1915 – During World War I, the second battle of Artois ended.<\/p>\n
1918 – Allied forces on the Western Front began their largest counter-attack against the German army. (World War I)<\/p>\n
1925 – The first degree in landscape architecture was granted by Harvard University.<\/p>\n
1927 – The U.S. Post Office offered a special 10-cent postage stamp for sale. The stamp was of Charles Lindbergh\u2019s “Spirit of St. Louis.”<\/p>\n
1928 – Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean as she completed a flight from Newfoundland to Wales.<\/p>\n
1936 – The first bicycle traffic court was established in Racine, WI.<\/p>\n
1939 – The CBS radio network aired “Ellery Queen” for the first time.<\/p>\n
1942 – The U.S. Navy commissioned its first black officer, Harvard University medical student Bernard Whitfield Robinson.<\/p>\n
1948 – The United Nations Commission on Human Rights adopted its International Declaration of Human Rights.<\/p>\n
1951 – General Vo Nguyen Giap ended his Red River Campaign against the French in Indochina.<\/p>\n
1953 – Seventeen major league baseball records were tied or broken in a game between the Boston Red Sox and the Detroit Tigers.<\/p>\n
1953 – Egypt was proclaimed to be a republic with General Neguib as its first president.<\/p>\n
1959 – A Federal Court annulled the Arkansas law allowing school closings to prevent integration.<\/p>\n
1959 – The first telecast received from England was broadcast in the U.S. over NBC-TV.<\/p>\n
1961 – “Gunsmoke” was broadcast for the last time on CBS radio.<\/p>\n
1966 – Samuel Nabrit became the first African American to serve on the Atomic Energy Commission.<\/p>\n
1975 – Fred Lynn of the Boston Red Sox hit three home runs, a triple and a single in a game against the Detroit Tigers.<\/p>\n
1979 – In Vienna,\u00a0U.S. President Jimmy Carter\u00a0and Leonid Brezhnev signed the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT) 2.<\/p>\n
1982 – The U.S. Senate approved the renewal of the 1965 Voting Rights Act for an additional twenty-five years.<\/p>\n
1983 – Dr. Sally Ride became the first American woman in space aboard the space shuttle\u00a0Challenger<\/i>.<\/p>\n
1998 – The Walt Disney Co. purchased a 43% stake in the Web search engine company Infoseek Corp.
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1998 – Nine commemorative U.S. postage stamps were reissued. The stamps were considered to be classically beautiful examples of stamp engraving.<\/p>\n
1998<\/strong> – “The Boston Globe,” asked Patricia Smith to resign after she admitted to inventing people and quotes in four of her recent columns.<\/p>\n 1999<\/strong> – Walt Disney’s “Tarzan” opened. 2000<\/strong> – In Algiers, Algeria, the foreign ministers of Ethiopia and Eritrea signed a preliminary cease-fire accord and agreed to work toward a permanent settlement of their two-year border war.<\/p>\n 2009<\/strong> – NASA launched the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter\/LCROSS probes to the Moon. It was the first American lunar mission since Lunar Prospector in 1998.<\/p>\n 2009<\/strong> – Greenland assumed control over its law enforcement, judicial affairs, and natural resources from the Kingdom of Denmark. Greenlandic became the official language.<\/p>\n History of 18 June 1915 – During World War I, the second battle of Artois ended. 1918 – Allied forces on the Western Front began their largest counter-attack against the German army. (World War I) 1925 – The first degree in landscape architecture was granted by Harvard University. 1927 – The U.S. Post Office offered […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1293,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[82],"tags":[755,83,498],"class_list":{"0":"post-9762","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-history","8":"tag-18-june","9":"tag-history","10":"tag-todays-history"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/history-img.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab1DJ-2xs","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9762"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24224,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9762\/revisions\/24224"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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