Wednesday, June 18, 2014

History for June 18

History for June 18 - On-This-Day.com:
International Sushi Day

Birth anniversaries of Oscar-winning songwriter Sammy Cahn (1913-93), financial journalist Sylvia Porter (1913-91), explorer and mountaineer George Mallory (1886-1924) 

Happy Birthday! Lou Brock, Paul McCartney, Isabella Rossellini


1429 - French forces defeated the English at the battle of Patay. The English had been retreating after the siege of Orleans. 


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


1815 - At the Battle of Waterloo Napoleon was defeated by an international army under the Duke of Wellington. Napoleon abdicated on June 22. 


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


1925 - The first degree in landscape architecture was granted by Harvard University. 


1942 - The U.S. Navy commissioned its first black officer, Harvard University medical student Bernard Whitfield Robinson. 


1953 - Egypt was proclaimed to be a republic with General Neguib as its first president. 


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


2009 - Greenland assumed control over its law enforcement, judicial affairs, and natural resources from the Kingdom of Denmark. Greenlandic became the official language. 

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