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• ... that the El Greco Apartments (pictured), once home to Casablanca director Michael Curtiz, were saved from demolition with fund-raising help from Star Trek's Leonard Nimoy?
• ... that because it is frequently accompanied by serious injuries, sternal fracture is associated with a mortality rate of 25–45%?
• ... that Jenny Wiley State Resort Park is named after a woman who escaped from Cherokees after her three-month-old child was killed by tomahawk?
• ... that the banknote exhibit at the Banknote Museum in Corfu, owned by Alpha Bank, is the first such collection in Greece to be put on public display?
• ... that Samuel Pepys's former clerk Paul Lorrain more than quadrupled his prison income by publishing dubious Confessions of the condemned at Newgate Prison?
• ... that less than an acre remains of the original 400-acre (160 ha) property of the Zachary Taylor House, built by Richard Taylor?
• ... that the East Roman general Comentiolus was briefly imprisoned for being insolent towards the khagan of the Avars?
• ... that the Shrine of Hazrat Ali, said to be the burial place of Ali, also gave the city of Mazari Sharif its name?
  

• The Boston Celtics defeat the Los Angeles Lakers in six games to win the 2008 National Basketball Association Finals.
• Large areas of southern China are hit by the worst floods in decades with Guangzhou and Shenzhen most affected, and at least 169 fatalities and 1.66 million people evacuated.
• In golf, Tiger Woods (pictured) defeats Rocco Mediate in a playoff to win the 2008 U.S. Open, his 14th major victory.
• A new constitution takes effect in Kosovo, whose February declaration of independence has been recognised by 43 United Nations member states.
• A magnitude 6.8 M_w earthquake strikes Iwate and Miyagi Prefectures on the Japanese island of Honshū.
• Flooding continues in the Midwestern United States, leading to the evacuation of thousands of homes.
• Irish voters reject the Treaty of Lisbon in a referendum, thus putting into question the reform program of the European Union.

June 18: Autistic Pride Day

• 618 – Lǐ Yuān became Emperor Gaozu of Tang, initiating three centuries of the Tang Dynasty's rule over China.
• 1815 – War of the Seventh Coalition: Napoléon Bonaparte fought and lost his final battle, the Battle of Waterloo in Belgium.
• 1858 – Charles Darwin received a manuscript by fellow naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace (pictured) on evolution, which prompted Darwin to publish his theory.
• 1940 – World War II: Charles de Gaulle, leader of the Free French Forces, made an appeal to the French people following the fall of France to Nazi Germany, rallying them to support the Resistance.
• 1983 – Aboard Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Sally Ride became the first American woman in space, and the third one overall after Soviet cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova and Svetlana Savitskaya.

More events: June 17 – June 18 – June 19