Notable Historical Events on June 18th
June 18th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
618 |
Coronation of the Chinese governor Li Yuan as Emperor Gaozu of Tang, the new Emperor of China, initiating three centuries of the Tang Dynasty's rule over China. |
860 |
Swedish Vikings attack Constantinople |
1155 |
Pope Adrian IV crowns Frederick I Barbarossa Roman-German Emperor |
1178 |
Proposed time of origin of lunar crater Giordano Bruno |
1178 |
Five monks at Canterbury report explosion on moon (only known observation) |
1264 |
The Parliament of Ireland meets at Castledermot in County Kildare, the first definitively known meeting of this Irish legislature. |
1316 |
Peace of Fexhe: prince-bishop Adolf II of Mark & Luikse towns |
1529 |
Blackfriars begin: Henry VIII & Catharina of Aragon |
1538 |
Treaty of Nice: ends war between Emperor Charles V & King French I |
1541 |
Irish parliament selects Henry VIII as king of Ireland |
1574 |
Polish King Hendrik of Anjou secretly leaves Poland |
1580 |
States of Utrecht forbid catholic worship |
1583 |
Richard Martin of London takes out first life insurance policy, on William Gibbons; premium was £383 |
1629 |
Sea battle at Dungeness: Piet Heyn beat the Dunkirkers, commerce raiders in the service of the Spanish Monarchy |
1639 |
Treaty of Berwick: Ends the First Bishops' War between England and Scotland |
1643 |
Skirmish at Chalgrove Field: Prince Rupert parliamentary armies |
1682 |
William Penn founds Philadelphia, US |
1757 |
Battle at Kolin Bohemia: Austrian army beats Prussia |
1767 |
Samuel Wallis, an English sea captain, sights Tahiti and is considered the first European to reach the island. |
1778 |
British Redcoats evacuate Philadelphia |
1779 |
French fleet occupies St Vincent |
1812 |
War of 1812 begins as US declares war against Britain |
1815 |
Battle of Waterloo; Napoleon and France defeated by British forces under Wellington and Prussian troops under Blucher |
1821 |
Opera "Der Freischutz" is produced (Berlin) |
1822 |
Part of US-Canadian boundary determined |
1822 |
Slave revolt leaders Denmark Vesey & Peter Poyas arrested in SC |
1836 |
HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin leave South-Africa |
1837 |
Spain gets new Constitution |
1863 |
After long neglect, Confederates hurriedly fortify Vicksburg |
1864 |
At Petersburg, Grant ends 4 days of assaults |
1872 |
Woman's Suffrage Convention held at Merchantile Liberty Hall |
1873 |
Susan B. Anthony fined $100 for voting for President |
1879 |
W H Richardson, a black inventor, patents the children's carriage |
1887 |
The Reinsurance Treaty between Germany and Russia is signed. |
1892 |
Macademia nuts 1st planted in Hawaii |
1894 |
Premier Roseberry declares Uganda a British protectorate |
1898 |
1st amusement pier opens in Atlantic City, NJ |
1898 |
4th US Golf Open: Fred Herd shoots a 328 at Myopia Hunt Club Mass |
1900 |
Empress Douairiere orders I-Ho-Chuan (Boxers) to kill all foreigners |
1900 |
Gen Luigi Pelloux resigns as premier of Italy |
1903 |
1st transcontinental auto trip begins in SF; arrives NY 3-mo later |
1906 |
6th Davis Cup: British Isles beats USA in Wimbledon (5-0) |
1908 |
Japanese immigration to Brazil begins when 781 people arrive in Santos aboard the Kasato-Maru ship |
1909 |
Nannie Burroughs forms national training School for Women |
1910 |
16th US Golf Open: Alex Smith shoots a 298 at Phila Cricket Club PA |
1912 |
The Chicago national Republican Convention splits between President Taft and Theodore Roosevelt; after Taft is nominated, Roosevelt and progressive elements of the Party form the Progressive Party (also known as the 'Bull Moose Party') |
