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