June 18th

The June 18th is the 169e Jour of the Année (170e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

1 to 1900

  • 1155 : Frederic I {{er}} Barberousse is crowned Roman Emperor of Germanic by the pope Adrien IV

  • 1195 : Yacoub Almohade, known as Al-Manzor, caliph of the Andalous puts in rout Alphonse VIII, king de Castille at the time of the battle of Alarcos.

  • 1429 : The French, under the direction of Jeanne d' Arc, beat the English at the time of the Bataille of Patay. It is revolving Guerre One hundred Year old.

  • 1767 : Samuel Wallis, an English navigator, sees Tahiti: he is regarded as being the first European to reach this island.

  • 1574 : Henri I {{er}} of Poland leaves Poland to become king de France under the name of Henri III

  • 1694 : the admiral Osborne ordering a fleet anglo-Dutchwoman is pushed back in his attempt at unloading to Camaret by Vauban.

  • 1815 : Defeat of Napoleon to Waterloo, against the British troops prusso- of the generals Wellington and Blücher.

  • 1836 : Creation of the crack corps of the Bersaglieri in the army Italy

20th century

  • 1908 : Arrival with Santos of Kasato-Maru, ship transporting the immigrant first Japan board with the Brazil.

  • 1914 : The Swiss cyclist Oscar Egg establishes a world records of the hour to the cycle-racing track of Buffalo to Paris, in parcouranr 44,247 km.

  • 1917 : Creation of the Lewis and Vought Corporation , aeronautical Manufacturer which becomes in 1922 the Chance Vought Corporation.

  • 1923 : With the the United States, the company Checker Cab creates its service of automobile Taxi.

  • 1928 : The aviatrice Amelia Earhart is the first Femme with treverser the Atlantic Ocean in Avion.

  • 1936 : the leagues of extreme-right-hand side are dissolved in France

  • 1940 :

    • the general de Gaulle lance her Call of June 18th with the resistance since London, on the waves of BBC, the shortly after the request for armistice made in Germany by the Pétain Marshal.
    • the Germans enter Nancy

  • 1946 : Proclamation of the Republic Italian.

  • 1965 : The US Air Force uses for the first time of the bombers B-52 in Vietnam (details to see Guerre of Vietnam).

  • 1972 :

    • Inauguration with Colombey-the-Two-Churches, at the time of the 32e birthday of famous the Call to Resistance , launched on the waves of BBC by the general de Gaulle, of a monument in homage to the former chief of the free France - immense a Cross of Lorraine, built in a few months on the highest place of the commune, on the initiative of a National committee - by the president of the Republic Georges Pompidou.
    • a Trident plane of the British European Airways is crushed a few minutes after having taken off of the airport of Heathrow. That remains the most fatal crash landing of the history of the the United Kingdom: 118 victims.

  • 1979 : The agreements SALT II are signed between the Soviet Union and the the United States.

  • 1983 : Sally Ride becomes the first American Femme in the space.

  • 1989 : The Burma adopts like official name the denomination Myanmar

  • 1992 : The Irishmen approve by referendum the Traité of Maastricht, with 69% of the voices.

  • 2000 : With Grenade (Spain), alternative of David Fandilla Marín known as “El Fandi”, Spanish Matador.

21e century

Births

Death

Festivals and celebrations

  • Brazil - day commemorative of Japanese immigration;

  • Egypt - festival of the Republic;
  • Filipino - national festival (birthday of independence);
  • Seychelles - national festival (birthday of the adoption of the constitution).

Catholic and orthodoxe saints

  • Fortunat de Verceil († 569), withdrawn bishop with Chelles.

  • Disguised the († 750), entered Navy with the Monastery disguised as a boy.

See too

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