About June 18
June 18, 2024 is the 170th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 196 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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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 225 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.
- 1264 –The Parliament of Ireland meets at Castledermot in County Kildare, the first definitively known meeting of this Irish legislature.
- 1429 –French forces under the leadership of Joan of Arc defeat the main English army under Sir John Fastolf at the Battle of Patay. This turns the tide of the Hundred Years’ War.
- 1684 –The charter of the Massachusetts Bay Colony is revoked via a scire facias writ issued by an English court.
- 1757 –Battle of Kolín between Prussian forces under Frederick the Great and an Austrian army under the command of Field Marshal Count Leopold Joseph von Daun in the Seven Years’ War.
- 1778 –American Revolutionary War: British troops abandon Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- 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.
- 1859 –First ascent of Aletschhorn, second summit of the Bernese Alps.
- 1873 –Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election.
- 1887 –The Reinsurance Treaty between Germany and Russia is signed.
- 1908 –The University of the Philippines is established.
- 1928 –Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean (she is a passenger; Wilmer Stultz is the pilot and Lou Gordon the mechanic).
- 1940 –“Finest Hour” speech by Winston Churchill.
- 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 –The Egyptian Revolution of 1952 ends with the overthrow of the Muhammad Ali Dynasty and the declaration of the Republic of Egypt.
- 1954 –Pierre Mendès-France becomes Prime Minister of France.
- 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.
- 2006 –The first Kazakh space satellite, KazSat is launched.
- 2009 –The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), a NASA robotic spacecraft is launched.
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