June 18

Today in History
• 1178 - Five monks at Canterbury report something exploding on the moon
• 1580 - States of Utrecht forbid Catholic worship
• 1583 - Richard Martin of London takes out first life insurance policy
• 1639 - Treaty of Berwick: Ends the First Bishops' War between England and Scotland
• 1682 - English Quaker William Penn founds Philadelphia, in the Pennsylvania Colony
• 1767 - Samuel Wallis, an English sea captain, sights Tahiti
• 1812 - War of 1812 begins as US declares war against Britain
• 1815 - Battle of Waterloo; Napoleon and France defeated by British forces


Holidays - Traditional and Obscure
• Artigas Birthday
• BoxKart Bash Day
• Father's Day
• International Picnic Day
• National Cherry Tart Day
• National Go Fishing Day
• Seychelles Constitution Day
• Turkey Lovers’ Day

Birthdays
• 1318 - Eleanor of Woodstock, English princess, daughter of Edward II
• 1681 - Feofan Prokopovich, Russian Orthodox theologian and Archbishop of Novgorod
• 1799 - William Lassell, British astronomer who discovered satellites of Uranus and Neptune
• 1854 - Edward Wyllis Scripps, publisher who organized 1st major chain of newspapers in the US
• 1857 - Henry Clay Folger, American CEO of Standard Oil
• 1882 - Georgi Dimitrov, Bulgaria premier (1946-49)
• 1884 - Edouard Daladier, premier France, 1933..40
• 1919 - Jerome Karle, American chemist (Nobel 1985) and Manhattan Project member