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On This Date -- June 18 -- in History

June 18th is the 169th day of the year (170th in leap years)

June 18, 1682 English Quaker William Penn founds Philadelphia, in the Pennsylvania Colony

June 18th, 1775 -- Abigail Adams reported on the Battle of Bunker Hill to John, "The battle began upon our entrenchment upon Bunkers Hill Saturday morning about 3 o'clock, and has not ceased yet."

June 18, 1798 -- President John Adams passes the Naturalization Act, the first of four pieces of controversial legislation known together as the Alien and Sedition Acts.

June 18, 1812 -- War of 1812: The U.S. Congress declares war on the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

June 18, 1815 -- The Battle of Waterloo: Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena

June 18, 1846 -- The very first organized baseball game is played between Alexander Cartwright's New York Knickerbockers and the New York Nine. The contest is proclaimed to be the very first ever game played in public using Cartwright's rules.

June 18, 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.

June 18, 1863 -- After long neglect, Confederates hurriedly fortify Vicksburg

June 18, 1872 -- Woman's Sufferage Convention held at Merchantile Liberty Hall

June 18, 1873 -- Suffragist Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election.

June 18, 1892 -- Macademia nuts first planted in Hawaii

June 18, 1923 -- Checker Cab puts its first taxi on the streets.

June 18, 1928 -- Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean (she was a passenger; Wilmer Stutz was pilot and Lou Gordon, mechanic).

June 18, 1940 -- Winston Churchill urges perseverance so that future generations would remember that "this was their finest hour."

June 18, 1942 -- James Paul McCartney of The Beatles is born in Liverpool England

June 18, 1948 -- American Library Association adopts the Library Bill of Rights

June 18, 1948 -- National Security Council authorizes covert operations for first time

18th June 1948 -- Columbia Records publicly unveiled its new long-playing phonograph record, the 33 1/3, in New York City.

June 18, 1948 -- UN Commission on Human Rights adopts Intl Decl of Human Rights

June 18, 1959 -- The First telecast transmitted from England to US

June 18, 1967 -- Jimi Hendrix, in his debut performance, burns his guitar on stage at the Monterey Pop Festival.

June 18, 1970 -- First Place Cubs beat the Giants, 6-0 behind Ferguson Jenkins. HR by Billy Williams and Ron Santo.

June 18, 1977 -- Billy Martin & Reggie Jackson get into a dug out altercation

June 18, 1977 -- Number one hit on UK music charts - Kenny Rogers - Lucille

June 18, 1977 -- Space Shuttle test model "Enterprise" carries a crew aloft for first time, It was fixed to a modified Boeing 747

June 18, 1980 -- "Blues Brothers" with Dan Akwoyd & John Belushi premiers

June 18, 1983 -- Sally Ride becomes the first U.S. woman in space.

June 18, 1989 -- Comet Churyunov-Gerasimenko at perihelion

June 18, 1991 -- Pres Zachary Taylor's body is exhumed to test how he died

June 18, 2006 -- The first Kazakh space satellite, KazSat is launched.

June 18, 2002 -- Chicago Cubs defeat the Texas Rangers, 4 - 3, as for the first time in major league history four members of the 400-home run club play in the same game: Rafael Palmeiro and Juan Gonzalez for Texas and Sammy Sosa and Fred McGriff for Chicago.

June 18, 2017 -- Emmanuel Macron elected President of France.

June 18, 2018 - The sixth branch of the United States Military, the Space Force, is established.

June 18, 2026 - the Obama Presidential Center opens in Chicago.

Births

1723 – Guiseppe Scarlotti, Italian composer

1898 – M.C. Escher (d. 1972)

1901 – Anastasia, daughter of Tzar Nicholas II (d. 1918)

1913 – Sammy Cahn, American lyricist (d. 1993)

1914 – E.G. Marshall, American actor (d. 1998)

1917 – Richard Boone, American actor (d. 1981)

1924 – George Mikan, American basketball player (d. 2005)

1937 – John D. Rockefeller IV, American politician

1939 – Lou Brock, American baseball player

1942 – Roger Ebert, American film reviewer (d. 2013)

1942 – Paul McCartney, British singer, songwriter and musician

1949 – Chris Van Allsburg, American author and illustrator

1952 – Carol Kane, American actress

1985 – Chris Coghlan, on Cubs in 2016

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