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Jun 14, 1940: Germans enter Paris
On this day in 1940, Parisians awaken to the sound of a German-accented voice announcing via loudspeakers that a curfew was being imposed for 8 p.m. that evening-as German troops enter and occupy Paris.
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill had tried for days to convince the French government to hang on, not to sue for peace, that America would enter the war and come to its aid. French premier Paul Reynaud telegrammed President Franklin Roosevelt, asking for just such aid-a declaration of war, and if not that, any and all help possible. Roosevelt replied that the United States was prepared to send material aid—and was willing to have that promise published—but Secretary of State Cordell Hull opposed such a publication, knowing that Hitler, as well as the Allies, would take such a public declaration of help as but a prelude to a formal declaration of war. While the material aid would be forthcoming, no such commitment would be made formal and public.
By the time German tanks rolled into Paris, 2 million Parisians had already fled, with good reason. In short order, the German Gestapo went to work: arrests, interrogations, and spying were the order of the day, as a gigantic swastika flew beneath the Arc de Triomphe.
While Parisians who remained trapped in their capital despaired, French men and women in the west cheered-as Canadian troops rolled through their region, offering hope for a free France yet.
The United States did not remain completely idle, though. On this day, President Roosevelt froze the American assets of the Axis powers, Germany and Italy.
Jun 14, 1982: Falkland Islands War ends
After suffering through six weeks of military defeats against Britain's armed forces, Argentina surrenders to Great Britain, ending the Falkland Islands War.
The Falkland Islands, located about 300 miles off the southern tip of Argentina, had long been claimed by the British. British navigator John Davis may have sighted the islands in 1592, and in 1690 British Navy Captain John Strong made the first recorded landing on the islands. He named them after Viscount Falkland, who was the First Lord of the Admiralty at the time. In 1764, French navigator Louis-Antoine de Bougainville founded the islands' first human settlement, on East Falkland, which was taken over by the Spanish in 1767. In 1765, the British settled West Falkland but left in 1774 for economic reasons. Spain abandoned its settlement in 1811.
In 1816, Argentina declared its independence from Spain and in 1820 proclaimed its sovereignty over the Falklands. The Argentines built a fort on East Falkland, but in 1832 it was destroyed by the USS Lexington in retaliation for the seizure of U.S. seal ships in the area. In 1833, a British force expelled the remaining Argentine officials and began a military occupation. In 1841, a British lieutenant governor was appointed, and by the 1880s a British community of some 1,800 people on the islands was self-supporting. In 1892, the wind-blown Falkland Islands were collectively granted colonial status.
For the next 90 years, life on the Falklands remained much unchanged, despite persistent diplomatic efforts by Argentina to regain control of the islands. In 1981, the 1,800 Falkland Islanders--mostly sheep farmers--voted in a referendum to remain British, and it seemed unlikely that the Falklands would ever revert to Argentine rule. Meanwhile, in Argentina, the military junta led by Lieutenant General Leopoldo Galtieri was suffering criticism for its oppressive rule and economic management and planned the Falklands invasion as a means of promoting patriotic feeling and propping up its regime.
In March 1982, Argentine salvage workers occupied South Georgia Island, and a full-scale invasion of the Falklands began on April 2. Argentine amphibious forces rapidly overcame the small garrison of British marines at the town of Stanley on East Falkland and the next day seized the dependent territories of South Georgia and the South Sandwich group. Under orders from their commanders, the Argentine troops inflicted no British casualties, despite suffering losses to their own units. Nevertheless, Britain was outraged, and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher assembled a naval task force of 30 warships to retake the islands. As Britain is 8,000 miles from the Falklands, it took several weeks for the British warships to arrive. On April 25, South Georgia Island was retaken, and after several intensive naval battles fought around the Falklands, British troops landed on East Falkland on May 21. After several weeks of fighting, the large Argentine garrison at Stanley surrendered on June 14, effectively ending the conflict.
