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Events

• 1815 (211 years ago) Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Waterloo results in the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte by the Duke of Wellington and Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, forcing Napoleon to abdicate the throne of France for the second and last time.
• 1858 (168 years ago) 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.
• 1907 (119 years ago) Most resistance societies in Santiago return to work, bringing an end to the 1907 Chilean general strike.
• 1940 (86 years ago) World War II: Appeal of 18 June by Charles de Gaulle.
• 1945 (81 years ago) William Joyce ("Lord Haw-Haw") is charged with treason for his pro-German propaganda broadcasting during World War II.
• 1953 (73 years ago) The Egyptian revolution of 1952 ends with the overthrow of the Muhammad Ali dynasty and the declaration of the Republic of Egypt.
• 1979 (47 years ago) SALT II is signed by the United States and the Soviet Union.
• 2006 (20 years ago) The first Kazakh space satellite, KazSat-1, is launched.

Births

• 1812 (214 years ago) Ivan Goncharov, Russian journalist and author (died 1891)
• 1845 (181 years ago) Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French physician and parasitologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1922)
• 1929 (97 years ago) Jürgen Habermas, German sociologist and philosopher (died 2026)
• 1942 (84 years ago) Paul McCartney, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1942 (84 years ago) Thabo Mbeki, South African politician and 2nd President of South Africa
• 1942 (84 years ago) Roger Ebert, American journalist, critic, and screenwriter (died 2013)
• 1949 (77 years ago) Lech Kaczyński, Polish lawyer and politician, 4th President of Poland (died 2010)
• 1949 (77 years ago) Jarosław Kaczyński, Polish lawyer and politician, 13th Prime Minister of Poland

Deaths

• 741 (1285 years ago) Leo III the Isaurian, Byzantine emperor (born 685)
• 1902 (124 years ago) Samuel Butler, English novelist, satirist, and critic (born 1835)
• 1928 (98 years ago) Roald Amundsen, Norwegian pilot and explorer (born 1872)
• 1936 (90 years ago) Maxim Gorky, Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright (born 1868)
• 1971 (55 years ago) Paul Karrer, Russian-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1889)
• 1974 (52 years ago) Georgy Zhukov, Russian marshal and politician, Minister of Defence for the Soviet Union (born 1896)
• 2010 (16 years ago) José Saramago, Portuguese novelist Nobel Prize laureate (born 1922)
• 2018 (8 years ago) XXXTentacion, American rapper (born 1998)

All 431 events, births and deaths of June 18