Today in
History ~ June 18
Events
0860 - Swedish Vikings attack Constantinople
1155 - Pope Adrian IV crowns Frederick I Barbarossa Roman-German Emperor
1178 - 5 Canterbury monks report explosion on moon (only known observation). Proposed time of origin of lunar crater Giordano Bruno
1538 - Treaty of Nice: ends war between Emperor Charles V & King French I
1541 - Irish parliament "selects" Henry VIII as King of Ireland
1580 - States of Utrecht outlaw Catholic worship
1682 - William Penn founds Philadelphia
1757 - Battle at Kolin Bohemia: Austrian army beats Prussia
1778 - American forces entered Philadelphia as the British withdrew during the Revolutionary War.
1779 - French fleet occupies St Vincent
1812 - War of 1812 begins as US declares war against Britain The action was
justified by Britain's violation of American rights on the high seas and also
its incitement of Indian warfare on the U.S frontier. [H]
1815 - British and Prussian troops under Wellington & Blucher defeated the French under Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo in Belgium.
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1822 - Slave revolt leaders Denmark Vesey & Peter Poyas arrested in SC
1863 - After long neglect, Confederates hurriedly fortify Vicksburg
1864 - At Petersburg, Grant ends 4 days of assaults
1872 - Woman's Suffrage Convention held at Mercantile Liberty Hall
1873 - Suffragist Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election. (The fine was never paid.)
1892 - Macademia nuts 1st planted in Hawaii
1898 - 1st amusement pier opens in Atlantic City, NJ
1900 - Empress Douairisre orders I-Ho-Chuan (Boxers) to kill all foreigners
1903 - 1st transcontinental auto trip begins in SF; arrives NY 3-mo later
1928 - Aviator Amelia Earhart became the first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean
in an aircraft, completing a flight from Newfoundland to Wales in about 21 hours.
1934 - US Highway planning surveys nationwide authorized
1938 - Babe Ruth is signed as a Dodgers coach for the rest of the season
1940 - General Charles de Gaulle on BBC (speaking from England) tells French to defy Nazi occupiers
1940 - During World War II, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill urged his countrymen to conduct themselves in a manner that would prompt future generations to say, "This was their finest hour."
1941 - Joe Louis KOs Billy Conn in 13 for heavyweight boxing title
1941 - Turkey signs peace treaty with Nazi Germany
1942 - Bernard W Robinson, becomes 1st black ensign in US Navy
1942 - Eric Nessler of France stays aloft in a glider for 38h21m
1945 - William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) was charged in London with high treason for his English-language wartime broadcasts on German radio. (He was hanged the following January.)
1948 - The U.N. Commission on Human Rights adopted its International Declaration of Human Rights.
1953 - Egypt proclaimed a republic
1956 - Last of foreign troops leaves Egypt as British leave Suez Canal
1959 - 1st telecast transmitted from England to US
1963 - 3,000 blacks boycott Boston public school
1968 - Supreme Court bans racial discrimination in sale & rental of housing
1972 - 118 die in crash of British European Airways jet
1972 - US Supreme Court, 5-3, confirms lower court rulings in Curt Flood case, upholding baseball's exemption from antitrust laws
1973 - NCAA makes urine testing mandatory for participants
1975 - Saudi Prince Faisal Ibn Mussed Abdul Aziz
was publicly beheaded in Riyadh shopping center parking lot for killing his uncle the king
1977 - Billy Martin & Reggie Jackson get into a dug out altercation
1977 - Space Shuttle test model "Enterprise" carries a crew aloft for 1st time - It was fixed to a modified Boeing 747
1979 - Billy Martin replaces Bob Lemon as Yank manager (2nd time)
1979 - President Jimmy Carter and Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev signed the SALT II strategic arms limitation treaty in Vienna.
1981 - Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart announced his retirement; his departure paved the way for Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female associate justice.
