June 18: Night of Decree (Shia Islam, 2017)
F-117 Nighthawk
- 860 – A fleet of about 200 Rus' vessels sailed into the Bosporus and started pillaging the suburbs of Constantinople.
- 1858 – Charles Darwin received a manuscript by fellow naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace on natural selection, which prompted Darwin to publish his theory of evolution.
- 1972 – British European Airways Flight 548 crashed near the town of Staines less than three minutes after departing from London Heathrow Airport, killing all 118 people aboard, the worst air accident in the UK.
- 1981 – The Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk (pictured), the first operational aircraft to be designed around stealth technology, made its first flight.
- 2012 – Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud was appointed crown prince of Saudi Arabia.
Lord Castlereagh (b. 1769) · Queen Olga of Greece (d. 1926) · Paul McCartney (b. 1942)
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