June 18 facts for kids

June 18 is the 169th day of the year (170th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 196 days remain until the end of the year.

June 18 is a day filled with many interesting events throughout history, from ancient battles and important political changes to scientific discoveries and famous births. It's a day when leaders rose to power, new technologies were introduced, and significant moments in exploration and human rights took place. Let's explore some of the key happenings on this date.

Historical Events

Early History (Before 1600)

• 618 – Li Yuan became Emperor Gaozu of Tang, starting the Tang dynasty rule in China, which lasted for three centuries.
• 656 – Ali became the leader (Caliph) of the Rashidun Caliphate.
• 860 – During the Byzantine–Rus' War, a large fleet of about 200 Rus' ships sailed into the Bosporus and began attacking the areas around Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire.
• 1053 – At the Battle of Civitate, three thousand Norman horsemen, led by Count Humphrey, defeated the army of Pope Leo IX.
• 1264 – The Parliament of Ireland held its first known meeting in Castledermot, County Kildare. This was an important step for the Irish legislature.
• 1265 – A draft peace agreement was made between Venetian representatives and Emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos, but it was not officially approved by the Doge Reniero Zeno.
• 1391 – In the Tokhtamysh–Timur war, Timur defeated Tokhtamysh of the Golden Horde at the Battle of the Kondurcha River in what is now southeast Russia.
• 1429 – During the Hundred Years' War, Charles VII's army defeated an English army led by John Talbot at the Battle of Patay. The English lost more than half their army, which greatly weakened their efforts in the war.

Later History (1601–1900)

• 1633 – Charles I was crowned King of Scots at St Giles' Cathedral in Edinburgh.
• 1684 – The official document (charter) of the Massachusetts Bay Colony was taken away by an English court.
• 1757 – The Battle of Kolín took place during the Seven Years' War. Prussian forces under Frederick the Great fought against an Austrian army led by Field Marshal Count Leopold Joseph von Daun.
• 1778 – During the American Revolutionary War, the British Army left Philadelphia.
• 1799 – In the Action of 18 June 1799, a group of French warships led by Rear-admiral Jean-Baptiste Perrée was captured by the British fleet under Lord Keith.
• 1803 – During the Haitian Revolution, the Royal Navy led by Rear-Admiral John Thomas Duckworth began blocking the port of Saint-Domingue to stop French forces.
• 1812 – The United States officially declared war on the United Kingdom, signed by President James Madison. This marked the beginning of the War of 1812.
• 1815 – In the Napoleonic Wars, the Battle of Waterloo ended with Napoleon Bonaparte's defeat by the armies of the Duke of Wellington and Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher. This forced Napoleon to give up the throne of France for the second and final time.
• 1822 – Konstantinos Kanaris blew up the Ottoman navy's main ship at Chios, killing the naval commander Nasuhzade Ali Pasha.
• 1858 – Charles Darwin received a paper from Alfred Russel Wallace that had very similar ideas about evolution to his own. This encouraged Darwin to publish his famous theory.
• 1859 – The Aletschhorn, the second-highest peak in the Bernese Alps, was climbed for the first time.
• 1873 – Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for trying to vote in the 1872 presidential election. This was a key moment in the fight for women's voting rights.
• 1887 – The Reinsurance Treaty was signed between Germany and Russia.
• 1900 – Empress Dowager Cixi of China ordered all foreigners to be killed, including foreign diplomats and their families.

Modern History (1901–Present)

