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June 18
19th Annual Rochambeau Strawberry Biscuit Tea, Cranston
Fridays at the Archives, Providence
June 19
Slave History Medallion Installation, Bristol
Colonial Food for Thought, Newport
June 24
Scandalous Conduct/Newport 1919, Newport
July 1
Bristol Tales of the Slave Trade Walking Tour, Bristol
July 2
Fridays at the Archives, Providence
July 3
Public Clambake, Middletown
July 4
Fourth of July Parade Picnic, Bristol
Family Beach Day and 4th of July Fireworks!, Narragansett Pier, Narragansett
More events
June 18th in Rhode Island history*
1812
The United States declares war with England.
1849
Bishop William Tyler, the first Bishop of the Hartford diocese, dies in Providence of rheumatic fever.
1861
The Second Rhode Island Regiment, U.S.V., is organized.
1941
The Rhode Island Supreme Court rules eighteen indictments, charging election fraud conspiracy in the 1938 Pawtucket election, invalid because eleven members of the grand jury were illegally drawn.
1949
Brown University ends nearly two centuries of male domination by electing Anna Canada Swain as first woman member of the board of trustees. Also, ground is broken in the final phase of the university's $10,000,000 building campaign.
1995
Barrington daredevil Steve Trotter successfully challenges Niagara Falls for a second time, this time with a double-barrel and a female friend, Lori Martin.