Britain lost five ships and 256 lives in the fight to regain the Falklands, and Argentina lost its only cruiser and 750 lives. Humiliated in the Falklands War, the Argentine military was swept from power in 1983, and civilian rule was restored. In Britain, Margaret Thatcher's popularity soared after the conflict, and her Conservative Party won a landslide victory in 1983 parliamentary elections.
Jun 14, 1777: Continental Congress chooses national flag
On this day in 1777, during the American Revolution, the Continental Congress adopts a resolution stating that "the flag of the United States be thirteen alternate stripes red and white" and that "the Union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new Constellation."
The national flag, which became known as the "stars and stripes," was based on the "Grand Union" flag, a banner carried by the Continental Army in 1776 that also consisted of 13 red and white stripes. According to legend, Philadelphia seamstress Betsy Ross designed the new canton for the flag, which consisted of a circle of 13 stars and a blue background, at the request of General George Washington. Historians have been unable to conclusively prove or disprove this legend.
With the entrance of new states into the United States after independence, new stripes and stars were added to represent new additions to the Union. In 1818, however, Congress enacted a law stipulating that the 13 original stripes be restored and that only stars be added to represent new states.
On June 14, 1877, the first Flag Day observance was held on the 100th anniversary of the adoption of the American flag. As instructed by Congress, the U.S. flag was flown from all public buildings across the country. In the years after the first Flag Day, several states continued to observe the anniversary, and in 1949 Congress officially designated June 14 as Flag Day, a national day of observance.
Jun 14, 1998: Jordan leads Bulls to sixth NBA title
On June 14, 1998, Michael Jordan leads the Chicago Bulls to an 87-86 win over the Utah Jazz in Game Six of the NBA Finals to clinch their third consecutive NBA title. Jordan scored 45 points and hit the winning jump shot with 5.2 seconds left on the clock in what seemed a fitting end to a historic career.
The Chicago Bulls won the NBA title every year from 1991 to 1998, except a two-year gap in 1994 and 1995 when Jordan left the NBA to play baseball. In the 1997 and 1998 NBA Finals, the Bulls faced the veteran Utah Jazz, led by point guard and all-time assists leader John Stockton and power forward Karl Malone, second on the career points list. The Bulls, led by Jordan, were a colorful group that included small forward Scottie Pippen, the controversial rebounding champ Dennis Rodman and Phil Jackson, their Zen master coach.
One year earlier, in Game Five of the 1997 NBA Finals, Michael Jordan had staged a performance for the ages. Though suffering from the flu, Jordan willed the Bulls to victory with 38 points, including the winning three-pointer with 25 seconds left. Afterward, the ailing Jordan was helped off the court by teammate Scottie Pippen. The Bulls went on to win the series in six games, with Jordan winning his fifth Finals MVP award.
In the 1998 finals, Utah won Game One 88-85 in overtime, but lost the next three games, including a 96-54 defensive clinic put on by Chicago in Game Three. The Jazz then won Game Five in Chicago 83-81 to send the series back to Utah.
Game Six in Utah was the final installment of the Michael Jordan show. Scottie Pippen, suffering from back spasms, was limited to just 26 minutes. The Jazz led by three in the last minute, but Jordan brought Chicago within one by driving to the basket and laying the ball in with 37.1 seconds left. Utah then brought the ball into their half-court setup, with the reliable veteran Karl Malone on the left post. With 18.9 seconds left, Jordan snuck along the baseline and punched the ball out of Malone’s possession. Jordan then brought the ball up the court, refusing to call a timeout. With 5.2 seconds left Jordan hit an 18-foot jumper from the top of the key after cagily nudging Utah’s Bryon Russell out of the way with his left arm. John Stockton missed a three-pointer near the buzzer to give Jordan and Chicago their third championship in a row and sixth NBA title. Jordan averaged 32.4 points per game in this series for a 33.4 points per game average in the playoffs for his career, an NBA record. He won his sixth Finals MVP after the game, also an NBA record. It was his last game with the Bulls.
