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Napoleon Bonaparte defeated at the Battle
of Waterloo by a joint British, German and Dutch force under the command
of the Duke of Wellington and General Gebhard von Blucher; battle began at
11 am, when 74,000 French troops attacked a smaller number of allied soldiers
under the Duke of Wellington at the fortified farm of Hougoumont, followed
by an infantry assault on the Allies' main line; both were beaten back, and
a counter-charge of the British cavalry was stopped by French artillery;
Marshal Ney's French cavalry then attacked, charging time and again but faring
no better against Allied infantry and artillery; French infantry captured
the fortified farm of La Haie-Sainte, clearing the way for a strike at the
Allied centre, but the fields were muddy due to heavy rains, making it hard
for Napoleon's troops to score a quick victory; at 1 pm, 90,000 Prussian
troops arrived to fortify the Allies; Napoleon threw his elite Old Guard
forward in a final effort to break Wellington's line, but they held firm
and drove the Old Guard back with a storm of musketry, cannon balls and grape-shot;
a general advance turned the French defeat into a rout, with Napoleon himself
barely escaping, ending his 100 days of glory after his return from Elba
in February; will abdicate on June 22 and exiled to St. Helena in the South
Atlantic.
0860 06 18 Swedish Vikings attack Constantinople
1155 06 18 Pope Adrian IV crowns Frederick I Barbarossa Roman-German Emperor
1178 06 18 Proposed time of origin of lunar crater Giordano Bruno
1316 06 18 Peace of Fexhe: prince-bishop Adolf II of Mark & Luikse towns
1529 06 18 Blackfriars begin: Henry VIII & Catharina of Arag˘n
1538 06 18 Treaty of Nice: ends war between Emperor Charles V & King French I
1541 06 18 Irish parliament selects Henry VIII as king of Ireland
1574 06 18 Polish King Hendrik of Anjou secretly leaves Poland
1580 06 18 States of Utrecht forbid catholic worship
1583 06 18 Richard Martin of London takes out first life insurance policy, on William Gibbons, premium was 383
1629 06 18 Sea battle at Dungeness: Piet Heyn vs Dunkerk Cape
1639 06 18 Treaty of Berwick: End first Bishop war
1643 06 18 Skirmish at Chalgrove Field: Prince Rupert parliamentary armies
1682 06 18 William Penn found Philadelphia
1757 06 18 Battle at Kolin Bohemia: Austrian army beats Prussia
1778 06 18 British Redcoats evacuate Phila
1779 06 18 French fleet occupies St Vincent
1812 06 18 War of 1812 begins as US declares war against Britain
1821 06 18 Opera Der Freischtz is produced (Berlin)
1822 06 18 Part of US-Canadian boundary determined
1822 06 18 Slave revolt leaders Denmark Vesey & Peter Poyas arrested in SC
1836 06 18 HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin leave South-Africa
1837 06 18 Spain gets new Constitution
1839 06 18 Dutch prince Willem Alexander PFL weds niece Princess Sophia
1863 06 18 After long neglect, Confederates hurriedly fortify Vicksburg
1864 06 18 At Petersburg, Grant ends 4 days of assaults
1872 06 18 Woman's Suffrage Convention held at Merchantile Liberty Hall
1873 06 18 Susan B Anthony fined $100 for attempting to vote for President
1879 06 18 W H Richardson, a black inventor, patents the children's carriage
1892 06 18 Macademia nuts first planted in Hawaii
1894 06 18 Premier Roseberry declares Uganda a British protectorate
1898 06 18 First amusement pier opens in Atlantic City, NJ
1898 06 18 4th US Golf Open: Fred Herd shoots a 328 at Myopia Hunt Club Mass
1900 06 18 Empress Douairire orders I-Ho-Chuan (Boxers) to kill all foreigners
1900 06 18 Gen Luigi Pelloux resigns as premier of Italy
1903 06 18 First transcontinental auto trip begins in SF; arrives NY 3-mo later
1909 06 18 Nannie Burroughs forms national training School for Women
1910 06 18 16th US Golf Open: Alex Smith shoots a 298 at Phila Cricket Club PA
1914 06 18 Oscar Egg bicycles world record time (44,247 km)
1915 06 18 21st US Golf Open: John Travers shoots a 297 at Baltusrol GC NJ
1916 06 18 Yanks score in every inning but 8th beat Indians 19-3
1924 06 18 Pope Pius XI's encyclical Maximam gravissimamque
