On This Day — June 18

Here are some of the most significant historical events that happened on June 18.

• 2023: 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.
• 2018: An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 strikes northern Osaka.
• 2009: The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), a NASA robotic spacecraft is launched.
• 2007: The Charleston Sofa Super Store fire kills nine firefighters in Charleston, South Carolina.
• 2006: The first Kazakh space satellite, KazSat-1, is launched.

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