In January 2000, Jordan became general manager of the Washington Wizards and returned to play two seasons with the mediocre Wizards in 2001-02 and 2002-03. The Wizards did not make the playoffs in either season.
Here's a more detailed look at events that transpired on this date throughout history:
1276 - While taking exile in Fuzhou in southern China, away
from the advancing Mongol invaders, the remnants of the Song Dynasty court hold
the coronation ceremony for the young prince Zhao Shi, making him Emperor
Duanzong of Song.
1381 - Richard II in England meets leaders of Peasants'
Revolt on Blackheath. The Tower of London is stormed by rebels who enter
without resistance.
1535 - Karel V's fleet sails under Andrea Doria to Tunis
1565 - Catharina de Medici & Duke of Alva discuss
Calvinism
1597 - At 4:30 AM Willem Barents leaves Novaya Zemlya for
Netherlands
1615 - Jacques Le Maire sail to Zuidland/Terra Australis
1623 - 1st breach-of-promise lawsuit: Rev Gerville Pooley,
Va files against Cicely Jordan, he loses
1634 - Russia & Poland sign Peace treaty of Polianov
1642 - 1st compulsory education law in America passed by Massachusetts
1645 - Battle at Naseby Leicester: New Model army under
Oliver Cromwell & Thomas Fairfax beats royalists
1647 - English New Model-army installed
1658 - Battle at Dunes: English & French fleet beat
Spanish
1673 - Battle at Schooneveld: Michiel de Ruyter beats
French/English fleet
1775 - US Army founded
1777 - Continental Congress adopts Stars & Stripes
replacing Grand Union flag
1789 - Capt William Blighs reaches Timor
1797 - Napoleon forms Ligurian Republic
1800 - Battle of Marengo (Alessandria): Bonaparte vs Austria
1807 - Emperor Napoleon I's French Grande Armee defeats the
Russian Army at the Battle of Friedland in Prussia (modern Russian Kaliningrad
Oblast) ending the War of the Fourth Coalition.
French Emperor Napoleon BonaparteFrench Emperor Napoleon
Bonaparte 1821 - Badi VII, king of Sennar, surrenders his throne and realm to
Ismail Pasha, general of the Ottoman Empire, ending the existence of that
Sudanese kingdom.
1822 - Charles Babbage proposes a difference engine in a
paper to the Royal Astronomical Society entitled "Note on the application
of machinery to the computation of astronomical and mathematical tables".
1834 - Hardhat diving suit patented by Leonard Norcross,
Dixfield, Maine
1834 - Isaac Fischer Jr patents sandpaper
1834 - Sandpaper patented by Isaac Fischer Jr, Springfield,
Vermont
1839 - First Henley Regatta held (it became the Henley Royal
Regatta in 1851)
1841 - 1st Canadian parliament opens in Kingston, Ontario
1846 - Belgian Liberal Party forms
1846 - California (Bear Flag) Republic proclaimed in Sonoma,
declaring independence from Mexico
1847 - Robert von Bunsen invents the Bunsen burner
1850 - Fire destroys part of San Francisco
1861 - Harpers Ferry evacuated by rebels in face of McClellan's
advance
1863 - Battle of 2nd Winchester, Virginia
1864 - US Union warship USS Kearsarge appears at Cherbourg
1870 - All-pro Cincinnati Red Stockings suffer 1st loss in
130 games
Inventor Charles BabbageInventor Charles Babbage 1872 -
Trade unions are legalised in Canada.
1876 - 1st player to hit for cycle (George Hall, Phila
Athletics)
1876 - California Street Cable Car Railroad Co gets its
franchise
1880 - 14th Belmont: L Hughes aboard Grenada wins in 2:47
1881 - Player piano patented by John McTammany Jr
(Cambridge, Mass)
1898 - France signs Niger Convention
1900 - Hawaiian Territorial Government begins
1900 - The Reichstag approves a second law that allows the
expansion of the German navy.
