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 was defeated at the Battle of Waterloo 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 - The United Nations Commission on Human Rights was adopted its International Declaration of Human Rights. The General Assembly would give its final approval on December 10, 1948.
1948 - Columbia Records unveiled its new long-playing, 33 1/3 rpm phonograph record.
1971 - Southwest Airlines began operations, with flights between Dallas and San Antonio, and Dallas and Houston.
1979 - President Jimmy Carter and Soviet President Leonid I. Brezhnev signed the SALT II strategic arms limitation treaty in Vienna.
1983 - Sally K. Ride became the first American woman in space aboard the space shuttle Challenger.
1986 - Twenty-five people were killed when a twin-engine plane and helicopter carrying sightseers collided over the Grand Canyon.
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 Communion.
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.)
2020 - The Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision, rejected President Donald Trump’s effort to end legal protections for 650,000 young immigrants.
2021 - Iranians voted in a presidential election that would bring a landslide victory to the country’s hard-line judiciary chief, Ebrahim Raisi, the protégé of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei; Raisi had already been sanctioned by the U.S., partly over his involvement in the mass execution of thousands of political prisoners in 1988.
Birthdays
31 - Willa Holland (actress)
32 - Monica Barbaro (actress)
32 - Jacob Anderson (actor)
33 - Renee Olstead (actress)
35 - Melanie Iglesias (model)
36 - Richard Madden (actor)
42 - David Giuntoli (actor)
46 - Blake Shelton (singer)
46 - Alana de la Garza (actress)
51 - Mara Hobel (actress)
51 - Nathan Morris (singer)
56 - Kurt Browning (figure skater)
59 - Dizzy Reed (musician)
61 - Alison Moyet (singer)
65 - Andrea Evans (actress)
66 - Brian Benben (actor)
70 - Carol Kane (actress)
70 - Isabella Rossellini (actress)
75 - Linda Thorson (actress)
75 - Constance McCashin (actress)
80 - 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; recover 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 - 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.
1960 - Arnold Palmer stages the greatest comeback in U.S. Open history, erasing a 7-stroke final round deficit to win his only U.S. Open by two strokes over Jack Nicklaus.
1967 - Jack Nicklaus shoots a U.S. Open tournament record 275 to win the U.S. Open.
1972 - Jack Nicklaus wins his third U.S. Open title.
1972 - The U.S. Supreme Court confirms a lower court ruling upholding Major League 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.
1995 - Norway defeats Germany 2-0 to win the Women's World Cup.
2000 - Tiger Woods wins his first U.S. Open by a record 15 strokes, the largest margin of victory in any major championship.
2003 - Baseball Hall-of-Famer Larry Doby, who broke the American League’s color barrier in 1947, died in Montclair, New Jersey, at age 79.
2012 - Former baseball star Roger Clemens was acquitted in Washington, D.C. on all charges that he’d obstructed and lied to Congress when he denied using performance-enhancing drugs.
2012 - Dickey became the first major league pitcher in 24 years to throw consecutive one-hitters in the New York Mets’ 5-0 victory over the Baltimore Orioles. (The previous pitcher to throw consecutive one-hitters was Dave Stieb for Toronto in September 1988.)
2017 - Brooks Koepka closed with a 5-under 67 to win the U.S. Open for 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 was defeated at the Battle of Waterloo 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 - The United Nations Commission on Human Rights was adopted its International Declaration of Human Rights. The General Assembly would give its final approval on December 10, 1948.
1948 - Columbia Records unveiled its new long-playing, 33 1/3 rpm phonograph record.
1971 - Southwest Airlines began operations, with flights between Dallas and San Antonio, and Dallas and Houston.
1979 - President Jimmy Carter and Soviet President Leonid I. Brezhnev signed the SALT II strategic arms limitation treaty in Vienna.
1983 - Sally K. Ride became the first American woman in space aboard the space shuttle Challenger.
1986 - Twenty-five people were killed when a twin-engine plane and helicopter carrying sightseers collided over the Grand Canyon.
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 Communion.
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.)
2020 - The Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision, rejected President Donald Trump’s effort to end legal protections for 650,000 young immigrants.
2021 - Iranians voted in a presidential election that would bring a landslide victory to the country’s hard-line judiciary chief, Ebrahim Raisi, the protégé of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei; Raisi had already been sanctioned by the U.S., partly over his involvement in the mass execution of thousands of political prisoners in 1988.
Birthdays
31 - Willa Holland (actress)
32 - Monica Barbaro (actress)
32 - Jacob Anderson (actor)
33 - Renee Olstead (actress)
35 - Melanie Iglesias (model)
36 - Richard Madden (actor)
42 - David Giuntoli (actor)
46 - Blake Shelton (singer)
46 - Alana de la Garza (actress)
51 - Mara Hobel (actress)
51 - Nathan Morris (singer)
56 - Kurt Browning (figure skater)
59 - Dizzy Reed (musician)
61 - Alison Moyet (singer)
65 - Andrea Evans (actress)
66 - Brian Benben (actor)
70 - Carol Kane (actress)
70 - Isabella Rossellini (actress)
75 - Linda Thorson (actress)
75 - Constance McCashin (actress)
80 - 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; recover 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 - 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.
1960 - Arnold Palmer stages the greatest comeback in U.S. Open history, erasing a 7-stroke final round deficit to win his only U.S. Open by two strokes over Jack Nicklaus.
1967 - Jack Nicklaus shoots a U.S. Open tournament record 275 to win the U.S. Open.
1972 - Jack Nicklaus wins his third U.S. Open title.
1972 - The U.S. Supreme Court confirms a lower court ruling upholding Major League 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.
1995 - Norway defeats Germany 2-0 to win the Women's World Cup.
2000 - Tiger Woods wins his first U.S. Open by a record 15 strokes, the largest margin of victory in any major championship.
2003 - Baseball Hall-of-Famer Larry Doby, who broke the American League’s color barrier in 1947, died in Montclair, New Jersey, at age 79.
2012 - Former baseball star Roger Clemens was acquitted in Washington, D.C. on all charges that he’d obstructed and lied to Congress when he denied using performance-enhancing drugs.
2012 - Dickey became the first major league pitcher in 24 years to throw consecutive one-hitters in the New York Mets’ 5-0 victory over the Baltimore Orioles. (The previous pitcher to throw consecutive one-hitters was Dave Stieb for Toronto in September 1988.)
2017 - Brooks Koepka closed with a 5-under 67 to win the U.S. Open for his first major championship.