• 1908 – Japanese immigration to Brazil began when 781 people arrived in Santos on the ship Kasato-Maru.
• 1908 – The University of the Philippines was officially started.
• 1920 – A period of violence known as The Troubles in Northern Ireland (1920–1922) began with a week of fighting between different groups in Derry.
• 1928 – Aviator Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean in an aircraft. She was a passenger, while Wilmer Stultz was the pilot.
• 1940 – Charles de Gaulle made his famous Appeal of 18 June speech, encouraging the French people to resist the German occupation during World War II.
• 1940 – Winston Churchill delivered his inspiring ""Finest Hour" speech" to the British Parliament.
• 1945 – William Joyce, also known as "Lord Haw-Haw", was charged with treason for broadcasting pro-German messages during World War II.
• 1946 – Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia, a Socialist leader, called for a protest against the Portuguese in Goa.
• 1948 – Columbia Records showed off the new long-playing record album for the first time at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City.
• 1948 – Britain, France, and the United States announced that a new currency, the Deutsche Mark, would be introduced in western Germany and West Berlin. This led to increased restrictions on access to Berlin by Communists.
• 1953 – The Egyptian revolution of 1952 ended with the overthrow of the Muhammad Ali dynasty and the declaration of the Republic of Egypt.
• 1954 – Carlos Castillo Armas led an invasion force into Guatemala, starting the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état.
• 1958 – Benjamin Britten's short opera Noye's Fludde was performed for the first time at the Aldeburgh Festival.
• 1965 – During the Vietnam War, the United States Air Force used B-52 bombers to attack guerrilla fighters in South Vietnam.
• 1972 – The Staines air disaster occurred, killing 118 people when a BEA H.S. Trident plane crashed shortly after taking off from London's Heathrow Airport.
• 1979 – The SALT II treaty, aimed at limiting nuclear weapons, was signed by the United States and the Soviet Union.
• 1981 – The Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk, the first aircraft designed with stealth technology, made its first flight.
• 1982 – The body of Italian banker Roberto Calvi was found hanging under Blackfriars Bridge in London, England.
• 1983 – In the Space Shuttle program, Astronaut Sally Ride became the first American woman in space during the STS-7 mission.
• 1984 – A major clash happened at Orgreave, South Yorkshire, during the 1984–85 UK miners' strike. About 5,000 police officers and a similar number of miners were involved.
• 2006 – The first space satellite from Kazakhstan, KazSat-1, was launched.
• 2009 – The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), a robotic spacecraft from NASA, was launched to study the Moon.
• 2018 – An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.1 struck northern Osaka, Japan.
• 2023 – The submersible Titan, operated by OceanGate Expeditions, imploded while trying to visit the wreck of the Titanic. All five people on board, including the company's co-founder and CEO Stockton Rush, died in the North Atlantic Ocean.

Famous Births

Born Before 1900

• 1269 – Eleanor of England, Countess of Bar
• 1318 – Eleanor of Woodstock
• 1332 – John V Palaiologos, a Byzantine Emperor.
• 1466 – Ottaviano Petrucci, an Italian printer.
• 1511 – Bartolomeo Ammannati, an Italian architect and sculptor who designed the Ponte Santa Trinita.
• 1517 – Emperor Ōgimachi of Japan.
• 1673 – Antonio de Literes, a Spanish composer.
• 1717 – Johann Stamitz, a Czech violinist and composer.
• 1757 – Ignaz Pleyel, an Austrian-French pianist and composer.
• 1799 – William Lassell, an English astronomer.
• 1812 – Ivan Goncharov, a Russian journalist and author.
• 1816 – Hélène Napoleone Bonaparte, daughter of Napoleon.
• 1833 – Manuel González Flores, a Mexican general and President.
• 1845 – Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, a French physician and parasitologist who won a Nobel Prize.
• 1854 – E. W. Scripps, an American publisher who founded the E. W. Scripps Company.
• 1857 – Henry Clay Folger, an American businessman who founded the Folger Shakespeare Library.
• 1862 – Carolyn Wells, an American novelist and poet.
• 1868 – Miklós Horthy, a Hungarian admiral and politician who was the Regent of Hungary.
• 1877 – James Montgomery Flagg, an American painter and illustrator, famous for his "I Want You for U.S. Army" poster.
• 1886 – George Mallory, an English mountaineer known for his attempts to climb Mount Everest.
• 1896 – Blanche Sweet, an American actress.
• 1900 – Vlasta Vraz, a Czech-American relief worker and editor.

