By The Associated Press

              - Today is Friday, June 18, the 169th day of 1999. There are 196 days
                left in the year.

              - On June 18, 1983, astronaut Sally K. Ride became America's first
                woman in space as she and four colleagues blasted off aboard the
                space shuttle Challenger.
              - In 1778 American forces entered Philadelphia as the British withdrew
                during the Revolutionary War.
              - In 1812 the United States declared war against Britain.
              - In 1873 suffragist Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 dollars for
                attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election (the fine was
                never paid).
              - In 1928 aviator Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly across
                the Atlantic, completing a flight from Newfoundland to Wales in
                about 21 hours.
              - In 1940 Charles de Gaulle, future president of France, broadcast to
                his nation from London, urging it to rally to him and fight Hitler's
                invading army.
              - In 1948 the United Nations Commission on Human Rights adopted its
                International Declaration of Human Rights. Columbia Records publicly
                unveiled its new long-playing phonograph record in New York.
              - In 1984 Alan Berg, a Denver radio talk show host, was shot to death
                outside his home. (Two white supremacists were later convicted of
                civil rights violations in the slaying.)

              - Ten years ago Greek Premier Andreas Papandreou's Panhellenic
                Socialist Movement suffered a defeat as the center-right New
                Democracy Party finished first in general elections.
              - Five years ago the presidents of North Korea and South Korea agreed
                to hold a historic summit (Plans were disrupted by the death of
                North Korean leader Kim Il Sung July 8).
              - One year ago President Clinton appointed UN ambassador Bill
                Richardson to replace Energy Secretary Federico Pena and named
                Bosnian peace architect and diplomatic troubleshooter Richard
                Holbrooke as the new representative to the United Nations. Three
                people were killed when a Chicago-bound commuter train rammed a
                tractor-trailer in Portage, Ind.
 

              *Happy Birthday*
              - Actor Ian Carmichael is 79.
              - Columnist Tom Wicker is 73.
              - Rock singer-composer-musician Paul McCartney is 57.
              - Movie critic Roger Ebert is 57.
              - Actress Linda Thorson is 52.
              - Actress Isabella Rossellini is 47.
              - Actress Carol Kane is 47.
              - Singer Tom Bailey (The Thompson Twins) is 42.
              - Rock singer Alison Moyet is 38.
              - Rhythm-and-blues singer Nathan Morris (Boyz II Men) is 28.
              - Actress Mara Hobel is 28.