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| June 18th, 2008 (June 18 2008) | Death | Jean Delannoy, French actor and director (born in 1908) | |
| June 18th, 2008 (June 18 2008) | Death | Tasha Tudor, American illustrator (born in 1915) | |
| June 18th, 1978 (June 18 1978) | Birth | Wang Liqin, Chinese table tennis player | An Wang Quotes |
| June 18th, 1948 (June 18 1948) | Birth | Eva Marton, Hungarian operatic soprano | |
| June 18th, 1938 (June 18 1938) | Birth | Kevin Murray, Australian rules footballer | Al Murray Quotes |
| June 18th, 1928 (June 18 1928) | Event | Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean (she was a passenger; Wilmer Stutz was the pilot and Lou Gordon the mechanic). | |
| June 18th, 1928 (June 18 1928) | Birth | David T. Lykken, American scientist | |
| June 18th, 1928 (June 18 1928) | Death | Roald Amundsen, Norwegian explorer (born in 1872) | |
| June 18th, 1918 (June 18 1918) | Birth | Jerome Karle, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate | |
| June 18th, 1918 (June 18 1918) | Birth | Franco Modigliani, Italian-born economist, Nobel Prize laureate (died in 2003) | |
| June 18th, 1908 (June 18 1908) | Event | Japanese immigration to Brazil begins when 781 people arrive in Santos aboard the Kasato-Maru ship | |
| June 18th, 1908 (June 18 1908) | Birth | Bud Collyer, American game show host (died in 1969) | |
| June 18th, 1908 (June 18 1908) | Birth | Nedra Volz, American actress (died in 2003) | |
| June 18th, 1908 (June 18 1908) | Birth | Stanley Knowles, Canadian politician (died in 1997) | |
| June 18th, 1868 (June 18 1868) | Birth | Miklos Horthy, Hungarian admiral and regent (died in 1957) | |
| June 18th, 1858 (June 18 1858) | Event | Charles Darwin receives a paper from Alfred Russel Wallace that includes nearly identical conclusions about evolution as Darwin s own. This prompts Darwin to publish his theory. | Charles Darwin Quotes |
| June 18th, 1788 (June 18 1788) | Death | Adam Gib, Scottish religious leader (born in 1714) | |
| June 18th, 1778 (June 18 1778) | Event | American Revolutionary War: British troops abandon Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. | |
| June 18th, 1588 (June 18 1588) | Death | Robert Crowley, English printer and poet | Robert Ley Quotes |
| June 18th, 1318 (June 18 1318) | Birth | Princess Eleanor of Woodstock (died in 1355) | |
| June 18th, 1178 (June 18 1178) | Event | Five Canterbury monks see what was possibly the Giordano Bruno crater being formedied in It is believed that the current oscillations of the moon s distance (on the order of metres) are a result of this collision. | Giordano Bruno Quotes |
| June 18th, 0618 (June 18 0618) | Event | 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. | |
