Mercado Jarrin, 109th Prime Minister of Peru (b. 1919) 
 2013 – Michael Hastings, American journalist (b. 1980)
 2014 – Claire Martin, Canadian author (b. 1914)
 2014 – Vladimir Popovkin, Russian general, Director of the Russian Federal Space Agency (b. 1957)
 2014 – Horace Silver, American jazz musician and composer (b. 1928)
 2014 – Stephanie Kwolek, American chemist, invented Kevlar (b. 1923)
 2014 – Johnny Mann, American musician, composer, conductor and entertainer (b. 1928)
 2015 – Ralph J. Roberts, American businessman (b. 1920)
 2015 – Jack Rollins, American movie producer (b. 1915)
 2015 – Allen Weinstein, American historian (b. 1937)
 2015 – Patrick Eisdell Moore, New Zealand surgeon (b. 1928)
 2016 – Vittorio Merloni, Italian entrepreneur (b. 1933)
 2016 – Paul Cox, Dutch–Australian film director (b. 1940)
 2016 – Sverre Kjelsberg, Norwegian musician (b. 1946)
 2016 – William J. Livsey, American army general (b. 1931)
 2016 – Wu Jianmin, Chinese diplomat (b. 1939)
 2017 – Pierluigi Chicca, Italian fencer (b. 1937)
 2017 – Tim Hague, Canadian mixed martial artist (b. 1983)
 2017 – Tony Liscio, American football player (b. 1940)
 2017 – Shih Chun-jen, Taiwanese neurosurgeon (b. 1923)
 2017 – Hans Breder, German–American artist (b. 1935)
 2017 – Keith Farnham, American politician (b. 1947)
 2018 – Walter Bahr, American soccer player (b. 1927)
 2018 – Kostas Politis, Greek basketball player (b. 1942)
 2018 – XXXTentacion, American rapper (b. 1998)
 2018 – Big Van Vader, American professional wrestler (b. 1955)
 2018 – Bertha Sanseverino, Uruguayan politician (b. 1946)
 2018 – Nathan Shaham, Israeli writer (b. 1925)
 2019 – Stephen Blaire, American bishop (b. 1941)
 2020 – Tibor Benedek, Hungarian water polo player (b. 1972)
 2020 – John Bredenkamp, Zimbabwean rugby union player and businessman (b. 1940)
 2020 – Dame Vera Lynn, British singer and actress (b. 1917)

Observances
 Autistic Pride Day
 Evacuation Day (Egypt)
 International Sushi Day
 National Day (Seychelles)

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