Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for June 18th: https://ko-fi.com/post/June-18-Paul-McCartney-Richard-Nixon-P5P31HQ6E0
June 18, 1942: Paul McCartney and Roger Ebert are born.
June 18, 1968: London’s Old Vic theatre performs the stage adaptation of John Lennon’s first book, In His Own Write. Lennon attends with Yoko Ono, but the audience is horrible to her and shouts racist insults at her.
June 18, 1973: John Lennon-Ono and Yoko Ono-Lennon attend the Watergate court hearings and hear John Dean testify. They sit beside Nixon adviser Elvin Bell in the second row, behind Dean’s wife Maureen.
Sandy Allen was born on June 18, 1955.
Bummer June 18th
June 18, 1982: A postal clerk crossing Blackfriar’s Bridge in London finds the body of “God’s Banker” Roberto Calvi hanging underneath the bridge. Calvi has about $14,000 and five bricks in his pockets. He had recently lost his job at Italy’s Banco Ambrosiano and was under indictment for embezzling the bank’s funds. The death was officially ruled a suicide, but Calvi’s family suspects murder.
June 18, 1984: Jewish talk show host Alan Berg is gunned down by two members of a white supremacist terror group in Denver. He is 50 years old.
June 18, 2023: Five people die aboard the submersible craft Titan when the underwater vehicle’s pressure barrier fails on a voyage to see the wreck of the Titanic. The Titan’s designer, billionaire Stockton Rush, had the submersible’s hull made of carbon fiber and titanium, materials which are not typically used for deep sea submersibles. It was not subject to the safety regulations of any nation since it operated in international waters.
Rush is one of those killed when the submersible implodes. Also killed are the voyage’s guide, deep sea explorer Paul-Henri Nargeolet; and three paying passengers: English billionaire Hamish Harding, Pakistani-English billionaire Shahzada Dawood, and Dawood’s 19-year-old son Suleman.
