June 18th
Today in America's Present Past
1682 | Quaker William Penn founded Philadelphia in the Pennsylvania Colony.
1778 | War of Independence: British forces evacuate Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1787 | Alexander Hamilton introduces his Constitutional plan to the Convention.
1812 | CONGRESS: War Declared on Great Britain at the request of Democratic-Republican President James Madison.
1839 | General William Henry Seward Jr. was born.
1854 | Publisher Edward Wyllis Scripps was born.
1857 | Entrepreneur Henry Clay Folger was born.
1873 | Susan B. Anthony was fined for voting.
1879 | Entrepreneur W. H. Richardson receives a patent for a child carriage.
1925 | Politician Robert M. La Follette died.
1942 | Critic Roger Ebert was born.
1949 | Author Chris Van Allsburg was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
1953 | Martin Luther King, Jr. wed Coretta Scott.
1963 | SCOTUS: The Court decided Gideon v. Wainwright.
1976 | Musician Blake Sheldon was born.
1979 | POTUS: Democrat President Carter and Soviet leader Brezhnev sign SALT II treaty limiting nuclear weapons.
1983 | Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space.
2024 | Baseball pro Willie Mays died.