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18 June 2019 at a glance
- Day of the week
- 18 June 2019 was a Tuesday.
- Irish Chart Song in 2019
- The Irish chart song for 2019 was “Someone You Loved” by Lewis Capaldi.
- Top Film of 2019
- The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 2019 was Avengers: Endgame.
- Star sign
- The star sign for 18 June is Gemini.
- Chinese zodiac
- In the Chinese zodiac, 18 June 2019 fell in the Year of the Pig.
- Birthstone
- The birthstone for June is Pearl.
- Moon phase
- The moon phase on 18 June 2019 was Waning Gibbous.
On this day: 18 June
- 1983 Space Shuttle program: STS-7, astronaut Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space.
- 1984 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.
- 2006 The first Kazakh space satellite, KazSat-1, is launched.
- 2009 The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), a NASA robotic spacecraft is launched.
- 2018 An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 strikes northern Osaka.
Famous people born on 18 June
- Paul McCartney, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1942)
- Scooter Braun, American music executive (born 1981)
- Kane Parsons, American YouTuber and filmmaker (born 2005)
- Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, French-born Gabonese footballer (born 1989)
Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Events of 2019 in Ireland
A selection from Wikipedia's '2019 in Ireland'. Not a complete list.
- 1 January – Technological University Dublin was established by the amalgamation of the Dublin Institute of Technology, the Institute of Technology Tallaght, and the Institute of Technology Blanchardstown.
- 2 February – The chairman of the National Children's Hospital Development board Tom Costello resigned following the controversy over the spiralling costs of the project.
- 10 March – 39-year-old Micheál Ryan was among the 157 people who were on board an Ethiopian Airlines flight which crashed while en route from Addis Ababa to Nairobi.
Life in Ireland in 2019
Taoiseach
Leo Varadkar
Petrol (per litre)
€1.45/L
Loaf of Bread
€1.65
Average House
€320,000
Weekly Wage
€550
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