This Day in History for 18th June

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Events 1 - 100 of 165

618 - Coronation of the Chinese governor Li Yuan as Emperor Gaozu of Tang, the new Emperor of China, initiating three centuries of the Tang Dynasty's rule over China.
860 - Swedish Vikings attack Constantinople
1155 - Pope Adrian IV crowns Frederick I Barbarossa Roman-German Emperor
1178 - Proposed time of origin of lunar crater Giordano Bruno
1178 - 5 Canterbury monks report explosion on moon (only known observation)
1264 - The Parliament of Ireland meets at Castledermot in County Kildare, the first definitively known meeting of this Irish legislature.
1316 - Peace of Fexhe: prince-bishop Adolf II of Mark & Luikse towns
1529 - Blackfriars begin: Henry VIII & Catharina of Aragon
1538 - Treaty of Nice: ends war between Emperor Charles V & King French I
1541 - Irish parliament selects Henry VIII as king of Ireland
1574 - Polish King Hendrik of Anjou secretly leaves Poland
1580 - States of Utrecht forbid catholic worship
1583 - Richard Martin of London takes out 1st life insurance policy, on William Gibbons, premium was £383
1629 - Sea battle at Dungeness: Piet Heyn vs Dunkerk Cape
1639 - Treaty of Berwick: End 1st Bishop war
1643 - Skirmish at Chalgrove Field: Prince Rupert parliamentary armies
1682 - William Penn founds Philadelphia, US
1757 - Battle at Kolin Bohemia: Austrian army beats Prussia
1767 - Samuel Wallis, an English sea captain, sights Tahiti and is considered the first European to reach the island.
English Philosopher and Founder of Pennsylvania William Penn 1778 - British Redcoats evacuate Phila
1779 - French fleet occupies St Vincent
1812 - War of 1812 begins as US declares war against Britain
1815 - Battle of Waterloo; Napoleon defeated by Wellington & Blucher
1821 - Opera "Der Freischutz" is produced (Berlin)
1822 - Part of US-Canadian boundary determined
1822 - Slave revolt leaders Denmark Vesey & Peter Poyas arrested in SC
1836 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin leave South-Africa
1837 - Spain gets new Constitution
1863 - After long neglect, Confederates hurriedly fortify Vicksburg
1864 - At Petersburg, Grant ends 4 days of assaults
1872 - Woman's Suffrage Convention held at Merchantile Liberty Hall
1873 - Susan B Anthony fined $100 for voting for President
1879 - W H Richardson, a black inventor, patents the children's carriage
1887 - The Reinsurance Treaty between Germany and Russia is signed.
Naturalist Charles Darwin 1892 - Macademia nuts 1st planted in Hawaii
1894 - Premier Roseberry declares Uganda a British protectorate
1898 - 1st amusement pier opens in Atlantic City, NJ
1898 - 4th US Golf Open: Fred Herd shoots a 328 at Myopia Hunt Club Mass
1900 - Empress Douairiere orders I-Ho-Chuan (Boxers) to kill all foreigners
1900 - Gen Luigi Pelloux resigns as premier of Italy
1903 - 1st transcontinental auto trip begins in SF; arrives NY 3-mo later
1908 - Japanese immigration to Brazil begins when 781 people arrive in Santos aboard the Kasato-Maru ship
1909 - Nannie Burroughs forms national training School for Women
1910 - 16th US Golf Open: Alex Smith shoots a 298 at Phila Cricket Club PA
1915 - 21st US Golf Open: John Travers shoots a 297 at Baltusrol GC NJ
1916 - Yanks score in every inning but 8th to beat Indians 19-3 in baseball
1924 - Pope Pius XI's encyclical Maximam gravissimamque
1926 - Theodor Lessing laid-off "because he is a Jew" in Hanover
1927 - Paavo Nurmi runs world record 2000 m: 5:24.6
1928 - Amelia Earhart becomes 1st female to fly across Atlantic Ocean
