Wednesday, June 14, 2000
History today -- 12:02 am CST, Update by The Master
- 1775: The U.S. Army was founded.
- 1777: The Continental Congress adopted the Stars and Stripes as the national flag.
- 1789: 19 Survivors cast adrift from the HMS Bounty Mutiny Reach Timor.
- 1822: Charles Babbage proposes the "Difference Engine" in a scientific paper presented to the Royal Astronomical Society.
- 1846: A group of U.S. settlers in Sonoma proclaimed the Republic of California.
- 1922: Warren G. Harding became the first president heard on radio, as Baltimore station WEAR broadcast his speech dedicating the Francis Scott Key memorial at Fort McHenry.
- 1940: German troops entered Paris. In addition, Nazi Germany opens it's concentration camp at Auschwitz (in German-occupied Poland)
- 1943: The Supreme Court ruled schoolchildren could not be compelled to salute the U.S. flag if it conflicted with their religious beliefs.
- 1951: Remington Rand introduced UNIVAC, the first commercial large-scale business computer. Its first customer was the U.S. census bureau.
- 1954: President Eisenhower signed an order adding the words "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance.
- 1967: The U.S. space probe Mariner 5 was launched from Cape Kennedy on a flight that took it past Venus.
- 1982: Argentine forces surrendered to British troops on the Falkland Islands.
- 1985: The 17-day hijack ordeal of TWA Flight 847 began as two Lebanese Shiite Muslim extremists seized the jetliner shortly after takeoff from Athens, Greece.
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