UN
Day
International
Day for Countering Hate Speech
Sustainable
Gastronomy Day
Events
of the day
618 – Li Yuan becomes
Emperor Gaozu of Tang, initiating three
centuries of Tang Dynasty rule over China.
1053 – Battle of Civitate: 3,000 horsemen
of Norman Count Humphrey rout the troops
of Pope Leo IX.
1178 – Five Canterbury monks see what
is possibly the Giordano Bruno crater
being formed. It is believed that the
current oscillations of the Moon's distance
from the Earth (on the order of meters)
are a result of this collision.
1264 – The Parliament of Ireland meets
at Castledermot in County Kildare, the
first definitively known meeting of this
Irish legislature.
1429 – French forces under the leadership
of Joan of Arc defeat the main English
army under Sir John Fastolf at the Battle
of Patay. This turns the tide of the Hundred
Years' War.
1684 – The charter of the Massachusetts
Bay Colony is revoked via a scire facias
writ issued by an English court.
1757 – Battle of Kolín between Prussian
forces under Frederick the Great and an
Austrian army under the command of Field
Marshal Count Leopold Joseph von Daun
in the Seven Years' War.
1767 – Samuel Wallis, an English sea captain,
sights Tahiti and is considered the first
European to reach the island.
1778 – American Revolutionary War: British
troops abandon Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1812 – War of 1812: The U.S. Congress
declares war on the United Kingdom.
1815 – Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of
Waterloo results in the defeat of Napoleon
Bonaparte by the Duke of Wellington and
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher forcing
him to abdicate the throne of France for
the second and last time.
1830 – French invasion of Algeria.
1858 – Charles Darwin receives a paper
from Alfred Russel Wallace that includes
nearly identical conclusions about evolution
as Darwin's own, prompting Darwin to publish
his theory.
1859 – First ascent of Aletschhorn, second
summit of the Bernese Alps.
1873 – Susan B. Anthony is fined $100
for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential
election.
1887 – The Reinsurance Treaty between
Germany and Russia is signed.
1900 – Empress Dowager Longyu of China
orders all foreigners killed, including
foreign diplomats and their families.
1908 – Japanese immigration to Brazil
begins when 781 people arrive in Santos
aboard the ship Kasato-Maru.
1908 – The University of the Philippines
is established.
1923 – Checker Taxi puts its first taxi
on the streets.
1928 – Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes
the first woman to fly in an aircraft
across the Atlantic Ocean (she is a passenger;
Wilmer Stultz is the pilot and Lou Gordon
the mechanic).
1930 – Groundbreaking ceremonies for the
Franklin Institute are held.
1935 – Police in Vancouver, British Columbia,
Canada clash with striking longshoremen,
resulting in a total 60 injuries and 24
arrests.
1940 – Appeal of June 18 by Charles de
Gaulle.
1940 – "Finest Hour" speech
by Winston Churchill.
1945 – William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) is
charged with treason for his pro-German
propaganda broadcasting during World War
II.
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.
1953 – The Egyptian Revolution of 1952
ends with the overthrow of the Muhammad
Ali Dynasty and the declaration of the
Republic of Egypt.
1953 – A United States Air Force C-124
crashes and burns near Tokyo, Japan killing
129.
1954 – Pierre Mendès-France becomes Prime
Minister of France.
1965 – Vietnam War: The United States
uses B-52 bombers to attack National Liberation
Front guerrilla fighters in South Vietnam.
1972 – Staines air disaster – 118 are
killed when a plane crashes two minutes
after take off from London Heathrow Airport.
1979 – SALT II is signed by the United
States and the Soviet Union.
1983 – Space Shuttle program: STS-7, Astronaut
Sally Ride becomes the first American
woman in space.
1983 – Mona Mahmudnizhad together with
nine other Bahá'í women, is sentenced
to death and hanged in Shiraz, Iran because
of her Bahá'í Faith.
1984 – A major clash between about 5,000
police and a similar number of miners
takes place at Orgreave, South Yorkshire,
during the 1984-1985 UK miners' strike.
1994 – The Troubles: the Ulster Volunteer
Force (UVF) open fire inside a pub in
Loughinisland, Northern Ireland, United
Kingdom, killing six civilians and wounding
five.
1996 – Ted Kaczynski, suspected of being
the Unabomber, is indicted on ten criminal
counts.
2006 – The first Kazakh space satellite,
KazSat is launched.
2009 – The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
(LRO), a NASA robotic spacecraft is launched.
Holidays
and observances
Autistic
Pride Day (International)
Christian Feast Day:
Elizabeth of Schönau
Leontius, Hypatius and Theodulus
June 18 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Evacuation Day (Egypt)
Foundation Day (Benguet)
National Day (Seychelles)
Waterloo Day (United Kingdom)
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