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Birthday June 18, 1799 William Lassell, discoverer of satellites of Uranus and Neptune |
Birthday June 18, 1812 Ivan Goncharov, Russian novelist, travel writer (Oblomov) |
Birthday June 18, 1857 Henry Clay Folger, Jr., American businessman, Shakespeare fan |
Birthday June 18, 1877 James Montgomery Flagg, illustrator "I want you" recruiting poster |
Birthday June 18, 1886 George Mallory, English mountain climber ("because it is there") |
Birthday June 18, 1901 Jeanette MacDonald, 'When I'm calling you' |
Birthday June 18, 1906 Kay Kyser, radio and film personality (Three Little Fishes) |
Birthday June 18, 1910 E.G. Marshall, (Defenders) |
Birthday June 18, 1913 Sylvia Porter, financial writer |
Birthday June 18, 1926 Tom Wicker, (NY Times) |
Birthday June 18, 1929 Eva Bartok, Actress Budapest Hungry |
Birthday June 18, 1937 Vitali M. Zholobov, cosmonaut (Soyuz 21) |
Birthday June 18, 1937 Novelist Gail Godwin is born |
Birthday June 18, 1942 Paul McCartney, Yeah-Yeah-Yeah |
Birthday June 18, 1942 Film critic Roger Ebert born |
Birthday June 18, 1947 Linda Thorson, in Canada |
Birthday June 18, 1952 Isabella Rossellini, (Blue Velvet) |
Birthday June 18, 1952 Carol Kane, in Cleveland Ohio (Taxi-Simpka) |
Birthday June 18, 1962 Janice Merrill, track star |
History June 18, 1178 Proposed time of origin of lunar crater Giordano Bruno |
History June 18, 1778 British abandon Philadelphia |
History June 18, 1778 British Redcoats evacuate Phila |
History June 18, 1798 Adams passes first of Alien and Sedition Acts |
History June 18, 1812 War of 1812 begins as US declares war against Britain |
History June 18, 1815 Battle of Waterloo; Napoleon defeated by Wellington & Blcher |
History June 18, 1815 Napoleon defeated at Waterloo |
History June 18, 1847 Alexander Murray departs for the Yukon |
History June 18, 1864 Union hero Joshua Chamberlain is wounded at Petersburg |
History June 18, 1872 Woman's Sufferage Convention held at Merchantile Liberty Hall |
History June 18, 1873 Susan B Anthony fined $100 for attempting to vote for President |
History June 18, 1892 Macademia nuts 1st planted in Hawaii |
History June 18, 1898 Amusement pier opens - Atlantic City - NJ |
History June 18, 1915 French troops halt fighting in Artois region |
History June 18, 1916 Yanks score in every inning but 8th beat Indians 19-3 |
History June 18, 1923 Checker Cab produces first taxi at Kalamazoo factory |
History June 18, 1928 Amelia Earhart is 1st woman to cross Atlantic |
History June 18, 1934 US Highway planning surveys nationwide authorized |
History June 18, 1940 Hitler and Mussolini meet in Munich |
History June 18, 1940 Winston Churchill urged perseverance so that future generations would remember that "this was their finest hour" |
History June 18, 1945 William Joyce-Lord Haw-Haw Brit radio traitor charged with treason |
History June 18, 1953 Eugene Stephens gets 3 hits as Red Sox score 17 runs in 7th inning |
History June 18, 1953 Egypt proclaimed a republic |
History June 18, 1959 1st telecast transmitted from England to US |
History June 18, 1960 Arnold Palmer wins U.S. Open |
History June 18, 1965 SAC B-52s are used for the first time in South Vietnam |
History June 18, 1966 Westmoreland requests more troops |
History June 18, 1967 The Monterey Pop Festival reaches its climax |
History June 18, 1972 Mysterious crash at Heathrow |
History June 18, 1972 118 die in crash of British European Airways jet |
History June 18, 1975 Saudi Prince Faisal Ibn Mussed Abdul Aziz beheaded in Riyadh shopping center parking lot for killing his uncle the king |
History June 18, 1977 Space Shuttle test model "Enterprise" carries a crew aloft for 1st time - It was fixed to a modified Boeing 747 |
History June 18, 1977 Billy Martin & Reggie Jackson get into a dug out altercation |
History June 18, 1979 Billy Martin replaces Bob Lemon as Yank manager (2nd time) |
History June 18, 1979 Carter and Brezhnev sign the SALT-II treaty |
History June 18, 1981 Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart retires (replaced by Sandra Day O'Connor 1st woman on high court) |
History June 18, 1982 Voting Rights Act of 1965 extended by Senate by 85-8 vote |
History June 18, 1983 First American woman in space |
History June 18, 1983 7th Shuttle Mission-Challenger 2 launched-Sally Ride 1st US woman |
History June 18, 1984 A radio host is gunned down for his controversial views |
History June 18, 1986 52 die in plane/helicopter collision over Grand Canyon |