It happened on this day, June 18
events:
1264 – The Irish Parliament meets for the first time in its history at Castledermot, County Kildare, in what is known as the first meeting held by the Irish legislative authority in its history.
1429 – French forces led by Joan of Arc defeat the English army led by Sir John Fastolfe in the “Battle of Patay”, which was a turning point in the course of the Hundred Years' War.
1757 – The Battle of Cologne takes place between Prussian forces led by Frederick II and the Austrian army led by Count Leopold Joseph von Daun during the Seven Years' War.
1767 – English explorer Samuel Wallis arrives in Tahiti, becoming the first European to reach the island.
1778 – British forces led by Sir Henry Clinton leave Philadelphia after 9 months of occupation during the American War of Independence.
1805 – Muhammad Ali Pasha is officially appointed governor of Egypt, after the revolution of the people and scholars against the Ottoman governor Khurshid Pasha.
1812 – The United States Congress declares war on the United Kingdom in a war known as the War of 1812.
1815 – Start of the Battle of Waterloo, during which Napoleon Bonaparte lost to the English.
1858 – Charles Darwin receives a research paper from Alfred Russel Wallace containing almost identical results to those obtained by Darwin on the theory of evolution, prompting Darwin to publish his theory.
1873 – Susan Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 United States presidential election.
1913 – Opening of the “First Arab Conference” in Paris, which demands the establishment of decentralized administration in all Arab states of the Ottoman Empire. The conference was chaired by Abd al-Hamid al-Zahrawi, executed on May 6, 1916, along with a number of other Arab nationalists.
1928 – American aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean.
1940 – General Charles de Gaulle addresses the French on Radio Londres, after the German occupation of France.
(1945-Broadcaster William Joyce is accused of high treason for his role during the Second World War on German radio aimed at England
1953 – The establishment of the Republic is declared in Egypt and the installation of Muhammad Naguib as president.
1954 – Pierre Mendès France becomes Prime Minister of France.
1956 – The last British soldier is evacuated from the Suez Canal in Egypt under the evacuation agreement.
1965 – The United States Army uses B-52 Stratofortress bombers against National Liberation Front fighters in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War.
1977 – Assassination of Major General Abdul Karim Al-Razouk, missile commander of the Syrian army, by the Muslim Brotherhood's Fighting Vanguard organization.
1979 – Signing of the “SALT-2 Agreement” between the United States and the Soviet Union to limit the proliferation of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles.
1983 – Sally Ride becomes the first woman in space.
1984 – A miners' strike breaks out in Britain, which continues until 1985.
2009 – NASA launches the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
2012 – King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud appoints Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud as Crown Prince and First Deputy Prime Minister, and appoints Prince Ahmed bin Abdulaziz Al Saud as Minister of Interior to succeed Prince Nayef bin Abdulaziz in office .
2017 – 63 people were killed and more than 135 others injured in a series of forest fires in Portugal, after many parts of the country experienced temperatures above 40 degrees Celsius.
✴️Movement of the Republic Forward! To which President Macron belongs, he obtained an absolute majority in the National Assembly following the second round of the French legislative elections.
2018 – 192 people went missing after the ferry Sinar Bangun sank in Lake Toba, Indonesia.
✴️ A severe earthquake occurred in Japan, called the Osaka earthquake, which claimed the lives of five people and injured 381 others.
2020 – Kenya, India, Mexico, Ireland and Norway are elected non-permanent members of the UN Security Council starting in 2021.
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Births:
1845 – Charles Laveran, French doctor who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1907.
1884 – Edouard Daladier, French Prime Minister.
1901 – Anastasia, the youngest daughter of Emperor Nicholas II of the Russian Empire.
1908 – Karl Hohmann, German footballer and coach.
1918 – Jerome Karl, American chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1985.
** Franco Modigliani, Italian economist who won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 1985.
1928 – Muhammad Muftih, Iranian Shiite religious scholar and politician, and one of the figures of the Islamic Revolution in Iran.
1931 – Fernando Enrique Cardoso, 34th president of Brazil.
1932 – Dudley Hirschback, American chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1986.
1936 – Ronald Venetian, ninth president of Suriname.
1940 – Laila Shair, Egyptian actress. 1942 – Paul McCartney, British singer, musician, songwriter and member of the Beatles.
*” Thabo Mbeki, 11th president of South Africa. ** Robert Ghanem, Lebanese politician.
(1945–FatenFaridEgyptian actress and singer
1946 – Fabio Capello, Italian footballer and coach.
1949 – Lech Kaczynski, fourth president of Poland.
1952 – Isabella Rossolini, Italian actress.
1954 – Noura, Egyptian actress.
1956 – Brian Benben, American actor.
1957 – Raghda, Syrian actress.
1964 – Uday Saddam Hussein, Iraqi politician and son of Saddam Hussein.
1965 – Kim Deakins, American actress.
1967 – Nibal Al-Jazairi, Syrian actress.
1974 – Elham Al-Fadala, Kuwaiti actress. Vincenzo Montella, Italian footballer.
1975 – Jamal Debbouze, French actor.
1979 – Yumiko Kobayashi, Japanese actress.
1982 – Nadir Belhaj, Algerian footballer.
1984 – Matheus Galeano da Costa, Angolan footballer.
1986 – Richard Gasquet, French tennis player.
1988 – Islam Slimani, Algerian footballer.
** Amani Alaa, Iraqi actress.
1995 – Khawla Al-Anazi, Saudi model.
2006 – Revue Daniel Momen, the legend of the world
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Death:
1464 – Roger van der Weyden, Belgian painter.
1755 – Thomas Longman, English publisher.
1924 – Majeed Al-Attar, Iraqi poet.
1928 – Roald Amundsen, Norwegian explorer.
1936 – Maxim Gorky, Russian novelist.
1937 – Gaston Doumergue, president of France.
1959 – Ethel Barrymore, American actress.
1971 – Paul Carrier, Swiss chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1937.
1974 – Georgy Zhukov, Soviet soldier.
1986 – Fouad Rateb, Egyptian comedian known as “Al-Khawaja Bijou”.
1989 – Isidore Feinstein Stone, American investigative journalist.
1999 – Ali Tantawi, Syrian cleric.
2006 – Ahmed Nabil Al-Hilali, Egyptian lawyer.
2010 – Mohamed Hamza, Egyptian poet. José Saramago, Portuguese writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998.
** Marcel Bigard, French soldier.
2016 – Mahfouz Daoud Salman, Iraqi poet and short story writer.
2018 – XXXTentacion, rapper, Florida
2021 – Lamia Abbas Amara, contemporary Iraqi poet, one of the pioneers of modern Arabic poetry.
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Holidays and Occasions:
⬅️ National holiday in Seychelles.
⬅️ Evacuation day in Egypt.
⬅️ Father's Day in Canada
