In honor of June 14; National Flag day and the Anniversary of my failed marriage, I now present some other way cool stuff that happened on that date, so many years ago….
June 14, 1998 “Comic Relief” benefit comedy show
June 14, 1998 World Bowl in Frankfurt Germany
June 14, 1998 wins Oldsmobile Golf Classic
June 14, 1996 “Cable Guy” starring Jim Carrey is released
June 14, 1996 Karl Krikken out handled the ball for Derbyshire v Indians
June 14, 1995 49th NBA Championship: Houston Rockets sweep Orlando Magic in 4 games
June 14, 1995 Giants infielder Mike Benjamin goes 6-for-7 in 13-inning 4-3 win
June 14, 1994 Stanley Cup: NY Rangers beat Vancouver Canucks, 4 games to 3
June 14, 1993 Japanese space probe Sakigake passes Earth
June 14, 1993 Tansu Ciller appointed 1st female premier of Turkey
June 14, 1992 10th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Dave Stockton
June 14, 1992 46th NBA Championship: Chic Bulls beat Port Trailblazers, 4 games to 2
June 14, 1992 Anne-Marie Palli wins ShopRite LPGA Golf Classic
June 14, 1992 Mona Van Duyn is named 1st female US poet laureate
June 14, 1992 Ozzie Smith breaks Roy McMillan’s NL mark by taking part in his 1,305th career double play
June 14, 1991 “Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves” opens
June 14, 1991 Leroy Burrell of USA sets 100m record (9.90) in NYC
June 14, 1991 Space Shuttle STS 40 (Columbia 12) lands
June 14, 1990 44th NBA Championship: Det Pistons beat Por Trailblazers, 4 games to 1
June 14, 1990 Date of the events in the movie Mr Destiny
June 14, 1990 NL announces plans to expand from 12 to 14 teams for 1993 season
June 14, 1990 Supreme Court rules police check for drunk drivers constitutional
June 14, 1989 Ground breaking begins in Minn on world’s largest mall
June 14, 1989 Nolan Ryan becomes 2nd pitcher to defeat all 26 teams
June 14, 1989 Queen Elizabeth II knights Ronald Reagan
June 14, 1989 Rocker Carol King gets a star in Hollywood’s walk of fame
June 14, 1989 Zsa Zsa Gabor arrested for slaping Beverly Hills motorcycle patrolman
June 14, 1988 Woman sues Chuck Berry for $5,000,000 alleges he hit her
June 14, 1987 “A Team,” last aired on NBC-TV after 4´ years
June 14, 1987 41st NBA Championship: LA Lakers beat Boston Celtics, 4 games to 2
June 14, 1987 4th full-duration test firing of redesigned SRB motor
June 14, 1987 Colleen Walker wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic
June 14, 1985 “Michael Nesmith In Television Parts” premieres on NBC-TV
June 14, 1985 Earl Weaver comes out of retirement to manage Balt Orioles
June 14, 1985 Lebanese Shiite Muslim extremists hijacked TWA Flight 847
June 14, 1984 Southern Baptist convention decide on no women clergy members
June 14, 1983 5 killed in a fire at a Ramada Inn in Fort Worth, Tx
June 14, 1982 Argentina surrenders to Britain on Falkland Is, ends 74-day conflict
June 14, 1981 27th LPGA Championship won by Donna Caponi Young
June 14, 1981 No Nukes concert at Hollywood Bowl
June 14, 1980 Theme From NY, NY by Frank Sinatra hits #32
June 14, 1979 Canada all out 45 in Cricket World Cup v England, in 40 3 overs
June 14, 1979 NY Giants Willie McCovey 513th HR is an NL lefty record
June 14, 1979 Rock group “Little Feat” disbands
June 14, 1978 Down 9-7 in 10th with 2 outs, Yanks Paul Blair hits a 3 run HR
June 14, 1978 Sierra Leone adopts constitution
June 14, 1976 “Gong Show” premieres on TV (syndication)
June 14, 1976 12th Mayor’s Trophy Game Yanks beat Mets 8-4
June 14, 1975 45th French Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats M Navratilova (26 62 61)
June 14, 1975 Janis Ian releases “At 17″
June 14, 1975 USSR launches Venera 10 for Venus landing
June 14, 1974 Angels’ Nolan Ryan strikes out 19 Red Sox in 12 innings
June 14, 1973 46th National Spelling Bee: Barrie Trinkle wins spelling vouchsafe
June 14, 1972 Hurricane Agnes kills 117
June 14, 1970 Cincinnati Red Stockings loses 1st game after winning 130 straight
June 14, 1969 John & Yoko appear on David Frost’s British TV Show