1930 - Groundbreaking ceremonies for the Franklin Institute held.
1934 - US Highway planning surveys nationwide authorized
1936 - 1st bicycle traffic court in America established, Racine, WI
1936 - Polish parliament gives pres Ignacy Moscicki dictatorial power
Baseball Great Babe Ruth 1938 - Babe Ruth is signed as a Dodgers coach for the rest of the season
1940 - Gen Charles de Gaulle on BBC tells French to defy nazi occupiers
1940 - German occupiers slaughter cattle, pigs & chickens
1940 - Winston Churchill urges perseverance so that future generations would remember that "this was their finest hour"
1941 - Joe Louis KOs Billy Conn in 13 for heavyweight boxing title
1941 - Turkey signs peace treaty with nazi-Germany
1942 - Bernard W Robinson, becomes 1st black ensign in US Navy
1942 - Eric Nessler of France stays aloft in a glider for 38h21m
1943 - SS Police in Amsterdam sentence for 12 resistance fighter to death (Jewish, communists, homosexuality) at the census bureau
1944 - Farewell concert of Willem Mengelberg in Paris
1944 - U-767 sinks
1945 - William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) Brit radio traitor charged with treason
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.
1947 - Cincinnati Red Ewell Blackwell no-hits Boston Braves, 6-0
1948 - American Library Association adopts Library Bill of Rights
British war time Prime Minister Winston Churchill 1948 - National Security Council authorizes covert operations for 1st time
1948 - Phillies pitching great Robin Roberts debut, loses 2-0 to Pirates
1948 - UN Commission on Human Rights adopts Intl Decl of Human Rights
1949 - "Along Fifth Avenue" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 180 perfs
1950 - Cleve Indians score 14 runs in 1st inning, beat A's 21-2
1951 - De Gaulle wins French parliamentary election
1953 - Egypt proclaimed a republic, General Neguib becomes president
1953 - USAF C124 Globemaster crashes near Tokyo killing 129 servicemen
1953 - Eugene Stephens is 1st to get 3 hits & Red Sox score 17 runs in 1 Inning (7th) Red Sox beat Detroit 23-3
1954 - Pierre Mendès-France forms French government
1955 - "3 for Tonight" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 85 performances
1956 - Last of foreign troops leaves Egypt as Brits leave Suez Canal
1957 - John Diefenbacker (C) takes office as PM of Canada
1959 - 1st telecast transmitted from England to US
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.
1960 - "Destry Rides Again" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 472 perfs
1960 - 60th US Golf Open: Arnold Palmer shoots 280 at Cherry Hills in Denver
1960 - Giants hire Tom Sheehan as baseball's oldest debuting manager (66)
1960 - Real Madrid wins 5th Europe Cup 1
1961 - CBS radio cancels Gunsmoke
1961 - KBMT TV channel 12 in Beaumont, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
1961 - Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Eastern Golf Open
1963 - 3,000 blacks boycott Boston public school
1964 - African Groundnut Council forms in Dakar
1967 - 67th US Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus shoots 275 at Baltusrol GC NJ
1967 - Houston Don Wilson no-hits Atlanta Braves, 2-0
1967 - Monterey International Pop Festival rocks Southern California
1967 - Susie Maxwell wins LPGA Milwaukee Jaycee Golf Open
1968 - Supreme Court bans racial discrimination in sale & rental of housing
1972 - 72nd US Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 290 at Pebble Beach Calif
1972 - BEA Trident crashes after takeoff from Heathrow killing 118

