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Today is Thursday, June 18, the 169th day of 2026. There are 196 days left in the year.<\/p>\n

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Today in history:<\/h4>\n

On June 18, 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated in the Battle of Waterloo as British and Prussian troops defeated the French Imperial Army in Belgium.<\/p>\n

Also on this date:<\/h4>\n

In 1778, American forces entered Philadelphia as the British withdrew during the Revolutionary War.<\/p>\n

In 1812, the War of 1812 began as the United States Congress approved, and President James Madison signed, a declaration of war against Britain.<\/p>\n

In 1979, President Jimmy Carter and Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev signed the SALT II strategic arms limitation treaty in Vienna.<\/p>\n

In 1983, astronaut Sally Ride became America\u2019s first woman in space as she and four other NASA astronauts blasted off aboard the space shuttle Challenger on a six-day mission.<\/p>\n

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In 1986, 25 people were killed when a twin-engine plane and a helicopter carrying sightseers collided over the Grand Canyon.<\/p>\n

In 1992, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Georgia v. McCollum, ruled that criminal defendants could not use race as a basis for excluding potential jurors from their trials.<\/p>\n

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In 2007, nine firefighters died when they were overwhelmed by a fast-spreading fire in a furniture showroom and warehouse facility in Charleston, South Carolina. It was one of the deadliest days for firefighting since the 9\/11 attacks in the U.S.<\/p>\n

In 2018, President Donald Trump announced he was directing the Pentagon to create the Space Force as an independent branch of the United States Armed Forces.<\/p>\n

In 2023, the submersible vessel Titan, on an undersea expedition to view the wreck of the Titanic in the North Atlantic Ocean, imploded, killing all five people aboard.<\/p>\n

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Today\u2019s Birthdays:<\/h4>\n
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  • Actor Carol Kane is 74.<\/li>\n
  • Actor Isabella Rossellini is 74.<\/li>\n
  • Singer Alison Moyet is 65.<\/li>\n
  • Football Hall of Famer Bruce Smith is 63.<\/li>\n
  • Hockey Hall of Famer Martin St. Louis is 51.<\/li>\n
  • Actor Alana de la Garza is 50.<\/li>\n
  • Country musician Blake Shelton is 50.<\/li>\n
  • Football Hall of Famer Antonio Gates is 46.<\/li>\n
  • Actor Jeremy Irvine is 36.<\/li>\n
  • Actor Bailey Bass is 23.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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