Today in History: June 14 1381 The Peasants 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 Cromwells army routs the kings army at Naseby. 1775 The U.S. Army is founded when the Continental Congress authorizes the muster of troops. 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 settlers declare California to be a republic. 1864 At the Battle of Pine Mountain, Georgia, Confederate General Leonidas Polk is killed by a Union shell. 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. Johns, 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. 1932 Representative Edward Eslick dies on the floor of the House of Representatives while pleading for the passage of the bonus bill. 1940 German forces occupy Paris. 1942 The Supreme Court rules that requiring students to salute the American flag is unconstitutional. 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 Americans take part in the first nation-wide civil defense test against atomic attack. 1965 A military triumvirate takes control in Saigon, South Vietnam. 1982 Argentina surrenders to the United Kingdom ending the Falkland Islands War. 1985 Gunmen hijack a passenger jet over the Middle East. 1989 Congressman William Gray, an African American, is elected Democratic Whip of the House of Representatives. 1995 Chechen rebels take 2,000 people hostage in a hospital in Russia. Born on June 14 1811 Harriet Beecher Stowe, American author (Uncle Toms Cabin). 1820 John Bartlett, editor, compiler of Barletts 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). 1946 Donald Trump, New York real estate mogul.
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