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Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: Archival Cartoon Classics #2 Mutt And Jeff History And More! MP4 DVD
Today, June 18, 2026

June 18: International Picnic Day: Picnics have been a staple of most cultures for years and, believe it or not, their popularity can be traced directly to the French Revolution. Our definitions of a picnic might be different, but it's a great way to bring people together for an enjoyable day. The etymology of "picnic" is contested. The Oxford English Dictionary says "picnic" is "Perhaps of multiple origins. A borrowing from French. Perhaps also partly a borrowing from German." The earliest English citation is in 1748, from Lord Chesterfield (Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield) who associates a "pic-nic" with card-playing, drinking, and conversation; around 1800, Cornelia Knight spelled the word as "pique-nique" in describing her travels in France. According to some dictionaries, the French word pique-nique is based on the verb piquer, which means 'pick', 'peck', or 'nab', and the rhyming addition nique, which means 'thing of little importance', 'bagatelle', 'trifle'.[ It first appears in 1649 in an anonymous French broadside of burlesque verse called "The Lasting Friendship of the Band of Brothers of the Bacchic Picnic", a satire which describes Brother Pique-Nique who, during the series of French civil wars known as the Fronde, attacks his food with gusto instead of his enemies; Bacchus was the Roman god of wine, a reference to the drunken antics of the gourmand musketeers. By 1694 the word was listed in Gilles Menage's Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue francaise, with the meaning of a shared meal, with each guest paying for himself, but with no reference to eating outdoors; it reached the Dictionnaire de l'Academie francaise in 1840 with the same meaning. "Picnic" only began to refer to an outdoor meal in English at the beginning of the 19th century. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/archival-cartoon-classics-2-mutt-and-jeff-history-and-more-mp4-d24.html

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Today, June 18, 2026

June 18: National Cheesemakers Day: -- Celebrated on June 18 every year as a way to recognize the craft of cheesemaking and the people who bring us all the varieties of cheeses. Cheese is one of the oldest and most popular foods in the world, with a long and varied history. It has been used as a food, a medicine, and a trade good, and has even played a role in shaping human history. Let's explore the fascinating history of cheese and see how this delicious food has become such a staple in so many cultures. The history of cheese begins with the domestication of animals, which allowed for the milk of these animals to be used as a food source. The first evidence of cheese production comes from ancient Egypt, where cheese was mentioned in tomb paintings and inscriptions dating back to 4000 BC. Cheese was also popular in the ancient Roman world, where it was often used as a currency and traded for other goods. In medieval Europe, cheese became an important part of the diet of monks and peasants alike. It was during this time that many of the classic cheese varieties we know today were first developed, such as cheddar, gouda, and brie. Cheese continued to be an important food in Europe during the Renaissance, when it was often served at banquets and used as a gift for royalty. The Industrial Revolution saw cheese production become more mechanized and efficient, leading to the mass-production of cheese on a scale never seen before. The 20th century saw further innovations in cheese making, such as the development of processed cheese and the introduction of new types of cheese from around the world. Today, cheese is enjoyed by people all over the globe and is a staple in many diets. The early cheesemakers used a simple process to make cheese. They would collect milk from cows, goats, or sheep and then allow it to sit until the cream rose to the top. The cream was then skimmed off and the remaining milk was poured into a container made of cloth or animal stomach. This container was then placed in a cool area to allow the milk to curdle. Once the milk had curdled, the whey was drained off and the remaining curds were pressed into a solid block. This block of cheese would then be aged for a period of time before being eaten. The process of making cheese has changed very little over the millennia, though there have been some minor innovations. Today, most cheesemakers typically use rennet to curdle the milk, which speeds up the process and results in a more consistent product. While there are several large cheese making companies, the craft of cheesemaking is still a special process that many small cheesemakers still create that is appreciated by many. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/tv-commercials-the-cable-age-classics-iii-dvd.html

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Today, June 18, 2026

June 18: International Sushi Day: -- The perfect excuse to tuck into the Japanese specialty. Sushi has become a global phenomenon over the past 30 years or so after struggling to find a foothold in the west in the beginning. Raw fish didn't initially sound appetizing to all cultures but we eventually realized that we were wrong and now we can't get enough of it. It's time to sharpen up your chopstick technique and treat yourself for International Sushi Day. To find the origins of sushi we must look at a dish called narezushi. Narezushi is salted fish stored in fermented rice for months at a time. Southeast Asia and Japan both had their own version of the dish, the rice was discarded and the fish was eaten. This was the first iteration of sushi and was seen by the Japanese as an important source of protein. In the Edo Period, between 1600 and 1800 in Japan, sushi as we know it was established. Fish and vegetables were wrapped in rice and mixed with vinegar. Much like with Narezushi, each region had its own variations to it, but this is close to the version most people in today's world are familiar with. In the early 1800s, the style of nigirizushi began to emerge. This consisted of a mound of rice with a slice of fish draped over it. The Great Kanto earthquake in 1923 disrupted the Japanese economy and it displaced many people from Edo Japan. Japanese people were forced to restart their lives in new places and this consequently took sushi all over the world. In the U.S, sushi was emerging from communities in Little Tokyo by the mid-twentieth century. It became popular among Hollywood celebrities which led to it gaining the public's attention. What was once foreign to Americans became Americanized with the California roll that used crab and avocado instead of raw fish. In 2009, International Sushi Day was proclaimed for June 18. The idea came from Facebook and it took on a life of its own. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/japan-a-cherry-blossom-by-many-other-names-mp4-video-download-dvd.html

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Today, June 18, 2026

June 18: National Go Fishing Day: -- A day that encourages us to drop a line - in the nearest stream, pond, lake, or river. Taking a break from our daily routine to bait a hook and catch some fish can be a relaxing endeavor. In addition to providing food, fishing is a recreational pastime for many. Recreational fishing includes conventions, rules, licensing restrictions, and laws that limit the way in which fish may be caught. A rod, reel, line, and hooks with any one of the different forms of bait or lures, are the most common form of recreational fishing. The practice of catching (or attempting to catch) fish with a hook is known as angling. Catch and release (returning the fish to the water to continue its life) is often the expectation or requirement by law. For others, this is a preferred form of fishing. Hobbyists with knowledge of habitat, foraging behavior, and migration hone their fishing techniques for a successful fishing adventure. Some fishermen continue to follow fishing folklore by claiming the sun and the moon influence fish feeding patterns. The earliest known English essay on recreational fishing was published in 1496. During the 16th and 17th centuries, recreational fishing began to gain popularity. In 1653, Izaak Walton published a book titled, The Compleat Angler or Contemplative Man's Recreation. Walton's book is the definitive work championing the position of the angler who loves fishing just for the sake of it. To observe National Go Fishing Day, Grab your rod and reel, some bait, and go fishing! Take a selfie while wearing this funny fishing t-shirt. Share it with your co-workers stuck back at the office. Whether it's your favorite river or lake, or out on the ocean, from the shore or from a watercraft, drop a line in the water and see what you can catch. Bring a friend or teach someone else how to reel them in. And share your whopper using #NationalGoFishingDay on social media. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/heckle-and-jeckle-cartoons-dvd-archival-grade-all-43-terrytoo43.html

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Today, June 18, 2026

June 18: International Day For Countering Hate Speech: -- According to the UN, hate speech is any kind of speech or writing that attacks or discriminates against a person or a group based on religion, ethnicity, nationality, race, color, descent, gender, or any other identity factor. The U.N. General Assembly adopted the resolution to counter hate speech and set up this milestone in the fight against hate speech. Speech should not be a weapon for creating more mayhem in this volatile world; thus, the International Day for Countering Hate Speech will help to stop hate-mongering. Hate speech involves speech, actions, and gestures that are intentionally hateful. Thus, it should be regulated and criminalized. For years the U.S. has been attempting to prohibit hate speech and crimes, such as violent acts like the cross burning by the Ku Klux Klan. Efforts have expanded over the years to include alleged 'speech and thought' crimes. Currently, any public statement against illegal immigration or same-sex marriage is termed 'hate speech.' The Southern Poverty Law Center includes pro-family groups in the list of hate groups for their opposition to same-sex marriage. By law, the two types of threatening speech that could be restricted included 'gesture or speech used to incite violence' and 'obscene or libelous words.' In 1919, Oliver Wendell Holmes stretched this further when he argued in Schenck vs. the United States that falsely shouting 'fire' in a theater was prohibited. However, the law retained the argument for preventing physical harm from hate speech. In 1992, Congress asked the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (N.T.I.A.) to examine the role of telecommunications in instigating hate speech and inciting violence. By 1993, N.T.I.A. had reported that a climate of hate induces violence. After the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, 'the hate speech concept' was brought into political discourse after President Bill Clinton alleged that it happened because of loud and angry hateful voices. The definition of hate speech changed in 2009 after the National Hispanic Media Coalition outlined that it had the following four parts: false facts, flawed argumentation, divisive language, and dehumanizing metaphors. Hate speech was not limited to inciting violence but also included an atmosphere that could encourage violence. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/hate-on-trial-splc-vs-war-racism-on-trial-mp4-video-download-dvd-se4.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: The Night That Panicked America: War Of The Worlds DVD, Download, USB
Today, June 18, 2026

June 18: International Panic Day: -- A day when people are required to panic!!!!! Actually, today is a mock holiday aimed at spreading awareness for mental health issues. No matter how calm you are as an individual, International Panic Day is the day to let out your fears and panic about your worries. Why? International Panic Day rather asks, why not? In prehistoric times, men used panic as a technique to hunt animals. Herds of animals would react in panic to unexpected loud sounds or visual effects, which would direct them towards cliffs and cause them to jump to their deaths after finding themselves cornered. International Panic Day began as a kind of mock holiday with the intention of having a day when people could shake off their various reasons to panic. It is a day to sit back, calm down, and let the panic and stress flow through you. While it may sound funny, panic is a serious topic. Panic disorder is a mental health issue that affects 2% of the population in some countries. Apparently, women are more likely to suffer from panic than men. The condition is treatable, more so when the person is aware of various healthcare tactics and lives a healthy lifestyle. International Panic Day is seen in many countries as a day to raise and spread awareness about the issue of mental illness. Today, more than ever, people are undergoing a lot of mental stress and the day is aimed to encourage people to slow down, relax, and reach out for help without any hesitation. There is nothing to be shy of and only by talking about our problems can we get rid of them. Panic management has important practical usages in the emergency services and the armed forces of the world. International Panic Day is the perfect excuse to panic about everything there is to panic about and, in the process, reevaluate our priorities. Eliminate all the things that cause you stress and anxiety. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-night-that-panicked-america-dvd-war-of-the-worlds-broadcast.html

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Today, June 18, 2026

June 18, 1429: The Crisis Of The Late Middle Ages (c. 1315 - c. 1487): The Anglo-French Wars (1109-1815): The Hundred Years' War (French: Guerre De Cent Ans [1337-1453]): The Lancastrian War (1415-1453): The Loire Campaign (1429): The Battle Of Patay: -- French forces under the leadership of Joan Of Arc turn the tide of the war when they defeat the main English army under Sir John Fastolf at the Battle Of Patay, the culminating engagement of the Loire Campaign of the Hundred Years' War in north-central France. The French cavalry inflicted a severe defeat on the English. Many of the English knights and men-at-arms on horses were able to escape but crippling losses were inflicted on the corps of veteran English longbowmen, which was not reconstituted after the battle. This victory was to the French what Agincourt was to the English. Although credited to Joan Of Arc, most of the fighting was done by the vanguard of the French army as English units fled, and the main body of the French army (including Joan herself) were unable to catch up to the vanguard as it pursued the English for several miles. The Hundred Years' War was a series of conflicts waged from 1337 to 1453 by the House Of Plantagenet, rulers of the Kingdom of England, against the French House of Valois, over the right to rule the Kingdom of France. Each side drew many allies into the war. It was one of the most notable conflicts of the Middle Ages, in which five generations of kings from two rival dynasties fought for the throne of the largest kingdom in Western Europe. The war marked both the height of chivalry and its subsequent decline, and the development of strong national identities in both countries. #BattleOfPatay #JoanOfArc #JohnFastolf #LoireCampaign #HundredYearsWar #WarsOfReligion #England #EnglishHistory #HouseOfPlantagenet #France #FrenchHistory #HouseOfValois #EnglishClaimsToTheFrenchThrone #EnglandInTheMiddleAges #FranceInTheMiddleAges #WarsOfSuccession #EnglishMonarchy #FrenchMonarchy #KingdomOfFrance #KingdomOfEngland #WesternCulture #WesternCivilization #OccidentalCulture #WesternWorld #WesternSociety #WesternTradition #StoryOfCivilization #MP4 #VideoDownload #DVD On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/joan-of-arc-documentary-mp4-video-download-dv4.html