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 238

1269 - Princess Eleanor of England (d. 1298)
1318 - Princess Eleanor of Woodstock (d. 1355)
1466 - Ottaviano Petrucci, Italian printer (d. 1539)
1511 - Bartolommeo Ammanati, Italian sculptor/architect
1511 - Ponte Santa Trinita, Florence
1517 - Emperor Ogimachi of Japan (d. 1593)
1552 - Gabriello Chiabrera, Italian poet (d. 1637)
1581 - Thomas Overbury, poet (baptized)
1667 - Ivan Trubetskoy, Russian field marshal (d. 1750)
1681 - Feofan Prokopovich, theologian, archbishop of Novgorod, westernizer
1716 - Joseph M Vien, French (court)painter
1723 - Giuseppe Scarlotti, composer
1740 - Karel van Poucke, Flemish sculptor
1744 - Augustin Holler, composer
1757 - Ignaz Joseph Pleyel, composer
1757 - Gervasio Antonio de Posadas, Argentine leader (d. 1833)
1758 - Pieter PJQ Ondaatje, Ceylon/Dutch jurist/patriot
1780 - Michael Henkel, composer
1794 - George Grote, British historian
1799 - William Lassell, discoverer (satellites of Uranus & Neptune)
1809 - Sylvanus William Godon, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1879
1812 - Ivan Goncharov, Russia, novelist/travel writer (Oblomov)
1813 - Pavel Annenkov, Rus literature historian (Zametsjatelnoje desjatileti)
1820 - Martin Andreas Udbye, composer
1822 - Henry David Leslie, composer
1824 - Johannes Heykamp, Catholic archbishop of Utrecht
1839 - William Henry Seward Jr, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1920
1845 - Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1922)
1850 - Richard Heuberger, composer
1854 - Edward Wyllis Scripps, publisher/journalist
1857 - Henry Clay Folger Jr, US, businessman/Shakespeare fan
1858 - Hans Schardt, Swiss geologist
1860 - Hugo Loudon, CEO (Royal Dutch Oil [Shell])
1861 - Jose FdT Coelho, Portuguese writer (Os Meus Amores)
1863 - George Essex Evans, Australian poet (d. 1909)
1868 - Miklos Horthy von Nagybanya, Hungarian admiral/regent (1910-44)
1870 - Edouard Le Roy, French philosopher and mathematician
1877 - James Montgomery Flagg, illustrator ("I want you" Uncle Sam)
1881 - Eduard C "Edo" Fimmen, Dutch labor leader
1882 - Georgi Dimitrov, Bulgaria premier (1946-49) [or 6/28]
1884 - Edouard Daladier, premier France (1933..40)
Mountain Climber George Mallory (1886) 1886 - George Mallory, England, mountain climber ("because it is there")
1886 - Alexander Wetmore, American ornithologist (d. 1978)
1887 - Blanche Yurka, St Paul MN, actress (Taxi, Tale of 2 Cities)
1888 - Margarita Xirgu, Barcelona Spain, actress (Bloody Wedding)
1888 - S S Van Dine, [William Huntingdon Wright], author (Canary Murder Case)
1889 - Paul Joostens, Flemish painter
1891 - Hans Ruin, Finnish Swedish-language historian
1891 - Mae Busch, Australian actress (d. 1946)
1892 - Edward Steuermann, composer
1895 - Manuela Fernández-Fojaco, Spanish supercentenarian
1896 - Blanche Sweet, Chicago, actress (Home Sweet Home, Avenging Conscience)
1896 - Cota Ramaswami, cricketer (Davis Cup for India 1922, Test 1936)
1896 - Philip Barry, US, dramatist (Philadelphia Story)
1898 - Carleton Percy Hobbs, Farnborough England
1898 - M C Escher, Dutch graphic artist
1899 - James Ralph Darling, teacher
1901 - Jimmy Dale, Bronx NYC, orchestra leader (Sonny & Cher)
1901 - Llewellyn Rees, British theater actor (Invisible Creature)
1902 - Henry Wadsworth, Maysville KY, actor (Applause, Fast & Loose)
1903 - Raymond Radiguet, French journalist/writer (Le diable ouch corps)
1903 - Jeanette MacDonald, Phila, American actress and singer (When I'm Calling You), (d. 1965)
1904 - Keye Luke, Canton China, actor (Across the Pacific, Yangtse Incident)
1904 - Manuel Rosenthal, Paris France, composer (Bootleggers)
1905 - Eduard Tubin, composer
1905 - John Gardener, boatbuilder/writer
1906 - Kay Kyser, Rocky Mount NC, orchestra leader (Kay Kyser's Kollege)
1907 - Benny Payne, Phila, pianist (Billy Daniels Show)
1907 - Froelich Rainey, Wisc, quiz moderator (What in the World)
1908 - Bud Collyer, NYC, TV emcee (Beat the Clock, To Tell the Truth)
1908 - Maria E Vieira da Silva, Portuguese painter (Infinite Passage)
1908 - Nedra Volz, American actress (d. 2003)
1908 - Stanley Knowles, Canadian politician (d. 1997)
1910 - Avon Long, Balt Md, actor (Roots: Next Generation)
1910 - Dick Foran, Flemington NJ, actor (OK Crackerby)
1910 - E G Marshall, Owatonna Minn, actor (Playhouse 90, Chicago Hope)
1910 - Ray McKinley, Fort Worth Tx, orchestra leader/drummer (Glenn Miller Time)
1910 - E.G. Marshall, American actor (d. 1998)
1912 - Glen Morris, MO, Olympic champion/actor (Tarzan)
1912 - Henry Brandon, Berlin Germany, actor (Drums of Fu Manchu)
1913 - Sammy Cahn, lyricist (3 Coins in a Fountain)
1913 - Sylvia Porter, financial writer (Sylvia Porter's Money Book)
1914 - Billy Wade, cricket wicket-keeper (South African in 11 Tests 1938-50)
1915 - Arthur Fagg, cricketer (dual double-centuries in a game for Kent 1938)
1915 - Red Adair, oilman (fought oil fires in Kuwait)
1915 - Victor Legley, composer
1916 - John Young, actor/TV panelist (Masquerade Party)
1917 - Akhmet Jevdet Ismail Hajiyev, composer
1917 - Richard Boone, LA California, actor (Paladin-Have Gun Will Travel)
1917 - Arthur Tremblay, Canadian politician (d. 1996)
1918 - Bob Carroll, singer/actor (Stage Two Revue, Stranger)
1919 - Edward Leadbitter, politician
1919 - Edwin Clarke, historian/neurologist
1919 - Mel Brandt, Bkln NY, actor (Faraway Hill)
1919 - Ted Leadbitter, British MP (Lab)
1920 - Aster Berkhof, [Louis Van de Bergh], Flemish writer (Furious Christ)
1920 - Ian Carmichael, Hull England, actor (Lucky Jim, I'm Alright Jack)
1922 - Donald L Keene, NYC, Japanese translator/critic
1922 - Claude Helffer, French pianist (d. 2004)
1923 - Herman Krebbers, Dutch violist/concert master

