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Today is Friday, June 18, the 169th day of 2010. There are 196 days left in the year.

Highlights in history on this date:

1757 - Holy Roman Empire forces defeat Prussia's King Frederick II in Seven Years War battle of Kollin, now Czech Republic, and he loses 13,000 of 33,000 troops.

1779 - French forces take St. Vincent in West Indies from British.

1812 - United States declares war against Britain because of restrictions imposed on shipping during the Napoleonic Wars.

1815 - British under Duke of Wellington and Prussians under Gerhard von Blucher defeat France's Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo.

1823 - King John VI …