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On this day - June 18
618 — Li Yuan becomes Emperor Gaozu of Tang, initiating three ...
656 — Ali becomes Caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate.
860 — Byzantine–Rus' War: A fleet of about 200 Rus' vessels ...
1053 — Battle of Civitate: Three thousand Norman horsemen of Count ...
1264 — The Parliament of Ireland meets at Castledermot in County ...
1265 — A draft Byzantine–Venetian treaty is concluded between ...
1391 — Tokhtamysh–Timur war: Battle of the Kondurcha River: Timur ...
1429 — Charles VII's army defeats an English army under John ...
1633 — Charles I is crowned King of Scots at St Giles' ...
1684 — The charter of the Massachusetts Bay Colony is revoked via a ...
1757 — Battle of Kolín between Prussian forces under Frederick the ...
1778 — American Revolutionary War: The British Army abandons ...
1799 — Action of 18 June 1799: A frigate squadron under Rear-admiral ...
1803 — Haitian Revolution: The Royal Navy led by Rear-Admiral John ...
1812 — The United States declaration of war upon the United Kingdom ...
1815 — Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Waterloo results in the defeat ...
1822 — Konstantinos Kanaris blows up the Ottoman navy's flagship ...
1837 — St. Joseph Mutiny: African soldiers in the 1st West India ...
1858 — Charles Darwin receives a paper from Alfred Russel Wallace ...
1859 — First ascent of Aletschhorn, second summit of the Bernese Alps.
1873 — Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to vote in the ...
1887 — The Reinsurance Treaty between Germany and Russia is signed.
1900 — Empress Dowager Cixi of China orders all foreigners killed, ...
1908 — The University of the Philippines is established.
1908 — Japanese immigration to Brazil begins when 781 people arrive ...
1920 — The Troubles in Ulster (1920–1922) begin with a week of ...
1928 — Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly in an ...
1935 — Police in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, clash with ...
1940 — The "Finest Hour" speech is delivered by Winston ...
1940 — Appeal of 18 June by Charles de Gaulle.
1945 — William Joyce ("Lord Haw-Haw") is charged with ...
1946 — Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia, a Socialist, calls for a Direct Action ...
1948 — Britain, France and the United States announce that on June ...
1948 — Columbia Records introduces the long-playing record album in a ...
1953 — A United States Air Force C-124 crashes and burns near ...
1953 — The Egyptian revolution of 1952 ends with the overthrow of the ...
1954 — Carlos Castillo Armas leads an invasion force across the ...
1958 — Benjamin Britten's one-act opera Noye's Fludde ...
1965 — Vietnam War: The United States Air Force uses B-52 bombers to ...
1972 — Staines air disaster: One hundred eighteen people are killed ...
1979 — SALT II is signed by the United States and the Soviet Union.
1981 — The Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk, the first operational aircraft ...
1982 — Italian banker Roberto Calvi's body is discovered hanging ...
1983 — Mona Mahmudnizhad, together with nine other women of the ...
1983 — Space Shuttle program: STS-7, Astronaut Sally Ride becomes the ...
1984 — A major clash between about 5,000 police and a similar number ...
1994 — The Troubles: Members of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) ...
1998 — Propair Flight 420 crashes near Montréal–Mirabel International ...
2006 — The first Kazakh space satellite, KazSat-1 is launched.
2007 — The Charleston Sofa Super Store fire happened in Charleston, ...
2009 — The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), a NASA robotic ...
2018 — An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 strikes northern Osaka.
2023 — Titan, a submersible operated by OceanGate Expeditions, ...