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• Today is Tuesday, June 18, the 169th day of 2013. There are 196 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On June 18, 1983, astronaut Sally K. Ride, 32, became America's first woman in space as she and four colleagues (commander Robert L. Crippen, pilot Frederick H. Hauck and Ride's fellow mission specialists John M. Fabian and Norman E. Thagard) blasted off aboard the space shuttle Challenger on a six-day mission.
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• On this date:
• In 1778, American forces entered Philadelphia as the British withdrew during the Revolutionary War.
• In 1812, the War of 1812 began as the United States Congress approved, and President James Madison signed, a declaration of war against Britain.
• In 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte met his Waterloo as British and Prussian troops defeated the French in Belgium.
• In 1873, suffragist Susan B. Anthony was found guilty by a judge in Canandaigua, N.Y., of breaking the law by casting a vote in the 1872 presidential election. (The judge fined Anthony $100, but she never paid the penalty.)
• In 1908, William Howard Taft was nominated for president by the Republican National Convention in Chicago.
• In 1912, the Republican National Convention, which would nominate President William Howard Taft for another term of office, opened in Chicago.
• In 1940, during World War II, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill urged his countrymen to conduct themselves in a manner that would prompt future generations to say, "This was their finest hour."
• In 1945, William Joyce, known as "Lord Haw-Haw," was charged in London with high treason for his English-language wartime broadcasts on German radio. (He was hanged in January 1946.)
• In 1953, a U.S. Air Force Douglas C-124 Globemaster II crashed near Tokyo, killing all 129 people on board. Egypt's 148-year-old Muhammad Ali Dynasty came to an end with the overthrow of the monarchy and the proclamation of a republic.

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