So you want to have a drink but you aren't sure why? Here are some GREAT reasons to call your friends over and have a party.

June 18th


- Academy Day (Church of Scientology)
- Autistic Pride Day
- Christian Feast Day
- Foundation Day (Benguet)
- International Sushi Day
- National Day (Seychelles)
- Queen Mother's Birthday (Cambodia)
- Waterloo Day (United Kingdom)

June 18th


- 2009 - The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), a NASA robotic spacecraft is launched.
- 2006 - The first Kazakh space satellite, KazSat is launched.
- 2001 - Protests occur in Manipur over the extension of the ceasefire between Naga insurgents and the government of India.
- 1996 - Ted Kaczynski, suspected of being the Unabomber, is indicted on ten criminal counts.
- 1994 - The Troubles: the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) open fire inside a pub in Loughinisland, Northern Ireland, killing six civilians and wounding five.
- 1984 - A major clash between about 5,000 police and a similar number of miners takes place at Orgreave, South Yorkshire, during the 1984-1985 UK miners' strike.
- 1983 - Space Shuttle program: STS-7, Astronaut Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space.
- 1983 - Mona Mahmudnizhad together with nine other Bahá'í women, is sentenced to death and hanged in Shiraz, Iran because of her Bahá'í Faith.
- 1981 - A disease cluster, which will later be known as AIDS, is recognized by medical professionals in San Francisco, California.
- 1979 - SALT II is signed by the United States and the Soviet Union.
- 1972 - Staines air disaster – 118 are killed when a plane crashes two minutes after take off from London Heathrow Airport.
- 1965 - Vietnam War: The United States uses B-52 bombers to attack National Liberation Front guerrilla fighters in South Vietnam.
- 1959 - Governor of Louisiana Earl Long is committed to a state mental hospital; he responds by having the hospital's director fired and replaced with a crony who proceeds to proclaim him perfectly sane.
- 1954 - Pierre Mendès-France becomes Prime Minister of France.
- 1953 - The Republic of Egypt is declared and the monarchy is abolished.
- 1953 - A United States Air Force C-124 crashes and burns near Tokyo, Japan killing 129.
- 1946 - Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia, a Socialist, calls for a Direct Action Day against the Portuguese in Goa. A road is named after this date in Panjim.
- 1945 - William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) is charged with treason.
- 1940 - Appeal of June 18 by Charles de Gaulle.
- 1940 - "Finest Hour" speech by Winston Churchill.
- 1930 - Groundbreaking ceremonies for the Franklin Institute are held.
- 1928 - Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean (she was a passenger; Wilmer Stutz was the pilot and Lou Gordon the mechanic).
- 1923 - Checker Taxi puts its first taxi on the streets.
- 1908 - Japanese immigration to Brazil begins when 781 people arrive in Santos aboard the ship Kasato-Maru.
- 1908 - The University of the Philippines is established.
- 1900 - Empress Dowager Longyu of China orders all foreigners killed, including foreign diplomats and their families.
- 1887 - The Reinsurance Treaty between Germany and Russia is signed.
- 1873 - Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election.
- 1859 - First ascent of Aletschhorn, second summit of the Bernese Alps.
- 1858 - 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.
- 1830 - French invasion of Algeria
- 1815 - Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Waterloo results in the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte by the Duke of Wellington forcing him to abdicate the throne of France for the second and last time.
- 1812 - War of 1812: The U.S. Congress declares war on the United Kingdom.
- 1778 - American Revolutionary War: British troops abandon Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- 1767 - Samuel Wallis, an English sea captain, sights Tahiti and is considered the first European to reach the island.
- 1757 - Battle of Kolín between Prussian forces under Frederick the Great and an Austrian army under the command of Field Marshal Count Leopold Joseph von Daun in the Seven Years' War.
- 1429 - French forces under the leadership of Joan of Arc defeat the main English army under sir John Fastolf at the Battle of Patay. This turns the tide of the Hundred Years' War.
- 1264 - The Parliament of Ireland meets at Castledermot in County Kildare, the first definitively known meeting of this Irish legislature.
- 1178 - Five Canterbury monks see what is possibly the Giordano Bruno crater being formed. It is believed that the current oscillations of the Moon's distance from the Earth (on the order of metres) are a result of this collision.
- 618 - Li Yuan becomes Emperor Gaozu of Tang, initiating three centuries of Tang Dynasty rule over China.

