Today is Saturday, June 18, the 169th day of 2011. There are 196 days left in the year.
1583 ― Richard Martin of London takes out first life insurance policy, on William Gibbons.
1815 ― Battle of Waterloo; Napoleon defeated by Wellington and Blucher
1873 ― Susan B. Anthony fined $100 for attempting to vote for President
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”
1948 ― U.N. Commission on Human Rights adopts International Declaration of Human Rights
1953 ― Egypt proclaimed a republic, General Neguib becomes president
1977 ― Space Shuttle test model ``Enterprise" carries a crew aloft for first time; it was fixed to a modified Boeing 747
1982 ― Voting Rights Act of 1965 extended by Senate by 85-8 vote
1986 ― 52 die in plane/helicopter collision over Grand Canyon