Born After 1900

• 1901 – Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia.
• 1903 – Jeanette MacDonald, an American actress and singer.
• 1904 – Keye Luke, a Chinese-American actor.
• 1908 – Bud Collyer, an American actor and game show host.
• 1913 – Sammy Cahn, an American pianist and composer.
• 1914 – E. G. Marshall, an American actor.
• 1915 – Red Adair, a famous American firefighter.
• 1917 – Richard Boone, an American actor and director.
• 1918 – Jerome Karle, an American chemist and academic who won a Nobel Prize.
• 1920 – Ian Carmichael, an English actor.
• 1924 – George Mikan, an American basketball player and coach.
• 1926 – Allan Sandage, an American astronomer and cosmologist.
• 1927 – Isabella Rossellini, an Italian actress and director.
• 1929 – Jürgen Habermas, a German sociologist and philosopher.
• 1931 – Fernando Henrique Cardoso, a Brazilian sociologist and politician who became the President of Brazil.
• 1932 – Dudley R. Herschbach, an American chemist and academic who won a Nobel Prize.
• 1936 – Denny Hulme, a New Zealand race car driver.
• 1937 – Jay Rockefeller, an American politician who was the Governor of West Virginia.
• 1939 – Lou Brock, an American baseball player.
• 1941 – Delia Smith, a famous English chef and author.
• 1942 – Roger Ebert, an American journalist and film critic.
• 1942 – Thabo Mbeki, a South African politician who became the President of South Africa.
• 1942 – Paul McCartney, the famous English singer-songwriter and guitarist from The Beatles.
• 1943 – Raffaella Carrà, an Italian singer, dancer, and actress.
• 1946 – Fabio Capello, an Italian footballer and manager.
• 1946 – Gordon Murray, a British automobile designer.
• 1947 – Linda Thorson, a Canadian actress.
• 1949 – Chris Van Allsburg, an American author and illustrator, known for Jumanji and The Polar Express.
• 1949 – Jarosław Kaczyński and Lech Kaczyński, twin brothers who both became important politicians in Poland, with Lech serving as President of Poland.
• 1952 – Carol Kane, an American actress.
• 1952 – Lee Soo-man, a South Korean singer and businessman who founded S.M. Entertainment, a major K-pop agency.
• 1956 – Brian Benben, an American actor.
• 1960 – Barbara Broccoli, an American film producer, known for the James Bond movies.
• 1961 – Alison Moyet, an English singer-songwriter.
• 1962 – Lisa Randall, an American physicist and academic.
• 1963 – Dizzy Reed, an American keyboard player for Guns N' Roses.
• 1966 – Kurt Browning, a Canadian figure skater and choreographer.
• 1971 – Kerry Butler, an American actress and singer.
• 1971 – Nigel Owens, a Welsh rugby referee.
• 1973 – Julie Depardieu, a French actress.
• 1974 – Vincenzo Montella, an Italian footballer and manager.
• 1976 – Blake Shelton, an American country singer-songwriter.
• 1978 – Wang Liqin, a Chinese table tennis player.
• 1980 – Antonio Gates, an American football player.
• 1981 – Scooter Braun, an American music executive.
• 1983 – Billy Slater and Cameron Smith, Australian rugby league players.
• 1985 – Alex Hirsch, an American animator and television producer, creator of Gravity Falls.
• 1986 – Richard Gasquet, a French tennis player.
• 1986 – Richard Madden, a Scottish actor.
• 1988 – Josh Dun, an American musician, drummer for Twenty One Pilots.
• 1989 – Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, a Gabonese footballer.
• 1990 – Sandra Izbașa, a Romanian gymnast.
• 1990 – Christian Taylor, an American triple jumper.
• 1994 – Takeoff, an American rapper.
• 1996 – Alen Halilović, a Croatian footballer.
• 1999 – Choi Ye-won, a South Korean singer and actress.
• 1999 – Trippie Redd, an American rapper.

Notable Deaths

Died Before 1900

• 741 – Leo III the Isaurian, a Byzantine emperor.
• 1095 – Sophia of Hungary.
• 1164 – Elisabeth of Schönau, a German Benedictine visionary.
• 1234 – Emperor Chūkyō of Japan.
• 1291 – Alfonso III of Aragon.
• 1464 – Rogier van der Weyden, a Flemish painter.
• 1629 – Piet Pieterszoon Hein, a Dutch admiral.
• 1650 – Christoph Scheiner, a German priest, physicist, and astronomer.
• 1673 – Jeanne Mance, a French-Canadian nurse who founded the Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal.
• 1726 – Michel Richard Delalande, a French organist and composer.
• 1742 – John Aislabie, an English politician.
• 1788 – Adam Gib, a Scottish religious leader.
• 1815 – Thomas Picton, a Welsh-English general.
• 1835 – William Cobbett, an English farmer and journalist.
• 1860 – Friedrich Wilhelm von Bismarck, a German army officer and writer.

