June 18 ::: Project ETERNITY

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June 18 is the 169th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (170th in leap years), with 196 days remaining.

Events

1100-1899

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.

1685 - The Monmouth Rebellion: James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, declares himself King of England at Taunton, Somerset.

1778 - American Revolutionary War: British troops abandon Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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

1815 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Waterloo leads to Napoleon Bonaparte abdicating the throne of France for a second time

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.

1873 - Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election

1900-1999

1900 - Empress Dowager of China orders all foreigners killed, including foreign diplomats and their families.

1923 - Checker Cab 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 was a passenger; Wilmer Stutz was pilot and Lou Gordon, mechanic).

1930 - Groundbreaking ceremonies for the Franklin Institute are held

1940 - Appeal of June 18 by Charles de Gaulle

1945 - William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) is charged with treason

1953 - A United States Air Force C-124 crashed and burned near Tokyo, Japan killing 129

1954 - Pierre Mendès-France becomes Prime Minister of France

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.

1965 - Vietnam War: The United States uses B-52 bombers to attack National Liberation Front guerrilla fighters in South Vietnam

1967 - Jimi Hendrix burns his guitar on stage at the Monterey Pop Festival.

1979 - SALT II is signed by the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

1983 - Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space

1996 - Ted Kaczynski, suspected of being the Unabomber, is indicted on ten criminals counts.