1915 |
21st US Golf Open: John Travers shoots a 297 at Baltusrol GC NJ |
1916 |
Yanks score in every inning but 8th to beat Indians 19-3 in baseball |
1924 |
Pope Pius XI's encyclical Maximam gravissimamque |
1926 |
Theodor Lessing laid-off "because he is a Jew" in Hanover |
1927 |
Paavo Nurmi runs world record 2000 m: 5:24.6 |
1928 |
American aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the 1st woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean landing at Burry Port, Wales |
1930 |
Groundbreaking ceremonies for the Franklin Institute held. |
1934 |
US Highway planning surveys nationwide authorized |
1936 |
1st bicycle traffic court in America established, Racine, WI |
1936 |
Polish parliament gives pres Ignacy Moscicki dictatorial power |
1938 |
Babe Ruth is signed as a Dodgers coach for the rest of the season |
1940 |
Gen Charles de Gaulle on BBC tells French to defy nazi occupiers |
1940 |
German occupiers slaughter cattle, pigs & chickens |
1940 |
Winston Churchill's "this was their finest hour" speech urging perseverance during Battle of Britain delivered to British House of Commons |
1941 |
Joe Louis KOs Billy Conn in 13 for heavyweight boxing title |
1941 |
Turkey signs peace treaty with nazi-Germany |
1942 |
Bernard W Robinson, becomes 1st black ensign in US Navy |
1942 |
Eric Nessler of France stays aloft in a glider for 38h21m |
1943 |
SS Police in Amsterdam sentence for 12 resistance fighter to death (Jewish, communists, homosexuality) at the census bureau |
1944 |
Farewell concert of Willem Mengelberg in Paris |
1944 |
U-767 sinks |
1945 |
William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) charged with treason |
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. |
1947 |
Cincinnati Red Ewell Blackwell no-hits Boston Braves, 6-0 |
1948 |
American Library Association adopts Library Bill of Rights |
1948 |
National Security Council authorizes covert operations for 1st time |
1948 |
Phillies pitching great Robin Roberts debut, loses 2-0 to Pirates |
1948 |
UN Commission on Human Rights adopts Intl Decl of Human Rights |
1949 |
"Along Fifth Avenue" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 180 perfs |
1950 |
Cleve Indians score 14 runs in 1st inning, beat A's 21-2 |
1951 |
De Gaulle wins French parliamentary election |
1951 |
In South Africa, the Suppression of Communism Act commences. |
1953 |
Egypt proclaimed a republic, General Neguib becomes president |
1953 |
USAF C124 Globemaster crashes near Tokyo killing 129 servicemen |
1953 |
Eugene Stephens is 1st to get 3 hits & Red Sox score 17 runs in 1 Inning (7th) Red Sox beat Detroit 23-3 |
1954 |
Pierre Mendèsforms French government |
1955 |
"3 for Tonight" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 85 performances |
1956 |
Last of foreign troops leaves Egypt as British leave Suez Canal |
1957 |
John Diefenbacker (C) takes office as PM of Canada |
1959 |
1st telecast transmitted from England to US |
1959 |
Governor of Louisiana Earl K. Long is committed to a state mental hospital; he responds by having the hospital's director fired and replaced with a crony who proceeds to proclaim him perfectly sane. |
1960 |
"Destry Rides Again" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 472 perfs |
1960 |
60th US Golf Open: Arnold Palmer shoots 280 at Cherry Hills in Denver |
1960 |
Giants hire Tom Sheehan as baseball's oldest debuting manager (66) |
1960 |
Real Madrid wins 5th Europe Cup 1 |
1961 |
CBS radio cancels Gunsmoke |
1961 |
KBMT TV channel 12 in Beaumont, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting |
1961 |
Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Eastern Golf Open |
