Today in History
18 June
245 births · 124 deaths · 53 events recorded
Notable Births
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Arin (singer)
b. 1999
South Korean singer and actress (born 1999)
Trippie Redd
b. 1999
American rapper (born 1999)
Richard Gasquet
b. 1986
French tennis player (born 1986)
Martin St. Louis
b. 1975
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1975)
Roger Ebert
b. 1942
American film critic and author (1942–2013)
George Mikan
b. 1924
American basketball player (1924–2005)
Efraín Huerta
b. 1914
Mexican poet (1914–1982)
Jung Bahadur Rana
b. 1816
Founder of the Rana dynasty in Nepal
Notable Deaths
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James Chance
d. 2024
American musician (1953–2024)
Anouk Aimée
d. 2024
French actress (1932–2024)
Willie Mays
d. 2024
American baseball player (1931–2024)
Shahzada Dawood
d. 2023
Pakistani businessman and philanthropist (1975–2023)
Hamish Harding
d. 2023
British businessman (1964–2023)
Florence Bascom
d. 1945
American professor of geology (1862–1945)
William Cobbett
d. 1835
English pamphleteer, farmer and journalist (1763–1835)
Rogier van der Weyden
d. 1464
Early Netherlandish painter (c. 1399 – 1464)
On This Day in History
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2023
Titan, a submersible operated by OceanGate Expeditions, imploded while attempting to view the wreck of the Titanic, killing all five people on board including OceanGate co-founder and CEO Stockton Rush in the North Atlantic Ocean.
Titan (submersible)
2018
An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 strikes northern Osaka.
2018 Osaka earthquake
2009
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), a NASA robotic spacecraft is launched.
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
2007
The Charleston Sofa Super Store fire happened in Charleston, South Carolina, killing nine firefighters.
Charleston Sofa Super Store fire
2006
The first Kazakh space satellite, KazSat-1 is launched.
Kazakhstan
1998
Propair Flight 420 crashes near Montréal–Mirabel International Airport in Quebec, Canada, killing 11.
Propair Flight 420
1994
The Troubles: Members of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) attack a crowded pub with assault rifles in Loughinisland, Northern Ireland. Six Catholic civilians are killed and five wounded. It was crowded with people watching the 1994 FIFA World Cup.
The Troubles
1984
A major clash between about 5,000 police and a similar number of striking miners takes place at Orgreave, South Yorkshire, during the 1984–85 UK miners' strike.
Battle of Orgreave