Today in History - History - June 18th

1928American aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the 1st woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean landing at Burry Port, Wales

1996Ted Kaczynski, suspected of being the Unabomber, is indicted on ten criminal counts.

1682William Penn founds Philadelphia, US

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

1995Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Rochester International Golf Tournament

1989Laura Davies wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open

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

1836HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin leave South-Africa

196060th US Golf Open: Arnold Palmer shoots 280 at Cherry Hills in Denver

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

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

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

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

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

1953Civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. (24) marries fellow activist and singer Coretta Scott (26)

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

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

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

2002Jack Buck, American baseball announcer, dies at 77

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