About June 18
June 18, 2020 is the 170th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 196 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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Gemini is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Pearl is the modern birthstone for this month. Moonstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 239 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On June 18
- 618 –Li Yuan becomes Emperor Gaozu of Tang, initiating three centuries of Tang Dynasty rule over China.
- 1178 –Five Canterbury monks see what is possibly the Giordano Bruno crater being formed. It is believed that the current oscillations of the Moon’s distance from the Earth (on the order of meters) are a result of this collision.
- 1684 –The charter of the Massachusetts Bay Colony is revoked via a scire facias writ issued by an English court.
- 1767 –Samuel Wallis, an English sea captain, sights Tahiti and is considered the first European to reach the island.
- 1830 –French invasion of Algeria
- 1858 –Charles Darwin receives a paper from Alfred Russel Wallace that includes nearly identical conclusions about evolution as Darwin’s own, prompting Darwin to publish his theory.
- 1873 –Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election.
- 1900 –Empress Dowager Longyu of China orders all foreigners killed, including foreign diplomats and their families.
- 1908 –Japanese immigration to Brazil begins when 781 people arrive in Santos aboard the ship Kasato-Maru.
- 1908 –The University of the Philippines is established.
- 1940 –Appeal of June 18 by Charles de Gaulle.
- 1946 –Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia, a Socialist, calls for a Direct Action Day against the Portuguese in Goa. A road is named after this date in Panjim.
- 1953 –A United States Air Force C-124 crashes and burns 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 National Liberation Front guerrilla fighters in South Vietnam.
- 1983 –Space Shuttle program: STS-7, Astronaut Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space.
- 1984 –A major clash between about 5,000 police and a similar number of miners takes place at Orgreave, South Yorkshire, during the 1984-1985 UK miners’ strike.
- 1994 –The Troubles: the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) open fire inside a pub in Loughinisland, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, killing six civilians and wounding five.
- 1996 –Ted Kaczynski, suspected of being the Unabomber, is indicted on ten criminal counts.
- 2009 –The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), a NASA robotic spacecraft is launched.
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