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 9 of 9

1839 - Dutch prince Willem Alexander (later William III) weds cousin Princess Sophia
1858 - Norwegian modernist playwright "The Doll's House" Henrik Ibsen (30) marries Suzannah Thoresen (21) in Oslo
1989 - John Wayne Bobitt marries Lorena L Gallo
1992 - Actor Jameson Parker weds actress Darleen Carr
2005 - "Queens Park Rangers" football striker Djibril Cisse (23) weds Jude Littler at Bodelwyddan Castle in Denbighshire, North Wales
2006 - "Weezer" lead vocalist Rivers Cuomo (36) weds Kyoko Ito at a secluded beach on Paradise Cove in Malibu
2011 - British peer and brother of Princess Diana Charles Spencer (47) weds Canadian social entrepreneur and former model Karen Gordon (39) at Althorp House in Northamptonshire
2011 - Reality TV Personality Toya Carter (27) weds "The Deal" TV host Mickey Wright in Atlanta
2012 - R&B singer Bobby Brown (43) weds Alicia Etheridge in Honolulu, Hawaii

Famous Divorces

Divorces 1 - 2 of 2

2010 - Former Saved by the Bell actor Mark-Paul Gosselaar (36) divorces former model Lisa Ann Russell (39) due to irreconcilable differences after 14 years of marriage
2012 - "The L Word" actress Laurel Holloman (41) divorces architect Paul Macherey (44) due to irreconcilable differences after 9 years of marriage

