Today is Thursday, June 14, the 165th day of 2007. There are 200 days left in the year. This is Flag Day.
Today's Highlight in History:
On June 14, 1777, the Continental Congress in Philadelphia adopted the Stars and Stripes as the national flag.
On this date:
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 Continental Army, forerunner of the United States Army, was created.
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 U.S. settlers in Sonoma proclaimed the Republic of California.
1864 At the Battle of Pine Mountain, Georgia, Confederate General Leonidas Polk is killed by a Union shell.
1864 Alois Alzheimer was born. He was a psychiatrist/pathologist, and in 1907 he wrote an article describing the disease that is named for him.
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.
1928, the Republican National Convention nominated Herbert Hoover for president on the first ballot.
1932 Representative Edward Eslick dies on the floor of the House of Representatives while pleading for the passage of the bonus bill.
1940, in German-occupied Poland, the Nazis opened their concentration camp at Auschwitz; the same day, German troops entered Paris.
1942 The Supreme Court rules that requiring students to salute the American flag is unconstitutional.
1943, the Supreme Court, in West Virginia Board of Education v. Barnette, ruled that schoolchildren could not be compelled to salute the flag of the United States.
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, the words "under God" were added to the Pledge of Allegiance.
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.
1967, the space probe Mariner 5 was launched from Cape Kennedy on a flight that took it past Venus.
1967, the movie "To Sir, with Love," starring Sidney Poitier, was first released.
1982, Argentine forces surrendered to British troops on the disputed Falkland Islands.
1985, the 17-day hijack ordeal of TWA Flight 847 began as a pair of Lebanese Shiite Muslim extremists seized the jetliner shortly after takeoff from Athens, Greece.
1989 Congressman William Gray, an African American, is elected Democratic Whip of the House of Representatives.
1989 Zsa Zsa Gabor was arrested in Beverly Hills for slapping a policeman.
1990 The U.S. Supreme Court upheld police checkpoints that are used to examine drivers for signs of intoxication.
1993 Warner Bros. strikes a deal with novelist Michael Crichton for film rights to his next novel, as yet unpublished but rumored to deal with sexual harassment. The deal was reported to be worth $3.5 million. The movie, Disclosure, was released in 1994.
1995 Chechen rebels take 2,000 people hostage in a hospital in Russia.
1996 Ella Fitzgerald dies
1996 The FBI released that the White House had done bureau background reports on at least 408 people without justification.
2002 Twelve people were killed and 50 were injured when a car bomb was used to attack the U.S. consulate in Karachi, Pakistan.
Ten years ago:
President Clinton opened a yearlong campaign against racism with a commencement address at the University of California, San Diego, in which he defended affirmative action and pleaded with Americans to confront and erase their most deeply held prejudices.
A 1939 comic book featuring the first appearance by Batman was auctioned off for $68,500 at Sotheby's in New York.
Five years ago:
American Roman Catholic bishops meeting in Dallas adopted a policy to bar sexually abusive clergy from face-to-face contact with parishioners but keep them in the priesthood.
A suicide bomber blew up a truck at the U.S. consulate in Karachi, Pakistan, killing 14 Pakistanis.
One year ago:
President Bush, just back from a surprise visit to Iraq, dismissed calls for a U.S. withdrawal as election-year politics and refused to give a timetable or benchmark for success that would allow troops to come home.
Islamic militants in Somalia captured the last strategic town held by their warlord rivals, consolidating their hold over a large swath of the country.
Today's Birthdays:
1811 Harriet Beecher Stowe, American author (Uncle Tom's Cabin).
1820 John Bartlett, editor, compiler of Barlett's Familiar Quotations.
1855 Robert Marion "Fighting Bob" La Follette, reform movement leader, Governor of Wisconsin, U.S. Senator and Progressive Party presidential candidate. 1906 Margaret Bourke-White, American photojournalist.
1925 Pierre Salinger, press secretary for John F. Kennedy.
1933 Jerzy Kosinski, Polish-American novelist (The Painted Bird, Being There).
Actor Gene Barry is 88.
Actress Marla Gibbs is 76.
Writer Peter Mayle is 68.
Actor Jack Bannon is 67.
Rock singer Rod Argent (The Zombies; Argent) is 62.
Real estate developer and TV personality Donald Trump is 61.
Singer Janet Lennon (The Lennon Sisters) is 61.
Rock musician Alan White (Yes) is 58.
Actor Eddie Mekka is 55.
Actor Will Patton is 53.
Olympic gold-medal speed skater Eric Heiden is 49.
Singer Boy George is 46.
Rock musician Chris DeGarmo is 44.
Actress Yasmine Bleeth is 39.
Tennis player Steffi Graf is 38.
Actress Traylor Howard is 36.
Actor Daryl Sabara is 15.
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