June 14

1158 – The city of Munich is founded by Henry the Lion.

1775 – The Second Continental Congress establishes the Continental Army, which later becomes the U.S. Army.

1777 – The Second Continental Congress passes the first Flag Act, adopting the Stars and Stripes as the Flag of the United States.
Resolved, That the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation.

1789 – HMS Bounty mutiny survivors including Captain William Bligh and 18 others reach the island of Timor after a nearly 4,600 mile journey in an open boat.

1846 – Anglo settlers in Sonoma, California, start a rebellion against Mexico and proclaim the Republic of California.

1863 – A Union garrison is defeated by the Army of Northern Virginia in the Shenandoah Valley town of Winchester, Virginia.

1864 – Alois Alzheimer, German psychiatrist and neuropathologist is born in Marktbreit, Bavaria

1914 – Adlai Stevenson I, 23rd Vice President of the United States dies in Chicago.

1926 – Brazil leaves the League of Nations.

1937 – The House of Representatives passes the Marihuana Tax Act.

1940 –The German occupation of Paris begins.

1946 – Donald Trump, 45th President of the United States is born in Queens New York.

1949 – Albert II, a rhesus monkey, rides a V-2 rocket launched at Holloman Air Force Base’s Alamogordo Guided Missile Test Base, New Mexico to an altitude of 134 km, becoming the first mammal and first monkey in space but dies on reentry.

1951 – The Remington Rand UNIVAC I computer is dedicated for use by the U.S. Census Bureau.

1954 – President Eisenhower signs a Joint Resolution of Congress into law that places the words “under God” into the United States Pledge of Allegiance.

1967 – The Mariner 5 probe is launched from Cape Canaveral, for a fly by of Venus

2002 – The 240 foot diameter, Near Earth Asteroid 2002 MN, discovered in 2002 by the MIT Lincoln Laboratory in Lexington, Massachusetts, misses the Earth by 75,000 miles, about one third of the distance between the Earth and the Moon.

2017 – During practice for a charity baseball game in Alexandria, Virginia, Republican member of Congress and House Majority Whip, Steve Scalise of Louisiana is shot by a follower of Senator Bernie Sanders.