June 14, 1969 Oakland A’s Reggie Jackson gets 10 RBIs to beat Red Sox 21-7
June 14, 1968 Off duty Dutch military permitted to wear regular clothing
June 14, 1967 Mariner 5 Launch (Venus Flyby)
June 14, 1967 Steve Allen Show,” premieres on CBS-TV
June 14, 1967 USSR launches Kosmos 166 for observation of Sun from Earth orbit
June 14, 1966 Dutch police beat construction workers, 60 injured
June 14, 1966 Miami beats St Petersburg (Florida State League) 4-3 in 29 innings longest uninterrupted game in organized baseball
June 14, 1965 Beatles release album “Beatles VI”
June 14, 1965 Cincinnati Red Jim Maloney no-hits NY Mets but loses in 11, 1-0
June 14, 1965 John Lennon’s 2nd book “A Spaniard in the Works” is published
June 14, 1964 Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open
June 14, 1963 NY Met Duke Snider hits his 400th HR
June 14, 1963 Valery Bykovsky in Vostok 5 orbits earth 81 times in 5 days
June 14, 1961 106¯F, hottest temperature in SF
June 14, 1959 Beverly Hanson wins LPGA American Women’s Golf Open
June 14, 1958 58th US Golf Open: Tommy Bolt shoots a 283 at Southern Hills in Tulsa
June 14, 1958 British parachutists lands on Cyprus
June 14, 1958 Nelson Mandela weds Winnie Madikizela
June 14, 1957 42.0 cm rain falls on East St Louis, Illinois (state record)
June 14, 1957 Edouard Carpentier beats Lou Thesz, to become NWA wrestling champ
June 14, 1956 “New Faces of 1956″ opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 221 perfs
June 14, 1954 Pres Eisenhower signs order adding words “under God” to the Pledge
June 14, 1953 Eisenhower condemns McCarthy’s book burning proposal
June 14, 1953 Elvis Presley graduates from LC Humes High School in Memphis Tenn
June 14, 1953 Military coup by general Gustavo Rojas Pinilla in Colombia
June 14, 1953 Yanks sweep Indians 6-2, 3-0 before 74,708 win streak at 18 straight
June 14, 1952 52nd US Golf Open: Julius Boros shoots a 281 at Northwood Club Dallas
June 14, 1952 Boston Brave Warren Spahn strikes out 18 Cubs in 15 innings
June 14, 1952 General strike in Tunisia
June 14, 1952 Jim Peters runs world record marathon (2:20:42.2)
June 14, 1952 Keel laid for 1st nuclear powered sub Nautilus
June 14, 1952 Braves Warren Spahn ties NL record of Jim Whitney with 18 strikeouts against the Cubs in 15-inning, 3-1 loss
June 14, 1951 “Courtin’ Time” opens at National Theater NYC for 37 performances
June 14, 1951 1st commercial computer, UNIVAC 1, enters service at Census Bureau
June 14, 1949 State of Vietnam forms, Bao Dai installed as Emperor
June 14, 1949 WROC TV channel 8 in Rochester, NY (NBC) begins broadcasting
June 14, 1948 Klemens Gottwald becomes president of Czechoslovakia
June 14, 1946 Canadian Library Association established
June 14, 1944 1st B-29 raid against mainland Japan
June 14, 1944 General Charles de Gaulle lands at Courselles France
June 14, 1942 1st bazooka rocket gun produced Bridgeport Ct
June 14, 1942 Anne Frank begins her diary
June 14, 1942 French government of Reynaud resigns
June 14, 1942 Walt Disney’s “Bambi” animated movie is released Thumper’s 1st job
June 14, 1941 Ground broken for Boeing Plant II (ex-AFLC Plant 13) Wichita KS
June 14, 1941 Estonia loses 11,000 inhabitants as a consequence of mass deportations into Siberia
June 14, 1940 Auschwitz concentration camp opens (3 million killed there)
June 14, 1940 German U-47 sinks airship Balmoral
June 14, 1940 German forces occupied Paris during WW II
June 14, 1938 Bradman scores 144* in 1st Test Cricket at Trent Bridge
June 14, 1938 Chlorophyll patented by Benjamin Grushkin
June 14, 1938 Dorothy Lathrop wins 1st Caldecott Medal (kid books author)
June 14, 1936 Oranienburg Concentration Camp opens
June 14, 1935 Chaco War between Bolivia & Paraguay ends
June 14, 1934 Hitler & Mussolini meet in Vienna
June 14, 1934 Max Baer KO’s Primo Carnera in 11 for HW box champ in Long Island City
June 14, 1934 WOQ-AM in KC Missouri goes off the air
June 14, 1933 Lou Gehrig & Joe McCarthy thrown out of game, McCarthy suspended 3 games but Gehrig isn’t, so he continues his streak at 1,249 games
