18 Juin
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The 18t o Juin is the 169t day o the year (170t in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 196 days bidin.
Events
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- 1156 - Pape Adrian IV an William I o Sicily agree tae the Treaty o Benevento, in which the Pape recognises the Norman Kinrick o Sicily.
- 1264 - First sittin o the Erse pairlament.
- 1778 - American Revolutionary War: Breetish troops abandon Philadelphia.
- 1815 - Napoleon I is defeatit bi an alliance consistin o the Unitit Kinrick, Proushie an Roushie at the Battle o Waterloo in present-day Belgium.
- 1858 - Charles Darwin receives a letter frae Alfred Russel Wallace, wha haed reachit very seemilar conclusions on Evolution tae him.
- 1859 - The Aletschhorn in the Swiss Alps is climbed for the first time, bi Inglisman Francis Fox Tuckett an three Swiss muntain guides.
- 1928 - Amelia Earhart becomes the first wumman tae cross the Atlantic Ocean by plane, as a passenger o Wilmer Stultz.
- 1928 - Norse splorer Roald Amundsen disappears on a rescue mission in the Airctic.
- 1932 - FIBA, the warld govrenin body o basketbaw, is foondit.
- 1940 - Warld War II: Charles de Gaulle issues the "Appell o Juin 18t".
- 1940 - Warld War II: Winston Churchill delivers his "Finest Hour" speech.
- 1945 - William Joyce, kent as "Laird Haw-Haw", is chairged wi treason for pro-German propaganda braidcasts durin Warld War II.
- 1946 - Italy is proclaimed a republic.
- 1953 - Egyp becomes a republic.
- 1953 - The Tachikawa air disaster in Japan kills 129 fowk.
- 1970 - The Conservative Pairty unner Edward Heath wins the Unitit Kinrick general election.
- 1972 - A Lunnon Heathrow tae Brussels flicht crashes shortly efter tak-aff, killin 118 fowk.
- 1979 - US Preses Jimmy Carter an Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev sign the SALT-II airms reduction treaty.
- 1983 - Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space.
- 1984 - A confrontation atween 5,000 polis afficers an a seemilar nummer o strikin miners occurs at Orgreave in Sooth Yorkshire durin the 1984-85 Miners' Strike.
- 1994 - Members o the Ulster Volunteer Force kill sax civilians in a pub in Loughinisland, Northren Ireland.
- 1995 - FIFA Weemen's Warld Cup: Norawa wins the toornament, defeatin Germany 2-0 in the feenal.
- 2014 - The pairlament in Luxembourg votes in favour o same-sex marriage.
Births
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- 1743 - Alexander Gordon, 4t Duke o Gordon, Scots nobleman (d. 1827)
- 1799 - William Lassell, Inglis astronomer (d. 1880)
- 1845 - Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French pheesician (d. 1922)
- 1868 - Miklos Horthy, Regent o Hungary (d. 1957)
- 1874 - George Tupou II, Keeng o Tonga (d. 1918)
- 1884 - Edouard Daladier, Prime meenister o Fraunce (d. 1970)
- 1885 - Margaret Hasluck, Scots geografer (d. 1948)
- 1886 - George Mallory, Inglis mountaineer (d. 1924)
- 1901 - Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna o Roushie (d. 1918)
- 1903 - Ian Campbell, 11t Duke o Argyll, Scots peer (d. 1973)
- 1918 - Franco Modigliani, Italian economist (d. 2003)
- 1929 - Juergen Habermas, German philosopher
- 1931 - Fernando Henrique Cardoso, umwhile Preses o Brazil
- 1936 - Barack Obama, Sr., faither o Barack Obama (d. 1982)
- 1942 - John Bellany, Scots penter (d. 2013)
- 1942 - Paul McCartney, Inglis muisicker
- 1942 - Roger Ebert, American film critic (d. 2013)
- 1942 - Thabo Mbeki, umwhile Preses o Sooth Africae
- 1946 - Fabio Capello, Italian fitbawer an manager
- 1949 - Jaroslaw Kaczynski, umwhile Prime meenister o Poland
- 1949 - Lech Kaczyński, Preses o Poland (d. 2010)
- 1952 - Isabella Rossellini, Italian actress
- 1954 - Neil Smith, Scots geografer (d. 2012)
- 1986 - Richard Gasquet, French tennis player
- 1986 - Richard Madden, Scots actor
- 1988 - Josh Dun, American sangster (Twenty One Pilots)
- 1989 - Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Gabonese fitbawer
Daiths
- 1883 - John James Waterston, Scots pheesicist (b. 1811)
- 1928 - Roald Amundsen, Norwegian splorer o the Airctic an the Antarcticae (b. 1872)
- 1936 - Maxim Gorky, Roushie writer (b. 1868)
- 1971 - Paul Karrer, Swiss chemist (b. 1889)
- 1974 - Georgy Zhukov, Marshal o the Soviet Union (b. 1896)
- 1988 - Archie Cochrane, Scots medicinar (b. 1909)
- 2010 - José Saramago, Portuguese writer (b. 1922)
- 2018 - XXXTentacion, American rapper (b. 1998)
- 2020 - Dame Vera Lynn, Inglis sangster (b. 1917)
Halidays
- The 18t o Juin is the feast day o the follaein saunts:
- St. Gregory Barbarigo
- St. Marina
- St. Alena
- St. Amandus
- St. Aquilina
- St. Calogerus
- St. Guy
- St. Elizabeth o Schonau
- St. Fortunatus
- St. Leontius
- St. Mark & Marcellian
- St. Osmanna
- Autistic Pride Day
- Republic Day (Egyp)
Fremmit airtins
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