Died After 1900

• 1902 – Samuel Butler, an English novelist and satirist.
• 1916 – Max Immelmann, a German pilot.
• 1922 – Jacobus Kapteyn, a Dutch astronomer.
• 1928 – Roald Amundsen, a Norwegian pilot and explorer, known for reaching the South Pole.
• 1936 – Maxim Gorky, a Russian novelist and playwright.
• 1937 – Gaston Doumergue, a French politician and President of France.
• 1945 – Florence Bascom, an American geologist and educator.
• 1945 – Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., an American general.
• 1959 – Ethel Barrymore, an American actress.
• 1963 – Pedro Armendáriz, a Mexican-American actor.
• 1964 – Giorgio Morandi, an Italian painter.
• 1971 – Paul Karrer, a Russian-Swiss chemist and academic who won a Nobel Prize.
• 1974 – Georgy Zhukov, a Russian marshal and politician.
• 1982 – Djuna Barnes, an American novelist and journalist.
• 1982 – John Cheever, an American novelist and short story writer.
• 1982 – Curd Jürgens, a German-Austrian actor.
• 1989 – I. F. Stone, an American journalist and author.
• 1992 – Peter Allen, an Australian singer-songwriter and pianist.
• 1996 – Endel Puusepp, an Estonian-Soviet military pilot.
• 2000 – Nancy Marchand, an American actress.
• 2003 – Larry Doby, an American baseball player.
• 2005 – Manuel Sadosky, an Argentinian mathematician.
• 2007 – Bernard Manning, an English comedian.
• 2008 – Tasha Tudor, an American author and illustrator.
• 2010 – José Saramago, a Portuguese novelist who won a Nobel Prize.
• 2011 – Frederick Chiluba, a Zambian politician and President of Zambia.
• 2011 – Clarence Clemons, an American saxophonist, known for playing with Bruce Springsteen.
• 2013 – Michael Hastings, an American journalist and author.
• 2014 – Stephanie Kwolek, an American chemist and engineer, who invented Kevlar.
• 2014 – Horace Silver, an American jazz pianist and composer.
• 2015 – Ralph J. Roberts, an American businessman who co-founded Comcast.
• 2018 – XXXTentacion, an American rapper.
• 2018 – Big Van Vader, an American professional wrestler.
• 2020 – Vera Lynn, a beloved English singer known as the "Forces' Sweetheart" during World War II.
• 2022 – Uffe Ellemann-Jensen, a Danish politician.
• 2023 – Several people died in the Titan submersible implosion, including:
  • Shahzada Dawood, a Pakistani-British businessman.
  • Hamish Harding, a British businessman and explorer.
  • Paul-Henri Nargeolet, a French navy commander and explorer.
  • Stockton Rush, an American businessman who was the CEO and founder of OceanGate.

Holidays and Observances

• Autistic Pride Day (International)
• Christian feast day:
  • Bernard Mizeki (Anglican and Episcopal Church)
  • Elisabeth of Schönau
  • Gregorio Barbarigo
  • Leontius, Hypatius and Theodulus
  • Marina the Monk (Maronite Church, Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria)
  • Mark and Marcellian
  • June 18 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Foundation Day (Benguet)
• Human Rights Day (Azerbaijan)
• National Day (Seychelles)
• Queen Mother's Birthday (Cambodia)
• Waterloo Day (United Kingdom)

Images for kids

• Amelia Earhart, 1928.jpg

  Amelia Earhart in 1928, the year she became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean.

• Paul McCartney 2010.jpg

  Paul McCartney in 2010. He was born on this day in 1942.

• Sally Ride 1983.jpg

  Sally Ride in 1983, the year she became the first American woman in space.

See also

In Spanish: 18 de junio para niños