1963 |
3,000 blacks boycott Boston public school |
1964 |
African Groundnut Council forms in Dakar |
1967 |
67th US Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus shoots 275 at Baltusrol GC NJ |
1967 |
Houston Don Wilson no-hits Atlanta Braves, 2-0 |
1967 |
Monterey International Pop Festival rocks Southern California |
1967 |
Susie Maxwell wins LPGA Milwaukee Jaycee Golf Open |
1968 |
Supreme Court bans racial discrimination in sale & rental of housing |
1969 |
A report published by the International Commission of Jurists on the British government's policy in Northern Ireland is critical of both the British government and the Northern Ireland government |
1970 |
Edward Heath's Conservative Party win the General Election in UK, replacing the Labour Party |
1971 |
Social Democratic and Labour Party and Nationalist Members of Parliament refuse to attend the state opening of Stormont (North Ireland Parliament) |
1972 |
72nd US Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 290 at Pebble Beach Calif |
1972 |
BEA Trident crashes after takeoff from Heathrow killing 118 |
1972 |
West Germany wins soccer world championship |
1972 |
US Supreme Court, 5-3, confirms lower court rulings in Curt Flood case, upholding baseball's exemption from antitrust laws |
1972 |
3 members of the British Army are killed by an Irish Republican Army (IRA) bomb in a derelict house near Lurgan, County Down |
1973 |
NCAA makes urine testing mandatory for participants |
1974 |
Gaston Thorn forms Luxembourg government |
1975 |
Fred Lynn gets 10 RBIs in a Red Sox 15-1 victory over Tigers |
1975 |
Gary Gilmour takes 6-14 in Cricket World Cup semi v England |
1975 |
NBC News & Information Service (24 hr news) premieres on radio |
1976 |
A Joseph William Turner watercolor auctioned for £340,000 |
1976 |
St Louis Cards Lou Brock & Hector Cruz hit inside-the-park HRs |
1976 |
Bowie Kuhn voids A's sales, totaling $35 million, of Joe Rudi & Rollie Fingers to Red Sox, & Vida Blue to Yankees |
1977 |
Billy Martin & Reggie Jackson get into a dug out altercation |
1977 |
Sex Pistols Johnny Rotten & Paul Cook, beaten & robbed by London pub |
1977 |
Space Shuttle test model "Enterprise" carries a crew aloft for 1st time, It was fixed to a modified Boeing 747 |
1978 |
78th US Golf Open: Andy North shoots a 285 at Cherry Hill CC in Denver |
1978 |
Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Bankers Trust Golf Classic |
1978 |
Victor de la Torre wins Peru election |
1979 |
Billy Martin becomes Yankee manager (2nd time), replacing Bob Lemon |
1979 |
Sri Lanka beat India by 47 runs in Cricket World Cup upset |
1979 |
US Pres Carter & Soviet Pres Leonid Brezhnev sign SALT II treaty limiting nuclear wepons |
1980 |
Dutch 2nd Chamber joins oil boycott of South Africa |
1980 |
Mrs Shakuntala Devi mentally multiplies 2 13-digit #s in 28 sec |
1981 |
Kimberley Ann Smith, of NC, 17, crowned America's Junior Miss |
1981 |
Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart retires (replaced by Sandra Day O'Connor, 1st woman on US Supreme Court) |
1981 |
Test cricket debut of Terry Alderman, v England at Trent Bridge |
1981 |
Vaccine to prevent hoof & mouth disease announced |
1981 |
The AIDS epidemic is formally recognized by medical professionals in San Francisco, California. |
1982 |
ABC's All Talk radio network expands to 22 stations |
1982 |
Voting Rights Act of 1965 extended by Senate by 85-8 vote |
1983 |
"Pump Boys & Dinettes" closes at Princess Theater NYC after 573 perfs |
1983 |
7th Shuttle Mission-Challenger 2 launched-Sally Ride 1st US woman |
1983 |
IRA's Joseph Doherty arrested in NYC |