1982 - Voting Rights Act of 1965 extended by Senate by 85-8 vote
1983 - Astronaut Sally Ride became America's first woman in space, with four colleagues aboard the space shuttle Challenger.
1983 - IRA's Joseph Doherty arrested in NYC
1984 - Alan Berg, a Denver radio talk show host, was shot to death outside his home. (Two white supremacists were later convicted of civil rights violations in the slaying.)
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1986 - 52 die in plane/helicopter collision over Grand Canyon
1989 - John Wayne Bobitt marries Lorena L Gallo
1990 - James Edward Pough went on a shooting rampage at an auto-financing company office in Jacksonville, Fla., fatally wounding nine people before killing himself.
1991 - The Louisiana Legislature enacted a strict anti-abortion law, overriding a veto by Gov. Buddy
Roemer.
1991 - Russia's newly elected president, Boris Yeltsin, arrived in the United States for visits with American officials, including President Bush.
1992 - The Supreme Court ruled criminal defendants may not use race as a basis
for excluding potential jurors from their trials.
1994 - US ties Switzerland 1-1 in their 1st game of 1994 soccer World Cup
1995 - A private plane carrying the Angolan soccer team crashed in Luanda, Angola, killing 48 people.
1996 - The Senate issued its Whitewater reports. The Republican report accused
first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton of obstruction of justice.
1996 - Netanyahu inaugurated as Israeli Prime Minister
1996 - Federal prosecutors in California charged Theodore Kaczynski in four of the Unabomber attacks.
1996 - Richard Allen Davis was convicted in San Jose, Calif., of the 1993 kidnap and murder of 12-year-old Polly Klaas of Petaluma.
1996 - Two Army transport helicopters collided and crashed during training exercises near Fort Campbell, Ky., killing six and injuring 33.
1997 - The Southern Baptist Convention called for a boycott of the Walt Disney
Co., protesting what the convention called its "gay-friendly"
policies.
1997 - Sirhan Sirhan failed in his 10th bid for parole in the assassination of
Sen. Robert F. Kennedy.
1997 - Irineo Montoya, a Mexican laborer, was executed by the state of Texas for
a 1985 killing despite protests by the Mexican government.
1999 - The House rejected gun control legislation, 280-147, with many Democrats rebelling against National Rifle Association-backed provisions in the bill.
2000 Tiger Woods won the U.S. Open by a record 15 strokes.
2000 - Ethiopia and Eritrea agreed to cease hostilities in a two-year-old border war.
2001 - A judge in Golden, Colo., sentenced two therapists, Connell Watkins and
Julie Ponder, each to 16 years in prison after being convicted of reckless child
abuse in the death of a 10-year-old girl, Candace Newmaker, who had suffocated
while wrapped in blankets during a "rebirthing" session.
Birthdays
Today
1794 - George Grote, British historian
1799 - William Lassell, discoverer of satellites of Uranus and Neptune
1812 - Ivan Goncharov, Russian novelist travel writer (Oblomov)
1857 - Henry Clay Folger Jr., American businessman Shakespeare fan
1877 - James Montgomery Flagg, illustrator ("I Want You!" -- Uncle Sam)
1886 - George Mallory, English mountain climber ("because it is there")
1901 - Jeanette MacDonald (singer with Nelson Eddy, actress: Love Me Tonight, The Firefly, Cairo, The Cat and the Fiddle, One Hour with You, The Merry Widow, Naughty Marietta, Rose Marie)
1904 - Keye Luke (actor: Alice, Kung Fu; Charlie Chan's #1 son)
