TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 2013

Today is Tuesday, June 18, the 169th day of 2013. There are 196 days left in the year.

1178 ― Proposed time of origin of lunar crater Giordano Bruno; 5 Canterbury monks report explosion on the moon (only such observation known)

1583 ― Richard Martin of London takes out 1st life insurance policy, on William Gibbons

1815 ― Battle of Waterloo; Napoleon defeated by Wellington

1928 ― Amelia Earhart is first woman (passenger) to cross Atlantic by air

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

1942 ― Eric Nessler of France stays aloft in a glider for 38 hours and 21 minutes

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

1953 ― Egypt proclaimed a republic, General Neguib becomes president

1980 ― Mrs. Shakuntala Devi mentally multiplies 2 13-digit numbers in 28 seconds

1986 ― Fifty-two people die in plane/helicopter collision over Grand Canyon