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.