June 18

1815: Napoleon was defeated at Waterloo. 1873: Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for attempting to vote. 1939: Co-discoverer of the radio reflecting properties of the ionosphere in the upper atmosphere (the Kennelly-Heaviside layer), and first to apply complex number analysis to AC circuits, Arthur Kennelly, died. 1940: Winston Churchill delivered his "Finest Hour" speech in the House of Commons. 1942: The U.S. Navy commissioned its first black officer, Harvard University medical student Bernard Whitfield Robinson, into the Reserves. 1959: The first telecast received from England was broadcast in the U.S. over NBC-TV. 1965: The first large solid-fuel rocket - a Titan 3C - was launched into orbit. 1983: Dr. Sally Ride became the first American woman in space, aboard the space shuttle Challenger. 2005: The EU agreed upon its first constitution.