Today is Sunday, June 18, the 169th day of 2017

Today is Sunday, June 18, the 169th day of 2017. There are 196 days left in the year. This is Father’s Day.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1778: American forces enter Philadelphia as the British withdraw during the Revolutionary War.

1812: The War of 1812 begins as the United States Congress approves, and President James Madison signs, a declaration of war against Britain.

1815: Napoleon Bonaparte meets his Waterloo as British and Prussian troops defeat the French in Belgium.

1817: London’s original Waterloo Bridge, commemorating Britain’s victory over France in 1815, is opened by the Prince Regent (the future King George IV) and the Duke of Wellington.

1873: Suffragist Susan B. Anthony is 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.)

1908: William Howard Taft of Ohio is nominated for president by the Republican National Convention in Chicago.

1940: During World War II, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill urges his countrymen to conduct themselves in a manner that would prompt future generations to say, “This was their finest hour.”

1953: U.S. Air Force Douglas C-124 Globemaster II crashes near Tokyo, killing all 129 people on board.

Egypt’s 148-year-old Muhammad Ali Dynasty comes to an end with the overthrow of the monarchy and the proclamation of a republic.

1964: President Lyndon B. Johnson and Japanese Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda speak to each other by telephone as they inaugurate the first trans-Pacific cable completed by AT&T between Japan and Hawaii.

1979: President Jimmy Carter and Soviet President Leonid I. Brezhnev sign the SALT II strategic arms limitation treaty in Vienna.

1983: Astronaut Sally K. Ride becomes America’s first woman in space as she and four colleagues blast off aboard the space shuttle Challenger on a six-day mission.

1986: Twenty-five people are killed when a twin-engine plane and helicopter carrying sightseers collide over the Grand Canyon.

1992: The U.S. Supreme Court, in Georgia v. McCollum, rules that criminal defendants could not use race as a basis for excluding potential jurors from their trials.

Entertainer Peter Allen dies in San Diego County, Calif., at age 48.

2007: Nine firefighters die in a fire at a furniture store and warehouse in Charleston, South Carolina.

Hank Medress, lead singer for The Tokens on their hit “The Lion Sleeps Tonight,” dies at 68.

2012: In a scene captured on cellphone video, Karen Klein, a school bus monitor from Rochester, N.Y., is verbally abused by seventh-graders, prompting outrage as well as donations to the 68-year-old grandmother.

Former baseball star Roger Clemens is acquitted in Washington, D.C., on all charges that he’d obstructed and lied to Congress when he denied using performance-enhancing drugs.

2016: With California’s Yosemite Falls as a backdrop, President Barack Obama says that climate change is already damaging America’s national parks, with rising temperatures causing Yosemite’s meadows to dry out and raising the prospect of a glacier preserve without its glaciers someday.

VINDICATOR FILES

1992: U.S. Rep. Dennis Eckart of Mentor, a Democrat, leads a successful effort to kill continued funding for the ambitious $8.3 billion atom- smasher project known as the supercollider.

A Mahoning County jury finds John S. Gerish guilty of killing his mother, Ann Gerish, and Eva Thigpen, who befriended her, and recommends death in the electric chair.

Youngstown’s community police patrols will be expanded with six officers walking the beat, paid from a $251,900 grant from the Community Development Agency.

1977: American industry is not creating enough new jobs to hire everyone entering the work force let alone reduce the unemployment rolls, Edgar B. Speer, chairman of U.S. Steel Corp., tells 924 graduates at Youngstown State University’s commencement.

Atty. James A. Philomena, the court appointed attorney for Archie Nelson, accused bank robber who held an East Side woman and three children hostage, asks that Nelson be examined by a psychiatrist.

The United Auto Workers union takes its first stand on air bags, saying the government should require new cars to be equipped with the safety devices, despite objections from carmakers.

1967: The automobile industry, the Youngstown district’s biggest economic driver, is preparing for a long and bitter strike.

A new recreational and social activities center for Liberty junior and senior high school students will open at Church Hill Methodist Church. The program will include judo, swimming, other sports, movies and horseback riding.

Carol Jaeger of Niles is named one of two Ohioans to attend a French Institute at Tufts University in Medford, Mass., funded by the National Defense Education Act

1942: A Youngstown fighting man, Lt. John Taylor, brings new honors to the city when he helps blast the Italian fleet in the Mediterranean Sea.

Youngstown theater operators join forces with the Mahoning County war savings committee to make Marlene Dietrich’s visit to Youngstown a memorable one. They plan a gala dinner for her at the Hotel Pick-Ohio.

Mahoning County housewives already have been granted 270 tons of sugar for canning. Overcrowded warehouses in some sections of the county have forced the Office of Price Administration to consider issuing housewives a year’s supply of sugar.