June 18 in history: • 618 – Sui–Tang transition: Chinese governor Li Yuan (pictured) declared himself emperor, establishing the Tang dynasty. → go there • 1858 – Charles Darwin received a manuscript by fellow naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace on natural selection, which encouraged him to publish his own theory of evolution. → go there • 1940 – World War II: Charles de Gaulle gave his Appeal of 18 June speech, often considered to be the origin of the French Resistance. → go there • 1953 – A Douglas C-124 Globemaster II aircraft crashed just after takeoff from Tachikawa, Japan, killing all 129 people on board. → go there • 2012 – Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud was appointed the crown prince of Saudi Arabia. → go there Born 1769: Lord Castlereagh Wiki link Born 1877: James Montgomery Flagg Wiki link Died 1964: Giorgio Morandi Wiki link Born 1986: Richard Madden Wiki link Pictured: Li Yuan.