June 18th


- 2006 - Countess Zaria of Orange-Nassau, Jonkvrouwe van Amsberg, Dutch royal
- 1997 - Max Records, American actor
- 1991 - Willa Holland, American actress
- 1991 - Rei Okamoto, Japanese model and actress
- 1990 - Luke Adam, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1990 - Sandra Izba?a, Romanian gymnast
- 1989 - Renee Olstead, American singer and actress
- 1988 - Jack Barakat, American singer and guitarist (All Time Low)
- 1986 - Richard Gasquet, French tennis player
- 1984 - Mateus, Angolan footballer
- 1984 - Janne Happonen, Finnish skijumper
- 1983 - Cameron Smith, Australian NRL player
- 1983 - Billy Slater, Australian NRL player
- 1982 - Nadir Belhadj, French-born Algerian footballer
- 1982 - Vadim Pruzhanov, English keyboardist (DragonForce)
- 1981 - Teresa Cormack, New Zealand murder victim (d. 1987)
- 1981 - Ella Chen, Taiwanese Mandopop singer (S.H.E)
- 1980 - Antonio Gates, American football player
- 1980 - Tara Platt, American actress
- 1980 - Ivana Wong, Hong Kong singer and songwriter
- 1980 - Craig Mottram, Australian middle distance runner
- 1980 - Antero Niittymäki, Finnish ice hockey goaltender
- 1979 - Yumiko Kobayashi, Japanese voice actress
- 1978 - Wang Liqin, Chinese table tennis player
- 1976 - Witte Wartena, Dutch artist
- 1976 - Blake Shelton, American country singer
- 1976 - Alana de la Garza, American actress
- 1975 - Martin St. Louis, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1975 - Aleksandrs Ko?inko, Latvian footballer
- 1975 - Marie Gillain, Belgian actress
- 1975 - Jemma Griffiths, Welsh singer-songwriter
- 1975 - Jamel Debbouze, French actor and producer
- 1974 - Vincenzo Montella, Italian footballer
- 1973 - Alexandros Papadimitriou, Greek hammer thrower
- 1973 - Julie Depardieu, French actress
- 1973 - Ray Lamontagne, American singer-songwriter
- 1972 - Michal Yannai, Israeli actress and model
- 1971 - Jason McAteer, English-born Irish footballer
- 1970 - Robin Christopher, American actress
- 1970 - Greg Yaitanes, American television and film director
- 1969 - Pål Pot Pamparius, Norwegian guitarist and keyboardist (Turbonegro)
- 1969 - Vito LoGrasso, American professional wrestler
- 1969 - Christopher Largen, American author
- 1966 - Kurt Browning, Canadian figure skater
- 1965 - Kim Dickens, American actress and model
- 1964 - Uday Hussein, Iraqi leader, son of Saddam Hussein (d. 2003)
- 1963 - Bruce Smith, American football player
- 1963 - Dizzy Reed, American keyboardist (Guns N' Roses)
- 1962 - Mitsuharu Misawa, Japanese professional wrestler (d. 2009)
- 1962 - Jeff Mills, American techno DJ and producer
- 1961 - Andrés Galarraga, Venezuelan baseball player
- 1961 - Alison Moyet, English pop singer
- 1960 - Ralph Brown, British actor
- 1960 - Steve Murphy, Canadian news anchor
- 1958 - Peter Altmaier, German politician
- 1957 - Miguel Ángel Lotina, Spanish football manager
- 1956 - Brian Benben, American actor
- 1953 - Vladislav Terzyul, Ukrainian mountaineer (d. 2004)
- 1952 - Isabella Rossellini, Italian actress
- 1952 - Carol Kane, American actress
- 1952 - Lee Soo Man South Korean entertainment executive
- 1950 - Jackie Leven, Scottish singer and songwriter
- 1950 - Mike Johanns, American politician
- 1949 - Chris Van Allsburg, American author and illustrator
- 1949 - Prince Lincoln Thompson, Jamaican musician (d. 1999)
- 1949 - Lech Kaczy?ski, President of Poland (d. 2010)
- 1949 - Jaros?aw Kaczy?ski, Prime Minister of Poland
- 1948 - Éva Marton, Hungarian operatic soprano
- 1946 - Russell Ash, British author
- 1946 - Fabio Capello, Italian football coach
- 1946 - Bruiser Brody, American professional wrestler (d. 1988)
- 1944 - Sandy Posey, American singer
- 1943 - Raffaella Carrà, Italian TV presenter
- 1942 - Roger Ebert, American film reviewer
- 1942 - Paul McCartney, British singer, songwriter and musician (The Beatles, Wings)
- 1942 - Hans Vonk, Dutch conductor (d. 2004)
- 1942 - Thabo Mbeki, President of South Africa
- 1942 - Carl Radle, American tour and session bass guitarist (d. 1980)
- 1942 - Nick Tate, Australian actor
- 1941 - Delia Smith, English cook and television presenter
- 1940 - Michael Sheard, British actor (d. 2005)
- 1939 - Lou Brock, American baseball player