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Today, June 18, 2026

June 18, 1812: The Anglo-French Wars (1109-1815): The Second Hundred Years' War: The United States And The French Revolutionary And Napoleonic Wars: The Sixty Years' War (French: Guerre De Soixante Ans) (1754-1815): The American Indian Wars (The American Frontier Wars, The Indian Wars): The War Of 1812: The United States Declaration Of War Upon The United Kingdom (An Act Declaring War Between The United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Ireland And The Dependencies Thereof And The United States Of America And Their Territories): -- After much debate, the U.S. Senate voted 19 to 13 in favor of a declaration of war against Great Britain, asked for by U.S. President James Madison on June 1, 1812 and prompted by Britain's violation of America' rights on the high seas and British incitement of Indian warfare on the Western frontier. It is signed by President James Madison the same day, and the next day, Madison officially proclaimed the U.S. to be in a state of war. The War Of 1812 (1812-1815) was a conflict fought between the United States, the United Kingdom, and their respective allies. Historians in Britain often see it as a minor theatre of the Napoleonic Wars; in the United States and Canada, it is seen as a war in its own right. Since the outbreak of war with Napoleonic France, Britain had enforced a naval blockade to choke off neutral trade to France, which the United States contested as illegal under international law. To man the blockade, Britain impressed American merchant sailors into the Royal Navy. Incidents such as the Chesapeake-Leopard Affair, a naval engagement between HMS Leopard and the USS Chesapeake in which the British captured four of the Chesapeake's crew, inflamed anti-British sentiment. In 1811, the British were in turn outraged by the Little Belt Affair, in which 11 British sailors died in a naval battle between HMS Little Belt and the USS President. The British supplied Indians who conducted raids on American settlers on the frontier, which hindered American expansion and also provoked resentment. Historians remain divided on whether the desire to annex some or all of British North America contributed to the American decision to go to war. On June 18, 1812, United States President James Madison, after receiving heavy pressure from the War Hawks in Congress, signed the American declaration of war into law. With the majority of their army in Europe fighting Napoleon, the British adopted a defensive strategy. American prosecution of the war effort suffered from its unpopularity, especially in New England, where it was derogatorily referred to as "Mr. Madison's War". American defeats at the Siege of Detroit and the Battle of Queenston Heights thwarted attempts to seize Upper Canada, improving British morale. American attempts to invade Lower Canada and capture Montreal also failed. In 1813, at the Battle Of Lake Erie the Americans won control of Lake Erie, and at The Battle Of The Thames defeated Tecumseh's Confederacy, securing a primary war goal. At sea, the powerful Royal Navy blockaded American ports, cutting off trade and allowing the British to raid the coast at will. In 1814, one of these raids burned the capital, Washington, although the Americans subsequently repulsed British attempts to invade New England and capture Baltimore. At home, the British faced mounting opposition to wartime taxation and demands to reopen trade with America. With the abdication of Napoleon, the blockade of France ended and the British ceased impressment, rendering the issue of the impressment of American sailors moot. The British were then able to increase the strength of the blockade on the United States coast, annihilating American maritime trade and bringing the United States government near to bankruptcy. Peace negotiations began in August 1814 and the Treaty Of Ghent was signed on December 24 as neither side wanted to continue fighting. News of the peace did not reach America for some time. Unaware that the treaty had been signed, British forces invaded Louisiana and were defeated at the Battle Of New Orleans in January 1815. These late victories were viewed by Americans as having restored national honour, leading to the collapse of anti-war sentiment and the beginning of the Era of Good Feelings, a period of national unity. News of the treaty arrived shortly thereafter, halting military operations. The treaty was unanimously ratified by the United States on February 17, 1815, ending the war with status quo ante bellum (no boundary changes). On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-american-adventure-series-us-1st-century-4-dv14.html

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Today, June 18, 2026

June 18, 1815: The Age Of Enlightenment (The Enlightenment, The Age Of Reason): The Age Of Revolution: The Atlantic Revolutions: The French Revolution: The French Revolutionary And Napoleonic Wars (The Great French War) (The French Revolutionary Wars, The Napoleonic Wars): The Napoleonic Wars: The Coalition Wars: The Hundred Days (The War Of The Seventh Coalition): The Waterloo Campaign: The Battle Of Waterloo: -- On the fields near Waterloo in central Belgium, 72,000 French troops, led by Napoleon, suffered a crushing military defeat from a combined Allied army led by the Duke of Wellington and Gebhard Leberecht von Blucher of 113,000 British, Dutch, Belgian, and Prussian troops. Thus ended 23 years of warfare between France and the other powers of Europe and forced Napoleon to abdicate the throne of France for the second and last time. Napoleon was then sent into exile on the island of St. Helena off the coast of Africa where he lived till his death on May 5, 1821. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/waterloo-napoleon-wellington-blucher-steiger-plummer-welles-dvd.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: Charles Darwin Documentary Set 2 MP4 Video Downloads Or 2 DVD Set
Today, June 18, 2026

June 18, 1858: Evolution: The Theory Of Evolution: On The Tendency Of Varieties To Depart Indefinitely From The Original Type: -- After months of delay in the slow progress of mail from the far-off Malay Archipelago, Charles Darwin receives at his home Down House in Down (modern Downe) in the London Borough of Bromley a paper from Alfred Russel Wallace, his February 1858 essay, "On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely From the Original Type", asking Darwin to review it and pass it to Charles Lyell if he thought it worthwhile. It included nearly identical conclusions about evolution as Darwin's own, and it spurred Darwin, in part by Wallace's encouragement, to set aside the "big species book" he was drafting on his own theory of evolution, and quickly write an abstract of it, published in 1859 as On the Origin of Species. Alfred Russel Wallace OM FRS (January 8 1823 - November 7, 1913) was an English naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, biologist and illustrator. He is best known for independently conceiving the theory of evolution through natural selection. Although Wallace's essay did not use Darwin's term "natural selection", it did outline the mechanics of an evolutionary divergence of species from similar ones due to environmental pressures. In this sense, it was very similar to the theory that Darwin had worked on for 20 years, but had yet to publish. Darwin sent the manuscript to Charles Lyell with a letter saying "he could not have made a better short abstract! Even his terms now stand as heads of my chapters ... he does not say he wishes me to publish, but I shall, of course, at once write and offer to send to any journal." Distraught about the illness of his baby son, Darwin put the problem to Charles Lyell and Joseph Hooker, who decided to publish the essay in a joint presentation together with unpublished writings which highlighted Darwin's priority. Wallace's essay was presented to the Linnean Society of London on July 1, 1858, along with excerpts from an essay which Darwin had disclosed privately to Hooker in 1847 and a letter Darwin had written to Asa Gray in 1857. Wallace had once briefly met Darwin, and was one of the correspondents whose observations Darwin used to support his own theories. Although Wallace's first letter to Darwin has been lost, Wallace carefully kept the letters he received. In the first letter, dated 1 May 1857, Darwin commented that Wallace's letter of 10 October which he had recently received, as well as Wallace's paper "On the Law which has regulated the Introduction of New Species" of 1855, showed that they thought alike, with similar conclusions, and said that he was preparing his own work for publication in about two years time. The second letter, dated December 22, 1857, said how glad he was that Wallace was theorising about distribution, adding that "without speculation there is no good and original observation" but commented that "I believe I go much further than you". On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/charles-darwin-the-devil39s-chaplain-theory-of-evolution-sa39.html

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Today, June 18, 2026

June 18, 1873: Feminism: The Feminist Movement (The Women's Movement): Women's Suffrage In The United States: The Trial Of Susan B. Anthony: -- Having been arrested and fined 100 USD on June 6, 1972 for voting in the United States presidential election of 1872, Justice Ward Hunt ordered the jury deliberating the case of United States v. Susan B. Anthony to find a verdict of guilty against pioneering feminist Susan B. Anthony and ordered that she pay the 100 USD fine. The trial of Anthony began on June 17, 1873 and was closely followed by the national press. Following a rule of common law at that time which prevented criminal defendants in federal courts from testifying, Hunt refused to allow Anthony to speak until the verdict had been delivered. On the second day of the trial, after both sides had presented their cases, Justice Hunt delivered his lengthy opinion, which he had put in writing. In the most controversial aspect of the trial, Hunt directed the jury to deliver a guilty verdict. Having received the verdict he ordered, he ordered the 100 USD fine to be paid. On the third day of the trial, Hunt asked Anthony if she had anything to say. She responded with "the most famous speech in the history of the agitation for woman suffrage", according to Ann D. Gordon, a historian of the women's movement. Repeatedly ignoring the judge's order to stop talking and sit down, she protested what she called "this high-handed outrage upon my citizen's rights", saying, "you have trampled under foot every vital principle of our government. My natural rights, my civil rights, my political rights, my judicial rights, are all alike ignored." She castigated Justice Hunt for denying her a trial by jury, but said that even if he had allowed the jury to discuss the case, she still would have been denied a trial by a jury of her peers because women were not allowed to be jurors. When Justice Hunt sentenced Anthony to pay a fine of 100 USD, she responded, "I shall never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty", and she never did. If Hunt had ordered her to be jailed until she paid the fine, Anthony could have taken her case to the Supreme Court. Hunt instead announced he would not order her taken into custody, closing off that legal avenue. The U.S. Supreme Court in 1875 put an end to the strategy of trying to achieve women's suffrage through the court system when it ruled in Minor v. Happersett that "the Constitution of the United States does not confer the right of suffrage upon anyone". The NWSA decided to pursue the far more difficult strategy of campaigning for a constitutional amendment to achieve voting rights for women. #SusanBAnthony #USPresidentialElectionOf1872 #UnitedStatesVSusanBAnthony #TrialOfSusanBAnthony #WomensRights #WomensMovement #WomensSuffrage #WomensEquality #GenderEquality #SexualEquality #CivilRights #WomensLiberation #WomensLib #Suffrage #UniversalSuffrage #GeneralSuffrage #CommonSuffrage #AfricanAmericanCivilRights #BlackSuffrage #AfricanAmericanSuffrage #FifteenthAmendmentToTheUnitedStatesConstitution #FifteenthAmendmentToTheUSConstitution #UnitedStatesConstitution #USConstitution #HistoryOfTtheUnitedStates #HistoryOfTtheUS #AmericanHistory #USHistory #MP4 #VideoDownload #DVD On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/women39s-suffrage-amp-the-women39s-movement-dvd-mp4-usb-39394.html

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Today, June 18, 2026

June 18, 1884: #BOTD: #HBD! Edouard Daladier, French captain, "radical" (i.e. centrist) politician, 105th Prime Minister of France at the start of the Second World War (d. October 10, 1970) is #born in Carpentras, Vaucluse, France, the son of a village baker. Edouard Daladier was a signatory of the Munich Agreement. In March 1940, Daladier resigned as Prime Minister in France because of his failure to aid Finland' defence during the Winter War with the Soviet Union, though Daladier remained Minister of Defence. Under the impression the government would continue in North Africa after the German invasion of France, Daladier fled with other members of the government to Morocco; but he was arrested and tried for treason by the Vichy government during the "Riom Trial". Daladier was interned in Fort du Portalet in the Pyrenees. He was kept in prison from 1940 to April 1943, when he was handed over to the Germans and deported to Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany. In May 1943, he was transported to the Itter Castle in North Tyrol with other French dignitaries, where he remained until the end of the war. He was freed after the Battle for Castle Itter. Edouard Daladier died in Paris, France at the age of 86. He is buried at Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/france-conquest-to-liberation-occupied-and-vichy-wwii.html

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Today, June 18, 2026

June 18, 1900: The Century Of Humiliation (The Hundred Years Of National Humiliation): The Qing Dynasty: The Boxer Rebellion (1899-1901) (The Boxer Uprising, The Boxer Insurrection, The Yihetuan Movement): -- Empress Dowager Cixi (pronouced tsu-SHE) of China orders all foreigners killed, including foreign diplomats and their families. The Boxer Rebellion, also known as the Boxer Uprising or Yihetuan Movement, was a violent anti-foreign, anti-colonial and anti-Christian uprising that took place in China between 1899 and 1901, toward the end of the Qing dynasty. It was initiated by the Militia United in Righteousness (Yihetuan), known in English as the "Boxers", for many of their members had been practitioners of Chinese martial arts, also referred to in the west as "Chinese Boxing"; in modern parlance, the uprising could be called "The Martial Artist Rebellion" or "The Martial Arts Rebellion". They were motivated by proto-nationalist sentiments and by opposition to Western colonialism and the Christian missionary activity that was associated with it. The uprising took place against a background that included severe drought and disruption caused by the growth of foreign spheres of influence. After several months of growing violence, in Shandong and the North China plain, against the both foreign and Christian presence in June 1900, Boxer fighters, convinced they were invulnerable to foreign weapons, converged on Beijing with the slogan "Support the Qing government and exterminate the foreigners." Foreigners and Chinese Christians sought refuge in the Beijing Legation Quarter, where 900 soldiers, marines, and civilians, largely from Europe, Japan, and the United States, and about 2,800 Chinese Christians took refuge. On June 20, the Siege Of The International Legations began in retaliation. In response to reports of an armed invasion to lift the siege, the initially hesitant Empress Dowager Cixi supported the Boxers, on June 18 ordered all foreigners killed in accordance with the Boxer's wishes, and on June 21 issued an Imperial Decree declaring war on the foreign powers. Diplomats, foreign civilians and soldiers as well as Chinese Christians in the Legation Quarter were detained for 55 days by the Imperial Army of China and the Boxers, but the execution order was not carried out. Chinese officialdom was split between those supporting the Boxers and those favoring conciliation, led by Prince Qing. The supreme commander of the Chinese forces, the Manchu General Ronglu (Junglu), later demonstrated that he acted to protect the besieged foreigners. Many other officials refused the imperial order to fight against foreigners. General Ronglu deliberately sabotaged the performance of the imperial army during the rebellion. Han Chinese General Dong Fuxiang, whose Han Chinese Muslim troops, the "Kansu Braves", were able and eager to destroy the foreign military forces in the legations, were stopped from doing so by General Ronglu. The Manchu prince Zaiyi, one of the leaders of the Boxer Rebellion, was very xenophobic and friendly with General Dong Fuxiang. Zaiyi wanted artillery for Dong's troops to destroy the foreign legations. Ronglu blocked the transfer of artillery to Zaiyi and Dong, preventing them from destroying the legations. When artillery was finally supplied to the imperial army and Boxers, it was only done so in limited amounts; Ronglu deliberately held back the rest of them. The Chinese forces defeated the small 2,000 person Western relief force at the Battle of Langfang, but lost several decisive battles, including the Battle of Beicang, and the entire imperial court was forced to retreat as the forces of the Eight-Nation Alliance invaded Beijing. Due to the fact that moderates at the Qing imperial court tried to appease the foreigners by moving the Muslim Kansu Braves out of their way, the allied army was able to march into Beijing and seize the capital. The Eight-Nation Alliance, after being initially turned back, brought 20,000 armed troops to China, defeated the Imperial Army, and arrived at Peking on August 14, relieving the siege of the Legations. Uncontrolled plunder of the capital and the surrounding countryside ensued, along with the summary execution of those suspected of being Boxers. The Boxer Protocol of 7 September 1901 provided for the execution of government officials who had supported the Boxers, provisions for foreign troops to be stationed in Beijing, and 450 million taels of silver-approximately 10B USD at 2018 silver prices and more than the government's annual tax revenue-to be paid as indemnity over the course of the next thirty-nine years to the eight nations involved. The Empress Dowager then sponsored a set of institutional and fiscal changes in a failed attempt to save the dynasty. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-genius-that-was-china-dvd-tv-documentary-series-2-disc-se2.html

