TODAY IN HISTORY

the 155th day of 2018. There are 210 days left in the year.

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT IN HISTORY:

On this date in 1940, during World War II, the Allied military evacuation of some 338,000 troops from Dunkirk, France, ended. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill declared: “We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.” the Montgolfier brothers first publicly demonstrated their hot-air balloon, which did not carry passengers, over Annonay, France. Congress approved the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, guaranteeing citizens the right to vote regardless of their gender, and sent it to the states for ratification. the German ocean liner MS St. Louis, carrying more than 900 Jewish refugees from Germany, was turned away from the Florida coast by U.S. officials. the World War II Battle of Midway began, resulting in a decisive American victory against Japan and marking the turning point of the war in the Pacific. in the second air disaster to strike a British carrier in as many days, a British Midland Airways jetliner crashed in Stockport, England, killing 72 of the 84 people aboard. A day earlier, a British charter crashed in France, killing 88. Jonathan Jay Pollard, a former U.S. Navy intelligence analyst, pleaded guilty in Washington to conspiring to deliver information related to the national defense to Israel. Pollard, sentenced to life in prison, was released on parole on Nov. 20, 2015. a federal judge sentenced Terry Nichols to life in prison for his role in the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. Sex therapist and media personality Dr. Ruth Westheimer is 90. Actor Bruce Dern is 82. Musician Roger Ball and actresssinger Michelle Phillips are 74. Rock musician Danny Brown (The Fixx) is 67. Actor Parker Stevenson is 66. Actor Keith David is 62. Blues singer-musician Tinsley Ellis is 61. Singer-musician El DeBarge and actress Julie White are 57. Actress Lindsay Frost is 56. Actors James Callis and Noah Wyle are 47. Actor-comedian Russell Brand, actress Angelina Jolie and actor Theo Rossi are 43. Rock musician JoJo Garza (Los Lonely Boys) is 38. Country musician Dean Berner (Edens Edge) is 37. Americana singer Shakey Graves is 31. Rock musician Zac Farro is 28.