Wednesday, June 14, 2017

THIS DAY IN HISTORY ― JUNE 14

June 14 is the 165th day of the year (166th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 200 days remaining until the end of the year. 



1158 – Munich, Germany is founded by Henry the Lion on the banks of the river Isar. 



1645 – English Civil War: Battle of Naseby – 12,000 Royalist forces are beaten by 15,000 Parliamentarian soldiers. 

1775 – American Revolutionary War: the Continental Army is established by the Continental Congress, marking the birth of the United States Army. 


1777 – The Stars and Stripes is adopted by Congress as the Flag of the United States. 


1789 – Mutiny on the Bounty: HMS Bounty mutiny survivors including Captain William Bligh and 18 others reach Timor after a nearly 7,400 km (4,600 mi) journey in an open boat. 


1789 – Whiskey distilled from maize is first produced by American clergyman the Rev Elijah Craig. It is named Bourbon because Rev Craig lived in Bourbon County, Kentucky.


1807 – Emperor Napoleon's French Grande Armée defeats the Russian Army at the Battle of Friedland in Poland (modern Russian Kaliningrad Oblast) ending the War of the Fourth Coalition. 

1846 – Bear Flag Revolt begins – Anglo settlers in Sonoma, California, start a rebellion against Mexico and proclaim the California Republic. 

1863 – Second Assault on the Confederate works at the Siege of Port Hudson during the American Civil War. 


1919 – John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown depart from St. John's, Newfoundland on the first nonstop transatlantic flight. 


1937 – Pennsylvania becomes the first (and only) state of the United States to celebrate Flag Day officially as a state holiday. 

1941 – June deportation: the first major wave of Soviet mass deportations and murder of Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians, begins. 


1951 – UNIVAC I (UNIVersal Automatic Computer I) is dedicated by the U.S. Census Bureau. 


1952 – The keel is laid for the nuclear submarine USS Nautilus

1954 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law that places the words "under God" into the United States Pledge of Allegiance. 


1962 – The European Space Research Organisation is established in Paris – later becoming the European Space Agency


1966 – The Vatican announces the abolition of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum ("index of prohibited books"), which was originally instituted in 1557. 

1967 – The People's Republic of China tests its first hydrogen bomb. 


2002 – Near-Earth asteroid 2002 MN misses the Earth by 75,000 miles (121,000 km), about one-third of the distance between the Earth and the Moon. 


2014 – A Ukraine military Ilyushin Il-76 airlifter is shot down, killing all 49 people on board.


2015 – A wildfire near Willow, Alaska in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough burns over 6,500 acres.


    BORN TODAY

    1811 Harriet Beecher Stowe, American author and activist, Uncle Tom's Cabin (d. 1896)

    1864 Alois Alzheimer, German psychiatrist and neuropathologist (d. 1915)

    1946 Donald Trump, American businessman, television personality and 45th President of the United States

    1952 Pat Summitt, American basketball player and coach, NCAA all-time wins as coach (d. 2016)
    From Wikipedia and Google (images), ex as noted.     

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