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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1767 –Samuel Wallis, an English sea captain, sights Tahiti and is considered the first European to reach the island.
- 1812 –War of 1812: The U.S. Congress declares war on the United Kingdom.
- 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 –The University of the Philippines is established.
- 1923 –Checker Taxi puts its first taxi on the streets.
- 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).
- 1935 –Police in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada clash with striking longshoremen, resulting in a total 60 injuries and 24 arrests.
- 1940 –“Finest Hour” speech by Winston Churchill.
- 1953 –A United States Air Force C-124 crashes and burns near Tokyo, Japan killing 129.
- 1953 –The Egyptian Revolution of 1952 ends with the overthrow of the Muhammad Ali Dynasty and the declaration of the Republic of Egypt.
- 1972 –Staines air disaster – 118 are killed when a plane crashes two minutes after take off from London Heathrow Airport.
- 1983 –Space Shuttle program: STS-7, Astronaut Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space.
- 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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