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June 18

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Battle of Waterloo

211 years ago

Born this day

1942

Paul McCartney

Turns 84

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John V Palaiologos

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Famous births31

1332 · 694 yrs

John V Palaiologos

John V Palaiologos or Palaeologus (Greek: Ίωάννης Κομνηνός Παλαιολόγος, romanized: Iōánnēs Komnēnós Palaiológos; 18 June 1332 – 16 February 1391) was Byzantine emperor from 1341 to 1391, with interruptions.

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RoyaltyDied aged 58

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1799 · 227 yrs

William Lassell

William Lassell (18 June 1799 – 5 October 1880) was an English merchant and astronomer. He is remembered for his improvements to the reflecting telescope and his ensuing discoveries of four planetary satellites.

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ScienceDied aged 81

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1845 · 181 yrs

Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran

Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran (18 June 1845 – 18 May 1922) was a French physician who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1907 for his discoveries of parasitic protozoans as causative agents of infectious diseases such as malaria and trypanosomiasis.

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ScienceDied aged 76

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1868 · 158 yrs

Miklós Horthy

Miklós Horthy de Nagybánya (18 June 1868 – 9 February 1957) was a Hungarian admiral and statesman who was the regent of the Kingdom of Hungary during the interwar period and most of World War II, from 1 March 1920 to 15 October 1944.

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PoliticsDied aged 88

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1882 · 144 yrs

Georgi Dimitrov

Georgi Dimitrov Mihaylov, also known as Georgiy Mihaylovich Dimitrov (18 June 1882 – 2 July 1949), was a Bulgarian communist politician and revolutionary who served as General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party from 1933 to 1949, and the first leader of the Communist People's Republic…

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1884 · 142 yrs

Édouard Daladier

Édouard Daladier (French:; 18 June 1884 – 10 October 1970) was a French Radical-Socialist (centre-left) politician, who was the Prime Minister of France in 1933, 1934 and again from 1938 to 1940. Daladier was born in Carpentras and began his political career before World War I.

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1901 · 125 yrs

Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia

Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia (Russian: Анастасия Николаевна; 18 June 1901 – 17 July 1918) was the fourth child and youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, the last sovereign of Imperial Russia, and his wife, Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna.

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1918 · 108 yrs

Franco Modigliani

Franco Modigliani (US:; Italian:; 18 June 1918 – 25 September 2003) was an Italian-American economist and the recipient of the 1985 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics. He was a professor at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Carnegie Mellon University, and MIT Sloan School of Management.

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ScienceWould be 108

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1918 · 108 yrs

Jerome Karle

Jerome Karle (born Jerome Karfunkle; June 18, 1918 – June 6, 2013) was an American physical chemist. Jointly with Herbert A. Hauptman, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1985, for the direct analysis of crystal structures using X-ray scattering techniques.

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ScienceWould be 108

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1929 · 97 yrs

Jürgen Habermas

Jürgen Habermas (18 June 1929 – 14 March 2026) was a German philosopher and social theorist in the tradition of critical theory and pragmatism. His work addressed communicative rationality and the public sphere.

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PhilosophyWould be 97

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1931 · 95 yrs

Fernando Henrique Cardoso

Fernando Henrique Cardoso (Brazilian Portuguese:; born 18 June 1931), also known by his initials FHC (Brazilian Portuguese: ), is a Brazilian sociologist, professor, and politician who served as the 34th president of Brazil from 1 January 1995 to 1 January 2003.

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PoliticsAge 95

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1942 · 84 yrs

Roger Ebert

Roger Joseph Ebert ( EE-bərt; June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013) was an American film critic, film historian, essayist, screenwriter, journalist, and author. He wrote for the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013.

