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June 18: This Day in History
Featured Fact, 1812:
The War of 1812 begins when the U.S. declares war against Great Britain. The U.S. will attempt to conquer Canada, but repeatedly fail; lose a series of land battles on U.S. soil to the British; and suffer the humiliating capture and burning of Washington, DC.
Also Today:
1682: William Penn founds Philadelphia.
1873: Women's rights advocate Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to vote for president.
1928: Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly, as a passenger, across the Atlantic Ocean. Four years later she would become the first woman to pilot a plane across the Atlantic.
1968: The Supreme Court bans racial discrimination in the sale and rental of housing.
1979: U.S. President Carter and Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev sign the SALT II Treaty.
1983: Sally Ride becomes the first U.S. woman astronaut when Challenger 2 roars into space on the seventh Space Shuttle mission.
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