June 14, 1932 German government of von Papen forms
June 14, 1931 French “St Philbert” overturns off St Nazaire France, drowns 450
June 14, 1931 Reinhard Heydrichs 1st meeting with Himmler
June 14, 1930 VVGZ soccer team forms in Zwijndrecht
June 14, 1929 Prussia & Vatican sign Concord
June 14, 1928 Republican Natl Convention, met in KC, nominated Herbert Hoover
June 14, 1926 2nd French Womens Tennis: Suzanne Lenglen beats Mary K Browne (61 60)
June 14, 1924 Test Cricket debuts of Herbert Sutcliffe & Maurice Tate v S Africa
June 14, 1924 WOKO-AM radio begins transmitting from Albany NY
June 14, 1923 Recording of 1st country music hit (Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane)
June 14, 1922 5th PGA Championship: Gene Sarazen at Oakmont CC Oakmont Pa
June 14, 1922 Charles Hoffner wins PGA golf tournament
June 14, 1922 Pres Harding is 1st US president to use radio, dedicating the Francis Scott Key memorial in Baltimore
June 14, 1919 1st nonstop air crossing of Atlantic (Alcock & Brown) leaves Nfld
June 14, 1917 1e German air attack on England, 100+ killed in East-London
June 14, 1917 Gen Pershing & his HQ staff arrived in Paris during WW I
June 14, 1907 Govt of Transvaal sends home 50,000 Chinese day workers
June 14, 1907 Norway restricts woman’s voting rights
June 14, 1906 Pogrom against Jews in Bialystok, Polish Russia
June 14, 1904 Dutch troops occupies Kuto Reh, Sumatra, killing all inhabitants
June 14, 1901 1st golf championship is played
June 14, 1900 Hawaiian Territorial Government begins
June 14, 1898 France signs Niger Convention
June 14, 1881 Player piano patented by John McTammany Jr (Cambridge, Mass)
June 14, 1880 14th Belmont: L Hughes aboard Grenada wins in 2:47
June 14, 1876 1st player to hit for cycle (George Hall, Phila Athletics)
June 14, 1876 California Street Cable Car Railroad Co gets its franchise
June 14, 1870 All-pro Cincinnati Red Stockings suffer 1st loss in 130 games
June 14, 1864 Congress rules Black soldiers must receive equal pay
June 14, 1864 US Union warship USS Kearsarge appears at Cherbourg
June 14, 1863 Battle of 2nd Winchester, Virginia
June 14, 1861 Harpers Ferry evacuated by rebels in face of McClellan’s advance
June 14, 1850 Fire destroys part of SF
June 14, 1847 Robert von Bunsen invents the Bunsen burner
June 14, 1846 Belgian Liberal Party forms
June 14, 1846 California (Bear Flag) Republic proclaimed in Sonoma
June 14, 1846 California declares independence from Mexico
June 14, 1841 1st Canadian parliament opens in Kingston, Ontario
June 14, 1839 1st Henley Regatta held
June 14, 1834 Hardhat diving suit patented by Leonard Norcross, Dixfield, Maine
June 14, 1834 Isaac Fischer Jr patents sandpaper
June 14, 1834 Sandpaper patented by Isaac Fischer Jr, Springfield, Vermont
June 14, 1800 Battle of Marengo (Alessandria): Bonaparte vs Austria
June 14, 1789 Capt William Blighs reaches Timor
June 14, 1777 Continental Congress adopts Stars & Stripes replacing Grand Union flag
June 14, 1775 US Army founded
June 14, 1755 1e edition of Dr Johnsons “Dictionary”
June 14, 1673 Battle at Schooneveld: Michiel de Ruyter beats French/English fleet
June 14, 1658 Battle at Dunes: English & French fleet beat Spanish
June 14, 1647 English New Model-army installed
June 14, 1645 Battle at Naseby Leicester: New Model army under Oliver Cromwell & Thomas Fairfax beats royalists
June 14, 1642 1st compulsory education law in America passed by Massachusetts
June 14, 1634 Russia & Poland sign Peace treaty of Polianov
June 14, 1623 1st breach-of-promise lawsuit: Rev Gerville Pooley, Va files against Cicely Jordan, he loses
June 14, 1615 Jacques Le Maire sail to Zuidland/Terra Australis
June 14, 1597 At 4:30 AM Willem Barents leaves Novaya Zemlya for Netherlands
June 14, 1565 Catharina de Medici & Duke of Alva discuss Calvinism
June 14, 1541 Duke Willem van Gulik of Gelre marries Jeanne d’Albret
June 14, 1535 Karel V’s fleet sails under Andrea Doria to Tunis