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June 18 [O.S. June 5], 1901: #BOTD: #HBD! Grand Duchess Of Russia Anastasia Nikolaevna, beautiful youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, the last sovereign of Imperial Russia, and his wife, Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna (d. July 17, 1918) is #born Anastasiya Nikolaevna Romanova (Russian, romanized) at Peterhof Palace, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire. Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia was the younger sister of Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, and Maria, and was the elder sister of Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia. She was killed with her family by a group of Bolsheviks in Yekaterinburg on July 17 1918. Persistent rumors of her possible escape circulated after her death, fueled by the fact that the location of her burial was unknown during the decades of Communist rule. The abandoned mine serving as a mass grave near Yekaterinburg which held the acidified remains of the Tsar, his wife, and three of their daughters was revealed in 1991. These remains were put to rest at Peter and Paul Fortress in 1998. The bodies of Alexei Nikolaevich and the remaining daughter-either Anastasia or her older sister Maria-were discovered in 2007. Her purported survival has been conclusively disproven. Scientific analysis including DNA testing confirmed that the remains are those of the imperial family, showing that all four grand duchesses were killed in 1918. Several women falsely claimed to have been Anastasia; the best known impostor was Anna Anderson. Anderson's body was cremated upon her death in 1984, but DNA testing in 1994 on available pieces of Anderson's tissue and hair showed no relation to the Romanov family. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/great-days-of-the-century-the-russian-revolution-dvd.html

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June 18, 1904: #BOTD: #HBD! Keye Luke, Chinese-born American film and television actor, technical advisor and artist, founding member of the Screen Actors Guild (d. January 12, 1991) is #born Luk Shek Kee in Guangzhou, Qing Empire (China). He was known for playing Lee Chan, the "Number One Son" in the Charlie Chan films, the original Kato in the 1939-1941 Green Hornet film serials, Brak in the 1960s Space Ghost cartoons, Master Po in the television series Kung Fu, and Mr. Wing in the Gremlins films. He was the first Chinese-American contract player signed by RKO, Universal Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and was one of the most prominent Asian actors of American cinema in the mid-20th century. Keye Luke died of a stroke in Whittier, California at the age of 86. He ws buried at Rose Hills Memorial Park in Whittier, California. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/7-disc-green-hornet-dvd-and-mp3-movie-and-radio-discount-s73.html

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June 18, 1909: #BOTD: #HBD! Christabel Bielenberg, British writer who described her experiences living in Germany with her husband, the German lawyer, Peter Bielenberg, during the Second World War in two books: The Past is Myself (1968) and The Road Ahead (d. November 2, 2003) is #born Christabel Mary Burton in Totteridge, Hertfordshire to Anglo-Irish parents. She was educated at St Margaret's School, Bushey, Hertfordshire. Her mother, Christabel Harmsworth, was the sister of Lords Northcliffe, Harmsworth, and Rothermere. Christabel won a scholarship to Somerville College, Oxford, but decided instead to study music in Germany. While there she met Peter Bielenberg (1911-2001), two years her junior, who was studying law with a view to joining his father's practice in Hamburg. They married in 1934 and she took German citizenship, which required her to relinquish her British citizenship. The Bielenbergs lived initially in Hamburg, then moved to Berlin and had three sons, Nicholas, Christopher, and John. The heavy Allied bombing raids led Mrs Bielenberg and her children to leave the city, and they eventually settled in the village of Rohrbach, near Furtwangen im Schwarzwald, in the Black Forest. Both Christabel and Peter Bielenberg were opposed to Nazism and following Hitler's rise to power in 1933, participated in anti-Nazi activities. Peter Bielenberg was a close friend of Adam von Trott zu Solz, who was involved in the Stauffenberg bomb plot against Hitler of 1944, and as a result of his suspect political views and this close association he was arrested, interrogated, and imprisoned in Ravensbruck concentration camp following the failure of the plot. In an effort to secure his release, Christabel Bielenberg asked to be interviewed by the Gestapo in order to convince them of her and her husband's political naivety and innocence. She was successful and he was released to a punishment unit but mistakenly allowed leave before joining it. He managed to slip away and remained in hiding near his family until the fighting ended. After the war, she returned to Britain with her children, later visiting Germany as a foreign correspondent for The Observer. In 1948, the family settled in Tullow, County Carlow, Ireland, buying a dilapidated farm called "Munny House", which they transformed into a commercial success. As well as writing her autobiography she became involved with the Irish Peace Marches of the 1970s and lectured in Germany. She was made a Commander of the German Federal Order of Merit and was also awarded a Gold Medal of Merit by the European Parliament. Her experiences during the Second World War were made into the BBC television drama serial Christabel (1988), adapted from her memoir by Dennis Potter. Elizabeth Hurley starred in the title role. In 1974 Christabel described her experiences of attempting to shelter Jews hiding from persecution in the television series The World at War. Christabel Bielenberg sat for sculptor Alan Thornhill for a portrait in clay. The correspondence file relating to the Bielenberg bust is held in the archive of the Henry Moore Foundation's Henry Moore Institute in Leeds and the terracotta remains in the collection of the artist. She had three sons, Nicholas, John and Christopher ("Kim"). Nick's son Andy is an historian at University College Cork; Nick's son Kim works as a journalist in Dublin. Nicholas's wife was Charlotte, daughter of Fritz-Dietlof von der Schulenburg. Christabel Bielenberg died aged 94 at her and her family's rural home in Tullow, County Carlow, Ireland. Her burial details are not publicly disclosed. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/christabel-dvd-1988-elizabeth-hurley-stephen-dil1988.html

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June 18, 1913: #BOTD: #HBD! Sammy Cahn, American lyricist, songwriter, pianist and composer (d. January 15, 1993) is #born Samuel Cohen in the Lower East Side of New York City, the only son (he had four sisters) of Abraham and Elka Reiss Cohen, Jewish immigrants from Galicia, then ruled by Austria-Hungary. He is best known for his romantic lyrics to films and Broadway songs, as well as stand-alone songs premiered by recording companies in the Greater Los Angeles Area. He and his collaborators had a series of hit recordings with Frank Sinatra during the singer's tenure at Capitol Records, but also enjoyed hits with Dean Martin, Doris Day and many others. He played the piano and violin. He won the Academy Award four times for his songs, including the popular song "Three Coins in the Fountain". Among his most enduring songs is "High Hopes", cowritten with Jimmy Van Heusen for the 1959 film "A Hole in the Head", and "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!", cowritten with Jule Styne in 1945. Sammy Cahn died at the age of 79 in Los Angeles, California from heart failure. His remains are interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery, Westwood, Los Angeles. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/frank-sinatra-the-voice-of-our-time-dvd-documentary.html

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June 18, 1914: #BOTD: #HBD! E. G. Marshall, American Marine, actor of Vaudeville, stage, radio, film and television, best known for his television roles as the lawyer Lawrence Preston on The Defenders in the 1960s, as neurosurgeon David Craig on The Bold Ones: The New Doctors in the 1970s, and for his hosting and narrating many television and film documentaries, one of the first group selected for the new Actors Studio (d. August 24,1998) is #born Everett Eugene Grunz in Owatonna, Minnesota; during his life, he chose not to reveal what "E. G." stood for, saying that it stood for "Everybody's Guess.". It is not generally known that he was a U.S. Marine, although he does talk about it in the documentary series he hosted, The Gallant Breed (1988). He also peformed on the Vaudeville circuit, of which he said he "loved every minute of it" in his monologue as host of the documentary series The American Diary (1983). Marshall claimed in interviews in later life to have attended both Carleton College and the University of Minnesota, but there is no evidence that he ever attended either institution, or had attended college at all. By 1948, he had a distinguished Broadway career. Among his film roles he is perhaps best known as the unflappable, conscientious "Juror #4" in Sidney Lumet' courtroom drama 12 Angry Men (1957), as the President Of The United States in Superman II (1980), as Nazi collaborator Henri Denault on the CBS prime-time drama Falcon Crest in 1982, and as John N. Mitchell in Nixon (1995). Marshall was also known as the host of the radio drama series, CBS Radio Mystery Theater (1974-82). Marshall died of lung cancer in Bedford, New York at age 84. He is buried at Middle Patent Rural Cemetery, in the hamlet of Banksville, within the Town of North Castle, New York. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-gallant-breed-dvd-set-3-part-us-marine-history-2-dis32.html

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Today, June 18, 2026

June 18, 1915: #BOTD: #HBD! Red Adair, American oil well firefighter (d. August 7, 2004) is #born Paul Neal Adair in Houston, Texas, the son of an Irish blacksmith. He became notable as an innovator in the highly specialized and hazardous profession of extinguishing and capping oil well blowouts, both land-based and offshore. He began fighting oil well fires after returning from serving in an Army bomb disposal unit during World War II. He started his career working for Myron Kinley, the "original" blowout/oil firefighting pioneer. They pioneered the technique of using a V-shaped charge of high explosives (the Munroe effect being used during the war and used in bazookas and the atom bomb), the high velocity blast of which would snuff the fire. He founded Red Adair Co. Inc. in 1959, and over the course of his career battled more than 2,000 land and offshore oil well, natural gas well, and similar spectacular fires. Adair gained global attention in 1962 when he tackled a fire at the Gassi Touil gas field in the Algerian Sahara nicknamed the Devil's Cigarette Lighter, a 450-foot (140 m) pillar of flame that burned from 12:00 PM November 13, 1961, to 9:30 AM on April 28, 1962. The 1968 John Wayne movie Hellfighters was loosely based upon the feats of Adair during this fire. In December 1968, Adair sealed a large gas leak at an Australian gas and oil platform off Victoria's southeast coast. In 1977, he and his crew (including Asger "Boots" Hansen and Manohar "Man" Dhumtara-Kejriwal) contributed to the capping of the biggest oil well blowout to have occurred in the North Sea (and at the time the largest offshore blowouts worldwide, in terms of volume of crude oil spilled, at the Ekofisk Bravo platform, located in the Norwegian sector and operated by Phillips Petroleum Company (now ConocoPhillips). In 1978, Adair's top lieutenants Hansen and Ed "Coots" Matthews left to found competitor Boots & Coots International Well Control Inc. In 1988, Adair was again in the North Sea where he helped to put out the UK sector Piper Alpha oil platform fire. At age 75, Adair took part in extinguishing the oil well fires in Kuwait set by retreating Iraqi troops after the Gulf War in 1991. Adair retired in 1993, and sold The Red Adair Service and Marine Company to Global Industries. His top employees (Brian Krause, Raymond Henry, Rich Hatteberg) left in 1994 and formed their own company, International Well Control (IWC). Adair died of natural causes in Houston, Texas at the age of 89. He is buried in a crypt at Forest Park Lawndale in Houston. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/hell-on-earth-the-kuwaiti-oil-fires-dvd-mp4-download-usb-flash-driv4.html

