YEARS AGO FOR JUNE 18

Today is Tuesday, June 18, the 169th day of 2019. There are 196 days left in the year.

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 approved, and President James Madison signed, a declaration of war against Britain.

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

1945: William Joyce, known as “Lord Haw-Haw,” is charged in London with high treason for his English-language wartime broadcasts on German radio. (He was hanged in January 1946.)

1948: Columbia Records publicly unveils its new long-playing phonograph record in New York.

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

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.

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.

2004: An al-Qaida cell in Saudi Arabia beheads American engineer Paul M. Johnson Jr., 49, and posts grisly photos of his severed head.

2018: President Donald Trump announces he is directing the Pentagon to create the “Space Force” as an independent service branch.

VINDICATOR FILES

1994: A Columbus attorney says Youngstown paid as much as $2 million more than it should have for health insurance for its employees over a period of several years, but the law makes it difficult for the school district to recover the overpayments.

Jim Mika, who taught English in Boardman schools for 29 years, publishes a book, “Writing with Confidence,” that includes 45 of the best compositions written in Mika’s classes by his Boardman students.

1979: U.S. District Judge William K. Thomas rules that Anchor Motor Freight drivers must return to work and fines 56 car haulers $500 each for disobeying an earlier back-to-work order.

Actor Paul Newman races his Datsun 280ZX at Nelson Ledges Road Course in Garrettsville, but is knocked out of contention early in the race by an electrical problem.

Bo Rein, head football coach at North Carolina State University, returns to Niles for the wedding of his sister, Marci, to Steve Mawby in St. Stephen church.

1969: Chaney High School will graduate 444 seniors, its largest class ever. Janice Yaniglos is the valedictorian with a perfect 4.0 average.

The Youngstown Board of Education was $777,822 in debt as of June 1, despite borrowing $3.6 million, Blaine Brandyberry, clerk-treasurer, reports.

Robert R. Williams, a graduate of Youngstown State University, is appointed clerk-treasurer of the Poland Board of Education effective July 1 at a salary of $11,000.

1944: Youngstown’s six swimming pools and 21 parks will open with full staffing, Tom Pemberton, parks superintendent, announces.

A heat wave that made Sunday the hottest June 18 on record with the mercury hitting 98 degrees brought death to two district swimmers, Nerin Haynes and David Taylor.

Two Youngstown Air Corps officers, 2nd Lt. John Jennings Jr. and Lt. Paul W. Dietzel, are missing in action since a May 10 mission over Austria.