June 18
1778 - American forces entered Philadelphia as the British withdrew during the Revolutionary War.
1812 - The War of 1812 began as the United States declared war on Britain.
1815 - Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated at the Battle of Waterloo in Belgium by British, German and Dutch forces.
1873 - Suffragist Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election.
1928 - Aviator Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean. She completed the flight from Newfoundland to Wales in about 21 hours.
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." Charles de Gaulle delivered a speech on the BBC in which he rallied his countrymen after the fall of France to Nazi Germany.
1948 - Columbia Records unveiled its new long-playing, 33 1/3 rpm phonograph record.
1948 - The United Nations Commission on Human Rights adopts its International Declaration of Human Rights. The General Assembly would give its final approval on Dec. 10, 1948.
1953 - A U.S. Air Force Douglas C-124 Globemaster II crashed near Tokyo, killing all 129 people on board.
1953 - Egypt's 148-year-old Muhammad Ali Dynasty came to an end with the overthrow of the monarchy and the proclamation of a republic.
1964 - President Lyndon B. Johnson and Japanese Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda spoke to each other by telephone as they inaugurated the first trans-Pacific cable completed by AT&T between Japan and Hawaii.
1979 - President Jimmy Carter and Soviet President Leonid I. Brezhnev signed the SALT II strategic arms limitation treaty in Vienna.
1983 - Sally Ride became the first American woman in space.
1992 - The U.S. Supreme Court, in Georgia v. McCollum, ruled that criminal defendants could not use race as a basis for excluding potential jurors from their trials.
2002 - A Palestinian detonated a nail-studded bomb in a Jerusalem bus, killing 19 passengers and himself.
2004 - European Union leaders agreed on the first constitution for the bloc's 25 members.
2006 - Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori was elected the first female presiding bishop for the Episcopal Church, the U.S. arm of the global Anglican Church.
2010 - Death row inmate Ronnie Lee Gardner died in a barrage of bullets as Utah carried out its first firing squad execution in 14 years. (Gardner had been sentenced to death for fatally shooting attorney Michael Burdell during a failed escape attempt from a Salt Lake City courthouse.)
2011 - President Hamid Karzai acknowledged that the U.S. and Afghan governments had held talks with Taliban emissaries in a bid to end the nation’s nearly 10-year war.
2018 - President Donald Trump announced that he was directing the Pentagon to create the "Space Force" as a new independent service branch.
2020 - The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision, rejected President Donald Trump's effort to end legal protections for 650,000 young immigrants.
2020 - Atlanta police officers called out sick to protest the filing of murder charges against Garrett Rolfe, a white officer, in the shooting of a Black man, Rayshard Brooks.
2020 - The mayor of Columbus, Ohio, said a statue of Christopher Columbus would be removed from the city that was named after him.
2020 - Portraits honoring four former House speakers who served in the Confederacy were removed from the U.S. Capitol.
Birthdays
29 - Georgia Fowler (model)
30 - Willa Holland (actress)
31 - Jacob Anderson (actor)
32 - Renee Olstead (actress)
34 - Melanie Iglesias (model)
35 - Richard Madden (actor)
41 - David Giuntoli (actor)
45 - Blake Shelton (country singer)
45 - Alana de la Garza (actor)
50 - Mara Hobel (actor)
50 - Nathan Morris (singer)
54 - Tim Hunt (country singer)
55 - Kurt Browning (figure skater)
60 - Alison Moyet (singer)
64 - Andrea Evans (actress)
65 - Brian Benben (actor)
69 - Carol Kane (actress)
69 - Isabella Rossellini (actress)
74 - Linda Thorson (actress)
74 - Constance McCashin (actress)
79 - Paul McCartney (singer)
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Today in Sports History - June 18
1911 - Detroit Tigers trail Chicago White Sox, 13-1 at Bennett Park, Detroit; recovers to win, 16-15 for the biggest comeback in Major League Baseball history.
1953 - Seventeen major league baseball records were tied or broken in a game between the Boston Red Sox and the Detroit Tigers.
1960 - Arnold Palmer stages the greatest comeback in U.S. Open history, erasing a 7-stroke deficit in the final round to win his only U.S. Open by two strokes over Jack Nicklaus.
1960 - Tom Sheehan (San Francisco Giants) became the oldest first-time manager in major league baseball. Sheehan was 66 years, 2 months and 18 days old.
1967 - Jack Nicklaus sets a new tournament record of 275, to secure a four-stroke victory over Arnold Palmer to win the U.S. Open.
1972 - Jack Nicklaus wins his third U.S. Open.
1972 - The U.S. Supreme Court, on a 5-3 decision, confirms lower court rulings upholding baseball's exemption from antitrust laws.
1975 - Fred Lynn (Boston Red Sox) hit three home runs, a triple and a single in a game against the Detroit Tigers. He collected 10 RBIs.
1986 - Don Sutton won his 300th game in major league baseball, the 19th pitcher in major league history to record the feat.
1989 - Curtis Strange becomes the first golfer to win back-to-back U.S. Open titles since Ben Hogan in 1950 and 1951.
1990 - The first sudden-death U.S. Open Golf championship is won by Hale Irwin.
1995 - Norway defeats Germany 2-0 in Stockholm, Sweden to win the Women's World Cup soccer tournament.
2000 - Tiger Woods wins his first U.S. Open title at the 100th anniversary of the event by a record 15 strokes over Ernie Els and Miguel Angel Jimenez.
2003 - Baseball Hall of Famer Larry Doby, who broke the American League's color barrier in 1947, died on Montclair, New Jersey at age 79.
2017 - Brooks Koepka wins the U.S. Open and his first major championship.
