18 Juin

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The 18t o Juin is the 169t day o the year (170t in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 196 days bidin.

Events

1815: Scots cavalry charge at Waterloo

1859: Aletschhorn

1156 - Pape Adrian IV an William I o Sicily agree tae the Treaty o Benevento, in which the Pape recognises the Norman Kinrick o Sicily.
1264 - First sittin o the Erse pairlament.
1778 - American Revolutionary War: Breetish troops abandon Philadelphia.
1815 - Napoleon I is defeatit bi an alliance consistin o the Unitit Kinrick, Proushie an Roushie at the Battle o Waterloo in present-day Belgium.
1858 - Charles Darwin receives a letter frae Alfred Russel Wallace, wha haed reachit very seemilar conclusions on Evolution tae him.
1859 - The Aletschhorn in the Swiss Alps is climbed for the first time, bi Inglisman Francis Fox Tuckett an three Swiss muntain guides.
1928 - Amelia Earhart becomes the first wumman tae cross the Atlantic Ocean by plane, as a passenger o Wilmer Stultz.
1928 - Norse splorer Roald Amundsen disappears on a rescue mission in the Airctic.
1932 - FIBA, the warld govrenin body o basketbaw, is foondit.
1940 - Warld War II: Charles de Gaulle issues the "Appell o Juin 18t".
1940 - Warld War II: Winston Churchill delivers his "Finest Hour" speech.
1945 - William Joyce, kent as "Laird Haw-Haw", is chairged wi treason for pro-German propaganda braidcasts durin Warld War II.
1946 - Italy is proclaimed a republic.
1953 - Egyp becomes a republic.
1953 - The Tachikawa air disaster in Japan kills 129 fowk.
1970 - The Conservative Pairty unner Edward Heath wins the Unitit Kinrick general election.
1972 - A Lunnon Heathrow tae Brussels flicht crashes shortly efter tak-aff, killin 118 fowk.
1979 - US Preses Jimmy Carter an Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev sign the SALT-II airms reduction treaty.
1983 - Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space.
1984 - A confrontation atween 5,000 polis afficers an a seemilar nummer o strikin miners occurs at Orgreave in Sooth Yorkshire durin the 1984-85 Miners' Strike.
1994 - Members o the Ulster Volunteer Force kill sax civilians in a pub in Loughinisland, Northren Ireland.
1995 - FIFA Weemen's Warld Cup: Norawa wins the toornament, defeatin Germany 2-0 in the feenal.
2014 - The pairlament in Luxembourg votes in favour o same-sex marriage.