June 18<\/p>\n
1178 \u2013 Canterbury monks see an impact event believed to have been the formation of the Giordano Bruno crater on the moon. It is believed that the current oscillations of the Moon’s distance from the Earth -on the order of meters -are a result of this collision.<\/p>\n
1429 \u2013 The French army of King Charles VII under the leadership of Joan of Arc defeats the main English army of Lord John Talbot, led by Sir John Fastolf at the Battle of Patay, turning the tide of the Hundred Years’ War.<\/p>\n
1684 \u2013 The charter of the Massachusetts Bay Colony is revoked by order\u00a0 English court<\/p>\n
1778 \u2013 Due to France’s earlier recognition of the United States, and open letters published noting the identities of people to be treated as traitors; loyalists and British troops abandon Philadelphia during the Revolutionary War.<\/p>\n
1812 \u2013 The United States declaration of war on the United Kingdom is signed by President James Madison, beginning the War of 1812.<\/p>\n
1873 \u2013 Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election.<\/p>\n
1908 \u2013 Japanese immigration to Brazil begins when 781 people arrive in Santos aboard the ship Kasato-Maru.<\/em><\/p>\n 1923 \u2013 Checker Taxi puts its first taxi on the streets in Chicago.<\/p>\n 1948 \u2013 Britain, France and the United States occupation forces announce that on June 21st, the Deutsche Mark will be introduced to replace the Reichmark in western Germany and West Berlin.<\/p>\n 1953 \u2013 A United States Air Force C-124 of the 374th Troop Carrier Group, crashes and burns near Tachikawa, Japan, killing all 129 servicemembers aboard.<\/p>\n 1965 \u2013 The U.S. Air Force begins Operation Arc Light<\/em>\u00a0during the Vietnam War, using B-52 bombers stationed in Thailand and Guam to attack Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army forces in South Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.<\/p>\n 1979 \u2013 The SALT II, strategic arms treaty is signed by the United States and the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n 1981 \u2013 The Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk<\/em>, the first operational aircraft initially designed around stealth technology, makes its first flight.<\/p>\n 1983 \u2013 Aboard Shuttle Challenger<\/em> on mission STS-7, Astronaut Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space.<\/p>\n 2007 \u2013\u00a0 9 firefighters are killed while putting out a fire in the Sofa Super Store in Charleston, South Carolina.<\/p>\n 2009 \u2013 NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is launched from Cape Canaveral.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" June 18 1178 \u2013 Canterbury monks see an impact event believed to have been the formation of the Giordano Bruno crater on the moon. It is believed that the current oscillations of the Moon’s distance from the Earth -on the order of meters -are a result of this collision. 1429 \u2013 The French army of … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68473"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93668,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68473\/revisions\/93668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}