1778 - American forces entered Philadelphia as the British withdrew during the Revolutionary War.
1812 - The War of 1812 began as the United States declared war on Britain.
1815 - Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated at the Battle of Waterloo in Belgium by British, German and Dutch forces.
1873 - Suffragist Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election.
1928 - Aviator Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean. She completed the flight from Newfoundland to Wales in about 21 hours.
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." Charles de Gaulle delivered a speech on the BBC in which he rallied his countrymen after the fall of France to Nazi Germany.
1948 - Columbia Records unveiled its new long-playing, 33 1/3 rpm phonograph record.
1948 - The United Nations Commission on Human Rights adopts its International Declaration of Human Rights. The General Assembly would give its final approval on Dec. 10, 1948.
1953 - A U.S. Air Force Douglas C-124 Globemaster II crashed near Tokyo, killing all 129 people on board.
1953 - Egypt's 148-year-old Muhammad Ali Dynasty came to an end with the overthrow of the monarchy and the proclamation of a republic.
1964 - President Lyndon B. Johnson and Japanese Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda spoke to each other by telephone as they inaugurated the first trans-Pacific cable completed by AT&T between Japan and Hawaii.
1979 - President Jimmy Carter and Soviet President Leonid I. Brezhnev signed the SALT II strategic arms limitation treaty in Vienna.
1983 - Sally Ride became the first American woman in space.
1992 - The U.S. Supreme Court, in Georgia v. McCollum, ruled that criminal defendants could not use race as a basis for excluding potential jurors from their trials.
2002 - A Palestinian detonated a nail-studded bomb in a Jerusalem bus, killing 19 passengers and himself.
2004 - European Union leaders agreed on the first constitution for the bloc's 25 members.
2006 - Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori was elected the first female presiding bishop for the Episcopal Church, the U.S. arm of the global Anglican Church.
2010 - Death row inmate Ronnie Lee Gardner died in a barrage of bullets as Utah carried out its first firing squad execution in 14 years. (Gardner had been sentenced to death for fatally shooting attorney Michael Burdell during a failed escape attempt from a Salt Lake City courthouse.)
2011 - President Hamid Karzai acknowledged that the U.S. and Afghan governments had held talks with Taliban emissaries in a bid to end the nation’s nearly 10-year war.
2018 - President Donald Trump announced that he was directing the Pentagon to create the "Space Force" as a new independent service branch.
2020 - The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision, rejected President Donald Trump's effort to end legal protections for 650,000 young immigrants.
2020 - Atlanta police officers called out sick to protest the filing of murder charges against Garrett Rolfe, a white officer, in the shooting of a Black man, Rayshard Brooks.
2020 - The mayor of Columbus, Ohio, said a statue of Christopher Columbus would be removed from the city that was named after him.
2020 - Portraits honoring four former House speakers who served in the Confederacy were removed from the U.S. Capitol.
Birthdays
29 - Georgia Fowler (model)
30 - Willa Holland (actress)
31 - Jacob Anderson (actor)
32 - Renee Olstead (actress)
34 - Melanie Iglesias (model)
35 - Richard Madden (actor)
41 - David Giuntoli (actor)
45 - Blake Shelton (country singer)
45 - Alana de la Garza (actor)
50 - Mara Hobel (actor)
50 - Nathan Morris (singer)
54 - Tim Hunt (country singer)
55 - Kurt Browning (figure skater)
60 - Alison Moyet (singer)
64 - Andrea Evans (actress)
65 - Brian Benben (actor)
69 - Carol Kane (actress)
69 - Isabella Rossellini (actress)
74 - Linda Thorson (actress)
74 - Constance McCashin (actress)
79 - Paul McCartney (singer)
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Today in Sports History - June 18
1911 - Detroit Tigers trail Chicago White Sox, 13-1 at Bennett Park, Detroit; recovers to win, 16-15 for the biggest comeback in Major League Baseball history.
1953 - Seventeen major league baseball records were tied or broken in a game between the Boston Red Sox and the Detroit Tigers.
1960 - Arnold Palmer stages the greatest comeback in U.S. Open history, erasing a 7-stroke deficit in the final round to win his only U.S. Open by two strokes over Jack Nicklaus.
1960 - Tom Sheehan (San Francisco Giants) became the oldest first-time manager in major league baseball. Sheehan was 66 years, 2 months and 18 days old.
1967 - Jack Nicklaus sets a new tournament record of 275, to secure a four-stroke victory over Arnold Palmer to win the U.S. Open.
1972 - Jack Nicklaus wins his third U.S. Open.
1972 - The U.S. Supreme Court, on a 5-3 decision, confirms lower court rulings upholding baseball's exemption from antitrust laws.
1975 - Fred Lynn (Boston Red Sox) hit three home runs, a triple and a single in a game against the Detroit Tigers. He collected 10 RBIs.
1986 - Don Sutton won his 300th game in major league baseball, the 19th pitcher in major league history to record the feat.
1989 - Curtis Strange becomes the first golfer to win back-to-back U.S. Open titles since Ben Hogan in 1950 and 1951.
1990 - The first sudden-death U.S. Open Golf championship is won by Hale Irwin.
1995 - Norway defeats Germany 2-0 in Stockholm, Sweden to win the Women's World Cup soccer tournament.
2000 - Tiger Woods wins his first U.S. Open title at the 100th anniversary of the event by a record 15 strokes over Ernie Els and Miguel Angel Jimenez.
2003 - Baseball Hall of Famer Larry Doby, who broke the American League's color barrier in 1947, died on Montclair, New Jersey at age 79.
2017 - Brooks Koepka wins the U.S. Open and his first major championship.