1901 - 1st golf championship is played
1904 - Dutch troops occupies Kuto Reh, Sumatra, killing all
inhabitants
1906 - Pogrom against Jews in Bialystok, Polish Russia
1907 - Government of Transvaal sends home 50,000 Chinese day
workers
1907 - Norway adopts female suffrage for middle class women
only in parliamentary elections
1908 - Fourth German Navy Bill is passed authorising the
financing the building of another four major warships.
1917 - 1st German air attack on England, 100+ killed in East
London
1917 - Gen Pershing & his HQ staff arrived in Paris
during WW I
1919 - 1st nonstop air crossing of Atlantic (Alcock &
Brown) leaves Newfoundland
1922 - 5th PGA Championship: Gene Sarazen at Oakmont CC
Oakmont Pa
1922 - Charles Hoffner wins PGA golf tournament
1922 - Pres Harding is 1st US president to use radio,
dedicating the Francis Scott Key memorial in Baltimore
1923 - Recording of 1st country music hit (Little Old Log
Cabin in the Lane)
1924 - Test Cricket debuts of Herbert Sutcliffe & Maurice
Tate v South Africa
1924 - WOKO-AM radio begins transmitting from Albany NY
1926 - 2nd French Womens Tennis: Suzanne Lenglen beats Mary
K Browne (6-1 6-0)
31st US President Herbert Hoover31st US President Herbert
Hoover 1928 - Republican Natl Convention, meeting in KC, nominates Herbert
Hoover for President
1929 - Prussia & Vatican sign Concord
1930 - VVGZ soccer team forms in Zwijndrecht
1931 - French "St Philbert" overturns off St
Nazaire France, drowns 450
1931 - Reinhard Heydrichs 1st meeting with Himmler
1932 - German government of von Papen forms
1933 - Lou Gehrig & Joe McCarthy thrown out of game,
McCarthy suspended 3 games but Gehrig isn't, so he continues his streak at
1,249 games
1934 - Hitler & Benito Mussolini meet in Vienna
1934 - Max Baer KO's Primo Carnera in 11 for HW box champ in
Long Island City
1934 - WOQ-AM in KC Missouri goes off the air
1935 - Chaco War between Bolivia & Paraguay ends
1936 - Oranienburg Concentration Camp opens
1938 - Bradman scores 144* in 1st Test Cricket at Trent
Bridge
1938 - Chlorophyll patented by Benjamin Grushkin
1938 - Dorothy Lathrop wins 1st Caldecott Medal (kid books
author)
Dictator of Nazi Germany Adolf HitlerDictator of Nazi
Germany Adolf Hitler 1940 - Auschwitz concentration camp opens (3 million
killed there)
1940 - German U-47 sinks airship Balmoral
1940 - German forces occupied Paris during WW II
1941 - Ground broken for Boeing Plant II (ex-AFLC Plant 13)
Wichita KS
1941 - Estonia loses 11,000 inhabitants as a consequence of
mass deportations into Siberia
1942 - 1st bazooka rocket gun produced Bridgeport Ct
1942 - Anne Frank begins her diary
1942 - French government of Reynaud resigns
1942 - Walt Disney's "Bambi" animated movie is
released Thumper's 1st job
1944 - 1st B-29 raid against mainland Japan
1944 - General Charles de Gaulle lands at Courselles France
1946 - Canadian Library Association established
1948 - Klemens Gottwald becomes president of Czechoslovakia
1949 - State of Vietnam forms, Bao Dai installed as Emperor
1949 - WROC TV channel 8 in Rochester, NY (NBC) begins
broadcasting
French President Charles de GaulleFrench President Charles
de Gaulle 1951 - "Courtin' Time" opens at National Theater NYC for 37
performances
1951 - 1st commercial computer, UNIVAC 1, enters service at
Census Bureau
1952 - 52nd US Golf Open: Julius Boros shoots a 281 at
Northwood Club Dallas
1952 - Boston Brave Warren Spahn strikes out 18 Cubs in 15
innings
1952 - General strike in Tunisia
1952 - Jim Peters runs world record marathon (2:20:42.2)
1952 - Keel laid for 1st nuclear powered sub USS Nautilus
(4th to be named Nautilus)
1952 - Braves Warren Spahn ties NL record of Jim Whitney with
18 strikeouts against the Cubs in 15-inning, 3-1 loss
1953 - Eisenhower condemns McCarthy's book burning proposal
1953 - Elvis Presley graduates from LC Humes High School in
Memphis Tenn
1953 - Military coup by general Gustavo Rojas Pinilla in
Colombia
1953 - Yanks sweep Indians 6-2, 3-0 before 74,708 win streak
at 18 straight
1954 - Pres Eisenhower signs order adding words "under
God" to the Pledge
1955 - Chile becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires
copyright treaty.
