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Birthday June 14, 1736 Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, physicist, formulated Coulomb's Law |
Birthday June 14, 1811 Harriet Beecher Stowe, authoress (Uncle Tom's Cabin) |
Birthday June 14, 1811 Harriet Beecher Stowe is born |
Birthday June 14, 1820 John Bartlett, American editor, compiler of Familiar Quotations |
Birthday June 14, 1856 Andrey Markov, Russian mathematician |
Birthday June 14, 1864 Alois Alzheimer, German psychiatrist, pathologist |
Birthday June 14, 1868 Karl Landsteiner, immunologist, pathologist (Nobel 1930) |
Birthday June 14, 1909 Folk singer Burl Ives is born |
Birthday June 14, 1909 Burl Ives, folk singer-Actor |
Birthday June 14, 1918 Dorothy McGuirre, of McGuirre sisters |
Birthday June 14, 1919 Sam Wanamaker, Actor-director |
Birthday June 14, 1925 Pierre Salinger, ABC newsman former White House press sect |
Birthday June 14, 1928 Ernesto (Che) Guevara, Latin American revolutionary |
Birthday June 14, 1931 Marla Gibbs, in Chicago Ill |
Birthday June 14, 1933 Jerzy Kosinski, Author |
Birthday June 14, 1946 Joan Van Ark, in NYC (or 06-16) |
Birthday June 14, 1946 Donald Trump, Master Builder |
Birthday June 14, 1949 Bob Frankston, VisiCalc programmer |
Birthday June 14, 1952 Eddie Mekka |
Birthday June 14, 1958 Eric Heiden, zooms across Olympic ice |
Birthday June 14, 1961 Boy George Dowd, androgynous rock musician & druggie |
Birthday June 14, 1969 Steffi Graff, in W Germany Tennis player |
History June 14, 1775 US Army founded |
History June 14, 1777 Continental Congress in Phila adopts Stars & Stripes as flag |
History June 14, 1777 Continental Congress chooses national flag |
History June 14, 1789 Bounty mutiny survivors reach Timor |
History June 14, 1801 Former Revolutionary War Gen Benedict Arnold died in London |
History June 14, 1841 1st Canadian parliament opened in Kingston |
History June 14, 1846 California (Bear Flag) Republic proclaimed in Sonoma |
History June 14, 1846 California's Bear Flag revolt begins |
History June 14, 1847 Bunsen invents a gas burner |
History June 14, 1850 Fire destroys part of SF |
History June 14, 1863 Union defeated at the Second Battle of Winchester |
History June 14, 1870 All-pro Cincinnati Red Stockings suffer 1st loss in 130 games |
History June 14, 1876 California St Cable Car RR Co gets it's franchise |
History June 14, 1900 Hawaiian Territorial Government begins |
History June 14, 1903 Flash flood devastates Oregon town |
History June 14, 1917 U.S. President Woodrow Wilson gives Flag Day address |
History June 14, 1917 Gen Pershing & his HQ staff arrived in Paris during WW I |
History June 14, 1919 1st direct airplane crossing of Atlantic |
History June 14, 1922 Harding becomes first president to be heard on the radio |
History June 14, 1922 Baltimore radio station WEAR 1st to put on a President (Harding) |
History June 14, 1938 Chlorophyll patented by Benjamin Grushkin |
History June 14, 1940 Germans enter Paris |
History June 14, 1940 German forces occupied Paris during WW II |
History June 14, 1941 Ground broken for Boeing Plant II (ex-AFLC Plant 13) Wichita KS |
History June 14, 1942 Walt Disney's "Bambi" is released |
History June 14, 1942 1st bazooka rocket gun produced Bridgeport Ct |
History June 14, 1944 1st B-29 raid against Mainland Japan |
History June 14, 1948 TV Guide is published |
History June 14, 1951 UNIVAC 1 - 1st commercial computer - unveiled |
History June 14, 1951 UNIVAC computer dedicated |
History June 14, 1952 Keel laid for 1st nuclear powered sub the Nautilus |
History June 14, 1953 Yanks sweep Indians 6-2 3-0 before 74 -708 win streak of 18 straight |
History June 14, 1954 First nationwide civil defense drill held |
History June 14, 1954 Pres Eisenhower signs order adding words `under God' to the Pledge |
History June 14, 1963 Valery F Bykovsky 5th cosmonaut (Vostok 5) |
History June 14, 1967 Launch of Mariner V for Venus flyby |
History June 14, 1968 Dr. Spock convicted for aiding draft resisters |
History June 14, 1969 U.S. command announces troop withdrawal |
History June 14, 1975 USSR launches Venera 10 for Venus landing |
History June 14, 1976 Gong Show premiers |
History June 14, 1976 12th Mayor's Trophy Game Yanks beat Mets 8-4 |
History June 14, 1977 M L King killer James Earl Ray recaptured after prison break |
History June 14, 1978 Down 9-7 in 10th with 2 outs Yanks Paul Blair hits a 3 run HR |
History June 14, 1982 Argentina surrenders to Britain on Falkland Is ending 74-day conflict |
History June 14, 1982 Falkland Islands War ends |
History June 14, 1985 TWA flight 847 is hijacked by terrorists |
History June 14, 1985 Lebanese Shiite Moslem gunmen hijack TWA 847 after Athens' takeoff |
History June 14, 1986 Wild Kingdom host Marlin Perkins dies near St Louis at 81 |
History June 14, 1986 Death claimed Broadway librettist Alan Jay Lerner in NY at 67 |
History June 14, 1986 Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges in Geneva dies at 86 |
History June 14, 1998 Jordan leads Bulls to sixth NBA title |
History June 14, 2002 The Bourne Identity, featuring famous Mini chase scene, is released |
History June 14, 2003 Queen Elizabeth makes Helen Mirren a Dame |