June 14 is Flag Day
Pop Goes the Weasel Day
National Strawberry Shortcake Day
June 14, 1642 – First compulsory education law in America was passed by Massachusetts.
American Revolutionary War: the Continental Army was established by the Continental Congress on June 14, 1775, marking the birth of the United States Army.
1777 – The Stars and Stripes was adopted by Congress as the Flag of the United States. (Celebrated as Flag Day)
Publication of Federalist Paper #78: The Judiciary Department written by Alexander Hamilton in 1788.
In 1789, whiskey distilled from maize was first produced by American clergyman, the Rev Elijah Craig. It is named Bourbon because Rev. Craig lived in Bourbon County, Kentucky.
Birthday of Julia Gardiner Tyler (June 14, 1816), second wife of John Tyler, first lady 1844-1845. John Tyler fathered eight children with his first wife, Letitia and seven more with his second wife, Julia.
1846 – Bear Flag Revolt begins – Anglo settlers in Sonoma, California, start a rebellion against Mexico and proclaim the California Republic.
1946 – Birthday of President Donald J. Trump, forty-fifth president of the U.S.A.
In 1951, the Univac-1 was unveiled in Washington, DC. and dedicated as the world’s first commercial computer. The Univac was manufactured for the U.S. Census Bureau by Remington Rand Corp. The massive computer was 8 feet high, 7-1/2 feet wide and 14-1/2 feet long. It could retain a maximum of 1000 numbers and was able to add, subtract, multiply, divide, sort, collate and take square and cube roots. Its transfer rate to and from magnetic tape was 10,000 characters per second. This was five years after the ENIAC, the first electronic computer in the U.S., was completed.
1954 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a bill into law that placed the words “under God” into the United States Pledge of Allegiance.
Disneyland Monorail System opened to the public in Anaheim, California on June 14, 1959, the first daily operating monorail system in the Western Hemisphere.
On June 14, 1972, the insecticide DDT was banned from use in the U.S. after 31 Dec 1972, by executive order of the Environmental Protection Agency.
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On June 11, 1509, Henry VIII of England married Catherine of Aragon, his first wife. She was the daughter of 
1962 – Frank Morris, John Anglin and Clarence Anglin allegedly became the only prisoners to escape from the prison on Alcatraz Island .
On June 10, 1940, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt denounced Italy’s actions with his “Stab in the Back” speech at the graduation ceremonies of the University of Virginia. His son, FDR, Jr., was graduating with a law degree.
June 10, 1977, the Apple II, one of the first personal computers, went on sale.
1909-06-09 – Alice Huyler Ramsey, a 22-year-old housewife and mother from Hackensack, New Jersey, became the first woman to drive across the United States. With three female companions, none of whom could drive a car, in fifty-nine days she drove a Maxwell automobile the 3,800 miles from Manhattan, New York, to San Francisco, California. She is reported to have said, “Good driving has nothing to do with sex. It’s all above the collar.”
1973 – In horse racing, Secretariat won the Triple Crown.
In 1789, James Madison introduced twelve proposed amendments to the United States Constitution in the House of Representatives; by 1791, ten of them were ratified by the state legislatures and become the Bill of Rights; another was eventually ratified in 1992 to become the 27th Amendment.
June 8,1845: Death of 
Birthday of Ida Saxton McKinley (1847), wife of 
Birthday of Barbara Pierce Bush (1925), wife of 
Milton Berle hosted the debut of Texaco Star Theater on June 8, 1948. It aired until 1956. Milton Berle became known as “Mr. Television”.
Cunard Line’s RMS Lusitania was launched June 7, 1906 from the John Brown Shipyard, Glasgow (Clydebank), Scotland.
On June 6, 1833, In Ellicott’s Mills, 
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