1956 - "New Faces of 1956" opens at Barrymore
Theater NYC for 221 perfs
Singer & Cultural Icon Elvis PresleySinger &
Cultural Icon Elvis Presley 1957 - 42.0 cm rain falls on East St Louis,
Illinois (state record)
1957 - Edouard Carpentier beats Lou Thesz, to become NWA
wrestling champ
1958 - 58th US Golf Open: Tommy Bolt shoots a 283 at
Southern Hills in Tulsa
1958 - British parachutists lands on Cyprus
1959 - Beverly Hanson wins LPGA American Women's Golf Open
1961 - 106°F, hottest temperature in SF
1962 - Albert DeSalvo, better known as the Boston Strangler,
murders Anna Slesers, his first victim.
1962 - The European Space Research Organisation is
established in Paris - later becoming the European Space Agency.
1963 - NY Met Duke Snider hits his 400th HR
1963 - Valery Bykovsky in Vostok 5 orbits earth 81 times in
5 days
1964 - Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open
1965 - Beatles release album "Beatles VI"
1965 - Cincinnati Red Jim Maloney no-hits NY Mets but loses
in 11, 1-0
1965 - John Lennon's 2nd book "A Spaniard in the
Works" is published
1966 - Dutch police beat construction workers, 60 injured
Musician and Beatle John LennonMusician and Beatle John
Lennon 1966 - Miami beats St Petersburg (Florida State League) 4-3 in 29
innings longest uninterrupted game in organized baseball
1967 - Mariner 5 Launch (Venus Flyby)
1967 - Steve Allen Show" premieres on CBS-TV
1967 - USSR launches Kosmos 166 for observation of Sun from
Earth orbit
1968 - Off duty Dutch military permitted to wear regular
clothing
1969 - John & Yoko appear on David Frost's British TV
Show
1969 - Oakland As' Reggie Jackson gets 10 RBIs to beat Red
Sox 21-7
1970 - Cincinnati Red Stockings loses 1st game after winning
130 straight
1972 - Hurricane Agnes kills 117
1973 - 46th National Spelling Bee: Barrie Trinkle wins
spelling vouchsafe
1974 - Angels' Nolan Ryan strikes out 19 Red Sox in 12
innings
1975 - 45th French Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats M
Navratilova (26 62 61)
1975 - Janis Ian releases "At 17"
1975 - USSR launches Venera 10 for Venus landing
1976 - "Gong Show" premieres on TV (syndication)
TV Personality, Comedian and Composer Steve AllenTV
Personality, Comedian and Composer Steve Allen 1976 - 12th Mayor's Trophy Game
Yanks beat Mets 8-4
1978 - Down 9-7 in 10th with 2 outs, Yanks Paul Blair hits a
3 run HR
1978 - Sierra Leone adopts constitution
1979 - Canada all out 45 in Cricket World Cup v England, in
40 3 overs
1979 - NY Giants Willie McCovey 513th HR is an NL lefty
record
1979 - Rock group "Little Feat" disbands
1980 - Theme From NY, NY by Frank Sinatra hits #32
1981 - 27th LPGA Championship won by Donna Caponi Young
1981 - No Nukes concert at Hollywood Bowl
1982 - Argentina surrenders to Britain on Falkland Is, ends