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June 18, 1921: #BOTD: #HBD! George Lefferts, American writer, producer, playwright, poet, and director of radio and television dramas, motion pictures, radio dramas, and socially conscious documentaries whose original plays and films for television won Emmy Awards three times and Golden Globes twice (d. April 18, 2018) is #born George Leffertz in Paterson, New Jersey. He was raised in Paterson and graduated from Eastside High School, where he worked on the school paper. During World War II, he served in He served in the United States Army Intelligence and Medical Corps, enlisting at the age of 20. He was a glider pilot and deep water sailor. A frequent writer of original scripts and short stories for the science fiction radio programs Dimension X and X Minus One, he went on to be executive producer and writer of the Smithsonian Institution Specials for David Wolper Productions, executive producer for Time-Life, NBC, ABC and CBS. Lefferts worked as a columnist for The New York Observer and was twice winner of First Place, the New England Press Association Award for Best Weekly Newspaper Column in America (1983 and 1984). He wrote and produced the anti-ageist film The Living End, of which Variety wrote "the writing by George Lefferts was so pure it was well nigh perfect." With Alfred Hitchcock and William Shatner he created and wrote Tactic the first television program to openly deal with cancer. He also created, produced and wrote NBC Specials for Women, a groundbreaking series for Women's Liberation featuring anthropologist Margaret Mead; the program won the Emmy Award (1967) and the Golden Globe Award (1968). His original play The Loneliness of the Armadillo was presented by the Banyan Theater in Sarasota, Florida and two new plays The Boat and The Party Store were presented at the HBO Theater in New York in 2013. Lefferts completed the script and lyrics of a full-scale opera The Amadou Cantata, based on the infamous Amadou Diallo trial of four NYPD officers. Lefferts also created and wrote the comedy series Rocky Fortune starring Frank Sinatra, and the NBC documentary Bravo, Picasso! featuring Pablo Picasso, Yves Montand, and Jacqueline Kennedy. Lefferts was producer of the Emmy-winning daytime series, Ryan's Hope during its early weeks, and executive producer and writer of the ABC medical drama, Breaking Point which aired during the 1963-1964 television season. Episodes were directed by Sydney Pollack and featured Robert Redford, John Cassavetes, Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy and Lillian Gish. Lefferts was co-creator and writer of Family Album, U.S.A., "a soap opera designed to teach English as a Second Language", distributed by Macmillan Publishers in 58 countries. Lefferts taught screenwriting at Johns Hopkins and Rutgers Universities. He was a member of the American Medical Writers Association. As a writer and producer for The Network for Continuing Medical Education, he was credited for many "cutting-edge medical films," including Doctor Barnhard's Heart Transplant [NBC], Pain-Where It Hurts Most [NBC], What Price Health, with Senator Ted Kennedy [NBC], and Acupuncture Anesthesia in Red China [NBC]. George Lefferts died in Leonia, New Jersey on April 18, 2018, at the age of 96. His burial details are not publicly disclosed. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/x-minus-one-mp3-dvd-complete-radio-serie3.html

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June 18, 1928: Aviation: The History Of Aviation: The History Of Transcontinental Flight: The History Of Transatlantic Flight: The Transatlantic Passenger Flight Of Amelia Earhart: -- Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean (she is a passenger; Wilmer Stultz is the pilot and Lou Gordon the mechanic). Amelia Mary Earhart (born July 24, 1897; disappeared July 2, 1937) was an American aviation pioneer and author. Earhart was the first female to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean and first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She received the United States Distinguished Flying Cross for this accomplishment. She set many other records, wrote best-selling books about her flying experiences and was instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots. In 1935, Earhart became a visiting faculty member at Purdue University as an advisor to aeronautical engineering and a career counselor to women students. She was also a member of the National Woman's Party and an early supporter of the Equal Rights Amendment. During an attempt to make a circumnavigational flight of the globe in 1937 in a Purdue-funded Lockheed Model 10-E Electra, Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared over the central Pacific Ocean near Howland Island. Fascination with her life, career, and disappearance continues to this day. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/amelia-earhart-dvd-female-aviation-pioneer.html

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June 18, 1940: The European Civil War: World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater Of World War II): The Battle Of France (The Western Campaign [German: Westfeldzug], The French Campaign [German: Frankreichfeldzug; French: Campagne De France], The Fall Of France): Fall Rot (German: "Case Red"): The Battle Of Britain: The This Was Their Finest Hour Speech: -- In one of the most important speeches in British history, Winston Churchill, following the Allied defeat in the Battle Of France and with The Battle Of Britain looming, addresses the House Of Commons of The Parliament Of The United Kingdom with a rousing speech that he repeated that evening in its entirety on the BBC Home Service, BBC Forces Programme and BBC Overseas Service radio networks, a speech since come to be known as the "This Was Their Finest Hour" speech. Churchill have this speech just over a month after he took over as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom at the head of an all-party coalition government, and just two days after France sought an armistice on the evening of June 16. He justified the low level of support it had been possible to give to France since Dunkirk, and reported the successful evacuation of most of the supporting forces. He resisted pressure to purge the coalition of appeasers, or otherwise indulge in recrimination. He reviewed the forces still available to prevent or repel any attempted invasion, summing up the review as follows: "I have thought it right upon this occasion to give the House and the country some indication of the solid, practical grounds upon which we base our inflexible resolve to continue the war, and I can assure them that our professional advisers of the three Services unitedly advise that we should do so, and that there are good and reasonable hopes of final victory.". He reported messages of support from the Dominions and justified confidence in victory, even if it was not yet clear how that victory could be achieved: "In casting up this dread balance-sheet, contemplating our dangers with a disillusioned eye, I see great reason for intense vigilance and exertion, but none whatever for panic or despair. During the first four years of the last war the Allies experienced,...nothing but disaster and disappointment, and yet at the end their morale was higher than that of the Germans, who had moved from one aggressive triumph to another. During that war we repeatedly asked ourselves the question, "How are we going to win?" and no one was able ever to answer it with much precision, until at the end, quite suddenly, quite unexpectedly, our terrible foe collapsed before us.". The peroration - quoted below - even at a moment of great apparent danger to British national survival talks not only of national survival and national interest, but of noble causes (freedom, Christian civilisation, the rights of small nations) for which Britain was fighting and for which Churchill thought the United States should - and given time would - fight. The War Illustrated published the speech with the title "'If the Empire lasts a thousand years men will say, this was their finest hour'"; "....However matters may go in France or with the French Government or with another French Government, we in this island and in the British Empire will never lose our sense of comradeship with the French people. If we are now called upon to endure what they have suffered we shall emulate their courage, and if final victory rewards our toils they shall share the gains, aye. And freedom shall be restored to all. We abate nothing of our just demands-Czechs, Poles, Norwegians, Dutch, Belgians, all who have joined their causes to our own shall be restored. What General Weygand has called the Battle Of France is over ... the Battle Of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilisation. Upon it depends our own British life, and the long continuity of our institutions and our Empire. The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be freed and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new dark age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves, that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, "This was their finest hour.". On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/churchill39s-war-dvd-wwii-as-winston-churchill-fought-39.html

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June 18, 1940: The European Civil War: World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater Of World War II): The Battle Of France (The Western Campaign [German: Westfeldzug], The French Campaign [German: Frankreichfeldzug; French: Campagne De France], The Fall Of France): Fall Rot (German: "Case Red"): The Resistance During World War II: The French Resistance: The Appeal Of 18 June Speech (French: L'Appel Du 18 Juin) : -- In one of the most important speeches in French history, the French Resistance to the German occupation during World War II begins as Charles De Gaulle speaks to the French people by radio from The City of Westminster in London, England after the fall of France, declaring that the war for France was not yet over, and calling upon his countrymen to rally in support of The French Resistance. Despite of its historical reputation as the beginning of the Resistance and Free French, historians have shown that the appeal was heard only by a minority of French people; it took De Gaulle's June 22, 1940 speech on the BBC, which was much more widely heard due to its reach, that the content of The Appeal Of 18 June became popularized. The historic importance of both of these radio broadcasts, and de Gaulle's future status as the emblem of the French resistance, earned de Gaulle the nickname "The Man Of 18 June" (French: L'Homme Du 18 Juin). On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/charles-de-gaulle-dvd-general-president-dual-layer-wwii.html

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June 18, 1941: Great Scientists: Science: The History Of Science: Agriculture: Agricultural Science: George Washington Carver: -- The University of Rochester, New York awards an honorary Doctor Of Science degree to George Washington Carver, the most prominent black scientist of the early 20th century, "Black Leonardo (da Vinci)", American agricultural scientist, Tuskegee Institute professor, environmentalist and inventor who promoted alternative crops to cotton and methods to prevent soil depletion. While at Tuskegee, Carver developed techniques to improve soils depleted by repeated plantings of cotton. He wanted poor farmers to grow other crops, such as peanuts and sweet potatoes, as a source of their own food and to improve their quality of life. The most popular of his 44 practical bulletins for farmers contained 105 food recipes using peanuts. Although he spent years developing and promoting numerous products made from peanuts, none became commercially successful. Apart from his work to improve the lives of farmers, Carver was also a leader in promoting environmentalism. He received numerous honors for his work, including the Spingarn Medal of the NAACP. In an era of high racial polarization, his fame reached beyond the black community. He was widely recognized and praised in the white community for his many achievements and talents. In 1941, Time magazine dubbed Carver a "Black Leonardo". On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/wwii-films-africanamericans-at-war-dvd.html

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June 18, 1942: #BOTD: #HBD! Paul McCartney, English singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and composer, best known as a founding member of The Beatles, is #born James Paul McCartney at Walton Hospital in the Walton area of Liverpool, where his mother, Mary Patricia (nee Mohin), had qualified to practise as a nurse. Both of his parents were of Irish descent. Sir James Paul McCartney CH MBE gained worldwide fame as the bass guitarist and singer for the rock band the Beatles, widely considered the most popular and influential group in the history of pop music. His songwriting partnership with John Lennon was the most successful of the post-war era. After the group disbanded in 1970, he pursued a solo career and formed the band Wings with his first wife, Linda, and Denny Laine. McCartney is one of the most successful composers and performers of all time. More than 2,200 artists have covered his Beatles song "Yesterday", making it one of the most covered songs in popular music history. Wings' 1977 release "Mull of Kintyre" is one of the all-time best-selling singles in the UK. A two-time inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (as a member of the Beatles in 1988, and as a solo artist in 1999), and an 18-time Grammy Award winner, McCartney has written, or co-written, 32 songs that have reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100, and as of 2009 he has 25.5 million RIAA-certified units in the United States. McCartney, Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr all received appointment as Members of the Order of the British Empire in 1965 and, in 1997, McCartney was knighted for services to music. McCartney is also one of the wealthiest musicians in the world, with an estimated net worth of 1.2B USD. McCartney has released an extensive catalogue of songs as a solo artist and has composed classical and electronic music. He has taken part in projects to promote international charities related to such subjects as animal rights, seal hunting, land mines, vegetarianism, poverty, and music education. He has married three times and is the father of five children. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/it-was-20-years-ago-today-1967-and-sgt-pepp201967.html

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Today, June 18, 2026

June 18, 1945: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Aftermath Of The European Civil War: World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater Of World War II): The Western Front Of World War II: Treason Trials: The Trial Of William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw): -- William Joyce, who went by the name "Lord Haw-Haw" during his radio propaganda broadcasts targeting the British during World War II, is charged with treason for his pro-German propaganda broadcasting. William Joyce (April 24, 1906 - January 3, 1946) was a natural born American citizen who, after joining Sir Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists, obtained a British passport in 1938, then went to Nazi Germany to broadcast back to England, the United States and ultimately to the Allies in general insulting "talks" about the progress of World War II in the fictious person of "Lord Haw Haw". He found himself at war's end hanged for the crime of treason by the British, who took him at his word that he was in fact a British citizen. Many arguments have been made over the years that the assertion he owed allegiance to Britain while he held a British passport was questionable, and that his trial should not have resulted in a guilty verdict. However, while at least one American broadcaster for the Axis who was found guilty of treason has since been justly exonerated (Iva Toguri, incorrectly known as "Tokyo Rose"), the fact that the American citizen Joyce broadcast propaganda to America which did meet American criteria for treason (especially those broadcasts regarding the loss of American ships, a subject specifically cited as a treasonous offense to speak of in the aid of an enemy nation) makes it certain that had he been tried in America, as he clearly could have been, he would have been convicted of the crime of treason - the only difference in outcome would likely have been the punishment he received for the offense, since no other American broadcaster of propaganda in WWII was sentenced to death. This single disc MP3 CD collection spans the years 1939 to 1945, and includes fourteen of his broadcasts, most never before available for purchase until this CD release. They have been extensively digitally remastered, and some of them can be heard clearly for the first time since they were recorded over half a century ago. Their release is intended as a lesson in the gospel of hatred so that, especially while America and the free world in 2001 are again at war with yet another band of despotic demagogues, these discredited doctrines which have plagued mankind in the past can be recognized and defeated, both now and in the future. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/lord-haw-haw-broadcasts-william-joyce-wwii-german-radio-mp3-c3.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: Audio Recording History Films Collection DVD, Download, USB Drive
Today, June 18, 2026