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 100 of 116

741 - Leo III de Isaurier, Byzantine Emperor (717-41), dies
1234 - Emperor Chukyo of Japan (b. 1218)
1291 - Alfonso III, King of Aragon (1285-91), dies
1464 - Rogier van der Weyden, Flemish painter, dies at 65
1580 - Juliana van Stolberg, Engraver of Nassau, dies
1588 - Anna, daughter of prince Willem I/Anna van Saksen, dies at 24
1588 - Robert Crowley, English printer and poet
1629 - Piet Hein, Dutch naval commander (Spanish silver fleet) and folk hero (b. 1577) shot by cannonball at 51
1667 - Louise Henriette, daughter of Frederik Hendrik, dies at 39
1669 - Abraham Crijnssen, Swiss admiral, conquered Suriname, dies
1673 - Jeanne Mance, French Canadian settler (b. 1606)
1686 - Johann Quirsfeld, composer, dies at 43
1704 - Tom Brown, English satirist (b. 1662)
1726 - Michel-Richard Delalande, composer, dies at 68
1742 - John Aislabie, English politician (b. 1670)
1749 - Ambrose Philips, English poet (b. 1674)
1772 - Gerard of Swieten, botanist/painter of Maria Theresia, dies at 72
1772 - Johann Ulrich von Cramer, German judge and philosopher (b. 1706)
1788 - Adam Gib, Scottish religious leader (b. 1714)
1794 - James Murray, British military officer and administrator (b. 1721)
1799 - Johann Andre, composer, dies at 58
1815 - Thomas Picton, British general (killed in battle) (b. 1758)
1815 - Guillaume Philibert Duhesme, French general (b. 1766)
1817 - Joannes Siberg, governor-general of Neth-Indies (1801-05), dies
1821 - Charles Hague, composer, dies at 52
1824 - Ferdinand III JJ-B, archduke of Austria/ruler of Toscane, dies at 55
1835 - William Cobbett, English journalist and author (b. 1763)
1850 - Antoni Weinert, composer, dies at 99
1853 - Branko Radicevic, Serbian poet (1st Serbian Uprising), dies
1859 - Joseph Hartmann Stuntz, composer, dies at 65
1866 - Jacobus T Abels, painter, dies at 62
1876 - August Rockel, composer, dies at 61
1880 - John Sutter, US colonist (gold discovered on his land), dies at 77
1884 - Juan B Alberdi, [Figarillo], Argentine writer (Crime of War), dies at 74
1886 - Joannes A Paredis, Belgian/Neth bishop of Roermond, dies at 90
1889 - Jacques Damala, Greek military officer and actor (b. 1855)
1898 - George Ulyett, cricketer (949 runs 50 wkts for England 25 Tests), dies
1902 - Samuel Butler, British writer (Erewhom), dies at 66
1909 - Learmont Drysdale, composer, dies at 42
1911 - Franjo Zaver Kuhac, composer, dies at 76
1915 - Eufemio Zapata, brother to Mexican revolutionist Emiliano Zapata, killed by Sidronio Comancho
1916 - Helmuth J L von Moltke, German chief general of staff, dies at 67
1916 - Max Immelmann, German pilot (WW I), killed
1921 - Eduardo Acevedo Diaz, Uruguay writer (Nativa, Lanza y Sable), dies
1921 - Herman Baccaert, Flemish philological/writer (Kantkennis), dies at 37
1922 - John C Kapteyn, astronomer, dies at 71
1928 - Roald E G Amundsen, Norwegian pole explorer, dies
1934 - Francisco Lacerda, composer, dies at 65
1935 - August Reusner, composer, dies at 64
Playwright & Author Maxim Gorky (1936) 1936 - Maxim Gorky, [Alexei M Peshkov], Russian writer (Mother), dies at 68