- 1939 - Jean-Claude Germain, French Canadian author, journalist and historian
- 1939 - Brooks Firestone, American businessman and politician
- 1938 - Kevin Murray, Australian rules footballer
- 1937 - Wray Carlton, American football player
- 1937 - Del Harris, American basketball head coach
- 1937 - John D. Rockefeller IV, American politician
- 1937 - Vitali Zholobov, Soviet cosmonaut
- 1936 - Ronald Venetiaan, President of Suriname
- 1936 - Denny Hulme, New Zealand race car driver (d. 1992)
- 1935 - Hugh McColl, American banker
- 1934 - Mitsuteru Yokoyama, Japanese manga artist (d. 2004)
- 1932 - Dudley R. Herschbach, American chemist, Nobel laureate
- 1932 - Geoffrey Hill, English poet
- 1931 - Fernando Henrique Cardoso, President of Brazil
- 1929 - Jürgen Habermas, German sociologist and philosopher
- 1928 - David T. Lykken, American scientist (d. 2006)
- 1927 - Paul Eddington, English actor (d. 1995)
- 1927 - Eva Bartok, Hungarian/British actress (d. 1998)
- 1926 - Tom Wicker, American journalist
- 1924 - George Mikan, American basketball player (d. 2005)
- 1922 - Claude Helffer, French pianist (d. 2004)
- 1920 - Ian Carmichael, English actor (d. 2010)
- 1918 - Jerome Karle, American chemist, Nobel laureate
- 1918 - Franco Modigliani, Italian economist, Nobel laureate (d. 2003)
- 1917 - Richard Boone, American actor (d. 1981)
- 1917 - Jack Karnehm, English snooker commentator (d. 2002)
- 1917 - Arthur Tremblay, Canadian politician (d. 1996)
- 1916 - Julio César Turbay Ayala, Colombian politician (d. 2005)
- 1915 - Red Adair, American firefighter (d. 2004)
- 1914 - E.G. Marshall, American actor (d. 1998)
- 1913 - Sammy Cahn, American lyricist (d. 1993)
- 1913 - Sylvia Field Porter, American economist and journalist (d. 1991)
- 1910 - Ray McKinley, American jazz drummer and bandleader (d. 1995)
- 1910 - Dick Foran, American actor (d. 1979)
- 1908 - Bud Collyer, American game show host (d. 1969)
- 1908 - Nedra Volz, American actress (d. 2003)
- 1908 - Stanley Knowles, Canadian politician (d. 1997)
- 1907 - Frithjof Schuon, Swiss metaphysician, poet, and painter (d. 1998)
- 1904 - Keye Luke, Chinese-born American actor (d. 1991)
- 1904 - Manuel Rosenthal, French conductor and composer (d. 2003)
- 1903 - Jeanette MacDonald, American actress and singer (d. 1965)
- 1903 - Raymond Radiguet, French author (d. 1923)
- 1901 - Grand Duchess Anastasia Nicolaievna Romanova of Russia (d. 1918)
- 1895 - Blanche Sweet, American actress (d. 1986)
- 1895 - Manuela Fernández-Fojaco, Spanish supercentenarian (d. 2009)
- 1891 - Mae Busch, Australian actress (d. 1946)
- 1886 - Alexander Wetmore, American ornithologist (d. 1978)
- 1886 - George Mallory, English mountaineer (d. 1924)
- 1884 - Édouard Daladier, French politician (d. 1970)
- 1882 - Georgi Dimitrov, Bulgarian Communist leader (d. 1949)
- 1877 - James Montgomery Flagg, American illustrator (d. 1960)
- 1870 - Edouard Le Roy, French philosopher and mathematician (d. 1954)
- 1868 - Miklós Horthy, Hungarian admiral and regent (d. 1957)
- 1863 - George Essex Evans, Australian poet (d. 1909)
- 1854 - E.W. Scripps, American journalist and publisher (d. 1926)
- 1850 - Richard Heuberger, Austrian composer, music critic and teacher (d. 1914)
- 1845 - Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1922)
- 1839 - William Henry Seward, Jr., Union Brigadier General in the American Civil War (d. 1920)
- 1834 - Auguste-Théodore-Paul de Broglie, French philosopher (d. 1895)
- 1815 - Ludwig Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen, German general (d. 1881)
- 1812 - Ivan Goncharov, Russian author (d. 1891)
- 1757 - Gervasio Antonio de Posadas, Argentine political leader (d. 1833)
- 1757 - Ignaz Pleyel, Austrian composer and piano manufacturer (d. 1831)
- 1716 - Joseph-Marie Vien, French painter (d. 1809)
- 1667 - Ivan Trubetskoy, Russian field marshal (d. 1750)
- 1552 - Gabriello Chiabrera, Italian poet (d. 1637)
- 1517 - Emperor Ogimachi of Japan (d. 1593)
- 1511 - Bartolomeo Ammanati, Italian architect and sculptor (d. 1592)
- 1466 - Ottaviano Petrucci, Italian printer (d. 1539)
- 1318 - Princess Eleanor of Woodstock (d. 1355)
- 1269 - Princess Eleanor of England (d. 1298)