On This Day June 14th

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June 14th is the one-hundred-sixty-fifth day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 200 days remain until the end of the year.

 

Events

1287 – Kublai Khan defeats the force of Nayan and other traditionalist Borjigin princes in East Mongolia and Manchuria.

1775 – American Revolutionary War: The Continental Congress established the Continental Army, marking the birth of the United States Armed Forces.

1777 – The Second Continental Congress passed the Flag Act of 1777, adopting the Stars and Stripes as the Flag of the United States.

1789 – Mutiny on the Bounty: HMS Bounty mutiny survivors, including Captain William Bligh and 18 others, reach Timor after a nearly 7,400 km (4,600 mi) journey in an open boat.

1900 – Hawaii became a territory in the United States.

1949 – Albert II, a rhesus monkey, rides a V-2 rocket to an altitude of 134 km (83 mi), becoming the first mammal and monkey in space.

1954 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a bill into law that placed the words "under God" into the United States Pledge of Allegiance.

1959 – Disneyland Monorail System, the first daily operating monorail system in the Western Hemisphere, opens to the public in Anaheim, California.

2002 – Near-Earth asteroid 2002 MN misses the Earth by 75,000 miles (121,000 km), about one-third of the distance between the Earth and the Moon.

 

Birthdays

1444 – Nilakantha Somayaji, Indian astronomer and mathematician (d. 1544)

1811 – Harriet Beecher Stowe, American author and activist (d. 1896)

1900 – Ruth Nanda Anshen, American writer, editor, and philosopher (d. 2003)

1909 – Burl Ives, American actor and singer (d. 1995)

1924 – James Black, Scottish pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2010)

1939 – Jesse F Stewart, an American entrepreneur and the Hardest-working man in Florida (d. 2000)

1946 – Donald Trump, American businessman, television personality, and 45th President of the United States.

1969 – Steffi Graf, German tennis player.

 

Highlighted Holiday

NATIONAL POP GOES THE WEASEL DAY

The "Pop Goes The Weasel" rhyme dates back to the 1700s and references the Eagle Tavern, also known as the Eagle Freehold Pub, on London’s City Road. The pub closed in 1825 and became a music room before being rebuilt as a public house in 1901, where it still stands today.

In 1852, a boat named "Pop Goes The Weasel" participated in the Durham Regatta, and by December of the same year, the rhyme had gained widespread attention. It was called a social dance in England, concluding with a country dance in Ipswich on December 13, 1852. The rhyme also made its way into private gatherings among the royalty by December 24, 1852, and was being advertised throughout England by December 28, 1852.

Initially, it was just a tune, but the lyrics were added later. It even went across the Atlantic to America in the late 1850s, where it became popular with slightly different lyrics.

 

.Holidays And Observance

Family History Day

Flag Day

International Bath Day

Magic Circles Day

National Bourbon Day

National Strawberry Shortcake Day

Own Your Share of America Day

Pause for the Pledge Day

Pop Goes the Weasel Day

US Army Birthday

Wear Blue Day

Work at Home Father's Day

World Blood Donor Day

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