06-18-2006, 07:05 AM
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June 18th
1178 ~ Five Canterbury monks saw what was possibly the Giordano Bruno crater being formed on the Moon.
1815 ~ British and Prussian troops defeated the French under Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo in Belgium.
1873 ~ Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election.
1915 ~ Birthday of Red Adair, Firefighter.
1928 ~ Death of Roald Amundsen, Explorer, first to the South Pole.
1942 ~ Birthday of Paul McCartney, Singer & Songwriter.
1945 ~ William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) was charged with treason.
1967 ~ Jimi Hendrix burned his guitar on stage at the Monterey Pop Festival.
1979 ~ Presidents Carter and Brezhnev signed the SALT II strategic arms limitation treaty in Vienna.
1983 ~ Sally Ride became the first American woman in space.
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