On This Day: June 18th

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.

An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 strikes northern Osaka.

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), a NASA robotic spacecraft is launched.

The Charleston Sofa Super Store fire kills nine firefighters in Charleston, South Carolina.

The first Kazakh space satellite, KazSat-1, is launched.

Propair Flight 420 crashes near Montréal–Mirabel International Airport in Quebec, Canada, killing 11.

The Troubles: Members of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) attack a crowded pub with assault rifles in Loughinisland, Northern Ireland. Six Catholic civilians are killed and five wounded. It was crowded with people watching the 1994 FIFA World Cup.

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.

Space Shuttle program: STS-7, astronaut Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space.

Mona Mahmudnizhad, together with nine other women of the Baháʼí Faith, is sentenced to death and hanged in Shiraz, Iran, over her religious beliefs.