June 18, 1948: Great Inventions: The History Of Sound Recording: The Phonograph: Analog Sound Storage Mediums: The LP Record (LP, Long Playing Record, Long Play Record): The Album Era: -- Columbia Records introduces the long-playing (LP) record album in a public demonstration at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City, marking the beginning of The Album Era of recorded music. The LP was soon adopted as a new standard by the entire record industry, and apart from a few relatively minor refinements and the important later addition of stereophonic sound, it remained the standard format for record albums (during a period in popular music known as the album era) until its gradual replacement from the 1980s to the early 2000s, first by cassettes, then by compact discs, and finally by digital music distribution. The LP is an analog sound storage medium, a phonograph record format characterized by: a speed of 33+1/3 rpm; a 12- or 10-inch (30- or 25-cm) diameter; use of the "microgroove" groove specification; and a vinyl (a copolymer of vinyl chloride acetate) composition disk. Beginning in approximately 2007 in the West and in East Asia, the LP experienced a resurgence in popularity known as The Vinyl Revival, also known as The Vinyl Resurgence, the renewed interest and increased sales of vinyl records, or gramophone records, that has been taking place in the music industry. As of 2023, vinyl is now more popular in some territories than it has been since the late 1980s, though vinyl records still make up only a marginal percentage (less than 6%) of overall music sales. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/audio-recording-history-films-dual-layer-dvd.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: Portraits Of Power: Gamal Abdel Nasser DVD, Video Download, USB Drive
Today, June 18, 2026

June 18, 1953: Egyptian History: Modern Egyptian History: The Egyptian Revolution Of 1952 (The Egyptian Revolution): -- The Egyptian Revolution Of 1952 ends with the overthrow of The Muhammad Ali dynasty by a group of army officers led by Mohamed Naguib and Gamal Abdel Nasser, followed by the declaration of the Republic Of Egypt, a state ultimately coidentified with Nasser, bringing an end to The Egyptian Revolution Of 1952. On July 23, 1952, a day known as Revolution Day, The Egyptian Revolution Of 1952 began when General Muhammad Naguib led the Free Officers Movement (formed by Gamal Abdel Nasser, the real power behind the coup) in overthrowing King Farouk of Egypt, changing Egypt from a monarchy to a republic. The revolution is commemorated each year on July 23. Also known as the Egyptian Coup D'Etat of 1952, or The July 23 revolution, the coup was initially aimed at overthrowing King Farouk. However, the movement had more political ambitions, and soon moved to abolish the constitutional monarchy and aristocracy of Egypt and Sudan, establish a republic, end the British occupation of the country, and secure the independence of Sudan (previously governed as an Anglo-Egyptian condominium). The revolutionary government adopted a staunchly nationalist, anti-imperialist agenda, which came to be expressed chiefly through Arab nationalism, and international non-alignment. The coup was faced with immediate threats from Western imperial powers, particularly the United Kingdom, which had occupied Egypt since 1882, and France, both of whom were wary of rising nationalist sentiment in territories under their control throughout the Arab world, and Africa. The ongoing state of war with Israel also posed a serious challenge, as the Free Officers increased Egypt's already strong support of the Palestinians. These two issues conflated four years after the coup when Egypt was invaded by Britain, France, and Israel in the Suez Crisis of 1956. Despite enormous military losses, the war was seen as a political victory for Egypt, especially as it left the Suez Canal in uncontested Egyptian control for the first time since 1875, erasing what was seen as a mark of national humiliation. This strengthened the appeal of the revolution in other Arab and African countries. Wholesale agrarian reform, and huge industrialisation programmes were initiated in the first decade and half of the revolution, leading to an unprecedented period of infrastructure building, and urbanisation. By the 1960s, Arab socialism had become a dominant theme, transforming Egypt into a centrally planned economy. Official fear of a Western-sponsored counter-revolution, domestic religious extremism, potential communist infiltration, and the conflict with Israel were all cited as reasons compelling severe and longstanding restrictions on political opposition, and the prohibition of a multi-party system. These restrictions on political activity would remain in place until the presidency of Anwar Sadat from 1970 onwards, during which many of the policies of the revolution were scaled back or reversed. The early successes of the revolution encouraged numerous other nationalist movements in other Arab, and African countries, such as Algeria, and Kenya, where there were anti-colonial rebellions against European empires. It also inspired the toppling of existing pro-Western monarchies and governments in the region and the continent. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/portraits-of-power-gamal-abdel-nasser-dvd.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: King: A Filmed Record: Montgomery To Memphis DVD, Download, USB Drive
Today, June 18, 2026

June 18, 1953: Weddings: Civil Rights Movements: The American Civil Rights Movement (The American Civil Rights Movement (1954-1968)): -- Martin Luther King Jr. marries Coretta Scott, at her parents' house in her hometown of Heiberger, Alabama, in a ceremony was performed by Martin Luther King Sr.. They became the parents of four children: Yolanda King (1955-2007), Martin Luther King III (b. 1957), Dexter Scott King (b. 1961), and Bernice King (b. 1963). Though Coretta had the vow to obey her husband removed from the marriage ceremony, which was unusual for the time, King limited Coretta's role in the civil rights movement during their marriage, expecting her to be a housewife and mother. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/king-a-filmed-record--montgomery-to-memphis-dvd.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: School Segregation: Little Rock & Boston MP4 Video Download DVD
Today, June 18, 2026

June 18, 1963: Civil Rights Movements: The American Civil Rights Movement (1954-1968): Anti-Black Racism In The United States: School Segregation: School Segregation In The United States: De Facto School Segregation In The United States: The 1963 Boston Public School Boycott: -- More than 3,000 Black students boycott the Boston Public Schools. Instead of attending their schools, the students spent the day at so-called "freedom schools," which were set up in churches and community centers around Boston. There, they had lessons in African American history, the civil rights movement and non-violent resistance. By 1963, many African Americans in Boston had become disenchanted with the quality of education provided to Black students in their town. They had been closely watching the events of the civil rights movement in the South and had begun to organize. It was not Boston's first such demonstration. In May 1961, more than 10,000 demonstrators marched on the Massachusetts State House in Boston to lend their support to the civil rights struggle in Birmingham, Alabama. A week later, Paul Parks of the NAACP organized a meeting at Freedom House to air grievances to Louise Day Hicks, the new chair of the Boston School Committee. Hicks controlled the school committee and its refusal to acknowledge the existence of de facto segregation. Nor was it Boston's last such demonstration. The Desegregation Of Boston Public Schools (1974-1988) was a period in which the Boston Public Schools were under court control to desegregate through a system of busing students. The call for desegregation and the first years of its implementation led to a series of racial protests and riots that brought national attention, particularly from 1974 to 1976. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/school-segregation-little-rock-amp-boston-mp4-video-download-dv4.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: The Who Live At The Monterey Pop Festival MP3 Download Or MP3 CD
Today, June 18, 2026

June 18, 1967: Counterculture Of The 1960s: The Hippie Movement: Counterculture Festivals: The Monterey International Pop Festival: -- The three-day music festival held June 16 to 18, 1967 in Monterey, California concludes on its third and final day at the Monterey County Fairgrounds. The festival is remembered for the first major American appearances by the Jimi Hendrix Experience, the Who and Ravi Shankar, the first large-scale public performance of Janis Joplin, and the introduction of Otis Redding to a mass American audience. The festival embodied the theme of California as a focal point for the counterculture and generally is regarded as one of the beginnings of the "Summer of Love" in 1967 and the public debut of the hippie, flower power and flower children movements and era. Because Monterey was widely promoted and heavily attended, featured historic performances, and was the subject of a popular theatrical documentary film, it became an inspiration and a template for future music festivals, including the Woodstock Festival two years later. Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner said "Monterey was the nexus - it sprang from what the Beatles began, and from it sprang what followed"; the Beatles had just released their landmark "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" album mere weeks before, and it as well as the Monterey Pop Festival greatly influenced all popular music that followed them. The third day of the Monterey Pop Festival, June 17, began on a Sunday afternoon, and till late on Sunday evening, with a four-hour backstage jam session going on till Dawn of Monday morning. Ravi Shankar was another artist who was introduced to the U.S. at the festival. Shankar's set began Sunday afternoon following a rainy morning, and the audience filled the arena to about 80% capacity. All other musical acts played to a packed house. He and his group of East Indian instrumentalists played for three hours, after asking everyone to refrain from photography and smoking. Shankar performed several ragas, two of which were released on the album Live: Ravi Shankar at the Monterey International Pop Festival. A dhun based on the raga Panchamse-Ghara (later miscredited as raga Bhimpalasi) concluded the Monterey Pop film. The Blues Project opened the final night of the festival. Newsweek magazine's reporter Michael Lydon said that their blues fusion music was "part blues, part Scottish air, part weird phrases that became images of ambiguity." Big Brother and the Holding Company returned for a short set designed to capture on film Janis Joplin singing "Ball and Chain". A team led by Cyrus Faryar, called Group With No Name, played a "terrible" set, as judged by Lydon. Buffalo Springfield, introduced by Peter Tork of the Monkees, appeared with a competent and efficient delivery of a half dozen songs, with "Bluebird" called out as memorable. Although already a big act in the UK, and now gaining some attention in the U.S. after playing some New York dates two months earlier, the Who were propelled into the American mainstream at Monterey. The band used rented Vox amps for their set, which were not as powerful as their regular Sound City amps which they had left in England to save shipping costs. At the end of their frenetic performance of "My Generation", the audience was stunned as guitarist Pete Townshend smashed his guitar and slammed the neck against the amps and speakers. Smoke bombs exploded behind the amps and frightened concert staff rushed onstage to retrieve expensive microphones. At the end of the mayhem, drummer Keith Moon kicked over his drum kit as the band exited the stage. During Jimi Hendrix's stay in England, he and the Who had seen each other perform; they were both impressed with and intimidated by each other, so neither wanted to be upstaged by the other. They decided to toss a coin, resulting in the Who winning the right to play first. The festival crew cleared the mess left behind by the Who, and set the stage for the Grateful Dead. While a psychedelic light show was projected overhead, the band, fronted by lead guitarist and singer Jerry Garcia, played extended jams, starting with "Viola Lee Blues" for 14 minutes, and finishing with a 20-minute segue of "Alligator" into "Caution (Do Not Stop on Tracks)". Lydon commented: "The Grateful Dead were beautiful. They did at top volume what Shankar had done softly. They played pure music, some of the best music of the concert. I have never heard anything in music that could be said to be qualitatively better than the performance of the Dead, Sunday night. Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones introduced the Jimi Hendrix Experience at the Monterey Pop Festival on the evening of Sunday, June 18. Jimi Hendrix's use of extremely high volumes, the feedback this produced, and the combination of the two along with his dive-bombing use of the vibrato bar on his guitar, produced sounds that, with the exception of the British in attendance, none of the audience had ever heard before. This, along with his look, his clothing, and his erotic antics onstage, had an enormous impact on the audience. To take things further, aware of the Who's planned explosive finale, he asked around for a can of lighter fluid, which he placed behind one of his amplifier stacks before beginning his set. He ended his Monterey performance with an unpredictable version of "Wild Thing", which he capped by kneeling over his guitar, pouring lighter fluid over it, setting it on fire, and then smashing it onto the stage seven times before throwing its remains into the audience. This performance put Hendrix on the map and generated an enormous amount of attention in the music press and newspapers alike. Backstage before their sets, Hendrix played his guitar while staring at guitarist Pete Townshend, who denied the assumption that they were jamming together. Townshend said later, "It was just Jimi on a chair playing at me. Playing at me like 'Don't fuck with me, you little shit.'" The Mamas & the Papas closed the festival. They also brought on Scott McKenzie to play his John Phillips-written single "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)". Their set included their hits "Monday, Monday" and "California Dreamin'". The song "Dancing in the Street" was the final song performed at the festival, with Mama Cass telling the audience "You're on your own". After the concert, members of Jefferson Airplane, the Jimi Hendrix Experience, and the Grateful Dead jammed together backstage for four more hours, stopping for breakfast at dawn. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-who-live-at-the-monterey-pop-festival-mp3-download-or-mp3-cd.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: Jimi Plays Monterey Jimi Hendrix DVD, Video Download, USB Flash Drive
Today, June 18, 2026

