June 18 in Firearms History

2 dates for gun owners on June 18

  • Anniversary 2
  1. Anniversary1873 · 153 years ago

    Susan B. Anthony arrested for voting in New York

    • a leader of the women's suffrage movement
    • When sentenced to pay a fine of $100, she said that she would never do so
    • The trial helped make women's suffrage a national issue

  2. Anniversary1983 · 43 years ago

    Sally Ride the first U.S. woman in space

    Sally Ride
    (May 26, 1951 – July 23, 2012

    •  astronaut and physicist
    • 1978 selected to be an astronaut in NASA Astronaut Group 8
      one of 35 selected out of 8000 applications
    • June 18, 1983 became 1st American woman in space
      crew member on Space Shuttle Challenger, STS-7
    • 1984 - 2nd space flight STS-41-G
    • She has spent 343+ hours in space
    • only person to serve on both of the panels investigating Shuttle accidents