What are the important events that happened on June 18? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
June 18: Facts & Myths About This Day
June 18 is the 169th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 196 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is June 5, 2025 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 29,170,080 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectahexacontaenneagon’ day.
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Gemini is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Pearl is the modern birthstone for this month. Moonstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 244 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,562 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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June 18 Historical Events
- 1830 –French invasion of Algeria
- 1859 –First ascent of Aletschhorn, second summit of the Bernese Alps.
- 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.
- 1940 –“Finest Hour” speech by Winston Churchill.
- 1940 –Appeal of June 18 by Charles de Gaulle.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2006 –The first Kazakh space satellite, KazSat is launched.
Who were born on June 18?
- 1908 –Nedra Volz, American actress (d. 2003)
- 1932 –Dudley R. Herschbach, American chemist, Nobel laureate
- 1941 –Delia Smith, English cook and television presenter
- 1942 –Roger Ebert, American film reviewer
- 1943 –Raffaella Carrà, Italian TV presenter
- 1949 –Chris Van Allsburg, American author and illustrator
- 1960 –Ralph Brown, British actor
- 1964 –Uday Hussein, Iraqi leader, son of Saddam Hussein (d. 2003)
- 1970 –Robin Christopher, American actress
- 1979 –Yumiko Kobayashi, Japanese voice actress
Who died on June 18?
- 1588 –Robert Crowley, English printer and poet (b. c. 1517)
- 1650 –Christoph Scheiner, German astronomer (b. 1573 or 1575)
- 1788 –Adam Gib, Scottish religious figure (b. 1714)
- 1815 –Thomas Picton, British general (b. 1758)
- 1835 –William Cobbett, English journalist and author (b. 1763)
- 1915 –Eufemio Zapata, brother of Mexican revolutionary leader Emiliano Zapata (b. 1873)
- 1936 –Maxim Gorky, Russian author (b. 1868)
- 1985 –Paul Colin, French poster designer (b. 1892)
- 2008 –Jean Delannoy, French actor and director (b. 1908)
- 2008 –Tasha Tudor, American illustrator (b. 1915)
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