June 14
1775 - The United States Army was founded.
1777 - The Continental Congress adopted the Stars and Stripes as the official flag of the United States.
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 ill-fated RMS Titanic the following year.)
1922 - Warren G. Harding became the first U.S. president to be heard on the radio, as Baltimore station WEAR broadcast his speech dedicating the Francis Scott Key memorial at Fort McHenry..
1928 - The Republican National Convention nominated Herbert Hoover for president.
1940 - German troops entered Paris; on the same day, Nazi officials opened the Auschwitz concentration camp in 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.
1951 - The world's first commercial computer, Univac I, was unveiled.
1954 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed an order inserting the words "under God" into 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 Falkland Islands.
1985 - A 17-day hijack ordeal began when a pair of Lebanese Shiite Muslim extremists seized TWA Flight 847 shortly after takeoff from Athens, Greece.
1990 - Tthe U.S. Supreme Court upheld, 6-3, police checkpoints that examined drivers for signs of intoxication.
1993 - President Bill Clinton nominated Ruth Bader Ginsburg to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.
2002 - American Roman Catholic bishops adopted a policy to bar sexually abusive clergy from face-to-face contact with parishioners but keep them in the priesthood.
2007 - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas declared an emergency after the Hamas militant group effectively took control of the Gaza Strip.
2011 - President Barack Obama made a four-hour visit to Puerto Rico, becoming the first president since John F. Kennedy to make an official visit to the U.S. territory.
2016 - President Barack Obama angrily denounced Donald Trump’s anti-Muslim rhetoric in the wake of the Orlando nightclub shooting, blasting the views of the presumptive Republican presidential nominee as a threat to American security; Trump responded by suggesting that Obama seemed angrier at him than he was at the gunman.
2016 - A 2-year-old boy was dragged into the water by an alligator near Disney’s upscale Grand Floridian Resort & Spa; the child’s remains were found the following day.
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.
2020 - Atlanta police released video showing the sobriety check of Rayshard Brooks outside a Wendy’s restaurant that quickly spun out of control, ending in police gunfire that left Brooks dead. Police said Officer Garrett Rolfe, who fired the fatal shots, had been fired, and officer Devin Brosnan was placed on administrative duty. (Rolfe’s firing was later reversed after a review panel found the city failed to follow its own procedures for disciplinary actions.)
Birthdays
28 - Sammy Watkins (football player)
29 - Daryl Sabara (actor)
29 - Joel Crouse (country singer)
29 - Morgan Adams (model)
30 - Jesy Nelson (singer)
31 - Rachel DeMita (TV host)
32 - Lucy Hale (actress)
33 - Kevin McHale (actor/singer)
38 - J.R. Martinez (actor)
38 - Torrance Coombs (actor)
39 - Lawrence Saint-Victor (actor)
44 - Sullivan Stapleton (actor)
52 - Steffi Graf (tennis player)
53 - Stephen Wallem (actor)
53 - Faizon Love (actor)
53 - Yasmine Bleeth (actress)
55 - Traylor Howard (actress)
60 - Boy George (singer)
63 - Eric Heiden (speed skater)
67 - Will Patton (actor)
69 - Eddie Mekka (actor)
74 - Barry Melton (musician)
75 - Janet Lennon (singer)
75 - Donald J. Trump (45th president of the United States)
90 - Marla Gibbs (actress)
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Today in Sports History - June 14
1963 - Duke Snider (New York Mets) hit his 400th career home run.
1966 - Miami beats St Petersburg (Florida State League) 4-3 in 29 innings, marking the longest uninterrupted game in organized baseball.
1969 - Reggie Jackson hit two home runs and drove in 10 runs in a 21-17 victory over the Boston Red Sox.
1974 - Nolan Ryan of the California Angels strikes out 19 batters in a 12 inning win over the Boston Red Sox.
1979 - Willie McCovey of the San Francisco Giants hits his 513th career home run, a new mark for most by a left-handed hitter.