1905 - Kay (James) Kyser (bandleader: Kay Kyser and His Kollege of Musical Knowledge: Three Little Fishes, Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition)
1908 - Bud (Clayton) Collyer (radio: Superman; TV host: To Tell the Truth, Beat the Clock, Masquerade Party, Winner Take All)
1910 - Ray McKinley (musician: drummer: Big Boy, Hard Hearted Hannah, Red Silk Stockings and Green Perfume, You Came Along Way (from St. Louis); led Glen Miller Band for estate [1956-66])
1912 - Glen Morris, MO, Olympic champion/actor (Tarzan)
1913 - Sammy Cahn (composer: see "I Should Care" Day [above])
1913 - Sylvia (Feldman) Porter (journalist, author: Sylvia Porter's A Home of Your Own, Money Book)
1914 - E. (Everett) G. Marshall (Emmy Award-winning actor: The Defenders [1961-62, 1962-63}; Chicago Hope, The New Doctors, Twelve Angry Men, The CBS Radio Mystery Theatre)
1917 - Richard Boone (actor: Have Gun Will Travel, Winter Kills, The Robe, Rio Conchos, Ten Wanted Men, The War Lord, Big Jake)
1920 - Ian Carmichael (actor: Dark Obsession, Heavens Above)
1924 - George Mikan (Basketball Hall of Famer: NBA Silver Anniversary Team; Minneapolis Lakers MVP [1947], World Basketball Tournament MVP: Chicago American Gears [1946]; ABA Commissioner; ABA's red/white/blue ball is his concept)
1925 - Robert Arthur (Arthaud) (actor: Naked Youth, Hellcats of the Navy, The Ring, September Affair)
1926 - Tom Wicker (journalist, author: One of Us, Richard Nixon & the American Dream)
1928 - Maggie McNamara (actress: The Cardinal, Three Coins in the Fountain, The Moon is Blue)
1929 - Eva Bartok, actress Budapest Hungry
1936 - Reg Leach (hockey: Philadelphia Flyers: Stanley Cup Individual Record for goals scored in a game [5], and in the playoffs [19 in 1976])
1937 - Vitali M. Zholobov, cosmonaut (Soyuz 21)
1939 - Lou Brock (Baseball Hall of Famer: Chicago Cubs and St. Louis Cardinals base-stealing [937 in career] outfielder)
1942 - (James) Paul McCartney (Grammy Award-winning [1990] musician, songwriter, singer:
The Beatles: 49 hits: writes silly love songs Yeah-Yeah-Yeah
1942 - Roger Ebert (film critic: of Siskel and Ebert fame)
1947 - Linda Thorson, in Canada
1951 - Mike Wells (football)
1952 - Carol Kane, in Cleveland Ohio (Emmy Award-winning actress: Taxi [1981-82, 1982- 83}, The Princess Bride, Hester Street, Addams Family Values, Carnal Knowledge, Dog Day Afternoon, Jumpin' Jack Flash, Ted & Venus, My Blue Heaven, When A Stranger Calls)
1952 - Isabelle Rosselini (model: over 500 covers, actress: Twin Peaks, Fearless, Blue Velvet)
1962 - Janice Merrill, track star
Famous
deaths
0741 - Leo III de Isaurier, Byzantine Emperor (717-41), dies
1629 - Piet Heyn, lt-admiral (Spanish silver fleet), dies in battle at 51
1880 - John Sutter, US colonist (gold discovered on his land), dies at 77
1942 - Adolf Opalka, Czech resistance fighter, shot down
1942 - John Kubris, Czech resistance fighter, killed Nazi SS leader Reinhard Heydrich, dies at 28
1945 - Colonel Roberts, commandant 22nd regiment marines, dies in battle
1945 - Simon Bolivar Buckner, US lt-gen/commandant of 10th Army, dies in action -- descendant of CSA General and Kentucky Governor
1975 - Faisal Ibn Mussed Abdul Aziz, Saudi prince, beheaded in Riyadh shopping center parking lot for killing his uncle the king
1982 - John Cheever, Pulitzer prize winning author
1982 - Roberto Calvi, director (Banco Ambrosiano), hangs himself
1995 - Charles Martin, cartoonist, dies at 85
2000 - Emmy-winning actress Nancy Marchand died in Stratford, Conn., a day before her 72nd birthday.
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