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1529 Ferdinand, archduke of Austria 1736 Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, physicist (formulated Coulomb's Law) 1805 Robert Anderson, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1871 1811 Harriet Beecher Stowe, author (Uncle Tom's Cabin) 1820 John Bartlett, US, editor (compiled Familiar Quotations) 1836 Thomas Wilberforce Egan, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) 1844 Edouard Naville, Swiss egyptologist 1855 Robert Marion La Follette, Wisconsin, pres candidate (Progressive) 1856 Andrey Markov, Russia, mathematician (Markov Chain) 1864 Alois Alzheimer, Germany, psychiatrist/pathologist (Alzheimer Disease) 1868 Karl Landsteiner, Austria, immunologist/pathologist (Nobel 1930) 1874 Edward Bowes, radio host (Major Bowes Amateur Hour) 1882 Ion Antonescu, fascist premier/dictator of Roemenia 1883 Lucien Cerfaux, Belgian bible leader 1884 John Mccormack, Irish/US singer (Irish People's Leader) 1895 Louis Finkelstein, US historian/theologist (Pharizees) 19-- Andy Christell, rocker (Electric Boys-Funk-o-metal Carpet Ride) 19-- Chris DeGarmo, rock guitarist (Queensrche-Warning) 19-- Jorge Rivero, Mexico, actor (Priest of Love, Last Hard Men) 19-- Kim Lankford, Montebello Calif, actress (Gingers-Knots Landing) 19-- Rosa Langschwadt, actress (Cecily Davidson-All My Children) 19-- Trish Stewart, Hot Springs Ark, actress (Melanmie-Salvage 1) 1906 Carl Esmond, Wien (Vienna) Austria, actor (Smash-Up) 1906 Gil Lamb, Minneapolis, actor (Hit Parade of 1947, Riding High) 1907 Ren Char, French poet/painter 1908 John Scott Trotter, Charlotte NC, orch leader (George Gobel Show) 1909 Burl Ives, Hunt Ill, folk singer/actor (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof) 1910 Rudolf Kempe, Niederpoyritz Germany, conductor (Tonhalle Orch 1965-72) 1917 Lash La Rue, Gretna La, cowboy actor (Lash of the West, Wyatt Earp) 1918 Dorothy McGuire, Omaha Neb, actress (Old Yeller, Summer Magic) 1918 Leroy T Walker, Atlanta Ga, US Olympic consultant (1960, 68, 72) 1919 Sam Wanamaker, Chic Ill, actor (Holocaust, Competition, Raw Deal) 1921 Gene Barry, NYC, actor (Bat Masterson, Name of the Game, Burke's Law) 1925 Pierre Salinger, newsman (ABC)/press secretary (John Kennedy) 1928 Ernesto "Che" Guevara Serna, Arg/Cuba revolutionary 1929 Cy Coleman, [Seymour Kaufman], songwriter (Witchcraft, Sweet Charity) 1931 Marla Gibbs, Chicago Ill, actress (Florence-Jeffersons, Mary-227) 1933 Jerzy Kosinski, novelist (Painted Bird, Being There) 1935 Jan Nland, cattle breeder/Dutch 2nd Chamber member (CDA) 1939 Steny H Hoyer, (Rep-D-MD, 1981- ) 1940 Ben Davidson, LA Calif, actor (Rhino-Ball Four, Code R) 1940 Bill Baker, (Rep-R-California) 1940 Jack Bannon, LA Calif, actor (Art-Lou Grant, Trauma Center) 1941 John Edgar Widerman, US writer 1943 F James Sensenbrenner, (Rep-R-Wisconsin) 1943 Muff Mervyn Winwood, singer (Spencer Davis Group-Gimme Some Lovin) 1943 W J [Billy] Tauzin, (Rep-D-LA, 1980- ) 1946 Donald Trump, master builder (Trump Towers/Plaza/Castle) 1946 Ralph McAllister Ingersol II, NYC, newspaper publisher 1949 Bob Frankston, programmer (VisiCalc) 1949 Rochelle Firestone, Kansas City MO, actress (Hellhole) 1952 Eddie Mekka, Worcester Mass, actor (Carmine-Laverne & Shirley) 1953 David Thomas, US singer/songwriter (Pere Ubu) 1954 Will Patton, Charleston SC, actor (No Way Out, Ballzaire the Cajun) 1958 Carina Persson, Stockholm Sweden, playmate (August, 1983) 1958 Eric Heiden, Wisc, «/1/1«/5/10K speed skater (Olympic-5 golds-1980) 1960 Tonie Campbell, LA Calif, 100m hurdler (Olympic-bronze-1988) 1961 "Boy George" O'Dowd, androgynous vocalist & druggie (Culture Club) 1961 Grace Jackson, St Ann Jamaica, 200m runner (Olympic-silver-1988) 1967 Wendy Lian Williams, St Louis Mo, US diver (Olympic-bronze-88, 92) 1968 Yasmine Bleeth, actress (Ryan's Hope, 1 Life to Live) 1969 Steffi Graf, Bruhl West Germany, tennis player (Grand Slam 1988) 1970 Simone Fleurice Eden, Arcadia Ca, playmate (Feb, 1989) 2160 Montgomery Edward Scott, Aberdeen, Scotland (Star Trek) Back to GREGSITE Passings for June 141144 Aboe 'l-Kasim Mahmoed ibn Omar al-Zapowersjari, theologist, dies at 69 1349 Gnther Van Schwarzburg, German anti-king 1349, dies at about 44 1801 Benedict Arnold, Revolutionary War general, dies in London 1828 Charles Augustus, grand duke of Saxon-Weimar-Eisenach, dies 1828 Charles, Duke of Prussia, dies at 70 1873 Friedrich von Raumer, German historian/parliamentarian, dies at 92 1907 A Adolf Daens, Belgian priest/politician (CVP), dies 1920 Max Weber, German sociologist/economist/historian, dies 1928 Emmeline Pankhurst-Goulden, English feminist, dies 1936 Gilbert K Chesterton, English writer/poet (Father Brown), dies 1944 Lubor Niederle, Czech archaeologist/slavist, dies at 78 1951 Hendrik Baels, Belgian politician, dies at 73 1960 Ana Pauker-Rabensohn, Romanian Foreign Minister (1945-52), dies at 67 1962 Anna Sleasers, first Boston Strangler victim 1964 Ko Arnoldi, actor/director, dies at 81 1965 H V Kaltenborn, newscaster (Who Said That?), dies at 86 1968 Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian poet/essayist (Nobel 1959), dies 1977 Alan Reed, actor (Mr Adams & Eve/voice (Fred Flintstone), dies at 69 1977 Robert Middleman, actor (Barney-Monroes), dies at 66 1982 Marie Rambert, [Cyviam Ramberg], Polish/British ballerina, dies at 94 1982 Marjorie Bennett, actress (Blossom-Dobie Gillis), dies at 87 of cancer 1986 Alan Jay Lerner, Broadway librettist, dies in NY at 67 1986 Jorge Luis Borges, Arg author (Book of Sand), dies in Geneva at 86 1986 Marlin Perkins, "Wild Kingdom" host, dies near St Louis at 81 1989 Pete de Freitas, drummer Echo & the Bunnyman, dies 1991 Joy Finzi, [Joyce A Black], British painter, dies 1991 Peggy Ashcroft, British actress (A passage to India), dies Back to GREGSITE Holidays for June 14[Afgh nist n] Mother's Day [Falkland Islands, S Georgia & S Sandwich Is] Liberation Day (1982) [US] Flag Day (1777) [Massachusett] Children's Day [Paraguay] Chaco Peace Day (1935) [Shelby, Mich] National Asparagus Festival [UK & Commonwealth] Queen's official birthday (2nd Sat of June) Back to GREGSITE Interest events for June 14[Christian] Feast of SS Valerius & Rufinus [Luth] Commem of Gregory of Nazianzus & Gregory of Nyssa, bishops [Luth-Manheim, Penn] Rose Day anniversary [Methodist] Student Day (2nd Sunday in June) 379 [old RC, Luth, Ang] Comm of St Basil the Great, bp of Csarea, doc 1996 [RC] Solemnity of Most Sacred Heart of Jesus Back to GREGSITE Special events for June 14 Children's Day Only 200 days left in year Father's Day (France) (2nd Sunday) 0704 [US] Honor America Days 1597 AT 4:30 AM Willem Barents leaves Novaya Zemlya for Netherlands 1642 1st compulsory education law in America passed by Massachusetts 1775 US Army founded 1777 Continental Congress adopts Stars & Stripes replacing Grand Union flag 1800 Battle of Marengo (Alessandria): Bonaparte vs Austria 1834 Hardhat diving suit patented by Leonard Norcross, Dixfield, Maine 1834 Sandpaper patented by Isaac Fischer Jr, Springfield, Vermont 1841 1st Canadian parliament opens in Kingston, Ontario 1846 California (Bear Flag) Republic proclaimed in Sonoma 1847 Bunson invents a gas burner. Lab teachers celebrate worldwide 1850 Fire destroys part of SF 1861 Harpers Ferry evacuated by rebels in face of McClellan's advance 1863 Battle of 2nd Winchester, Virginia 1864 Battle of Pine Mt, Gen Leonidas Polk killed in action 1864 Congress rules Black soldiers must receive equal pay 1870 All-pro Cincinnati Red Stockings suffer 1st loss in 130 games 1876 1st player to hit for cycle (George Hall, Phila Athletics) 1876 California Street Cable Car Railroad Co gets its franchise 1881 Player piano patented by John McTammany, Jr, Cambridge, Mass 1900 Hawaiian Republic becomes US Territory of Hawaii 1906 J H Metcalf discovers asteroid #600 Musa 1906 Pogrom against Jews in Bialystok, Polish Russia 1907 Govt of Transvaal gets 50,000 Chinese day workers 1907 Norway restricts woman's voting rights 1917 Gen Pershing & his HQ staff arrived in Paris during WW I 1919 1st nonstop air crossing of Atlantic (Alcock & Brown) leaves Nfld 1922 Charles Hoffner wins PGA golf tournament 1923 Recording of 1st country music hit (Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane) 1924 WOKO-AM radio begins transmitting from Albany NY 1928 Republican Natl Convention, met in KC, nominated Herbert Hoover 1929 Prussia & Vatican sign Concord 1931 French "St Philbert" overturned off St Nazaire France, drowns 450 1932 German cabinet of von Papen forms 1934 Hitler & Mussolini meet in Vienna 1934 Max Baer KO's Primo Carnera in 11 for HW box champ in Long Island City 1934 WOQ-AM in KC Missouri goes off the air 1935 Chaco War between Bolivia & Paraguay ends 1936 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1490 Limpopo 1936 Oranienburg Concentration Camp opens 1938 Chlorophyll patented by Benjamin Grushkin 1938 Dorothy Lathrop wins 1st Caldecott Medal (kid books author) 1940 German forces occupied Paris during WW II 1940 Nazis open a concentration camp at Auschewitz 1941 Ground broken for Boeing Plant II (ex-AFLC Plant 13) Wichita KS 1942 1st bazooka rocket gun produced Bridgeport Ct 1942 French cabinet of Reynaud resigns 1942 Walt Disney's "Bambi" is released 1944 1st B-29 raid against mainland Japan 1945 Rod Argent, rocker (Zombies-Never Even Thought) 1946 Canadian Library Association established 1948 Klemens Gottwald becomes president of Czechoslovakia 1949 State of Vietnam forms, Bao Dai installed as Emperor 1949 WROC TV channel 8 in Rochester, NY (NBC) begins broadcasting 1951 1st commercial computer, UNIVAC 1, enters service at Census Bureau 1952 Boston Brave Warren Spahn strikes out 18 Cubs in 15 innings 1952 General strike in Tunisia 1952 Julius Boros wins US Open golf tournament 1952 Keel laid for 1st nuclear powered sub Nautilus 1953 Eisenhower condemns McCarthy's book burning proposal 1953 Elvis