About June 18
June 18, 2025 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.
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Gemini is the sun 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.
What Happened On June 18
- 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.
- 1908 –The University of the Philippines is established.
- 1923 –Checker Taxi puts its first taxi on the streets.
- 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.
- 1945 –William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) is charged with treason for his pro-German propaganda broadcasting during World War II.
- 1953 –A United States Air Force C-124 crashes and burns near Tokyo, Japan killing 129.
- 1953 –The Egyptian Revolution of 1952 ends with the overthrow of the Muhammad Ali Dynasty and the declaration of the Republic of Egypt.
- 1954 –Pierre Mendès-France becomes Prime Minister of France.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1996 –Ted Kaczynski, suspected of being the Unabomber, is indicted on ten criminal counts.
- 2006 –The first Kazakh space satellite, KazSat is launched.
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