Today in History - History - June 18th

1977Billy Martin & Reggie Jackson get into a dug out altercation

1815Battle of Waterloo; Napoleon and France defeated by British forces under Wellington and Prussian troops under Blucher

1682William Penn founds Philadelphia, US

1836HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin leave South-Africa

1541Irish parliament selects Henry VIII as king of Ireland

1938Babe Ruth is signed as a Dodgers coach for the rest of the season

1912The Chicago national Republican Convention splits between President Taft and Theodore Roosevelt; after Taft is nominated, Roosevelt and progressive elements of the Party form the Progressive Party (also known as the 'Bull Moose Party')

1995Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Rochester International Golf Tournament

2014Ian McKellen is awarded an honorary degree by Cambridge University, becoming a Doctor of Letters

1940Winston Churchill's "this was their finest hour" speech urging perseverance during Battle of Britain delivered to British House of Commons

1952Isabella Rossellini, Rome Italy, actress (Big Night, Blue Velvet)

1924George Mikan, Joliet Illinois, NBA center (6-time all-pro)

1942Paul McCartney, Liverpool UK, English musician and member of The Beatles

1886George Mallory, England, mountain climber ("because it is there")

1965Actress and singer Rita Moreno (33) weds cardiologist Leonard Gordon

1955Former World No. 1 tennis player Lew Hoad (20) weds tennis player Jenny Staley (21) at St Mary's Church in Wimbledon, England

1936Maxim Gorky, [Alexei M Peshkov], Russian writer (Mother), dies at 68

1673Jeanne Mance, French Canadian settler and founder of the first hospital in North America, dies at 66

2002Jack Buck, American baseball announcer, dies at 77

2010José Saramago, Portuguese writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1922)