June 18

1700 ~ Britain evacuated Philadelphia during the U.S. Revolutionary War.

1800 ~ The War of 1812 began as the U.S. declared war against Great Britain. The conflict began over trade restrictions.

1873 ~ Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for attempting to vote for a U.S. President.  

1918 ~ Allied forces on the Western Front began their largest counter-attack against the German army.

1927 ~ The U.S. Post Office offered a special 10-cent postage stamp for sale. The stamp was of Charles Lindbergh’s "Spirit of St. Louis."  

1936 ~ Charles ‘Lucky�?Luciano was found guilty on 62 counts of compulsory prostitution.

1948 ~ The United Nations Commission on Human Rights adopted its International Declaration of Human Rights.   

1953 ~ Seventeen major league baseball records were tied or broken in a game between the Boston Red Sox and the Detroit Tigers.  

1961 ~ "Gunsmoke" was broadcast for the last time on CBS radio.  

1972 ~ A BEA Trident crashed just after takeoff from London Airport. All 118 people on board were killed.   

1979 ~ In Vienna, U.S. President Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev signed the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT) 2. 

1983 ~ Dr. Sally Ride became the first American woman in space aboard the space shuttle Challenger.

1996 ~ Richard Allen Davis was convicted in San Jose, CA, of the 1993 kidnap-murder of 12-year-old Polly Klaas.   

1997 ~ Sirhan Sirhan was denied parole for the 10th time. He had assissinated presidential candidate Robert Kennedy in 1968.  

1998 ~ The Walt Disney Co. purchased a 43% stake in the Web search engine company Infoseek Corp.

2000 ~ In Algiers, Algeria, the foreign ministers of Ethiopia and Eritrea signed a preliminary cease-fire accord and agreed to work toward a permanent settlement of their two-year border war.

2000 ~ In Jerusalem, a suicide bomber killed 19 people and injured at least 50 more on a city bus. The Islamic militant group Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.