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Events on June 18

• 1757 During the Seven Years' War, Frederick the Great suffers his first defeat with his army at the Battle of Kolín. The Austrian army under Field Marshal Leopold Joseph von Daun prevails. Almost 22,000 soldiers are killed or wounded altogether in this battle.
• 1815 At the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon Bonaparte is decisively defeated by British and Prussian troops under Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, and Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher. This leads to his abdication on June 22 and thus to the end of the French Empire.
• 1821 The romantic opera The Free Shooter by Carl Maria von Weber is premiered at the Königliches Schauspielhaus in Berlin.
• 1849 The rump parliament of the Frankfurt National Assembly, which had relocated to Stuttgart, is dissolved by military force. Non-Württemberg deputies are expelled from the state.
• 1927 The Nürburgring is inaugurated with a motorcycle race as part of the Eifelrennen.
• 1957 The Law on Equal Rights of Men and Women in the field of civil law is proclaimed in the Federal Republic.
• 1972 At the final of the European Football Championship, the German national football team wins its first European Championship title by defeating the Soviet Union 3–0.
• 1974 In connection with the reform of food law, the German Bundestag passes a ban on tobacco advertising on radio and television.
• 1983 The Space Shuttle Challenger launches from Kennedy Space Center for the STS-7 mission. Sally Ride is on board. She thereby becomes the first U.S. woman astronaut and the third woman in space.
• 1994 In Berlin, the last military parade of the Allies takes place before their withdrawal.
• 1999 At the presentation of the German Film Awards, Tom Tykwer's film Run Lola Run, starring Franka Potente, receives eight awards.
• 2006 Audi becomes the first manufacturer to win the 24 Hours of Le Mans with a diesel-powered vehicle.

Born on June 18

• 1868 Miklós Horthy, Hungarian admiral and statesman
• 1882 Georgi Dimitroff, Bulgarian politician
• 1901 Anastasia Nikolajewna Romanowa, Russian noblewoman
• 1920 Utta Danella, German author
• 1940 Mirjam Pressler, German author
• 1952 Isabella Rossellini, Italian actress
• 1961 Alison Moyet, British singer
• 1963 Markus Brock, German television presenter
• 1973 Alexandra Meissnitzer, Austrian alpine skier
• 1981 Marco Streller, Swiss footballer

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „18. Juni“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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