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