Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 18

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 * 618 – Sui–Tang transition: Chinese governor Li Yuan (pictured) declared himself emperor, establishing the Tang dynasty.
 * 860 – Rus' forces sailed into the Bosporus in a fleet of about 200 vessels and started pillaging the suburbs of Constantinople.
 * 1757 – Third Silesian War: The Austrian victory at the Battle of Kolín forced Prussian leader Frederick the Great to give up the Siege of Prague and retreat to Saxony.
 * 1815 – War of the Seventh Coalition: Napoleon fought and lost his final battle, the Battle of Waterloo (depicted), in present-day Belgium.
 * 1858 – Charles Darwin received a manuscript by fellow naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace on natural selection, which encouraged him to publish his own theory of evolution.
 * 1940 – World War II: Charles de Gaulle gave his Appeal of 18 June speech, often considered to be the origin of the French Resistance.
 * 1953 – A Douglas C-124 Globemaster II aircraft crashed just after takeoff from Tachikawa, Japan, killing all 129 people on board.
 * 1954 – Carlos Castillo Armas led a CIA-sponsored invasion force across the Guatemalan border, beginning the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état.
 * 1967 – American musician Jimi Hendrix burned his guitar on stage at the end of a performance at the Monterey International Pop Festival in California.
 * 1972 – British European Airways Flight 548 crashed near Staines-upon-Thames less than three minutes after departing from Heathrow Airport in London, killing all 118 people aboard in the worst air accident in the UK.
 * 1983 – Iranian teenager Mona Mahmudnizhad and nine other women were hanged in Shiraz because of their membership in the Baháʼí Faith.
 * 1983 – Aboard Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Sally Ride became the first American woman and third one overall in space.
 * 2012 – Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud was appointed the crown prince of Saudi Arabia.
 * Born/died: | Rogier van der Weyden |d|1464| Ambrose Philips |d|1749| Lord Castlereagh |b|1769| William Lassell|b|1799| William Cobbett |d|1835| Abdollah Mirza Qajar |d|1846|James Montgomery Flagg |b|1877| Alice T. Schafer |b|1915| Queen Olga of Greece |d|1926| Barack Obama Sr. |b|1934| Gail Godwin|b|1937| Lou Brock|b|1939| Isabella Rossellini |b|1952|Kofoworola Abeni Pratt |d|1992| Michael Hastings |d|2013| Stephanie Kwolek|d|2014|