What are the important events that happened on June 18? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

June 18: Facts & Myths About This Day

June 18 is the 169^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 196 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is June 5, 2025 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 1,750,204,800 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectahexacontaenneagon’ day.

Gemini is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Pearl is the modern birthstone for this month. Moonstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 244 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,562 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

June 18 Historical Events

• 1178 –
  Five Canterbury monks see what is possibly the Giordano Bruno crater being formed. It is believed that the current oscillations of the Moon’s distance from the Earth (on the order of meters) are a result of this collision.
• 1264 –
  The Parliament of Ireland meets at Castledermot in County Kildare, the first definitively known meeting of this Irish legislature.
• 1767 –
  Samuel Wallis, an English sea captain, sights Tahiti and is considered the first European to reach the island.
• 1858 –
  Charles Darwin receives a paper from Alfred Russel Wallace that includes nearly identical conclusions about evolution as Darwin’s own, prompting Darwin to publish his theory.
• 1908 –
  Japanese immigration to Brazil begins when 781 people arrive in Santos aboard the ship Kasato-Maru.
• 1940 –
  Appeal of June 18 by Charles de Gaulle.
• 1953 –
  A United States Air Force C-124 crashes and burns near Tokyo, Japan killing 129.
• 1972 –
  Staines air disaster – 118 are killed when a plane crashes two minutes after take off from London Heathrow Airport.
• 1979 –
  SALT II is signed by the United States and the Soviet Union.
• 1984 –
  A major clash between about 5,000 police and a similar number of miners takes place at Orgreave, South Yorkshire, during the 1984-1985 UK miners’ strike.

Who were born on June 18?

• 1908 –
  Nedra Volz, American actress (d. 2003)
• 1910 –
  Dick Foran, American actor (d. 1979)
• 1942 –
  Paul McCartney, British singer, songwriter and musician (The Beatles, Wings)
• 1975 –
  Jamel Debbouze, French actor and producer
• 1975 –
  Martin St. Louis, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1976 –
  Alana de la Garza, American actress
• 1983 –
  Cameron Smith, Australian NRL player
• 1984 –
  Mateus Galiano da Costa, Angolan footballer
• 1988 –
  Elini Dimoutsos, Greek footballer
• 1990 –
  Sandra Izbaşa, Romanian gymnast

Who died on June 18?

• 1650 –
  Christoph Scheiner, German astronomer (b. 1573 or 1575)
• 1794 –
  James Murray, British military officer and administrator (b. 1721)
• 1835 –
  William Cobbett, English journalist and author (b. 1763)
• 1943 –
  Elias Degiannis, Greek navy officer and resistance fighter (b. 1912)
• 1997 –
  Lev Kopelev, Russian writer and dissident (b. 1912)
• 2003 –
  Ernest Martin, American convicted murderer (b. 1960)
• 2003 –
  Larry Doby, American baseball player (b. 1923)
• 2005 –
  Manuel Sadosky, Argentine mathematician (b. 1914)
• 2005 –
  Syed Mushtaq Ali, Indian cricketer (b. 1914)
• 2010 –
  Trent Acid, American professional wrestler (b.1980)