June 14<\/p>\n
1158 \u2013 The city of Munich is founded by Henry the Lion.<\/p>\n
1775 \u2013 The Second Continental Congress establishes the Continental Army, which later becomes the U.S. Army.<\/p>\n
1777 \u2013 The Second Continental Congress passes the first Flag Act<\/em>, adopting the Stars and Stripes as the Flag of the United States. 1789 \u2013 HMS Bounty<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n 1846 \u2013 Anglo settlers in Sonoma, California, start a rebellion against Mexico and proclaim the Republic of California.<\/p>\n 1863 \u2013 A Union garrison is defeated by the Army of Northern Virginia in the Shenandoah Valley town of Winchester, Virginia.<\/p>\n 1864 \u2013 Alois Alzheimer, German psychiatrist and neuropathologist is born in Marktbreit, Bavaria<\/p>\n 1914 \u2013 Adlai Stevenson I, 23rd Vice President of the United States dies in Chicago.<\/p>\n 1926 \u2013 Brazil leaves the League of Nations.<\/p>\n 1937 \u2013 The House of Representatives passes the Marihuana Tax Act<\/em>.<\/p>\n 1940 \u2013The German occupation of Paris begins.<\/p>\n 1946 \u2013 Donald Trump, 45th President of the United States is born in Queens New York.<\/p>\n 1949 \u2013 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.<\/p>\n 1951 \u2013 The Remington Rand UNIVAC I computer is dedicated for use by the U.S. Census Bureau.<\/p>\n 1954 \u2013 President Eisenhower signs a Joint Resolution of Congress into law that places the words “under God” into the United States Pledge of Allegiance.<\/p>\n 1967 \u2013 The Mariner 5<\/em> probe is launched from Cape Canaveral, for a fly by of Venus<\/p>\n 2002 \u2013 The 240 foot diameter, Near Earth Asteroid 2002 MN,<\/em>\u00a0discovered 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.<\/p>\n 2017 \u2013 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" June 14 1158 \u2013 The city of Munich is founded by Henry the Lion. 1775 \u2013 The Second Continental Congress establishes the Continental Army, which later becomes the U.S. Army. 1777 \u2013 The Second Continental Congress passes the first Flag Act, adopting the Stars and Stripes as the Flag of the United States. Resolved, That … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55984"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93558,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55984\/revisions\/93558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nResolved<\/em>, 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.<\/p>\n