DAILY ALMANAC
Today is Monday, June 14, the 165th day of 2021. There are 200 days left in the year. This is Flag Day.
On this date:
1775: The Continental Army, forerunner of the United States Army, was created.
1777: The Second Continental Congress approved the design of the original American flag.
1846: A group of U.S. settlers in Sonoma proclaimed the Republic of California.
1911: The British ocean liner RMS Olympic set out on its maiden voyage for New York, arriving one week later. (The ship’s captain was Edward John Smith, who went on to command the illfated RMS Titanic the following year.)
1922: Warren G. Harding became the first president heard on radio, as Baltimore station WEAR broadcast his speech dedicating the Francis Scott Key memorial at Fort Mchenry.
1940: German troops entered Paris during World War II; the same day, the Nazis began transporting prisoners to the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland.
1943: The U.S. Supreme Court, in West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, ruled 6-3 that public school students could not be forced to salute the flag of the United States.
1954: President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a measure adding the phrase “under God” to the Pledge of Allegiance.
1972: The Environmental Protection Agency ordered a ban on domestic use of the pesticide DDT, to take effect at year’s end.
1982: Argentine forces surrendered to British troops on the disputed Falkland Islands.
1990: The U.S. Supreme Court upheld, 6-3, police checkpoints that examined drivers for signs of intoxication.
1993: President Bill Clinton nominated Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.
2017: A rifle-wielding gunman opened fire on Republican lawmakers at a congressional baseball practice in Alexandria, Virginia, wounding House Whip Steve Scalise and several others; the assailant died in a battle with police. Fire ripped through the 24-story Grenfell Tower in West London, killing 71 people. mer Alan White of Yes is 72. Actor Eddie Mekka (Carmine on “Laverne and Shirley”) is 69. Actor Will Patton is 67. Jazz bassist Marcus Miller is 62. Singer
Boy George of Culture Club is 60. Actor
Traylor Howard
(“Monk,” “Two Guys And A Girl”) is 55. Actor Yasmine Bleeth is 53. Actor Faizon Love (“The Parent ‘Hood”) is 53. Actor Stephen Wallem (“Nurse Jackie”) is 53. Actor Sullivan Stapleton (“Blindspot”) is 44. Screenwriter Diablo Cody
(“Juno”) is 43. Actor Lawrence Saintvictor (“The Bold and the Beautiful,” “Guiding Light”) is 39. Actor Torrance Coombs (“Reign,” “The Tudors”) is 38. Actor J.R. Martinez (“All My Children”) is 38. Actor Kevin Mchale (“Glee”) is 33. Actor Daryl Sabara (“Spy Kids”) is 29.