June 18, 1967: Counterculture Of The 1960s: The Hippie Movement: Counterculture Festivals: The Monterey International Pop Festival: -- The three-day music festival held June 16 to 18, 1967 in Monterey, California concludes on its third and final day at the Monterey County Fairgrounds. The festival is remembered for the first major American appearances by the Jimi Hendrix Experience, the Who and Ravi Shankar, the first large-scale public performance of Janis Joplin, and the introduction of Otis Redding to a mass American audience. The festival embodied the theme of California as a focal point for the counterculture and generally is regarded as one of the beginnings of the "Summer of Love" in 1967 and the public debut of the hippie, flower power and flower children movements and era. Because Monterey was widely promoted and heavily attended, featured historic performances, and was the subject of a popular theatrical documentary film, it became an inspiration and a template for future music festivals, including the Woodstock Festival two years later. Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner said "Monterey was the nexus - it sprang from what the Beatles began, and from it sprang what followed"; the Beatles had just released their landmark "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" album mere weeks before, and it as well as the Monterey Pop Festival greatly influenced all popular music that followed them. The third day of the Monterey Pop Festival, June 17, began on a Sunday afternoon, and till late on Sunday evening, with a four-hour backstage jam session going on till Dawn of Monday morning. Ravi Shankar was another artist who was introduced to the U.S. at the festival. Shankar's set began Sunday afternoon following a rainy morning, and the audience filled the arena to about 80% capacity. All other musical acts played to a packed house. He and his group of East Indian instrumentalists played for three hours, after asking everyone to refrain from photography and smoking. Shankar performed several ragas, two of which were released on the album Live: Ravi Shankar at the Monterey International Pop Festival. A dhun based on the raga Panchamse-Ghara (later miscredited as raga Bhimpalasi) concluded the Monterey Pop film. The Blues Project opened the final night of the festival. Newsweek magazine's reporter Michael Lydon said that their blues fusion music was "part blues, part Scottish air, part weird phrases that became images of ambiguity." Big Brother and the Holding Company returned for a short set designed to capture on film Janis Joplin singing "Ball and Chain". A team led by Cyrus Faryar, called Group With No Name, played a "terrible" set, as judged by Lydon. Buffalo Springfield, introduced by Peter Tork of the Monkees, appeared with a competent and efficient delivery of a half dozen songs, with "Bluebird" called out as memorable. Although already a big act in the UK, and now gaining some attention in the U.S. after playing some New York dates two months earlier, the Who were propelled into the American mainstream at Monterey. The band used rented Vox amps for their set, which were not as powerful as their regular Sound City amps which they had left in England to save shipping costs. At the end of their frenetic performance of "My Generation", the audience was stunned as guitarist Pete Townshend smashed his guitar and slammed the neck against the amps and speakers. Smoke bombs exploded behind the amps and frightened concert staff rushed onstage to retrieve expensive microphones. At the end of the mayhem, drummer Keith Moon kicked over his drum kit as the band exited the stage. During Jimi Hendrix's stay in England, he and the Who had seen each other perform; they were both impressed with and intimidated by each other, so neither wanted to be upstaged by the other. They decided to toss a coin, resulting in the Who winning the right to play first. The festival crew cleared the mess left behind by the Who, and set the stage for the Grateful Dead. While a psychedelic light show was projected overhead, the band, fronted by lead guitarist and singer Jerry Garcia, played extended jams, starting with "Viola Lee Blues" for 14 minutes, and finishing with a 20-minute segue of "Alligator" into "Caution (Do Not Stop on Tracks)". Lydon commented: "The Grateful Dead were beautiful. They did at top volume what Shankar had done softly. They played pure music, some of the best music of the concert. I have never heard anything in music that could be said to be qualitatively better than the performance of the Dead, Sunday night. Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones introduced the Jimi Hendrix Experience at the Monterey Pop Festival on the evening of Sunday, June 18. Jimi Hendrix's use of extremely high volumes, the feedback this produced, and the combination of the two along with his dive-bombing use of the vibrato bar on his guitar, produced sounds that, with the exception of the British in attendance, none of the audience had ever heard before. This, along with his look, his clothing, and his erotic antics onstage, had an enormous impact on the audience. To take things further, aware of the Who's planned explosive finale, he asked around for a can of lighter fluid, which he placed behind one of his amplifier stacks before beginning his set. He ended his Monterey performance with an unpredictable version of "Wild Thing", which he capped by kneeling over his guitar, pouring lighter fluid over it, setting it on fire, and then smashing it onto the stage seven times before throwing its remains into the audience. This performance put Hendrix on the map and generated an enormous amount of attention in the music press and newspapers alike. Backstage before their sets, Hendrix played his guitar while staring at guitarist Pete Townshend, who denied the assumption that they were jamming together. Townshend said later, "It was just Jimi on a chair playing at me. Playing at me like 'Don't fuck with me, you little shit.'" The Mamas & the Papas closed the festival. They also brought on Scott McKenzie to play his John Phillips-written single "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)". Their set included their hits "Monday, Monday" and "California Dreamin'". The song "Dancing in the Street" was the final song performed at the festival, with Mama Cass telling the audience "You're on your own". After the concert, members of Jefferson Airplane, the Jimi Hendrix Experience, and the Grateful Dead jammed together backstage for four more hours, stopping for breakfast at dawn. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/jimi-plays-monterey-dvd-complete-monterey-pop-performance.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: U.S. Missiles Of The Cold War + 2 Bonus Titles MP4 Video Download DVD
Today, June 18, 2026

June 18, 1979: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: Arms Control: Nuclear Arms Control: The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT): SALT II: -- The United States and the Soviet Union sign the SALT II nuclear arms control agreement after following the seven-year-long SALT II series of talks between United States and Soviet negotiators from 1972 to 1979 which sought to curtail the manufacture of strategic nuclear weapons. SALT II was a continuation of the SALT I talks and was led by representatives from both countries. SALT II was the first nuclear arms treaty which assumed real reductions in strategic forces to 2,250 of all categories of delivery vehicles on both sides. The SALT II Treaty banned new missile programs (a new missile defined as one with any key parameter 5% better than in currently deployed missiles), so both sides were forced to limit their new strategic missile types development and construction, such as the development of additional fixed ICBM launchers. Likewise, this agreement would limit the number of MIRVed ballistic missiles and long range missiles to 1,320. However, the United States preserved their most essential programs like the Trident missile, along with the cruise missiles President Jimmy Carter wished to use as his main defensive weapon as they were too slow to have first strike capability. In return, the USSR could exclusively retain 308 of its so-called "heavy ICBM" launchers of the SS-18 type. A major breakthrough for this agreement occurred at the Vladivostok Summit meeting in November 1974, when President Gerald Ford and General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev came to an agreement on the basic framework for the SALT II agreement. The elements of this agreement were stated to be in effect through 1985. An agreement to limit strategic launchers was reached in Vienna on June 18, 1979, and was signed by Leonid Brezhnev and Carter at a ceremony held in the Redoutensaal of the imperial Hofburg Palace. Six months after the signing, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, and in September of the same year, the United States discovered that a Soviet combat brigade was stationed in Cuba. Although President Carter claimed this Soviet brigade had only recently been deployed to Cuba, the unit had been stationed on the island since the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. In light of these developments, the treaty was never ratified by the United States Senate. Its terms were, nonetheless, honored by the U.S. until 1986. SALT II was superseded by START I in 1991. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/us-missiles-of-the-cold-war-dvd-mp4-us4.html

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Today, June 18, 2026

June 18, 1981: Aviation: The History Of Aviation: The History Of Military Aviation: Maiden Flights: -- The Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk, the first operational aircraft initially designed around stealth technology, makes its first flight at Groom Lake, Nevada, the highly classified United States Air Force (USAF) facility located within the Nevada Test and Training Range known as Area 51. The Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk is an American single-seat, twin-engine stealth attack aircraft that was developed by Lockheed's secretive Skunk Works division and operated by the United States Air Force (USAF). The F-117 was based on the Have Blue technology demonstrator. The Nighthawk was the first operational aircraft to be designed around stealth technology. Its maiden flight took place in 1981 at Groom Lake, Nevada, and the aircraft achieved initial operating capability status in 1983. The Nighthawk was shrouded in secrecy until it was revealed to the public in 1988. Of the 64 F-117s built, 59 were production versions, with the other five being prototypes. The F-117 was widely publicized for its role in the Persian Gulf War of 1991. Although it was commonly referred to as the "Stealth Fighter", it was strictly a ground-attack aircraft. F-117s took part in the conflict in Yugoslavia, where one was shot down by a surface-to-air missile (SAM) in 1999; it was the only Nighthawk to be lost in combat. The U.S. Air Force retired the F-117 in April 2008, primarily due to the fielding of the F-22 Raptor. Despite the type's retirement, a portion of the fleet has been kept in airworthy condition, and Nighthawks have been observed flying in 2020. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/war-jets-the-lockheed-f117-nighthawk-stealth-dvd-mp4-usb-flash-d1174.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: We Remember: The Space Shuttle Pioneers 1981-1986 DVD, Download, USB
Today, June 18, 2026

June 18, 1983: Rocket Launches: The History Of Rocketry: The History Of Spaceflight: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: The Space Age: The Space Race: Space Programs Of The United States: Human Spaceflight Programs: The Space Shuttle Program (The Space Transportation System (STS)): STS-7: -- On the 55th anniversary of Amelia Earhart's becoming the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean, Dr. Sally Ride becomes both first American woman and first acknowledged LGBT person to fly in space - and her mission was the first to launch Jelly Beans into space, too! STS-7 began its six-day mission with an on-time liftoff at 7:33 am EDT from the Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A). It was the seventh manned mission of the space shuttle, the first spaceflight of an American woman (Sally K. Ride), the largest crew to fly in a single spacecraft up to that time (five people), and the first flight that included members of NASA's Group 8 astronaut class, which had been selected in 1978 to fly the Space Shuttle. President Ronald Reagan also sent his personal favourite Jelly Belly jelly beans with the astronauts, making them the first jelly beans in space. STS-7 was NASA's seventh Space Shuttle mission, and the second mission for the Space Shuttle Challenger. During the mission, Challenger deployed several satellites into orbit. The shuttle launched from Kennedy Space Center on June 18, 1983, and landed at Edwards Air Force Base on June 24. STS-7 was notable for carrying Dr. Sally Ride, a 32-year-old physicist and pilot, America's first female astronaut. It was not until after Sally Ride died that it was revealed that her partner of 27 years was Tam O'Shaughnessy, a professor emerita of school psychology at San Diego State University, which makes Sally Ride the only known LGBT person, Astronaut or Cosmonaut, to travel in space. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/we-remember-the-space-shuttle-pioneers-198119811986.html