Presley graduates from LC Humes High School in Memphis, Tenn 1953 Military coup by general Gustavo Rojas Pinilla in Columbia 1953 Yanks sweep Indians 6-2, 3-0 before 74,708 win streak at 18 straight 1954 Pres Eisenhower signs order adding words "under God" to the Pledge 1957 42.0 cm rain falls on East St Louis, Illinois (state record) 1958 British parachutists lands on Cyprus 1958 Nelson Mandela weds Winnie Madikizela 1958 Tommy Bolt wins US Open golf tournament 1961 106øF, hottest temperature in San Francisco 1963 NY Met Duke Snider hits his 400th HR 1963 Valery Bykovsky in Vostok 5 orbits earth 81 times in 5 days 1965 Beatles release album "Beatles VI" 1965 Cincinatti Red Jim Maloney no-hits NY Mets but loses in 11, 1-0 1965 John Lennon's 2nd book "A Spaniard in the Works" is published 1967 Launch of Mariner V for Venus fly-by 1967 USSR launches Kosmos 166 for observation of Sun from Earth orbit 1969 John & Yoko appear on David Frost's British TV Show 1969 Oakland A's Reggie Jackson gets 10 RBIs to beat Red Sox 21-7 1970 Cincinatti Red Stockings loses 1st game after winning 130 straight 1974 Angels' Nolan Ryan strikes out 19 Red Sox in 12 innings 1975 Janis Ian releases "At 17" 1975 USSR launches Venera 10 for Venus landing 1976 "Gong Show" premieres on TV (syndication) 1976 12th Mayor's Trophy Game Yanks beat Mets 8-4 1978 Down 9-7 in 10th with 2 outs, Yanks Paul Blair hits a 3 run HR 1978 Sierra Leone adopts constitution 1979 Rock group "Little Feat" disbands 1980 E Bowell discovers asteroid #2937 Gibbs, #2938 Hopi & #3160 Angerhofer 1982 Argentina surrenders to Britain on Falkland Is, ends 74-day conflict 1983 5 killed in a fire at a Ramada Inn in Fort Worth, Tx 1984 Southern Baptist convention decide on no women clergy members 1985 Lebanese Shiite Moslem gunmen hijack TWA 847 after Athens' takeoff 1987 4th full-duration test firing of redesigned SRB motor 1987 LA Lakers win NBA title with a 106-93, victory over Celtics 1989 Ground breaking begins in Minn on world's largest mall 1989 Nolan Ryan becomes 2nd pitcher to defeat all 26 teams 1989 Pistons sweep LA for NBA title, Kareem Abdul Jabber's final NBA game 1989 Queen Elizabeth II knights Ronald Reagan 1989 Rocker Carol King gets a star in Hollywood's walk of fame 1990 Detroit Pistons beat Portland, 4 games to 1 for NBA championship 1990 US Supreme Court upholds police rights for intoxication checkpoint 1991 Leroy Burrell of USA sets 100m record (9.90) in NYC 1991 Space Shuttle STS 40 (Columbia 12) lands 1993 Japanese space probe Sakigake passes Earth 1993 Tansu Ciller appointed 1st female premier of Turkey Back to GREGSITE Facts for June 14øF highest temperature for this date in NYC øF lowest temperature for this date in NYC 165th day of year with 200 days left (Numerology = 2) Back to GREGSITE Songs released on June 1406/14/45 --- Bell Bottom Trousers --- Lombardo, Guy 06/14/69 --- Color Him Father --- Winstons 06/14/75 --- One Of These Nights --- Eagles 06/14/75 --- Midnight Blue --- Manchester, Melissa 06/14/75 --- Swearin' To God --- Valli, Frankie 06/14/75 --- Why Can't We Be Friends --- War 06/14/75 --- I'm Not In Love --- Ten CC 06/14/80 --- More Love --- Carnes, Kim 06/14/80 --- Magic --- Newton-John, Olivia 06/14/86 --- Love Touch --- Stewart, Rod |
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