Today
Thursday June 18 2026
- Day of the year
- 169/ 365
- Week
- 252,026
- Days left
- 19646%
- Moon
- 17%Waxing crescent
Today is Thursday, June 18, 2026. It is day 169 of 2026, a year of 365 days: 196 remain, and 46% of the year has gone. Under ISO 8601 this date falls in week 25.
What's celebrated on this date
No United Nations international day falls on this date.
Coming up
- June 20World Refugee Day
- June 21International Day of Yoga
- June 23United Nations Public Service Day
Saints and name days
Saints whose feast falls on this date, most widely known first.
- Ephrem the SyrianSyriac saint, theologian and writer (c. 306 – 373)
- Elizabeth of SchönauGerman Benedictine visionary
- Gregorio BarbarigoRoman Catholic saint
- Marina the Monk5th century Byzantine saint
- Pope Peter IV of AlexandriaCoptic Orthodox Pope of Alexandria, Egypt
Sources : Wikidata (P841) · CC0 1.0
Astronomy
New York
- Sunrise
- 05:25
- Sunset
- 20:30
- Length of day
- 15h 5m
- Solar noon
- 12:57
Times shown for America/New_York
Season
Spring
began on March 20, 2026
Next season
Summer — 3 days, June 21, 2026 (June solstice)
Public holidays — United States
Not a public holiday in the United States.
Next public holiday : Juneteenth National Independence Day — June 19, 2026
National holidays only. Regions, provinces and Länder add their own.
Moon
Waxing crescent
Illumination : 17%
Moon age : 3.5 days
- Next full moon
- June 29, 2026
- Next new moon
- July 14, 2026
Astrology
Today's zodiac sign
Gemini
until June 21, 2026 — Cancer
Zodiac dates are an astrological convention, not the Sun's actual position among the constellations. The astronomy above is measured; this is not.
On this day in history
1053
Battle of Civitate: Three thousand Norman horsemen of Count Humphrey rout the troops of Pope Leo IX. Wikipedia
1264
The Parliament of Ireland meets at Castledermot in County Kildare, the first definitively known meeting of this Irish legislature. Wikipedia
1429
Charles VII's army defeats an English army under John Talbot at the Battle of Patay during the Hundred Years' War. The English lost 2,200 men, over half their army, crippling their efforts during this segment of the war. Wikipedia
1815
Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Waterloo results in the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte by the Duke of Wellington and Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, forcing Napoleon to abdicate the throne of France for the second and last time. Wikipedia
1887
The Reinsurance Treaty between Germany and Russia is signed. Wikipedia
1940
World War II: Appeal of 18 June by Charles de Gaulle. Wikipedia
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1953
A United States Air Force C-124 crashes and burns near Tachikawa, Japan, killing 129. Wikipedia
1979
SALT II is signed by the United States and the Soviet Union. Wikipedia
1983
Space Shuttle program: STS-7, astronaut Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space. Wikipedia
2023
Titan, a submersible operated by OceanGate Expeditions, implodes in the North Atlantic Ocean while attempting to view the wreck of the Titanic, killing all five people on board, including OceanGate co-founder and CEO Stockton Rush. Wikipedia
Sources : Wikipedia (en) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Data imported on 2026-08-26
Births and deaths
Born on this day June 18
- 1511Bartolomeo Ammannati, Italian architect and sculptor, designed the Ponte Santa Trinita (died 1592)
- 1845Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French physician and parasitologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1922)
- 1882Georgi Dimitrov, Bulgarian compositor and politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Bulgaria (died 1949)
- 1918Franco Modigliani, Italian-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2003)
- 1931Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Brazilian sociologist, academic, and politician, 34th President of Brazilturns 95 years
- 1942Thabo Mbeki, South African politician and 2nd President of South Africaturns 84 years
- 1949Jarosław Kaczyński, Polish lawyer and politician, 13th Prime Minister of Polandturns 77 years
- 1949Lech Kaczyński, Polish lawyer and politician, 4th President of Poland (died 2010)
Died on this day June 18
- 741Leo III the Isaurian, Byzantine emperor (born 685)aged 66 years
- 1234Emperor Chūkyō of Japan (born 1218)aged 16 years
- 1291Alfonso III of Aragon (born 1265)aged 26 years
- 1905Carmine Crocco, Italian soldier (born 1830)aged 75 years
- 1928Roald Amundsen, Norwegian pilot and explorer (born 1872)aged 56 years
- 1963Pedro Armendáriz, Mexican-American actor (born 1912)aged 51 years
- 1971Paul Karrer, Russian-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1889)aged 82 years
- 2010José Saramago, Portuguese novelist Nobel Prize laureate (born 1922)aged 88 years
Sources : Wikipedia (en) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Data imported on 2026-08-26
The day in words
In New York the sun rises at 05:25 and sets at 20:30, giving 15h 5m of daylight — the same as yesterday. It has been spring since March 20, 2026; summer opens in 3 days, on June 21, 2026 (June solstice).
The moon is a waxing crescent, 17% illuminated. The next full moon falls on June 29, 2026 and the next new moon on July 14, 2026.
The saints' calendar attaches June 18 to Ephrem the Syrian, Elizabeth of Schönau and Gregorio Barbarigo.
No United Nations international day falls on June 18. The next one on the calendar is World Refugee Day, on June 20.
It is not a public holiday in the United States.
On this day in history: Battle of Civitate: Three thousand Norman horsemen of Count Humphrey rout the troops of Pope Leo IX (1053); The Parliament of Ireland meets at Castledermot in County Kildare, the first definitively known meeting of this Irish legislature (1264). English Wikipedia records 10 events for this date.
Bartolomeo Ammannati was born on June 18, 1511; Leo III the Isaurian died on June 18, 741.
190 days remain until Christmas and 197 until New Year's Day.
In astrology — kept separate from the measured astronomy above, deliberately — June 18 falls under the sign of Gemini.
Calendar
By the numbers
- 46%
- of the year elapsed
- 190
- until Christmas
- 197
- until New Year
- 621
- until the next 29 February
2026 — Common year (365 days)
Work with dates
Sources
Every block on this page names where its data comes from. Nothing here is generated when the source is silent.
- United Nations — International Days— What's celebrated today
- Wikidata (P841)— Saints and name days · CC0 1.0
- Wikipedia (en)— On this day in history · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Data imported on 2026-08-26