June 18

June 18 is the 169th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (170th in
leap years), with 196 days remaining.

Events

   * 1778 - American Revolutionary War: British troops abandon Philadelphia,
     Pennsylvania
   * 1812 - The beginning of the War of 1812 -- The United States Congress
     declares war against United Kingdom
   * 1815 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Waterloo leads to Napoleon Bonaparte
     abdicating the throne of France for a second time
   * 1858 - Charles Darwin receives from Alfred Russel Wallace a paper that
     included nearly identical conclusions about evolution as Darwin's own.
     This prompts Darwin to publish his theory.
   * 1873 - Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to vote in the
     1872 presidential election
   * 1923 - Checker Cab puts its first taxi on the streets
   * 1930 - Groundbreaking ceremonies for the Franklin Institute are held
   * 1945 - William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) is charged with treason
   * 1965 - Vietnam War: The United States uses B-52 bombers to attack Viet
     Cong encampments in South Vietnam
   * 1979 - SALT II is signed by the United States and the Union of Soviet
     Socialist Republics
   * 1983 - Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space

Births

   * 1757 - Gervasio Antonio de Posadas, Argentine leader (+ 1833)
   * 1812 - Ivan Goncharov (+1891) Russian author of Oblomov
   * 1854 - E.W. Scripps, journalist, publisher (+ 1926)
   * 1868 - Miklos Horthy, Hungarian admiral and Regent (+ 1957)
   * 1877 - James Montgomery Flagg, illustrator (+ 1960)
   * 1901 - Grand Duchess Anastasia, Russian imperial family (+ 1918)
   * 1903 - Jeanette MacDonald, actress, singer (+ 1965)
   * 1904 - Keye Luke, actor (+ 1991)
   * 1908 - Bud Collyer, game show host (+ 1969)
   * 1909 - Willi Kramp, writer (+ 1986)
   * 1910 - E.G. Marshall, actor (+ 1998)
   * 1913 - Sammy Cahn, composer (+ 1993)
   * 1915 - Paul Neil "Red" Adair, fire fighter
   * 1917 - Richard Bopone, actor (+ 1981)
   * 1918 - Jerome Karle, crystallographer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in
     chemistry 1985
   * 1918 - Franco Modigliani, economist, recipient of The Bank of Sweden
     Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1985
   * 1924 - George Mikan, basketball star
   * 1929 - JŸrgen Habermas, sociologist and philosopher
   * 1937 - Gail Godwin, author
   * 1939 - Lou Brock, baseball star
   * 1942 - Roger Ebert, film reviewer
   * 1942 - Sir Paul McCartney, singer, bassist, pianist, guitarist for The
     Beatles and Wings
   * 1952 - Isabella Rossellini, actress
   * 1952 - Carol Kane, actress
   * 1966 - Kurt Browning, figure skater

Deaths

   * 1291 - King Alfonso III of Aragon
   * 1928 - Roald Amundsen, explorer
   * 1959 - Ethel Barrymore, actress
   * 1982 - John Cheever, author
   * 1984 - Alan Berg, radio talk show host
   * 2000 - Nancy Marchand, actress

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