1987 - The Los Angeles Lakers defeated the Boston Celtics to win the NBA championship in six games.
1990 - The Detroit Pistons win back-to-back NBA championships after defeating the Portland Trailblazers in five games.
1992 - The Chicago Bulls defeated the Portland Trailblazers in six games to win their second consecutive NBA championship.
1994 - The New York Rangers defeated the Vancouver Canucks to win their first Stanley Cup in 54 years.
1995 - The Houston Rockets sweep the Orlando Magic to win the NBA championship.
1996 - Jeff Bagwell (Houston Astros) tied a major league baseball record when he hit four doubles. The Astros defeated the San Francisco Giants 9-1.
1996 - John Smoltz (Atlanta Braves) tied a franchise record with his 13th consecutive win.
1998 - The Chicago Bulls defeat the Utah Jazz in six games to win their third straight NBA championship and sixth title in eight seasons.
2002 - The United States men's soccer team defeated Mexico 2-0 to advance to the quarterfinal round of the World Cup, their best showing in the tournament since 1930.
2002 - Sammy Sosa (Chicago Cubs) hit his 25th home run of the season. The home run tied him with Stan Musial and Willie Stargell for 19th on the all-time list at 475 homers.
2004 - Jim Thome (Philadelphia Phillies) became the 37th player in major league history to reach 400 career home runs.
2005 - The Detroit Pistons defeated the San Antonio Spurs 96-79 in Game 3 of the NBA Finals. It was the first time in history that the first three games had been decided by 15 points or more.
2007 - The San Antonio Spurs sweep the Cleveland Cavaliers to win the NBA championship.
2009 - Coach Phil Jackson broke Red Auerbach's record by winning his 10th NBA championship, leading his Los Angeles Lakers to a five game victory over the Orlando Magic. The title was the 15th in franchise history for the Lakers.
2018 - The 21st FIFA World Cup tournament opens in Russia.
1775 - The United States Army was founded.
1777 - The Continental Congress adopted the Stars and Stripes as the official flag of the United States.
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 ill-fated RMS Titanic the following year.)
1922 - Warren G. Harding became the first U.S. president to be heard on the radio, as Baltimore station WEAR broadcast his speech dedicating the Francis Scott Key memorial at Fort McHenry..
1928 - The Republican National Convention nominated Herbert Hoover for president.
1940 - German troops entered Paris; on the same day, Nazi officials opened the Auschwitz concentration camp in 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.
1951 - The world's first commercial computer, Univac I, was unveiled.
1954 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed an order inserting the words "under God" into 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 Falkland Islands.
1985 - A 17-day hijack ordeal began when a pair of Lebanese Shiite Muslim extremists seized TWA Flight 847 shortly after takeoff from Athens, Greece.
1990 - Tthe U.S. Supreme Court upheld, 6-3, police checkpoints that examined drivers for signs of intoxication.
1993 - President Bill Clinton nominated Ruth Bader Ginsburg to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.
2002 - American Roman Catholic bishops adopted a policy to bar sexually abusive clergy from face-to-face contact with parishioners but keep them in the priesthood.
2007 - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas declared an emergency after the Hamas militant group effectively took control of the Gaza Strip.
2011 - President Barack Obama made a four-hour visit to Puerto Rico, becoming the first president since John F. Kennedy to make an official visit to the U.S. territory.
2016 - President Barack Obama angrily denounced Donald Trump’s anti-Muslim rhetoric in the wake of the Orlando nightclub shooting, blasting the views of the presumptive Republican presidential nominee as a threat to American security; Trump responded by suggesting that Obama seemed angrier at him than he was at the gunman.
2016 - A 2-year-old boy was dragged into the water by an alligator near Disney’s upscale Grand Floridian Resort & Spa; the child’s remains were found the following day.
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.
