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Births for June 14


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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 (Queensr˜che-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 N˜land, 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)
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Passings for June 14


1144 Aboe 'l-Kasim Mahmoed ibn Omar al-Zapowersjari, theologist, dies at 69
1349 Gnther 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
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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)
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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 C‘sarea, doc
1996 [RC] Solemnity of Most Sacred Heart of Jesus
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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
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Facts for June 14


øF 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)
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Songs released on June 14


06/14/45 --- 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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