TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON: JUNE 18
0362 Emperor Julian issues an edict banning Christians from teaching in Syria.
0618 Coronation of the Chinese governor Li Yuan as Emperor Gaozu of Tang, the new Emperor of China, initiating three centuries of the Tang Dynasty’s rule over China
1155 German-born Frederick I, Barbarossa, is crowned emperor of Rome.
1178 Proposed time of origin of lunar crater Giordano Bruno, 5 Canterbury monks report explosion on the moon (only such observation known)
1579 Sir Francis Drake claims San Francisco Bay for England.
1812 The War of 1812 began as the U.S. declared war against Great Britain. The conflict began over trade restrictions. https://www.history.com/topics/war-of-1812/war-of-1812
1815 At the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon Bonaparte is defeated by an international army under the Duke of Wellington.
1856 The Republican Party opens its first national convention in Philadelphia.
1873 Suffragist Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election.
1876 General George Crook’s command is attacked and bested on the Rosebud River by 1,500 Sioux and Cheyenne under the leadership of Crazy Horse.
1913 U.S. Marines set sail from San Diego to protect American interests in Mexico.
1930 The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Bill becomes law, placing the highest tariff on imports to the United States.
1932 The U.S. Senate defeats the Bonus Bill as 10,000 veterans mass around the Capitol.
1948 The LP record is introduced
1959 A Federal Court annuls the Arkansas law allowing school closings to prevent integration.
1963 The U.S. Supreme Court bans the required reading of the Lord’s prayer and Bible in public schools.
1968 Supreme Court bans racial discrimination in sale & rental of housing
1972 Five men are arrested for burglarizing Democratic Party headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C.
1979 Leonid Brezhnev and Jimmy Carter sign SALT II
The second “Strategic Arms Limitation Talks” (SALT) agreement was a ground-breaking arms reduction treaty between the Soviet Union and the United States.
1982 Voting Rights Act of 1965 extended by Senate by 85-8 vote
1983 Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space.
1998 “The Boston Globe” asked Patricia Smith to resign after she admitted to inventing people and quotes in four of her recent columns.
2009 Greenland assumed control over its law enforcement, judicial affairs, and natural resources from the Kingdom of Denmark. Greenlandic became the official language.
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