2020 - Atlanta police released video showing the sobriety check of Rayshard Brooks outside a Wendy’s restaurant that quickly spun out of control, ending in police gunfire that left Brooks dead. Police said Officer Garrett Rolfe, who fired the fatal shots, had been fired, and officer Devin Brosnan was placed on administrative duty. (Rolfe’s firing was later reversed after a review panel found the city failed to follow its own procedures for disciplinary actions.)
Birthdays
28 - Sammy Watkins (football player)
29 - Daryl Sabara (actor)
29 - Joel Crouse (country singer)
29 - Morgan Adams (model)
30 - Jesy Nelson (singer)
31 - Rachel DeMita (TV host)
32 - Lucy Hale (actress)
33 - Kevin McHale (actor/singer)
38 - J.R. Martinez (actor)
38 - Torrance Coombs (actor)
39 - Lawrence Saint-Victor (actor)
44 - Sullivan Stapleton (actor)
52 - Steffi Graf (tennis player)
53 - Stephen Wallem (actor)
53 - Faizon Love (actor)
53 - Yasmine Bleeth (actress)
55 - Traylor Howard (actress)
60 - Boy George (singer)
63 - Eric Heiden (speed skater)
67 - Will Patton (actor)
69 - Eddie Mekka (actor)
74 - Barry Melton (musician)
75 - Janet Lennon (singer)
75 - Donald J. Trump (45th president of the United States)
90 - Marla Gibbs (actress)
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Today in Sports History - June 14
1963 - Duke Snider (New York Mets) hit his 400th career home run.
1966 - Miami beats St Petersburg (Florida State League) 4-3 in 29 innings, marking the longest uninterrupted game in organized baseball.
1969 - Reggie Jackson hit two home runs and drove in 10 runs in a 21-17 victory over the Boston Red Sox.
1974 - Nolan Ryan of the California Angels strikes out 19 batters in a 12 inning win over the Boston Red Sox.
1979 - Willie McCovey of the San Francisco Giants hits his 513th career home run, a new mark for most by a left-handed hitter.
1987 - The Los Angeles Lakers defeated the Boston Celtics to win the NBA championship in six games.
1990 - The Detroit Pistons win back-to-back NBA championships after defeating the Portland Trailblazers in five games.
1992 - The Chicago Bulls defeated the Portland Trailblazers in six games to win their second consecutive NBA championship.
1994 - The New York Rangers defeated the Vancouver Canucks to win their first Stanley Cup in 54 years.
1995 - The Houston Rockets sweep the Orlando Magic to win the NBA championship.
1996 - Jeff Bagwell (Houston Astros) tied a major league baseball record when he hit four doubles. The Astros defeated the San Francisco Giants 9-1.
1996 - John Smoltz (Atlanta Braves) tied a franchise record with his 13th consecutive win.
1998 - The Chicago Bulls defeat the Utah Jazz in six games to win their third straight NBA championship and sixth title in eight seasons.
2002 - The United States men's soccer team defeated Mexico 2-0 to advance to the quarterfinal round of the World Cup, their best showing in the tournament since 1930.
2002 - Sammy Sosa (Chicago Cubs) hit his 25th home run of the season. The home run tied him with Stan Musial and Willie Stargell for 19th on the all-time list at 475 homers.
2004 - Jim Thome (Philadelphia Phillies) became the 37th player in major league history to reach 400 career home runs.
2005 - The Detroit Pistons defeated the San Antonio Spurs 96-79 in Game 3 of the NBA Finals. It was the first time in history that the first three games had been decided by 15 points or more.
2007 - The San Antonio Spurs sweep the Cleveland Cavaliers to win the NBA championship.
2009 - Coach Phil Jackson broke Red Auerbach's record by winning his 10th NBA championship, leading his Los Angeles Lakers to a five game victory over the Orlando Magic. The title was the 15th in franchise history for the Lakers.
2018 - The 21st FIFA World Cup tournament opens in Russia.