1926 06 18 Theodor Lessing laid-off because he is a Jew in Hanover
1927 06 18 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 2000 m: 5:24.6
1928 06 18 Amelia Earhart becomes first female to fly across Atlantic Ocean
1934 06 18 US Highway planning surveys nationwide authorized
1936 06 18 First bicycle traffic court in America established, Racine, WI
1936 06 18 Polish parliament gives pres Ignacy Moscicki dictatorial power
1938 06 18 Babe Ruth is signed as a Dodgers coach for the rest of the season
1940 06 18 Gen Charles de Gaulle on BBC tells French to defy nazi occupiers
1940 06 18 German occupiers slaughter cattle, pigs & chickens
1940 06 18 Winston Churchill urges perseverance so that future generations would remember that this was their finest hour
1941 06 18 Joe Louis KOs Billy Conn in 13 for heavyweight boxing title
1941 06 18 Turkey signs peace treaty with nazi-Germany
1942 06 18 Bernard W Robinson, becomes first black ensign in US Navy
1942 06 18 Eric Nessler of France stays aloft in a glider for 38h21m
1943 06 18 SS Police in Amsterdam sentence for 12 resistance fighter to death (Jewish, communists, homosexuality) at the census bureau
1944 06 18 Farewell concert of Willem Mengelberg in Paris
1944 06 18 U-767 sinks
1945 06 18 William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) Brit radio traitor charged with treason
1947 06 18 Cincinnati Red Ewell Blackwell no-hits Boston Braves, 6-0
1948 06 18 American Library Association adopts Library Bill of Rights
1948 06 18 National Security Council authorizes covert operations for first time
1948 06 18 Phillies pitching great Robin Roberts debut, loses 2-0 to Pirates
1948 06 18 UN Commission on Human Rights adopts Intl Decl of Human Rights
1949 06 18 Along Fifth Avenue closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 180 perfs
1950 06 18 Cleve Indians score 14 runs in first inning, beat A's 21-2
1951 06 18 De Gaulle wins French parliamentary election
1953 06 18 Egypt proclaimed a republic, General Neguib becomes president
1953 06 18 USAF C124 Globemaster crashes near Tokyo killing 129 servicemen
1953 06 18 Eugene Stephens is first to get 3 hits & Red Sox score 17 runs in 1 Inning (7th) Red Sox beat Detroit 23-3
1954 06 18 Pierre Mends-France forms French government
1955 06 18 3 for Tonight closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 85 performances
1956 06 18 Last of foreign troops leaves Egypt as Brits leave Suez Canal
1957 06 18 John Diefenbacker (C) takes office as PM of Canada
1959 06 18 First telecast transmitted from England to US
1960 06 18 Destry Rides Again closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 472 perfs
1960 06 18 60th US Golf Open: Arnold Palmer shoots 280 at Cherry Hills in Denver
1960 06 18 Giants hire Tom Sheehan as baseball's oldest debuting manager (66)
1960 06 18 Real Madrid wins 5th Europe Cup 1
1961 06 18 CBS radio cancels Gunsmoke
1961 06 18 KBMT TV channel 12 in Beaumont, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
1961 06 18 Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Eastern Golf Open
1963 06 18 3,000 blacks boycott Boston public school
1964 06 18 African Groundnut Council forms in Dakar
1967 06 18 67th US Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus shoots 275 at Baltusrol GC NJ
1967 06 18 Houston Don Wilson no-hits Atlanta Braves, 2-0
1967 06 18 Monterey International Pop Festival rocks Southern California
1967 06 18 Susie Maxwell wins LPGA Milwaukee Jaycee Golf Open
1968 06 18 Supreme Court bans racial discrimination in sale & rental of housing
1972 06 18 72nd US Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 290 at Pebble Beach Calif
1972 06 18 BEA Trident crashes after takeoff from Heathrow killing 118
1972 06 18 West Germany wins soccer world championship
1972 06 18 US Supreme Court, 5-3, confirms lower court rulings in Curt Flood case, upholding baseball's exemption from antitrust laws
1973 06 18 NCAA makes urine testing mandatory for participants
1974 06 18 Gaston Thorn forms Luxembourg govt
1975 06 18 Fred Lynn gets 10 RBIs in a Red Sox 15-1 victory over Tigers
1975 06 18 Gary Gilmour takes 6-14 in Cricket World Cup semi v England
