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18 June 2011 at a glance
- Day of the week
- 18 June 2011 was a Saturday.
- Billboard Hot 100 No. 1
- The Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 was “Rolling in the Deep” by Adele.
- Top Film of 2011
- The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 2011 was Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2.
- Bestselling Novel of 2011
- “The Litigators” by John Grisham was No. 1 on Publishers Weekly's US fiction list for 2011.
- Top-Rated TV Show
- “Sunday Night Football” (NBC) was No. 1 in the Nielsen ratings for the 2011–12 season.
- Star sign
- The star sign for 18 June is Gemini.
- Chinese zodiac
- In the Chinese zodiac, 18 June 2011 fell in the Year of the Rabbit.
- Birthstone
- The birthstone for June is Pearl.
- Moon phase
- The moon phase on 18 June 2011 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 June 18
- 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 2011 in the United States
A selection from Wikipedia's '2011 in the United States'. Not a complete list.
- February 27 – The 83rd Academy Awards, hosted by James Franco and Anne Hathaway, are held at Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. Tom Hooper's The King's Speech wins four awards out of 12 nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director.
- March 11 – Following the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issues a tsunami warning to parts of the U.S. West Coast along the affected coastal areas in Alaska, Hawaii and the U.S. Territories in the Pacific Ocean.
- April 15 – Rio is released in theaters.
Life in the US in 2011
President
Barack Obama
Gas (per gallon)
$3.52
Loaf of Bread
$1.74
Average House
$242,300
Weekly Wage
$737
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