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Today, June 18, 2026

June 18, 2020: #DOTD: #RIP: Vera Lynn, English singer and entertainer whose musical recordings and performances were very popular during the Second World War (b. March 20, 1917) #dies at her home in Ditchling, East Sussex, England at the age of 103. Her memorialization after her death was one of the most significant public observances in modern British history. Tributes to Lynn were led by the Royal Family, with Queen Elizabeth II sending private condolences to Lynn's family and Clarence House issuing tributes from Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall. The Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, and Leader of the Opposition, Sir Keir Starmer, also led with tributes in Parliament, while musicians like Sir Paul McCartney and Katherine Jenkins and public figures like Captain Tom Moore discussed her profound impact. On the day of her death, regular programming on the BBC was stopped in order to air tributes to the singer. The Band of the Coldstream Guards convened the same day to play her song "We'll Meet Again". After Lynn's death, Jenkins began campaigning to erect a statue of her by the White Cliffs of Dover, a location referenced in another of her famous songs. Lynn was given a military funeral, which was held on July 10, 2020 in East Sussex. The procession made its way from her home in Ditchling to the Woodvale Crematorium in Brighton; it was widely attended by the public. Ditchling was decorated with poppies, a symbol of military remembrance. Ahead of the funeral, the White Cliffs of Dover had images of Lynn projected onto them, as "We'll Meet Again" was being played across the English Channel. Her cortege was accompanied by members of the Royal Air Force, the British Army, the Royal Navy, and the Royal British Legion, as well as the Battle Of Britain Spitfire flypast, which followed the cortege and passed over Ditchling three times (10 July 2020 was the 80th anniversary of the start of the Battle Of Britain). Her coffin was draped in a Union Flag with a wreath. At the family service at the Woodvale Crematorium chapel, she was serenaded by a Royal Marine bugler. Vera Lynn is buried at St. Margaret's Churchyard, Ditchling, England. Vera Lynn was born Vera Margaret Lynn Welch in East Ham, Essex, now part of the London Borough of Newham, England. Dame Vera Margaret Lynn CH DBE OStJ is honorifically known as the "Forces' Sweetheart", having given outdoor concerts for the troops in Egypt, India and Burma during the war as part of the Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA). The songs most associated with her include "We'll Meet Again", "(There'll Be Bluebirds Over) The White Cliffs of Dover", "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square" and "There'll Always Be an England". She remained popular after the war, appearing on radio and television in the United Kingdom and the United States, and recording such hits as "Auf Wiederseh'n, Sweetheart" and her UK number-one single "My Son, My Son". Her last single, "I Love This Land", was released to mark the end of the Falklands War. In 2009, at the age of 92, she became the oldest living artist to top the UK Albums Chart with the compilation album We'll Meet Again: The Very Best of Vera Lynn. In 2014, she released the collection Vera Lynn: National Treasure and in 2017, she released Vera Lynn 100, a compilation album of hits to commemorate her centenary-it was a No. 3 hit, making her the first centenarian performer to have a Top 10 album in the charts. By the time of her death in 2020 she had been active in the music industry for 96 years. Lynn devoted much time and energy to charity work connected with ex-servicemen, disabled children and breast cancer. She was held in great affection by Second World War veterans and in 2000 was named the Briton who best exemplified the spirit of the 20th century. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/clive-james39-fame-in-the-20th-century-tv-series-dvd-set-mp4-usb-39204.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: TV Commercials: The Cable Age Classics Vol. 4 MP4 Video Download DVD
Today, June 18, 2026
June 18: Clean Your Aquarium Day: -- A day that promotes the joy of keeping aquatic life and encourages regular aquarium cleanings. The holiday also spreads awareness about the hazards of not conducting regular aquarium cleanings, such as low oxygen levels in the water and poor fish respiration. The Sumerians were the earliest documented aquarists and were known to keep fish in artificial ponds 4,500 years ago. However, it wasn't until 1,000 B.C. that people in China started breeding and raising carp in large ponds for food. Later, in Japan, selective breeding of ornamental goldfish took place, and the breeding of ornamental carp was also perfected there. Similarly, the ancient Romans kept fish for food and entertainment; they also constructed ponds that contained fresh seawater from the ocean. In the mid-1700s, people in England kept goldfishes in glass vessels. Still, the practice of keeping aquariums did not become popular until people became aware of the relationship between oxygen, plants, and animals. Before the 19th century, the word 'aquarium' was used in botany to describe a container used to grow aquatic plants. The first display aquarium opened to the public in 1853 at Regent's Park in London, followed by aquariums in Berlin, Naples, and Paris. Later, P.T. Barnum, a circus entrepreneur, opened the first display aquarium at the American Museum in New York City, and by 1928, the world had 45 public or commercial aquariums. Similarly, the first oceanarium opened in 1938 in Marineland, featuring a community fish tank and trained dolphins. https://store.earthstation1.com/tv-commercials-the-cable-age-classics-vol-4-mp4-video-download-d44.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: G.I. Diary (1978) Color WWII TV Series DVD, Video Download, USB Drive
Today, June 18, 2026
June 18, 1945: #DOTD: #RIP: Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., Lieutenant General in the United States Army during World War II, who served in the Pacific Theater of Operations, commanded the defenses of Alaska early in the war, and commanded the 10th Army who conducted the amphibious assault during The Battle Of Okinawa, the highest ranking US officer to die by enemy fire during World War II (b. July 18, 1886) #dies three days before the American victory at The Battle Of Okinawa, a victim of Japanese artillery fire, which made him the highest-ranking U.S. military officer lost to enemy fire during both The Pacific War and of World War II. He is buried at Frankfort Cemetery in Frankfort, Kentucky. Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. was born in Munfordville, Kentucky, the son of Confederate general Simon Bolivar Buckner and his wife Delia Hayes Claiborne. Buckner and his father are named after the Venezuelan soldier and statesman, Simon Bolivar, who led what are currently the countries of Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, and Bolivia to independence from the Spanish Empire. His father was Governor of Kentucky from 1887 to 1891, and was the Gold Democratic Party's candidate for Vice President of the United States in 1896. https://store.earthstation1.com/gi-diary-dvd-set-wwii-in-color-film-all-26-tv-shows-7-di267.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Heroes Medal Of Honor Victoria Cross Legion Of Honour DVD MP4 USB Drive
Today, June 18, 2026
June 18, 2010: #DOTD: #RIP: Marcel Bigeard (MAHR-SAIL BEE-jzhar), personal radio call-sign "Bruno", one of the greatest soldiers of history, one of the most decorated soldiers in France who rose from a regular soldier in 1936 to ultimately finishing his career in 1976 as a Lieutenant General, resistance fighter and soldier who fought in World War II, Indochina and Algeria, one of the commanders in the Battle of Dien Bien Phu, thought by many to have been a dominating influence on French 'unconventional' warfare thinking from that time onwards, recipient of several Legion Of Honor awards, the highest awards given by his country (b. February 14, 1916) #dies at his home in Toul, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France, the commune where he was born. aged 94. His funeral procession was held at the Cathedrale Saint-Etienne de Toul on June 21, in presence of former French president Valery Giscard d'Estaing and Minister of Defense Herve Morin. Full military honours were accorded to Bigeard on June 22 at Les Invalides by the country's prime minister, Francois Fillon. In an obituary, the American historian Max Boot wrote that Bigeard's life disproved the popular canard in the English-speaking world that the French are soft and cowardly soldiers, the so-called "cheese-eating surrender monkeys", writing that Bigeard was the "consummate warrior" and one of "the great soldiers of the 20th century". Marcel Bigeard famously quipped to his troops during the final days of the Battle of Dien Bien Phu that, though the battle was indeed terrible, in all his long military career none of the battles he had been in were as awful as his mother. https://store.earthstation1.com/heroes-dvd-set-all-26-tv-shows-7-di267.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Georgy Zhukov Marshal Of The Soviet Union MP4 Video Download DVD
Today, June 18, 2026
June 18, 1974: #DOTD: #RIP: Georgy Zhukov, Russian general and politician, Red Army Chief of General Staff and Deputy Commander-in-Chief, 2nd Minister of Defence for the Soviet Union and Politburo member (b. December 1, 1896) #dies of a stroke in Moscow at the age of 77. Contrary to Zhukov's last will for an Orthodox Christian burial, and despite the requests of the family to the country's top leadership, his body was cremated and his ashes were buried at the Kremlin Wall Necropolis alongside fellow generals and marshals of the Soviet Union. Georgi Zhukov was born Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov in Strelkovka, Kaluga Governorate, Russian Empire into a poverty-stricken peasant family. During World War II he planned, organized and was overall commander of Red Army forces engaged in multiple battles, most notably the Battle Of Stalingrad, and ultimately, while commanding the 1st Belorussian Front, in the Battle Of Berlin. In recognition of Zhukov' role in World War II, he was allowed to participate in signing the German Instrument of Surrender and to inspect the Moscow Victory Parade of 1945. He later fell out of favor with Stalin, but after his death in 1953 his star rose again, having arrested Beria and found the favor of Nikita Khrushchev and Nikolai Bulganin. Until 1955, Zhukov had both sent and received letters from Eisenhower. Both leaders agreed that the two superpowers should coexist peacefully. He was forcibly retired from governmental service in 1957, but again brought back into favor if not government by Brezhnev. His memoirs were published in 1969 and became a best-seller. https://store.earthstation1.com/zhukov-dvd-marshal-georgi-soviet-union-wwii.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: American Revolutionary War Documentaries DVD, Download, USB Drive
Today, June 18, 2026
June 18, 1778: The Age Of Enlightenment (The Enlightenment, The Age Of Reason): The Age Of Revolution: The Atlantic Revolutions: The American Enlightenment: The American Revolution: The American Revolutionary War: The Philadelphia Campaign (July 1777 - July 1778) : -- British troops abandon Philadelphia. The Philadelphia Campaign was designed to gain control of Philadelphia, the Revolutionary-era capital where the Second Continental Congress convened and formed the Continental Army and appointed George Washington as its commander in 1775, and authored and unanimously adopted the Declaration Of Independence the following year, on July 4, 1776, which formalized and escalated the war. In the Philadelphia Campaign, British General William Howe failed to draw the Continental Army under George Washington into a battle in North Jersey. Howe then embarked his army on transports, and landed them at the northern end of the Chesapeake Bay, where they began advancing north toward Philadelphia. Washington prepared defenses against Howe's movements at Brandywine Creek, but was flanked and beaten back in the Battle of Brandywine on September 11, 1777. After further skirmishes and maneuvers, Howe entered and occupied Philadelphia. Washington then unsuccessfully attacked one of Howe's garrisons at Germantown prior to retreating to Valley Forge for the winter, where he and 12,000 faced the harshest winter of the war, including insufficient food and clothing. Howe's campaign was controversial because, while he succeeded in capturing the revolutionary capital of Philadelphia, he proceeded slowly and did not aid the concurrent Saratoga Campaign of John Burgoyne further north, which ended in disaster for the British in The Battles Of Saratoga and brought France into the war. Howe resigned during the occupation of Philadelphia and was replaced by his second-in-command, General Sir Henry Clinton. In 1778, Clinton was ordered to evacuate Philadelphia and consolidate his troops in New York City, in anticipation of a combined Franco-American attack there. Many Loyalists also left Philadelphia, fearing persecution. Washington's forces shadowed the withdrawing British Army until they clashed at the Battle of Monmouth, one of the war's largest battles. At the end of the Philadelphia Campaign in 1778, the two armies found themselves in roughly the same strategic positions that they had been in before Howe launched the attack on Philadelphia. https://store.earthstation1.com/american-revolutionary-war-dvd-documentaries.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Black Civil Rights Films: African-American History DVD, MP4, USB Stick
Today, June 18, 2026
June 18, 1941: Civil Rights Movements: The American Civil Rights Movement (1954-1968): The March On Washington Movement (MOWM) (1941-1946): -- President Franklin Roosevelt meets with A. Philip Randolph and other leaders of the March On Washington Movement and urges them to call off their March Of Washington demonstration scheduled for July 1, 1941, two weeks later. Randolph refuses, forcing President Roosevelt to acceed to Randolph's demand for an executive order by issuing Executive Order 8802 on June 25, 1941 which prohibited ethnic or racial discrimination in the nation's defense industry, including in companies, unions, and federal agencies. Accordingly, The March On Washington was suspended after Executive Order 8802 was issued. A. Philip Randolph, leader of the large Black railroad workers union The Brotherhood Of Sleeping Car Porters, was concerned by the discrimination against Black workers in defense industry hiring. In a 1940 issue of The Pittsburgh Courier, Randolph demanded the right for Black Americans "to work and fight for [their] country." In January 1941, Randolph formed The March On Washington Movement (MOWM). The first objective of the movement was to bring 10,000 Black Americans to gather at the Lincoln Memorial on July 1, 1941 to protest racial discrimination in the military and defense industries. Later, the target size of the march was increased ten-fold to a march of 100,000 Black Americans. Other Black leaders of the MOWM included secretary of the NAACP Walter White, leader of the National Urban League T. Arnold Hill, the leader of the National Council of Negro Women Mary McLeod Bethune, and more. With the stated July 1 date for the MOWM impending, the Roosevelt administration rushed to negotiate with the MOWM's leaders. First-lady Eleanor Roosevelt sent Randolph a letter stating that the planned march was a "grave mistake," but she received no reply from Randolph. Other members of the Roosevelt administration urged defense industry factories to stop discrimination against Black workers, but Randolph stated that he would only call off the march if an executive order was issued. Anxious to stop the march, Roosevelt enlisted the help of civil rights activist during the New Deal Aubrey Williams and labor expert Anna M. Rosenberg. They helped organize a meeting of the leaders of the MOWM with Roosevelt at the White House. The meeting quickly came to an impasse. In response to Randolph's demand for an executive order, Roosevelt replied: "Well Phil, you know I can't do that. If I issue an executive order for you, then there'll be no end to other groups coming in here and asking me to issue executive orders for them too." On the other hand, the MOWM leaders refused to settle for any action short of an executive order. Eventually, the Roosevelt administration acquiesced. A series of meetings in both New York and Washington resulted in the draft order. These meetings involved Randolph and White discussing with Williams, Rosenberg, and New York Mayor Fiorello La Guardia. The order was drafted by Joseph Rauh. The March on Washington was suspended after Executive Order 8802 was issued on June 25, 1941. https://store.earthstation1.com/black-civil-rights-films-africanamerican-history-dvd.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Peter Ustinov's Russia TV Documentary Series DVD, Video Download, USB
Today, June 18, 2026
