Historical timeline for June 18

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.

An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 strikes northern Osaka.

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), a NASA robotic spacecraft is launched.

The Charleston Sofa Super Store fire kills nine firefighters in Charleston, South Carolina.

The first Kazakh space satellite, KazSat-1, is launched.

Propair Flight 420 crashes near Montréal–Mirabel International Airport in Quebec, Canada, killing 11.

The Troubles: Members of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) attack a crowded pub with assault rifles in Loughinisland, Northern Ireland. Six Catholic civilians are killed and five wounded. It was crowded with people watching the 1994 FIFA World Cup.

A major clash between about 5,000 police and a similar number of striking miners takes place at Orgreave, South Yorkshire, during the 1984–85 UK miners' strike.

Mona Mahmudnizhad, together with nine other women of the Baháʼí Faith, is sentenced to death and hanged in Shiraz, Iran, over her religious beliefs.

Space Shuttle program: STS-7, astronaut Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space.

Italian banker Roberto Calvi's body is discovered hanging beneath Blackfriars Bridge in London, England.

The Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk, the first operational aircraft initially designed around stealth technology, makes its first flight.

SALT II is signed by the United States and the Soviet Union.

Staines air disaster: One hundred eighteen people are killed when a BEA H.S. Trident crashes minutes after takeoff from London's Heathrow Airport.

Vietnam War: The United States Air Force uses B-52 bombers to attack guerrilla fighters in South Vietnam.

Benjamin Britten's one-act opera Noye's Fludde premieres at the Aldeburgh Festival.

Carlos Castillo Armas leads an invasion force across the Guatemalan border, setting in motion the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état.

The Egyptian revolution of 1952 ends with the overthrow of the Muhammad Ali dynasty and the declaration of the Republic of Egypt.

A United States Air Force C-124 crashes and burns near Tachikawa, Japan, killing 129.

Britain, France and the United States announce that on June 21, the Deutsche Mark will be introduced in western Germany and West Berlin. Over the next six days, Communists increasingly restrict access to Berlin.[citation needed]