TODAY IN HISTORY
TODAY IS SATURDAY, JUNE 18,
the 170th day of 2016. There are 196 days left in the year.
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT IN HISTORY:
On this date in 1983, astronaut Sally K. Ride became America’s first woman in space when she and four colleagues blasted off aboard the space shuttle Challenger on a six-day mission.
In 1778,
American forces entered Philadelphia as the British withdrew during the Revolutionary War.
In 1812,
the War of 1812 began as the United States Congress approved, and President James Madison signed, a declaration of war against Britain.
In 1815,
Napoleon Bonaparte met his Waterloo as British and Prussian troops defeated the French in Belgium.
In 1873,
suffragist Susan B. Anthony was found guilty by a judge in Canandaigua, N.Y., of breaking the law by casting a vote in the 1872 presidential election. The judge fined Anthony $100, but she never paid the penalty.
In 1908,
William Howard Taft was nominated for president by the Republican National Convention in Chicago.
In 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.
In 1986,
25 people were killed when a twinengine plane and helicopter carrying sightseers collided over the Grand Canyon.
In 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.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS:
Former Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., is 79. Baseball Hall-of-Famer Lou Brock is 77. Rock singer-composermusician Sir Paul McCartney is 74. Rock musician John Evans is 68. Former Sen. Mike Johanns, R-Neb., is 66. Actress Andrea Evans is 59. Rock musician Dizzy Reed (Guns N’ Roses) is 53. Country singer-musician Tim Hunt is 49. Rhythm-and-blues singer Nathan Morris (Boyz II Men) and actress Mara Hobel are 45. Actress Alana de la Garza and country singer Blake Shelton are 40. Actor David Giuntoli is 36. Actress Renee Olstead is 27. Actor Jacob Anderson is 26. Actress Willa Holland is 25.