June 18, 1936: #DOTD: #RIP: Maxim Gorky, Russian Soviet novelist, short story writer, playwright, Bolshevik and political activist, founder of the socialist realism literary method, five-time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature (b. March 28, 1868) #dies of pneumonia at his home in Gorki-10 (the name of the place is a completely different word in Russian unrelated to his surname), Moscow Oblast, Soviet Union, aged 68. He is buried at The Kremlin Wall Necropolis in Moscow, Moscow Federal City, Russia. Speculation has long surrounded the circumstances of his death; before his death from this lingering case of pneumonia, he was visited at home by Stalin, Genrikh Yagoda (Soviet secret police official and director of the NKVD, the Soviet Union's security and intelligence agency), and other leading communists. With the increase of Stalinist repression and especially after the assassination of Sergei Kirov in December 1934, Gorky was placed under unannounced house arrest, and his long-serving secretary Pyotr Kryuchkov had been recruited by Yagoda as a paid informer. During the Bukharin Trial of 1938 (one of the three Moscow Trials), one of the charges was that Gorky was killed by the agents of Yagoda. Maxim Gorky was born Alexei Maximovich Peshkov in Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod Governorate, Russian Empire. Gorky became an orphan at the age of eleven. He was brought up by his maternal grandmother and ran away from home at the age of twelve in 1880. After an attempt at suicide in December 1887, around fifteen years before success as a writer, he frequently changed jobs and roamed across the Russian Empire on foot for five years; these experiences would later influence his writing. Gorky's most famous works were The Lower Depths (1902), Twenty-six Men and a Girl (1899), The Song of the Stormy Petrel (1901), My Childhood (1913-1914), Mother (1906), Summerfolk (1904) and Children of the Sun (1905). He had an association with fellow Russian writers Leo Tolstoy and Anton Chekhov; Gorky would later mention them in his memoirs. Gorky was active with the emerging Marxist social-democratic movement. He publicly opposed the Tsarist regime, and for a time closely associated himself with Vladimir Lenin and Alexander Bogdanov's Bolshevik wing of the party. For a significant part of his life, he was exiled from Russia and later the Soviet Union. In 1932, he returned to the USSR on Joseph Stalin's personal invitation and lived there until his death in June 1936. A Soviet Kirov-class cruiser, a Tupolev ANT-20 propaganda aircraft (the largest in the world during the 1930s, with a wingspan similar to a Boeing 747), the TS Maxim Gorkiy cruise ship and more were named for him. https://store.earthstation1.com/peter-ustinov39s-russia-dvds-complete-6-part-tv-series-2-d3962.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Clive James' Fame In The 20th Century TV Series DVD Set MP4 USB Drive
Today, June 18, 2026
June 18, 1928: #DOTD: #RIP: Roald Amundsen, Norwegian pilot and explorer of polar regions, leader of the first ever expedition to reach the geographic Southern Pole, key figure of the period known as the Heroic Age Of Antarctic Exploration (b. July 16, 1872) #dies when he disappears while flying a French Latham 47 flying boat on a rescue mission in the Arctic. His team included Norwegian pilot Leif Dietrichson, French pilot Rene Guilbaud, and three more Frenchmen. They were seeking missing members of Italian aeronautical engineer Umberto Nobile's crew of his new airship Italia, which had crashed while returning from the North Pole. Later, a wing-float and bottom gasoline tank from the plane, which had been adapted as a replacement wing-float, were found near the Tromso coast. It is assumed that the plane crashed in the Barents Sea, and that Amundsen and his crew were killed in the wreck, or died shortly afterward. The search for Amundsen and team was called off in September 1928 by the Norwegian government, and the bodies were never found. On December 14, 1911, Roald Amundsen led Amundsen's South Pole Expedition team, comprising himself, Olav Bjaaland, Helmer Hanssen, Sverre Hassel, and Oscar Wisting, to become the first ever expedition to reach the geographic Southern Pole. They arrived at the pole five weeks ahead of a British party led by Robert Falcon Scott as part of the Terra Nova Expedition. Roald Amundsen was born Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen into a family of Norwegian shipowners and captains in Borge, between the towns Fredrikstad and Sarpsborg, Ostfold, Norway. Amundsen began his career as a polar explorer as first mate on Adrien de Gerlache's Belgian Antarctic Expedition of 1897-1899. From 1903 to 1906, he led the first expedition to successfully traverse the Northwest Passage on the sloop Gjoa. In 1909, Amundsen began planning for a South Pole expedition. He left Norway in June 1910 on the ship Fram and reached Antarctica in January 1911. His party established a camp at the Bay of Whales and a series of supply depots on the Barrier (now known as the Ross Ice Shelf) before setting out for the pole in October. The party of five, led by Amundsen, became the first to successfully reach the South Pole on December 14, 1911. Following a failed attempt in 1918 to reach the North Pole by traversing the Northeast Passage on the ship Maud, Amundsen began planning for an aerial expedition instead. On May 12, 1926, Amundsen and 15 other men in the airship Norge became the first explorers verified to have reached the North Pole. https://store.earthstation1.com/clive-james39-fame-in-the-20th-century-tv-series-dvd-set-mp4-usb-39204.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Top Gun And Beyond: The Evolution Of Fighter Aircraft DVD MP4 USB
Today, June 18, 2026
June 18, 1916: #DOTD: #RIP: Max Immelmann, German lieutenant and pilot, first German World War I flying ace, first aviator to win the Pour le Merite, pioneer of fighter aviation, whose name has become attached to a common fighter pilot tactic, the Immelmann Turn, officially credited with 15 aerial victories, though he more properly should have been credited with the two further aerial victories he achieved during his last day (b. September 21, 1890) #dies aged 25 over Lens, Pas-de-Calais, France when his Fokker E.III Eindecker fighter plane is shot down by British Second Lieutenant G. R. McCubbin in a dogfight with his F.E.2 reconnaissance aircraft. Late that afternoon, Immelmann led a flight of four Fokker E.III Eindeckers in search of a flight of eight F.E.2b fighter/reconnaissance aircraft of 25 Squadron Royal Flying Corps over Sallaumines in northern France. The British flight had just crossed the lines near Arras, with the intent of photographing the German infantry and artillery positions within the area, when Immelmann's flight intercepted them. After a long-running fight, scattering the participants over an area of some 80 square kilometres (30 sq mi), Immelmann brought down one of the enemy aircraft, wounding both the pilot and observer. This was his 16th victory claim, though it went unconfirmed. That evening at 21:45, Immelmann in Fokker E.III, serial 246/16 encountered No. 25 Squadron again, this time near the village of Lens. Immediately, he got off a burst which hit RFC Lt. J. R. B. Savage, pilot of F.E.2b pusher serial 4909, mortally wounding him. This was his 17th victory claim, though Max Mulzer was later credited with the victory. The second aircraft he closed on was piloted by Second Lieutenant G. R. McCubbin with Corporal J. H. Waller as gunner/observer; McCubbin was credited by the British with shooting Immelmann down. On the German side, many had seen Immelmann as invincible and could not conceive the notion that he had fallen to enemy fire. Meanwhile, British authorities awarded McCubbin the Distinguished Service Order and the Distinguished Service Medal and sergeant's stripes for Waller. The German Air Service at the time said the loss was due to (friendly) anti-aircraft fire. Others, including Immelmann's brother, believed his aircraft's gun synchronisation (designed to enable his machine gun to fire between the whirling propeller blades without damaging them) had malfunctioned with catastrophic results. Early versions of such gears frequently malfunctioned in this way and this had happened to Immelmann twice before, while testing-machine gun installations of two and three guns. On each occasion, he had been able to land safely. McCubbin, in a 1935 interview, said that immediately after Immelmann shot down McCubbin's squadron-mate, the German ace began an Immelmann turn, McCubbin and Waller descended from a greater altitude and opened fire, shooting down Immelmann. Waller pointed out later that the British bullets could have hit Immelmann's propeller. Damage to the propeller resulting in the loss of one blade could have been the primary cause of the structural failure evident in accounts of the crash of his aircraft. The resultant vibration of an engine at full throttle spinning half a propeller could have shaken the fragile craft to pieces. At 2,000 metres, the tail was seen to break away from the rest of Immelmann's Fokker, the wings detached or folded, and what remained of the fuselage fell straight down. Immelmann's body was recovered by the German 6 Armee from the twisted wreckage, lying lifeless over what was left of the surprisingly intact Oberursel engine (sometimes cited as under it), his body was identified by his initials embroidered on his handkerchief. Immelmann was given a state funeral and buried in Urnenhain Tolkewitz in his home city of Dresden. His body was later exhumed, however, and cremated in the Dresden-Tolkewitz Crematorium. Immelmann, along with Max Ritter Von Mulzer, scored all of his victories flying different types of Eindeckers, becoming one of the most successful pilots in the type. Max Immelmann was born in Dresden, Kingdom of Saxony, German Empire to an industrialist father who died when Max was young. In 1905 he was enrolled in the Dresden Cadet School. He joined the Eisenbahnregiment (Railway Regiment) Nr. 2 in 1911 as an Ensign, in pursuit of a commission. He left the army in March 1912 to study mechanical engineering in Dresden, but returned to service on the outbreak of war in 1914, as a reserve officer candidate. Assigned to Eisenbahnregiment Nr. 1, he soon transferred to aviation - and the rest, as they say, is history. https://store.earthstation1.com/top-gun-and-beyond-dvd-1988-fighter-aircraft-combat-capabi1988.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The History Of Jazz A Video Retrospective DVD, MP4 Download, USB Drive
Today, June 18, 2026
June 18, 2014: #DOTD: #RIP: Horace Silver, African American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger, particularly in the hard bop style that he helped pioneer in the 1950s (b. September 2, 1928) #dies of natural causes in New Rochelle, New York, aged 85. His burial details are not publicly disclosed. Horace Silver was born Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silver in Norwalk, Connecticut. After playing tenor saxophone and piano at school in Connecticut, Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silver got his break on piano when his trio was recruited by Stan Getz in 1950. Silver soon moved to New York City, where he developed a reputation as a composer and for his bluesy playing. Frequent sideman recordings in the mid-1950s helped further, but it was his work with the Jazz Messengers, co-led by Art Blakey, that brought both his writing and playing most attention. Their Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers album contained Silver's first hit, "The Preacher". After leaving Blakey in 1956, Silver formed his own quintet, with what became the standard small group line-up of tenor saxophone, trumpet, piano, bass, and drums. Their public performances and frequent recordings for Blue Note Records increased Silver's popularity, even through changes of personnel. His most successful album was Song for My Father, made with two iterations of the quintet in 1963 and 1964. Several changes occurred in the early 1970s: Silver disbanded his group to spend more time with his wife and to concentrate on composing; he included lyrics in his recordings; and his interest in spiritualism developed. The last two of these were often combined, resulting in commercially unsuccessful releases such as The United States of Mind series. Silver left Blue Note after 28 years, founded his own record label, and scaled back his touring in the 1980s, relying in part on royalties from his compositions for income. In 1993, he returned to major record labels, releasing five albums before gradually withdrawing from public view because of health problems. As a player, Silver transitioned from bebop to hard bop by stressing melody rather than complex harmony, and combined clean and often humorous right-hand lines with darker notes and chords in a near-perpetual left-hand rumble. His compositions similarly emphasized catchy melodies, but often also contained dissonant harmonies. Many of his varied repertoire of songs, including "Doodlin'", "Peace", and "Sister Sadie", became jazz standards that are still widely played. His considerable legacy encompasses his influence on other pianists and composers, and the development of young jazz talents who appeared in his bands over the course of four decades. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-history-of-jazz-by-billy-taylor-parts-i-amp-ii-dvd.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: War Jets: The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress DVD, MP4 Download, USB Stick
Today, June 18, 2026
June 18, 1965: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: The Cold War In Asia: The Indochina Wars: The Vietnam War (The Second Indochina War, The Vietnam Conflict, The Resistance War Against America): The United States In The Vietnam War: Aerial Operations And Battles Of The Vietnam War: Combat Skyspot: Operation Arc Light (Arclight): -- The United States uses B-52 bombers to attack National Liberation Front guerrilla fighters in South Vietnam. During Operation Arc Light (sometimes Arclight) from 1965 to 1973, the United States Air Force deployed B-52 Stratofortresses from bases in the U.S. Territory of Guam to provide battlefield air interdiction during the Vietnam War. This included strikes at enemy bases, supply routes, and behind the lines troop concentrations, as well as occasionally providing close air support directly to ground combat operations in Vietnam. The conventional bombing campaign was supported by ground-control-radar detachments of the 1st Combat Evaluation Group (1CEVG) in Operation Combat Skyspot, the ground-directed bombing (GDB) operation of the Vietnam War by the United States Air Force using Bomb Directing Centrals and by the United States Marine Corps. Arc Light operations usually targeted enemy base camps, troops concentrations, and supply lines. Combat Skyspot was the ground-directed bombing (GDB) operation of the Vietnam War by the United States Air Force using Bomb Directing Centrals and by the United States Marine Corps using Course Directing Centrals ("MSQ-77 and TPQ-10 ground radars"). Combat Skyspot's command guidance of B-52s and tactical fighters and bombers -- "chiefly flown by F-100's" -- at night and poor weather was used for aerial bombing of strategic, close air support, interdiction, and other targets. Using a combination radar/computer/communications system ("Q" system) at operating location in Southeast Asia, a typical bombing mission (e.g., during Operation Arc Light with a "cell" of 3 Boeing B-52 Stratofortresses) had an air command post turn over control of the mission to the radar station, and the station provided bomb run corrections and designated when to release bombs. https://store.earthstation1.com/war-jets-the-boeing-b52-stratofortress-d52.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Fifteen Years Of MacNeil/Lehrer Anniversary Documentary DVD MP4 USB
Today, June 18, 2026
June 18, 2022: #DOTD: #RIP: Mark Shields, American political columnist, advisor, and commentator who worked in leadership positions for many Democratic candidates' electoral campaigns (b. May 25, 1937) #dies from kidney failure at his home in Chevy Chase, Maryland, aged 85. His funeral mass was held at the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament, 3630 Quesada St., Washington, D.C., at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, June 22. His burial details are not publicly available. Mark Shields was born Mark Stephen Shields in Weymouth, Massachusetts into the Irish Catholic family of Mary (Fallon) Shields, a schoolteacher, and William Shields, a paper salesman who was involved in local politics. He graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1959 with a bachelor's degree in philosophy. Shields provided weekly political analysis and commentary for the PBS NewsHour from 1988 to 2020. His on-screen counterpart from 1985 to 1990 was David Gergen, presidential adviser during the administrations of Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton, currently a senior political analyst for CNN; from 1990 t0 2001, Paul Gigot, Pulitzer Prize-winning conservative political commentator and editor of the editorial pages for The Wall Street Journal; and from 2001 to 2020 David Brooks of The New York Times. Shields was also a regular panelist on Inside Washington, a weekly public affairs show that was seen on both PBS and ABC until it ceased production in December 2013. Shields was moderator and panelist on CNN's Capital Gang for 17 years. https://store.earthstation1.com/fifteen-years-of-macneillehrer-anniversary-documentary-dvd-mp4-us4.html

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June 18, 1959:#DOTD: #RIP: Ethel Barrymore, American stage, screen and radio actress and a member of the Barrymore family of actors (b. August 15, 1879) #dies of cardiovascular disease at the age of 79 at her home in Hollywood, California after having lived for many years with a heart condition. She was entombed at Calvary Cemetery. Ethel Barrymore was born Ethel Mae Blythe in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Barrymore's career spanned six decades, and was regarded as "The First Lady of the American Theatre". She received four nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, winning for None but the Lonely Heart (1944). The Ethel Barrymore Theatre in New York City is named for her. https://store.earthstation1.com/complete-information-please-quiz-show-old-time-radio-mp3-dv3.html