Today in History
June 18
June 18
1155 | German-born Frederick I, Barbarossa, is crowned emperor of Rome. | |
1667 | The Dutch fleet sails up the Thames River and threatens London. | |
1778 | British troops evacuate Philadelphia. | |
1812 | The War of 1812 begins when the United States declares war against Great Britain. | |
1815 | At the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon Bonaparte is defeated by an international army under the Duke of Wellington. | |
1863 | After repeated acts of insubordination, General Ulysses S. Grant relieves General John McClernand during the Siege of Vicksburg. | |
1864 | At Petersburg, Union General Ulysses S. Grant realizes the town can no longer be taken by assault and settles into a siege. | |
1873 | Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to vote for president. | |
1918 | Allied forces on the Western Front begin their largest counter-attack yet against the German army. | |
1928 | Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to cross the Atlantic by airplane. | |
1936 | Mobster Charles ‘Lucky’ Luciano is found guilty on 62 counts of compulsory prostitution. | |
1942 | The U.S. Navy commissions its first black officer, Harvard University medical student Bernard Whitfield Robinson. | |
1944 | The U.S. First Army breaks through the German lines on the Cotentin Peninsula and cuts off the German-held port of Cherbourg. | |
1945 | Organized Japanese resistance ends on the island of Mindanao. | |
1951 | General Vo Nguyen Giap ends his Red River Campaign against the French in Indochina. | |
1953 | South Korean President Syngman Rhee releases Korean non-repatriate POWs against the will of the United Nations. | |
1959 | A Federal Court annuls the Arkansas law allowing school closings to prevent integration. | |
1966 | Samuel Nabrit becomes the first African American to serve on the Atomic Energy Commission. | |
1979 | President Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev sign the Salt II pact to limit nuclear arms. | |
1983 | Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space. | |
Born on June 18 | ||
1581 | Sir Thomas Overbury, English poet and courtier. | |
1812 | Ivan Goncharov, Russian novelist (Oblomov). | |
1857 | Henry Clay Folger, American lawyer and businessman, co-founder of the Folger Shakespeare Library. | |
1877 | James Montgomery Flagg, American artist and author. | |
1896 | Blanche Sweet, film actress. | |
1937 | Gail Godwin, writer (The Perfectionists, The Southern Family). | |
1942 | Paul McCartney, songwriter and singer, member of the Beatles. | |
1949 | Chris Van Allsburg, children’s author and illustrator (Jumanji, The Polar Express). |
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