June 14
1381 | The Peasant's Revolt, led by Wat Tyler, climaxes when rebels plunder and burn the Tower of London and kill the Archbishop of Canterbury. | |
1642 | Massachusetts passes the first compulsory education law in the colonies. | |
1645 | Oliver Cromwell's army routs the king's army at Naseby. | |
1775 | The U.S. Army is founded when the Continental Congress authorizes the muster of troops. | |
1777 | The Continental Congress authorizes the "stars and stripes" flag for the new United States. | |
1789 | Captain William Bligh of the HMS Bounty arrives in Timor in a small boat. He had been forced to leave his ship when his crew mutinied. | |
1846 | A group of settlers declare California to be a republic. | |
1864 | At the Battle of Pine Mountain, Georgia, Confederate General Leonidas Polk is killed by a Union shell. | |
1893 | The city of Philadelphia observes the first Flag Day. | |
1907 | Women in Norway win the right to vote. | |
1919 | John William Alcot and Arthur Witten Brown take off from St. John's, Newfoundland, for Clifden, Ireland, on the first nonstop transatlantic flight. | |
1922 | President Warren G. Harding becomes the first president to speak on the radio. | |
1927 | Nicaraguan President Porfirio Diaz signs a treaty with the U.S. allowing American intervention in his country. | |
1932 | Representative Edward Eslick dies on the floor of the House of Representatives while pleading for the passage of the bonus bill. | |
1940 | German forces occupy Paris. | |
1942 | The Supreme Court rules that requiring students to salute the American flag is unconstitutional. | |
1944 | Boeing B-29 bombers conduct their first raid against mainland Japan. | |
1945 | Burma is liberated by the British. | |
1949 | The State of Vietnam is formed. | |
1951 | UNIVAC, the first computer built for commercial purposes, is demonstrated in Philadelphia by Dr. John W. Mauchly and J. Prosper Eckert, Jr. | |
1954 | Americans take part in the first nation-wide civil defense test against atomic attack. | |
1965 | A military triumvirate takes control in Saigon, South Vietnam. | |
1982 | Argentina surrenders to the United Kingdom ending the Falkland Islands War. | |
1985 | Gunmen hijack a passenger jet over the Middle East. | |
1989 | Congressman William Gray, an African American, is elected Democratic Whip of the House of Representatives. | |
1995 | Chechen rebels take 2,000 people hostage in a hospital in Russia. |
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