Wikipedia: June 18

June 18
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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
1953 - A United States Air Force C-124 crashed and burned near Tokyo, Japan killing 129
1954 - Pierre Mendès-France becomes Prime Minister of France
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
1999 - Carnival Against Capitalism

1757 - Gervasio Antonio de Posadas, Argentine leader († 1833)
1812 - Ivan Goncharov (†1891) Russian author of Oblomov
1854 - E.W. Scripps, journalist, publisher († 1926)
1868 - Miklós 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 - Jürgen Habermas, sociologist and philosopher
1937 - Gail Godwin, author
1937 - Vitali Zholobov, cosmonaut
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
1964 - Uday Hussein, son of Saddam Hussein († 2003)
1966 - Kurt Browning, figure skater