WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 2008

Today is Wednesday, June 18, the 170th day of 2008. There are 196 days left in the year.

1812 _ War of 1812 begins as U.S. declares war against Britain

1815 _ Battle of Waterloo; Napoleon defeated by Wellington

1873 _ Susan B. Anthony fined $100 for attempting to vote for President

1915 _ Jerome Travers becomes the second amateur to win golf's U.S. Open

1940 _ Winston Churchill urges perseverance so that future generations would remember that ``this was their finest hour"

1948 _ U.N. Commission on Human Rights adopts International Declaration of Human Rights

1953 _ Egypt proclaimed a republic, General Neguib becomes President

1959 _ First telecast transmitted from England to U.S.

1968 _ Supreme Court bans racial discrimination in sale and rental of housing

1973 _ NCAA makes urine testing mandatory for participants