On June 18, 1778, in the Revolutionary War, American troops moved into Philadelphia as the British fled the city.
In 1815 British and Prussian troops defeated Napoleon’s army at Waterloo, Belgium.
In 1873 suffragist Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for trying to vote in the 1872 presidential election. (She never paid.)
In 1939 baseball player Lou Brock was born in El Dorado, Ark.
In 1940 during World War II, Prime Minister Winston Churchill urged Britons to conduct themselves in a manner that would prompt future generations to say, “This was our finest hour.”
In 1942 Paul McCartney was born in Liverpool, England.
In 1945 William Joyce, known as “Lord Haw-Haw,” was charged in London with high treason for his English-language wartime broadcasts on German radio. (He was hanged the next January.)
In 1979 President Jimmy Carter and Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev signed the SALT II strategic arms limitation treaty in Vienna.
In 1981 U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart announced his retirement, paving the way for Sandra Day O’Connor to become the first female associate justice.
In 1983 astronaut Sally Ride became America’s first woman in space, aboard the space shuttle Challenger.
In 1984 Denver talk-show host Alan Berg was shot to death near his home. (Two neo-Nazi supremacists would be convicted of civil rights charges in the slaying.)
In 1996 federal prosecutors charged Theodore Kaczynski in four of the Unabomber attacks. Also, Richard David was convicted in California of the 1993 kidnap-murder of 12-year-old Polly Klaas.
