June 18th: Feast of St. Gregory Barbarigo. William Penn founded in 1682 Philadelphia. The British withdrew from Philadelphia in 1778 allowing Amercian forces to enter. The War of 1812 began. Napoleon met his Waterloo in 1815 in Belgium ("where will you meet your Waterloo?"). Publisher Edward Wyllis Scripps was born in 1854. Susan B. Anthony was fined in 1873 for casting a vote in the presidential election. Gold discoverer John Sutter (71) died in 1880. The Boxers were told in 1900 to kill all foreigners in China. Singer/actress Jeannette McDonald was born in 1901, Kay Kyser in 1906, TV host Bud Collyer in 1908, actor E.G. Marshall in 1910, composer Sammy Cahn in 1913, actor Richard Boone in 1917, columnist Tom Wicker in 1926 and author Maxim Gorki (68) died in 1936. Babe Ruth became in 1938 a coach for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Winston Churchill urged his countrymen in 1940 to conduct themselves in a manner that future generations will say that this was their finest hour. Critic Roger Ebert was born in 1942. William Joyce, Lord Haw-Haw, was charged in 1945 with high treason and General Simon Buckner (58) was killed in combat. Robin Roberts made his debut in 1948 with the Phillies. Actress Ethel Barrymore (79) died in 1959. The Supreme Court ruled in 1968 that sales and rentals could not be discriminated. A plane crashed in 1972 in Heathrow Airport killing 118. Russian General Georgi Zhukov (77) died in 1974. Billy Martin and Reggie Jackson had a confrontation in 1977 in the Yankees dugout. Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev signed the SALT II in 1979 in Vienna. The "Blues Brothers" premiered in 1980 with Dan Ackroyd and John Belushi. Actor John Cheever (70) and Curt Jurgens (66) died in 1982. Sally Ride was the first American woman in space in 1983 as a mission specialist. Entertainer Peter Allen (48) died in 1992, actress Nancy Marchand (71) in 2000, TV commentator Jack Buck (77) in 2002 and Congressman JJ Pickle (94). Jay Rockefeller (76), Lou Brock (74), Sir Paul McCartney (71), Constance McCashin (66), Linda Thorson (66), John Evans (65), Isabella Rossellini (61), Carol Kane (61), Brian Benben (57), Andrea Evans (56), Alison Moyet (52), Dizzy Reed (50), Tim Hunt (46), Sice (44), Nathan Morris (42), Mara Hobel (42), Sikk the Shocker (38), Alana de la Garza (37), Blake Shelton (37), Steven Chen (35), David Giuntoli (33), Renee Olstead (24), Willa Holland.
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