📜 This Day in History
June 18
618Sui–Tang transition: Chinese governor Li Yuan declared himself emperor, establishing the Tang dynasty.- 1815War of the Seventh Coalition: Napoleon fought and lost his final battle, the Battle of Waterloo, in present-day Belgium.
- 1940World War II: Charles de Gaulle gave his Appeal of 18 June speech, often considered to be the origin of the French Resistance.
- 1958English composer Benjamin Britten's one-act opera Noye's Fludde was premiered at the Aldeburgh Festival.
- 1983Aboard Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Sally Ride became the first American woman and third one overall in space.
- 2023The Titan submersible imploded during a dive to the RMS Titanic wreck, killing all five people aboard.
