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On This Day In History for June 18, 2025
This is the 169th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 196 days remaining in 2025.

It was on this date in 1858, that Charles Darwin received a paper from Alfred Russel Wallace that includes nearly identical conclusions about evolution as Darwin’s own, prompting Darwin to publish his theory.
Also today in 1873, Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election.
97 years ago today, Aviator Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean (she was a passenger; Wilmer Stultz was the pilot and Lou Gordon the mechanic).
Columbia Records introduced the long-playing record album (or LP) in a public demonstration at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City on this date in 1948.
That same date in 1981, The Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk, the first operational aircraft initially designed around stealth technology, made its first flight.
June 18, 1983, Aboard Space Shuttle STS-7, Astronaut Sally Ride became the first American woman in space.
It was on this date in 2006, that The first Kazakh space satellite, KazSat-1 was launched.
It was 16 years ago today that The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), a NASA robotic spacecraft was launched.
It was on this date in 2023, that Titan, a submersible operated by OceanGate Expeditions, imploded while attempting to view the wreck of the Titanic, killing all five people on board including the co-founder and CEO of the company, Stockton Rush in the North Atlantic Ocean..

Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

English astronomer and merchant, William Lassell, born on this date in 1799.
American businessman and philanthropist, founded the Folger Shakespeare Library, Henry Clay Folger was born 168 years ago today.
Also born 167 years ago was Scottish-English mathematician and academic Andrew Forsyth.
Born on that same date in 1870,  French mathematician and philosopher, Édouard Le Roy.
English lieutenant and mountaineer, George Mallory, born June 18, 1886.
Born today in 1907,  Swiss-American metaphysicist, philosopher, and author, Frithjof Schuon.
German mathematician Oswald Teichmüller was born 112 years ago today.
Also born on that same date in 1915,  American mathematician Alice T. Schafer.
American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate, Jerome Karle, born on this date in 1918.
American astronomer and cosmologist Allan Sandage was born 99 years ago.
American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate, Dudley R. Herschbach, born on this date in 1932.
Ukrainian colonel, engineer, and astronaut, Vitaly Zholobov is 88 today.
American actress, Carol Kane, born on this date in 1952.
Also born on that same date in 1962,  American physicist and academic, Lisa Randall.

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