1984 |
84th US Golf Open: Fuzzy Zoeller shoots a 276 at Winged Foot GC NY |
1985 |
Boston Red Sox Fred Lynn gets 10 RBIs |
1986 |
De Havilland Twin Otter & Bell 206 helicopter collide, kills 25 |
1986 |
Don Sutton becomes 19th pitcher to win 300 games |
1986 |
Heike Friedrich swims female world record 200m freestyle (1:57.55) |
1986 |
Papua New Guinea score 9-455 in 60 overs v Gibraltar, ICC Trophy |
1986 |
US House of Representatives approves Bill to impose stricter sanctions on Apartheid South Africa |
1987 |
Charles Glass, ABC journalist, kidnapped in Lebanon |
1988 |
Jeff Hamilton, hits 8,000th Dodger home run |
1989 |
"Starmites" closes at Criter Ctr SR Theater NYC after 60 performances |
1989 |
89th US Golf Open: Curtis Strange shoots a 278 at Oak Hill CC NY |
1989 |
Comet Churyunov-Gerasimenko at perihelion |
1989 |
Laura Davies wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open |
1990 |
1st ever lose for Cameroon in Soccer World Cup, USSR-4 Cameroon-0 |
1990 |
1st sudden death US Open Golf Championship is won by Hale Irwin |
1991 |
Boris Yeltsin, president of Russia, arrives in US |
1991 |
Mud storm in Antofagasta Chile, kills 80 |
1991 |
SF Giant pitcher Dave Dravecky's cancerous left arm is amputated |
1991 |
Yankee pitchers pick-off 3 Toronto Blue Jays |
1992 |
Ottawa Senators make goalie Peter Sidorkiewicz their 1st draft |
1992 |
Tampa Bay Lightning make goalie Wendell Young their 1st draft |
1993 |
Expo's Dennis Martinez is 92nd to win 200 games |
1993 |
Toru Takemitsu's "Archipelago" premieres in Aldeburgh England |
1994 |
Aleksander Popov swims world record 100m free style (48.21 sec) |
1994 |
Gay Games open in NYC |
1994 |
US ties Switzerland 1-1 in their 1st game of 1994 soccer World Cup |
1995 |
95th US Golf Open: Corey Pavin shoots a 280 at Shinnecock Hills NY |
1995 |
Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Rochester International Golf Tournament |
1996 |
Ted Kaczynski, suspected of being the Unabomber, is indicted on ten criminal counts. |
2000 |
100th US Golf Open: Tiger Woods shoots a 272 at Pebble Beach, California |
2001 |
Protests occur in Manipur over the extension of the ceasefire between Naga insurgents and the government of India. |
2001 |
101st US Golf Open: Retief Goosen shoots a 276 at Southern Hills CC OK |
2003 |
Google launches AdSense, a program that enables website publishers to serve ads targeted to the specific content of their individual web pages, many of which like HistoryOrb.com go on to start their own publishing businesses |
2006 |
The first Kazakh space satellite, KazSat is launched. |
2006 |
106th US Golf Open: Geoff Ogilvy shoots a 285 at Winged Foot GC NY |
2012 |
15 people are killed and 40 injured in a suicide attack in Baquba, Iraq |
2013 |
31 people are killed and 60 are injured by two suicide bombings in al-Qahira, Baghdad |
2013 |
27 people are killed and 30 are injured by a suicide bomb in Sher Garh, Pakistan |
2013 |
Russia passes a law banning foreign same-sex couples from adopting children |
2014 |
Ian McKellen is awarded an honorary degree by Cambridge University, becoming a Doctor of Letters |
2016 |
Thomas Mair, Suspected in the Jo Cox Killing, Is Charged With Murder |
2016 |
Putin Says Russia Will Work With Any US President |
2016 |
Putin says to seek IOC intervention over Rio ban |
2017 |
58 missing, presumed dead in London high-rise fire, police say |
2018 |
Magnitude 6.1 quake in Japan's Osaka area kills three, stops factories |
2018 |
Mexicans jubilant over World Cup win trigger earthquake sensors |
2018 |
5 dead as SUV being chased crashes in South Texas |
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