Today is Tuesday, June 26, the 178th day of 2012. There are 188 days left in the year.

1483 ― Richard III usurps English throne

1797 ― Charles Newbold patents first cast-iron plow. He can't sell it to farmers, though, they fear effects of iron on soil!

1900 ― Dr. Walter Reed begins research that beats Yellow Fever

1917 ― First American Expeditionary Force arrive in France during WW I

1945 ― U.N. Charter signed by 50 nations in San Francisco

1963 ― Kennedy visits West Berlin, saying ``Ich bin ein Berliner" (I am a Berliner)

1964 ― Beatles release ``A Hard Day's Night" album

1974 ― Liz Taylor's fifth divorce (Richard Burton)

1975 ― Indian P.M. Indira Gandhi declares a state of emergency

1982 ― U.S. vetoes U.N. Security Council resolution for a limited withdrawal from Beirut of Israeli and Palestine Liberation Organization forces