TODAY IN HISTORY

Today is Tuesday, June 18, the 169th day of 2013. There are 196 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On June 18, 1983, astronaut Sally .. 5LGH, 32, EHFDPH $PHULFD’V fiUVW woman in space as she and four colleagues (commander Robert L. Crippen, pilot Frederick H. Hauck and Ride’s fellow mission specialists John M. Fabian and Norman E. Thagard) blasted off aboard the space shuttle Challenger on a six-day mission. On this date: 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 SUHVLGHnWLDO HOHFWLRn. (7KH MuGJH finHG Anthony $100, but she never paid the penalty.)

In 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, “7KLV wDV WKHLU finHVW KRuU.”

In 1979, President Jimmy Carter and Soviet President Leonid I. Brezhnev signed the SALT II strategic arms limitation treaty in Vienna.

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: Rock singercomposer-musician Sir Paul McCartney is 71. Actress Constance McCashin is 66. Actress Isabella Rossellini is 61. Actress Carol Kane is 61. Actor Brian Benben is 57. Actress Andrea Evans is 56. Rock singer Alison Moyet is 52. Rock musician Dizzy Reed (Guns N’ Roses) is 50. Country singer-musician Tim Hunt is 46. Rhythm-and-blues singer Nathan Morris (Boyz II Men) is 42. Actress Mara Hobel is 42. Rapper Silkk the Shocker is 38. Actress Alana de la Garza is 37. Country singer Blake Shelton is 37. Rock musician Steven Chen (Airborne Toxic Event) is 35. Actor David Giuntoli is 33. Actress Renee Olstead is 24. Actress Willa Holland is 22.