Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 18
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This is a list of selected June 18 anniversaries that appears on the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition may be controversial, or on a day that is or soon will be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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- 1815 – Napoléon Bonaparte fought and lost his final battle, the Battle of Waterloo.
- 1858 – Charles Darwin received a manuscript by Alfred Russel Wallace on evolution, which prompted him to publish his theory.
- 1940 – World War II: Charles de Gaulle, leader of the Free French Forces, made an appeal to the French people following the fall of France to Nazi Germany, rallying them to support the Resistance.
- 1979 – The United States and the Soviet Union signed the SALT II treaty, placing specific limits on each side's stock of nuclear weapons.
- 1983 – Space Shuttle Astronaut Sally Ride (pictured) becomes the first American woman in space for STS-7.
