June 14, 2023
QUOTE
It’s a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
--Harriet Beecher Stowe
BIRTHDAYS
1811 – Harriet Beecher Stowe, Author and activist
1864 – Alois Alzheimer, German psychiatrist and neuropathologist
1946 – Donald Trump, 45th President of the United States[
1952 – Pat Summitt, Basketball player and coach
1954 – Will Patton, Actor
IN MEMORY
1977 – Robert Middleton, Actor
1977 – Alan Reed, American Actor, original voice of Fred Flintstone
1995 – Rory Gallagher, Irish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
2007 – Robin Olds, General and pilot
IN ON THIS DAY
1775 – The Continental Army is established by the Continental Congress, marking the birth of the United States Armed Forces.
1777 – The Second Continental Congress passes the Flag Act of 1777 adopting the Stars and Stripes as the Flag of the United States.
1789 – The HMS Bounty mutiny survivors including Captain William Bligh and 18 others reach Timor after a nearly 4,600 mi journey in an open boat.
1900 – Hawaii becomes a United States territory.
1949 – Albert II, a monkey, rides a V-2 rocket to an altitude of 83 mi, thereby becoming the first mammal and first monkey in space and ultimately prompting John Prine to write the song “Space Monkey.”
1954 –President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law that places the words “under God” into the United States Pledge of Allegiance.