On this day in history
June 18
IslamicHinduScience
YahrzeitHebrew-calendar remembrance
The Hebrew anniversary of a passing drifts against the civil calendar; these fall on June 18 this year.
- R. Menachem Mendel Schneerson (the Lubavitcher Rebbe)d. 1994 CE
Seventh Rebbe of Chabad-Lubavitch
- 1988 CEIslamic · founded
The first congregational prayer was held at the Faisal Mosque in Islamabad, Pakistan's national mosque, two years after its completion.
- 2017 CEHindu · died
Swami Atmasthananda, the fifteenth president of the Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission, died at Kolkata on this day in 2017.
- 1983 CEScience
Launching aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger on mission STS-7, Sally Ride became the first American woman to fly in space.