74-day conflict
1983 - 5 killed in a fire at a Ramada Inn in Fort Worth, Tx
1984 - Southern Baptist convention decide on no women clergy
members
1985 - "Michael Nesmith In Television Parts"
premieres on NBC-TV
1985 - Earl Weaver comes out of retirement to manage Balt
Orioles
1985 - Lebanese Shiite Muslim extremists hijacked TWA Flight
847
Singer/Actor Frank SinatraSinger/Actor Frank Sinatra 1987 -
41st NBA Championship: LA Lakers beat Boston Celtics, 4 games to 2
1987 - 4th full-duration test firing of redesigned SRB motor
1987 - Colleen Walker wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic
1988 - Woman sues Chuck Berry for $5,000,000 alleges he hit
her
1989 - Ground breaking begins in Minn on world's largest
mall
1989 - Nolan Ryan becomes 2nd pitcher to defeat all 26 teams
1989 - Ronald Reagan is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II
(honorary knighthood)
1989 - Rocker Carol King gets a star in Hollywood's walk of
fame
1989 - Zsa Zsa Gabor arrested for slaping Beverly Hills
motorcycle patrolman
1990 - 44th NBA Championship: Det Pistons beat Por Trailblazers,
4 games to 1
1990 - Date of the events in the movie Mr Destiny
1990 - NL announces plans to expand from 12 to 14 teams for
1993 season
1990 - Supreme Court rules police check for drunk drivers
constitutional
1991 - "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves" opens
1991 - Leroy Burrell of USA sets 100m record (9.90) in NYC
US President & Actor Ronald ReaganUS President &
Actor Ronald Reagan 1991 - Space Shuttle STS 40 (Columbia 12) lands
1992 - 10th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Dave Stockton
1992 - 46th NBA Championship: Chicago Bulls beat Port
Trailblazers, 4 games to 2
1992 - Anne-Marie Palli wins ShopRite LPGA Golf Classic
1992 - Mona Van Duyn is named 1st female US poet laureate
1992 - Ozzie Smith breaks Roy McMillan's NL mark by taking
part in his 1,305th career double play
1993 - Japanese space probe Sakigake passes Earth
1993 - Tansu Ciller appointed 1st female premier of Turkey
1994 - Stanley Cup: NY Rangers beat Vancouver Canucks, 4
games to 3
1995 - 49th NBA Championship: Houston Rockets sweep Orlando
Magic in 4 games
1995 - Giants infielder Mike Benjamin goes 6-for-7 in
13-inning 4-3 win
1996 - "Cable Guy" starring Jim Carrey is released
1996 - Karl Krikken out handled the ball for Derbyshire v
Indians
1998 - "Comic Relief" benefit comedy show
1998 - World Bowl in Frankfurt Germany
1998 - 52nd NBA Championship: Chicago Bulls beat Utah Jazz,
4 games to 2
2000 - 34th Country Weekly Presents the TNN Music Awards:
George Strait & Faith Hill wins
2001 - China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and
Uzbekistan form the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.
