History for June 18

History for June 18 - On-This-Day.com
George Mallory 1886 - Mountaineer, E.G. Marshall 1910 - Actor ("The Defenders"), Paul "Red" Adiar 1915 - Oil well firefighter 


Richard Boone (Richard Allen Boone) 1917 - Actor, Paul McCartney 1942 - Musician (Beatles, Wings), Carol Kane (Carolyn Laurie "Carol" Kane) 1952 - Actress 


1621 - The first duel in America took place in the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts. 


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. 



1928 - Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean as she completed a flight from Newfoundland to Wales. 



1961 - "Gunsmoke" was broadcast for the last time on CBS radio. 


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. 


1998 - "The Boston Globe" asked Patricia Smith to resign after she admitted to inventing people and quotes in four of her recent columns.