1937 - Gaston Doumergue, premier/president of France (1913..34), dies
1939 - French LM "Sas" van Aerschot, Flemish actor, dies at 73
1942 - Adolf Opalka, Czech resistance fighter, shot down
1942 - Arthur Willard Pryor, composer, dies at 71
1942 - John Kubris, Czech resistance fighter, killed Heydrich, dies at 28
1945 - Colonel Roberts, commandant 22nd regiment marines, dies in battle
1945 - Simon B Buckner, US lt-gen/commandant of 10th Army, dies in action
1947 - Shigematsu Sakaibara, Japanese admiral (b. 1898)
1952 - Efim D Bogolyubov, Russian chess player, dies at 63
1955 - Walter Rein, composer, dies at 61
1955 - Willy Burkhard, composer, dies at 55
1958 - Douglas Jardine, cricketer (22 Tests for England), dies
1959 - Ethel Barrymore, [Blythe], actress (None but the lonely), dies at 79
1962 - Volkmar Andreae, Swiss conductor/composer (Bruckner), dies at 82
1963 - Pedro Armendáriz, Mexican actor (b. 1912)
1964 - Alexander Shamil'yevich Melik-Pashayev, composer, dies at 58
1965 - George Melachrino, composer, dies at 56
1967 - Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco, Brazil pres (1964-67), dies at 66
1967 - Beat Fehr, Swiss racing driver (b. 1942)
1967 - Giacomo Russo, Italian racing driver (b. 1937)
1971 - Thomas Gomez, American actor (b. 1905)
1971 - Paul Karrer, Swiss chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1889)
1973 - Fritz Mahler, composer, dies at 71
1973 - Roger Delgado, actor (Agent 8 3/4, Hot Enought for June), dies at 55
1973 - Willem Vogt, Dutch radio pioneer/founder AVRO, dies at 84
1974 - Georgi K Zhukov, Russian marshal/minister of Defense, dies at 77
1974 - Júlio César de Mello e Souza, Brazilian writer (b. 1896)
1975 - Faisal Ibn Mussed Abdul Aziz, Saudi prince, beheaded in Riyadh shopping center parking lot for killing his uncle the king
1978 - Walter C. Alvarez, American physician (b. 1884)
1980 - André Leducq, French cyclist (b. 1904)
1980 - Terence Fisher, English film director (b. 1904)
1982 - Curt Jurgens, actor (Disorder), dies of an acute heart attack at 66
1982 - Djuna Barnes, writer, dies
1982 - John Cheever, Pulitzer prize winning author, dies at 70 in Ossining
1982 - Roberto Calvi, director (Banco Ambrosiano), hangs himself
1984 - Alan Berg, American radio talk show host
1985 - Paul Colin, French poster designer (b. 1892)
1986 - Frances Scott Fitzgerald, Daughter of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre. (b. 1921)
1987 - Bruce Marshall, writer, dies at 87
1989 - I. F. Stone, American journalist (b. 1907)
1990 - Dennis Dyer, cricketer (scored 96 3 Tests for South Africa), dies
1991 - Joan Caulfield, actress (My Favorite Husband), dies of cancer at 69
1992 - Peter Allen, entertainer (Legs Diamond), dies of aids at 48
1992 - Mordecai Ardon, one of Israel's greatest painters (b. 1896)
1994 - Jack Harkness, rose grower, dies at 75
1995 - Arthur John Howard, actor (Frieda, Last Holiday, Paradiso), dies at 85
1995 - Charles Martin, cartoonist, dies at 85
1996 - Maitland Mackie, farmer, dies at 84
1996 - Pierre Chany, writer/cycling journalist, dies at 73
1997 - Lev Kopelev, Russian writer and dissident (b. 1912)