SomeFacts | June 18

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, ...