Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 18

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  Li Yuan
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  Charles Darwin
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  Alfred Russel Wallace
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  Sally Ride
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  Emperor Gaozu of the Tang dynasty
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  Charles de Gaulle
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  Cavalry at the Battle of Waterloo
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  Rus' forces under the walls of Constantinople
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  Lockheed Template:Nowrap Nighthawk

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
; Father's Day in various countries (2017)	lead too short, self-contradictory
Dragon Boat Festival (Chinese calendar, 2018)	refimprove
1053 – Humphrey of Hauteville led the armies of the Normans in the Battle of Civitate against the combined forces of Pope Leo IX and the Holy Roman Empire.	unreferenced section
1264 – The Parliament of Ireland met at Castledermot in County Kildare, the first definitively known meeting of this Irish legislature.	unreferenced sections
1812 – The United States declared war against the United Kingdom, officially beginning the War of 1812.	refimprove section
1908 – The University of the Philippines, the country's national university, was established.	refimprove section
1979 – The United States and the Soviet Union signed the [[Strategic Arms Limitation Talks|Template:Nowrap]] treaty, placing specific limits on each side's stock of nuclear weapons.	refimprove section
1982 – The body of Italian banker Roberto Calvi, nicknamed "God's Banker" due to his close association with the Holy See, was found hanging from scaffolding beneath London's Blackfriars Bridge.	improve citations
2022 – A disputed party massacred over 500 Amhara civilians in Gimbi, Ethiopia.	unclear who performed the attack
Andrew Forsyth |b|1858|	lead too short
George Mikan |b|1924|	7 {cn} tags

Eligible

• 618 – Sui–Tang transition: Chinese governor Li Yuan (pictured) declared himself emperor, establishing the Tang dynasty.
• 860 – Rus' forces sailed into the Bosporus in a fleet of about 200 vessels and started pillaging the suburbs of Constantinople.
• 1757 – Third Silesian War: The Austrian victory at the Battle of Kolín forced Prussian leader Frederick the Great to give up the Siege of Prague and retreat to Saxony.
• 1815 – War of the Seventh Coalition: Napoleon fought and lost his final battle, the Battle of Waterloo (depicted), in present-day Belgium.
• 1858 – Charles Darwin received a manuscript by fellow naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace on natural selection, which encouraged him to publish his own theory of evolution.
• 1940 – World War II: Charles de Gaulle gave his Appeal of 18 June speech, often considered to be the origin of the French Resistance.
• 1953 – A Douglas C-124 Globemaster II aircraft crashed just after takeoff from Tachikawa, Japan, killing all 129 people on board.
• 1954 – Carlos Castillo Armas led a CIA-sponsored invasion force across the Guatemalan border, beginning the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état.
• 1972 – British European Airways Flight 548 crashed near Staines-upon-Thames less than three minutes after departing from Heathrow Airport in London, killing all 118 people aboard in the worst air accident in the UK.
• 1983 – Iranian teenager Mona Mahmudnizhad and nine other women were hanged in Shiraz because of their membership in the Baháʼí Faith.
• 1983 – Aboard Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Sally Ride became the first American woman and third one overall in space.
• 2012 – Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud was appointed the crown prince of Saudi Arabia.
• Born/died: | Rogier van der Weyden |d|1464| Ambrose Philips |d|1749| Lord Castlereagh |b|1769| William Lassell|b|1799| William Cobbett |d|1835| Abdollah Mirza Qajar |d|1846|James Montgomery Flagg |b|1877| Alice T. Schafer |b|1915| Queen Olga of Greece |d|1926| Barack Obama Sr. |b|1934| Gail Godwin|b|1937| Lou Brock|b|1939| Isabella Rossellini |b|1952| Zhang Jingsheng |d|1970| Richard Madden |b|1986| Kofoworola Abeni Pratt |d|1992| Michael Hastings |d|2013| Stephanie Kwolek|d|2014|

Notes

• Battle of Ligny/Battle of Quatre Bras appear on June 16, so Battle of Waterloo should not appear in the same year
• Monterey Pop Festival appears on June 16, so Jimi Hendrix should not appear in the same year
• Valentina Tereshkova appears on June 16, so Sally Ride should not appear in the same year
• Sultan bin Salman Al Saud appears on June 17, so Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (Sultan's father) should not appear in the same year

June 18: Autistic Pride Day Template:Main page image/OTD

• 1898 – The Cadaver Tomb of René of Chalon (pictured) in Bar-le-Duc, France, was designated a monument historique.
• 1958 – English composer Benjamin Britten's one-act opera Noye's Fludde was premiered at the Aldeburgh Festival.
• 1967 – American musician Jimi Hendrix burned his guitar on stage at the end of a performance at the Monterey International Pop Festival in California.
• 1981 – The [[Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk|Lockheed Template:Nowrap Nighthawk]], the first operational aircraft to be designed around stealth technology, made its maiden flight.
• 1994 – The Troubles: Ulster Volunteer Force members attacked a crowded bar in Loughinisland, Northern Ireland, with assault rifles, killing six people.