1975 06 18 NBC News & Information Service (24 hr news) premieres on radio
1976 06 18 A Joseph William Turner watercolor auctioned for 340,000
1976 06 18 St Louis Cards Lou Brock & Hector Cruz hit inside-the-park HRs
1976 06 18 Bowie Kuhn voids A's sales, totaling $35 million, of Joe Rudi & Rollie Fingers to Red Sox, & Vida Blue to Yankees
1977 06 18 Billy Martin & Reggie Jackson get into a dug out altercation
1977 06 18 Sex Pistols Johnny Rotten & Paul Cook, beaten & robbed by London pub
1977 06 18 Space Shuttle test model Enterprise carries a crew aloft for first time, It was fixed to a modified Boeing 747
1978 06 18 78th US Golf Open: Andy North shoots a 285 at Cherry Hill CC in Denver
1978 06 18 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Bankers Trust Golf Classic
1978 06 18 Victor de la Torre wins Peru election
1979 06 18 Billy Martin becomes Yankee manager (2nd time), replacing Bob Lemon
1979 06 18 Pres Carter & Leonid I Brezhnev sign SALT 2 treaty
1979 06 18 Sri Lanka beat India by 47 runs in Cricket World Cup upset
1979 06 18 US Pres Carter & Soviet Pres Leonid Brezhnev sign SALT II treaty
1980 06 18 Blues Brothers with Dan Akwoyd & John Belushi premieres
1980 06 18 Dutch 2nd Chamber joins oil boycott of South Africa
1980 06 18 Mrs Shakuntala Devi mentally multiplies 2 13-digit #s in 28 sec
1981 06 18 Kimberley Ann Smith, of NC, 17, crowned America's Junior Miss
1981 06 18 Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart retires (replaced by Sandra Day O'Connor, first woman on high court)
1981 06 18 Test cricket debut of Terry Alderman, v England at Trent Bridge
1981 06 18 Vaccine to prevent hoof & mouth disease announced
1982 06 18 ABC's All Talk radio network expands to 22 stations
1982 06 18 Voting Rights Act of 1965 extended by Senate by 85-8 vote
1983 06 18 Pump Boys & Dinettes closes at Princess Theater NYC after 573 perfs
1983 06 18 7th Shuttle Mission-Challenger 2 launched-Sally Ride first US woman
1983 06 18 IRA's Joseph Doherty arrested in NYC
1984 06 18 84th US Golf Open: Fuzzy Zoeller shoots a 276 at Winged Foot GC NY
1985 06 18 Boston Red Sox Fred Lynn gets 10 RBIs
1986 06 18 52 die in plane/helicopter collision over Grand Canyon
1986 06 18 De Havilland Twin Otter & Bell 206 helicopter collide, kills 25
1986 06 18 Don Sutton becomes 19th pitcher to win 300 games
1986 06 18 Heike Friedrich swims female world record 200m freestyle (1:57.55)
1986 06 18 Papua New Guinea score 9-455 in 60 overs v Gibraltar, ICC Trophy
1987 06 18 Charles Glass, ABC journalist, kidnapped in Lebanon
1988 06 18 Jeff Hamilton, hits 8,000th Dodger home run
1989 06 18 Starmites closes at Criter Ctr SR Theater NYC after 60 performances
1989 06 18 89th US Golf Open: Curtis Strange shoots a 278 at Oak Hill CC NY
1989 06 18 Comet Churyunov-Gerasimenko at perihelion
1989 06 18 John Wayne Bobitt marries Lorena L Gallo
1989 06 18 Laura Davies wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
1990 06 18 First ever lose for Cameroon in Soccer World Cup, USSR-4 Cameroon-0
1990 06 18 First sudden death US Open Golf Championship is won by Hale Irwin
1991 06 18 Boris Yeltsin, president of Russia, arrives in US
1991 06 18 Mud storm in Antofagasta Chile, kills 80
1991 06 18 SF Giant pitcher Dave Dravecky's cancerous left arm is amputated
1991 06 18 Yankee pitchers pick-off 3 Toronto Blue Jays
1992 06 18 Actor Jameson Parker weds actress Darleen Carr
1992 06 18 Ottawa Senators make goalie Peter Sidorkiewicz their first draft
1992 06 18 Tampa Bay Lightning make goalie Wendell Young their first draft
1993 06 18 Expo's Dennis Martinez is 92nd to win 200 games
1993 06 18 Toru Takemitsu's Archipelago premieres in Aldeburgh England
1994 06 18 Aleksander Popov swims world record 100m free style (48.21 sec)
1994 06 18 Gay Games open in NYC
1994 06 18 US ties Switzerland 1-1 in their first game of 1994 soccer World Cup
1995 06 18 95th US Golf Open: Corey Pavin shoots a 280 at Shinnecock Hills NY
1995 06 18 Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Rochester International Golf Tournament
2000 06 18 100th US Golf Open: at Pebble Beach Golf Links Calif
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