June 18

Monday 18, 2001:

Protests occur in Manipur over the extension of the ceasefire between Naga insurgents and the government of India.

Tuesday 18, 1996:

Ted Kaczynski, suspected of being the Unabomber, is indicted on ten criminals counts.

Monday 18, 1984:

Major clash between about 5,000 Police and a similar number of Miners at Orgreave,South Yorkshire during the 1984-1985 Miners Strike. Incident later known as the Battle of Orgreave

Saturday 18, 1983:

Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space

Monday 18, 1979:

SALT II is signed by the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Sunday 18, 1967:

Jimi Hendrix burns his guitar on stage at the Monterey Pop Festival.

Friday 18, 1965:

Vietnam War: The United States uses B-52 bombers to attack National Liberation Front guerrilla fighters in South Vietnam

Thursday 18, 1959:

1959 Governor of Louisiana Earl K. Long is committed to a state mental hospital; he responds by having the hospital's director fired and replaced with a crony who proceeds to proclaim him perfectly sane.

Friday 18, 1954:

Pierre Mendès-France becomes Prime Minister of France

Thursday 18, 1953:

A United States Air Force C-124 crashed and burned near Tokyo, Japan killing 129

Tuesday 18, 1946:

Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya, a Socialist called for a Direct Action Day against the Portuguese in Goa. A road is named after this date in Panjim.

Monday 18, 1945:

William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) is charged with treason

Tuesday 18, 1940:

Finest Hour speech by Winston Churchill

Wednesday 18, 1930:

Groundbreaking ceremonies for the Franklin Institute are held

Monday 18, 1928:

Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean (she was a passenger; Wilmer Stutz was pilot and Lou Gordon, mechanic).

Monday 18, 1923:

Checker Cab puts its first taxi on the streets

Monday 18, 1900:

Empress Dowager of China orders all foreigners killed, including foreign diplomats and their families.

Saturday 18, 1887:

The Reinsurance Treaty is closed between Germany and Russia

Wednesday 18, 1873:

Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election

Friday 18, 1858:

Charles Darwin receives from Alfred Russel Wallace a paper that included nearly identical conclusions about evolution as Darwin's own. This prompts Darwin to publish his theory.

Sunday 18, 1815:

Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Waterloo leads to Napoleon Bonaparte abdicating the throne of France for a second, final time

Thursday 18, 1812:

War of 1812: The U.S. Congress declares war on the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

Thursday 18, 1778:

American Revolutionary War: British troops abandon Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Thursday 18, 1767:

Samuel Wallis, an English sea captain, sighted Tahiti and is considered the first European to reach the island.

Monday 18, 1685:

The Monmouth Rebellion: James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, declares himself King of England at Taunton, Somerset.

Thursday 18, 1429:

The French, under the leadership of Joan of Arc, crush the English under Sir John Fastolf at the Battle of Patay. It came to be recognized as the war's turning point.

Wednesday 18, 1264:

The Parliament of Ireland meets at Castledermot in County Kildare, the first definitively known meeting of this Irish legislature.

Sunday 18, 1178:

Five Canterbury monks see what was possibly the Giordano Bruno crater being formed. It is believed that the current oscillations of the moon's distance (on the order of metres) are a result of this collision.

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