Today in History - History - June 18th

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

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

1682William Penn founds Philadelphia, US

2000100th US Golf Open: Tiger Woods shoots a 272 at Pebble Beach, California

1978Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Bankers Trust Golf Classic

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

1995Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Rochester International Golf Tournament

1989Laura Davies wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open

1940Gen Charles de Gaulle on BBC tells French to defy nazi occupiers

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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