2005 - Asafa Powell of Jamaica sets a new Men's 100 meters
world record of 9.77 at the Athens Olympic Stadium
2007 - 61st NBA Championship: San Antonio Spurs beat
Cleveland Cavaliers, 4 games to 0
2009 - 63rd NBA Championship: Los Angeles Lakers beat
Orlando Magic, 4 games to 1
2009 - 55th LPGA Championship won by Anna Nordqvist
2012 - An explosion at an Indian steel plant kills 11 people
and severely injures 16
2012 - The world's first stem-cell assisted vein transplant
is undertaken by Swedish doctors on a 10 year old girl
2013 - Hassan Rouhani is elected President of Iran
2013 - Massive flooding occurs in northern India killing up
to 10,000 people
1775 - The Continental Army was founded by the Second Continental Congress for purposes of common defense. This event is considered to be the birth of the United States Army. On June 15, George Washington was appointed commander-in-chief. 1777 - The Continental Congress in Philadelphia adopted the "Stars and Stripes" as the national flag of the United States. The Flag Resolution stated "Resolved: that the flag of the United States be made of thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new Constellation." On May 20, 1916, President Woodrow Wilson officially proclaimed June 14 "Flag Day" as a commemoration of the "Stars and Stripes." 1789 - Captain William Bligh of the HMS Bounty arrived in Timor in a small boat. 1834 - Cyrus Hall McCormick received a patent for his reaping machine. 1834 - Isaac Fischer Jr. patented sandpaper. 1841 - The first Canadian parliament opened in Kingston. 1846 - A group of U.S. settlers in Sonoma proclaimed the Republic of California. 1893 - Philadelphia observed the first Flag Day. 1900 - Hawaii became a U.S. territory. 1907 - Women in Norway won the right to vote. 1917 - General John Pershing arrived in Paris during World War I. 1919 - The first non-stop trans-Atlantic flight began. Captain John Alcot and Lt. Arthur Brown flew from Newfoundland to Ireland. 1922 - Warren G. Harding became the first U.S. president to be heard on radio. The event was the dedication of the Francis Scott Key memorial at Fort McHenry. 1927 - Nicaraguan President Adolfo Diaz signed a treaty with the U.S. allowing American intervention in his country. 1940 - The Nazis opened their concentration camp at Auschwitz in German-occupied Poland. 1940 - German troops entered Paris. As Paris became occupied loud speakers announced the implementation of a curfew being imposed for 8 p.m. 1943 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that schoolchildren could not be made to salute the U.S. flag if doing so conflicted with their religious beliefs. 1944 - Sixty U.S. B-29 Superfortress' attacked an iron and steel works factory on Honshu Island. It was the first U.S. raid against mainland Japan. 1945 - Burma was liberated by Britain. 1949 - The state of Vietnam was formed. 1951 - "Univac I" was unveiled. It was a computer designed for the U.S. Census Bureau and billed as the world's first commercial computer. 1952 - The Nautilus was dedicated. It was the first nuclear powered submarine. 1954 - U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed an order adding the words "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance. 1954 - Americans took part in the first nation-wide civil defense test against atomic attack. 1965 - A military triumvirate took control in Saigon, South Vietnam. 1967 - Mariner 5 was launched from Cape Kennedy, FL. The space probe's flight took it past Venus. 1982 - Argentine forces surrendered to British troops on the Falkland Islands. 1987 - The Los Angeles Lakers won the NBA title by defeating the defending Boston Celtics. 1989 - Former U.S. President Reagan received an honorary knighthood from Britain's Queen Elizabeth II. 1990 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld police checkpoints that are used to examine drivers for signs of intoxication. 1994 - The New York Rangers won the Stanley Cup by defeating the Vancouver Canucks. It was the first time the Rangers had won the cup in 54 years. 2002 - Actor Kirk Douglas received the UCLA Medal. The award is presented to people for cultural, political and humanitarian achievements.
1775 The United States Army was founded. 1777 The Continental Congress adopted the Stars and Stripes as the official flag of the U.S. 1922 Warren Harding became the first president to be heard on the radio. 1940 German troops entered Paris. The Nazis opened the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland. 1951 The first commercial computer, Univac I, was unveiled. 1954 President Eisenhower signed the order inserting the words "under God" into the Pledge of Allegiance. 1982 Argentine forces surrendered to British troops on the Falkland Islands.
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http://www.historyorb.com/today/events.php
http://on-this-day.com/onthisday/thedays/alldays/jun14.htm
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history
http://www.infoplease.com/dayinhistory
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