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LiteratureWould be 84

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Famous deaths11

1902 · 124 yrs

Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler (4 December 1835 – 18 June 1902) was an English novelist and critic, best known for the satirical utopian novel Erewhon (1872) and the semi-autobiographical novel The Way of All Flesh (published posthumously in 1903 with substantial revisions and published in its original form in 1964 as Ernest Pontifex…

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LiteratureDied aged 66

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1916 · 110 yrs

Helmuth von Moltke the Younger

Graf Helmuth Johannes Ludwig von Moltke (German:; 25 May 1848 – 18 June 1916), also known as Moltke the Younger, was a German general and Chief of the Great German General Staff, a member of the House of Moltke.

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MilitaryDied aged 68

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1928 · 98 yrs

Roald Amundsen

Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen (UK:, US:; Norwegian:; 16 July 1872 – c. 18 June 1928) was a Norwegian explorer of polar regions. He was a key figure of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.

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ExplorationDied aged 55

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1937 · 89 yrs

Gaston Doumergue

Pierre Paul Henri Gaston Doumergue (French:; 1 August 1863 – 18 June 1937) was a French politician who served as President of France from 1924 to 1931.

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LawDied aged 73

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1971 · 55 yrs

Paul Karrer

Paul Karrer (21 April 1889 – 18 June 1971) was a Swiss organic chemist best known for his research on vitamins. He and British chemist Norman Haworth won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1937.

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1974 · 52 yrs

Georgy Zhukov

Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov (1 December 1896 – 18 June 1974) was a Soviet military leader who served as a top commander during World War II and achieved the rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union.

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PoliticsWould be 129

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1982 · 44 yrs

Djuna Barnes

Djuna Barnes ( JOO-nah; June 12, 1892 – June 18, 1982) was an American artist, illustrator, journalist, and writer who is perhaps best known for her novel Nightwood (1936), a cult classic of lesbian fiction and an important work of modernist literature.

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1983 · 43 yrs

Mona Mahmudnizhad

Mona Mahmudnizhad (Persian: مونا محمود نژاد, September 10, 1965 – June 18, 1983) was an Iranian Baháʼí who, in 1983, together with nine other Baháʼí women, was sentenced to death and hanged in Shiraz, Iran, on the grounds of being a member of the Baháʼí Faith.

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2010 · 16 yrs

José Saramago

José de Sousa Saramago (European Portuguese:; 16 November 1922 – 18 June 2010) was a Portuguese writer.

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LiteratureWould be 103

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2018 · 8 yrs

XXXTentacion

Jahseh Dwayne Ricardo Onfroy (January 23, 1998 – June 18, 2018), professionally known as XXXTentacion, was an American rapper, singer-songwriter, and record producer.

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MusicWould be 28

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2024 · 2 yrs

Anouk Aimée

Nicole Françoise Florence Dreyfus (French pronunciation:; 27 April 1932 – 18 June 2024), known professionally as Anouk Aimée (French:) or Anouk, was a French film actress who appeared in 70 films from 1947 until 2019.

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Events5

1812 · 214 yrs

War of 1812

The War of 1812 was a conflict initiated by the United States against the United Kingdom and its allies fought mainly in North America and at sea during the wider Napoleonic Wars. The United States declared war on Britain on 18 June 1812.

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War

1815 · 211 yrs

Battle of Waterloo

The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday 18 June 1815, near Waterloo (then in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, now in Belgium), being the last engagement with Napoleon I. The French Imperial Army under the command of Napoleon I was defeated by two armies of the Seventh Coalition.

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War

1971 · 55 yrs

War on drugs

The war on drugs, sometimes referred to in the 21st century as the war on cartels in contexts of military intervention and counterterrorism, is a global anti-narcotics campaign led by the United States federal government, ramped up after 9/11, including drug prohibition and foreign assistance, with the aim of reducing…

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War

1979 · 47 yrs

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks

The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) were two rounds of bilateral conferences and corresponding international treaties involving the United States and the Soviet Union. The Cold War superpowers dealt with arms control in two rounds of talks and agreements: SALT I and SALT II.

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Politics

2023 · 3 yrs

Titan submersible implosion

On June 18, 2023, Titan, a submersible operated by the American tourism and expeditions company OceanGate, imploded during an expedition to view the wreck of the Titanic in the North Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada.

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