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.”
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 the Peasants’ Revolt on Blackheath. The Tower of London is stormed by rebels who enter without resistance.
1623 – The first breach-of-promise lawsuit: Rev Gerville Pooley, Va files against Cicely Jordan. He loses
1642 – The first compulsory education law in America passed by Massachusetts
1645 – UK hist Battle of Naseby: Parliament’s New Model Army crushes the Royalist forces
1648 – Margaret Jones is hanged in Boston for witchcraft in the first such execution for the Massachusetts colony.
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.” https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/congress-adopts-the-stars-and-stripes
1789 – Mutiny on the Bounty: HMAV Bounty mutiny survivors including Captain William Bligh and 18 others reach Timor after a nearly 7,400 km (4,000-mile) journey in an open boat.
1798 – American captain Edmund Fanning discovered Kingman Reef between the Hawaiian Islands and American Samoa. In 1922, the United States annexed the uninhabited, triangle-shaped reef.
1789 – Whisky distilled from maize is first produced by American clergyman the Rev Elijah Craig. It is named Bourbon because Rev Craig lived in Bourbon County, Kentucky
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
1834 – Cyrus Hall McCormick received a patent for his reaping machine.
1834 – Isaac Fischer Jr. patented sandpaper.
1846 – Bear Flag Revolt begins – Anglo settlers in Sonoma, California, start a rebellion against Mexico and proclaim the California Republic.
1898 – Niger Convention signed in Paris by France and Great Britain agreeing to the partition of West Africa
1900 – Hawaii became a U.S. territory.
1907 – Women in Norway won the right to vote.
1916 – Representatives of eight Allied nations hold an economic conference in Paris at which they discuss ways to cripple their enemies economic power during and after the war
1917 – General John Pershing arrived in Paris during World War I.
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.
1937 – U. S. House of Representatives passes the 1937 Marihuana Tax Act. https://www.cbp.gov/about/history/did-you-know/marijuana
1940 – A group of 728 Polish political prisoners from Tarnw become the first residents of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
1940 – German troops entered Paris. As Paris became occupied loud speakers announced the implementation of a curfew being imposed for 8 p.m.
1941 – Soviet mass deportations and murder of Estonians, Lithuanians and Latvians, the June deportation, began.
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.
1945 – Burma was liberated by Britain.
1949 – The state of Vietnam was formed.
1949 – Albert II becomes the first monkey in space, The rhesus monkey was one of several animals used for testing purposes before sending humans into space. Albert II survived his ascent to 134 km (83 mi) altitude but died on his return to Earth due to a parachute failure.
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.
1962 – Anna Slesers becomes the first victim of Albert DeSalvo, better known as the Boston Strangler
1962 – New Mexico Supreme Court in the case of Montoya v. Bolack, 70 N.M. 196, prohibited state and local governments from denying Indians the right to vote because they lived on a reservation
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.
1967 – California Governor Ronald Reagan signs the Therapeutic Abortion Act, legalizing abortions in the state under certain circumstances, the second state after Colorado to do so
1973 – US President Richard Nixon administration imposes 60-day economy-wide price freeze, superseding Special Rule No. 1 for oil companies
1982 – Falklands War ends: Argentine forces surrendered to British troops on the Falkland Islands.
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.
1991 – Marshall Ledbetter occupies the Florida State Capitol.
1993 – A weeklong product tampering scare, later proven to be a hoax, occurs as customers throughout the USA discover syringes in unopened cans of Diet Pepsi Cola.
2001 – China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan form the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.
2002 – Twelve are killed and 50 injured by a car bomb explosion in front of the U.S. consulate in Karachi, Pakistan
2002 – A large asteroid just misses the Earth, 2002 MN, a 73-meter lump, was three times closer to Earth than the Moon. It was first discovered three days after its closest approach
2012 – The world’s first stem-cell assisted vein transplant is undertaken by Swedish doctors on a 10 year old girl
2013 – The US government charges NSA leaker Edward Snowden with violating the Espionage Act and theft of government property
2014 – 49 people are killed after a Ukrainian Ilyushin Il-76 airlifter is shot down
2016 – First mammal made extinct by human-induced climate change announced – the Bramble Cay melomys from Torres Strait
2017 – Bernie Sanders supporter opens fire at Republican politicians practising baseball near Washington, D.C., injuring 4
2017 – US Senate approves new sanctions against Russia as punishment for meddling in the 2016 election
2018 – US government confirms 1500 boys being held separated from their parents in Casa Padre, shelter facility for illegal immigrants in a former Walmart in Brownsville, Texas
2019 – Swiss women hold a national strike over the country’s slow pace towards equality
2022 – Denmark and Canada agree to split the arctic Hans Island, ending their 50-year “Whiskey War”, where each country laid claim by buying whiskey on the island
2022 – First controversial UK flight to take asylum seekers to Rwanda cancelled after last-minute legal ruling from European Court of Human Rights of “real risk of irreversible harm”
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
