June 14
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1775 - The first U.S. military service, the U.S. Army, was established by a Congressional Resolution.1777 - “Resolved that the flag of the thirteen United States shall be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white on a blue field, representing a new constellation,” said John Adams, at a meeting of the Continental Congress in Philadelphia, PA. And so, the first Flag Day was celebrated in the United States of America.
1834 - While thoughts of summer sun and sand are upon us, we pause to take a short lesson about one of mankind’s greatest inventions. Isaac Fischer, Jr. of Springfield, Vermont decided that it was time to patent sandpaper. Mr. Fischer’s sandpaper changed the coarse of history didn’t it? Now, back to work!
1881 - The player piano was patented by John McTammany, Jr. of Cambridge, MA. It was patent number 242,786.
1900 - Hawaii became a territory under the Organic Act, “An Act to Provide a Government for the Territory of Hawaii” (chapter 339, 31 Stat. 141), approved on April 30, 1900, and effective on this day.
1919 - Lindbergh did it all by himself; but the true, first, nonstop transatlantic flight took place on this day. Actually, it took two days for Captain John Alcock and Lt. Arthur Brown to fly their Vickers Vimy bomber to Ireland from St. Johns, Newfoundland. The 1,900-mile flight ended in a crash landing in a peat bog in Clifden, County Galway, Ireland.
1922 - A U.S. President was heard on radio for the first time. President Warren G. Harding dedicated the Francis Scott Key Memorial and was heard on radio station WEAR in Baltimore.
1923 - It was the beginning of the country music recording industry. Ralph Peer of Okeh Records recorded Fiddlin’ John Carson doing The Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane -- and the first country music recording was in the can.
1937 - Pennsylvania became the first state in the United States to observe Flag Day as a legal holiday. PA is still the only state doing so.
1940 - Paris was captured by the Nazis as France surrendered to Adolph Hitler.
1942 - From the Do Not Try This at Home File: The first bazooka-rocket gun was produced -- in Bridgeport, CT.
1943 - On this Flag Day 1943, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled schoolchildren could not be compelled to salute the flag of the United States if doing so would create a conflict with their religious beliefs.
1944 - U.S. B-29 Superfortress bombers conducted their first raid against mainland Japan.
1949 - Vietnam, formerly part of Indochina, became the State of Vietnam on this day.
1950 - After 13 years on the radio, Harold Peary played the leading role of The Great Gildersleeve one final time. Willard Waterman took Peary’s place in the role for the next eight years on radio and for several years on TV as well.
1951 - Univac 1 (UNIVersal Automatic Computer), was unveiled in Washington, DC. Billed as the world’s first commercial computer, Univac was designed for the U.S. Census Bureau. The massive computer was 8 feet high, 7-1/2 feet wide and 14-1/2 feet long. It had lots and lots of tubes that dimmed lights all over Washington when it cranked out information. Compared to today’s computers, Univac was painfully slow ... a lot like the government in which it served, in fact.
1953 - Elvis Presley graduated from L.C. Humes High School in Memphis, Tennessee. Within three years, the truck driver-turned-singer had his first number-one record with Heartbreak Hotel.
1954 - President Dwight Eisenhower signed into law a Resolution of the U.S. Congress which added the phrase “under God” to the Pledge of Allegiance.
1958 - Nelson Mandela and Winnie Madikizela were married in in Transkei, South Africa.
1963 - Duke Snider got his 400th home run in a game against the Cincinnati Reds. Snider became the ninth player in major-league history to reach this career milestone.
1966 - The Vatican did away with its Index of Prohibited Books (created in 1557 by the Congregation of the Inquisition under Pope Paul IV). The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith declared that the Index and its related penalties of excommunication no longer had the force of law in the Church, “Persons are still obliged, however, to take normal precautions against occasions of doctrinal error.”
1967 - The Mariner 5 space probe was launched from Cape Kennedy on a flight to take it past Venus.
1972 - The EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) banned nearly all use of pesticide DDT in the U.S.
1974 - The Heimlich Maneuver was developed by Dr. Henry Heimlich. The technique for helping choking victims has since saved thousands of lives worldwide.
1975 - America reached the top spot on the Billboard pop music chart with Sister Golden Hair. The group had previously (March, 1972) taken A Horse With No Name to the number one spot. The trio of Dan Peek, Gerry Beckley and Dewey Bunnell had received the Best New Artist Grammy in 1972. America recorded a dozen hits that made it to the popular music charts in the 1970s and 1980s. Though number one, Sister Golden Hair did not qualify for gold record (million-seller) status.
1976 - The Beatles were awarded a gold record for the compilation album of past hits titled, Rock ’n’ Roll Music.
1982 - The large Argentine garrison in Port Stanley (capital and only town in the Falkland Islands) was overrun by British troops, effectively ending the Falklands War . Argentina had invaded the British dependent territory(ies) in April 1982. During the brief war, Argentina suffered 655 killed, while Britain lost 236.
1985 - Earl Weaver returned to manage the American League Baltimore Orioles, after a 2-1/2-year retirement. Weaver is said to have turned down 11 managing offers, but said “Yes” to Attorney Edward Bennett Williams, the owner of the Orioles, when asked to return to take over the reins of the team.
1986 - Oscar and Tony-winning lyricist and composer Alan Jay Lerner died of lung cancer in New York at the age of 67. With Frederick Loewe, Lerner wrote the Broadway musicals Camelot, Brigadoon and My Fair Lady. His screenplay for An American in Paris won an Academy Award (1951) and he won two more Oscars in 1958 for his work on the film Gigi and the song Thank Heaven for Little Girls.
1989 - Former President Ronald Reagan was installed as an Honorary Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath by England’s Queen Elizabeth II.
1990 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld, by a 6-3 vote, police checkpoints that examine drivers -- to detect and deter impaired drivers.
1991 - Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves opened, collecting $25.63 million from audiences at 2,369 U.S. theaters. Kevin Costner is Robin of Locksley, Morgan Freeman plays Azeem, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio is Marian, and Christian Slater stars as Will Scarlett. The mean old Sheriff of Nottingham is played by the spooky Alan Rickman. It takes awhile (143 minutes), but the good guys/gals do live happily ever after.
1992 - Mona Van Duyn became the first woman to be named poet laureate of the U.S. by the Library of Congress.
1993 - President Clinton chose Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg, an advocate of women’s rights, to serve on the Supreme Court, surprising observers who had predicted Clinton’s choice would be Judge Stephen Breyer. She succeeded retiring Justice Byron White.
1994 - Film and TV composer and arranger Henry Mancini died in Beverly Hills, California complications of liver and pancreatic cancer. He was 70 years old. Mancini became popular in the late 1950s after his score for the TV series Peter Gunn became a hit. It was one of the first TV soundtracks to usejazz. He won twenty Grammy Awards and four Academy Awards, including two Oscars in 1962 (Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Moon River). Mancini wrote the theme for David Letterman’s late-night TV show viewer-mail segment and the theme song for the NBC Nightly News in the 1970s. Over the years, Mancini earned six gold albums.
1995 - Michael Jackson and wife, Lisa Marie Presley-Jackson, were interviewed by Diane Sawyer on ABC-TV’s PrimeTime Live. Sawyer questioned the couple about how they got to know each other, how Michael proposed, etc. The hourlong interview, at the old MGM set at Sony Pictures, Hollywood, was seen by 60 million U.S. viewers and millions more around the world. Selected snippets from the interview: Do they have sex? “Yes, yes, yes.” Prenuptial agreement? “Yes.” Regarding accusations of child molestation? “Never ever! I could never harm a child, or anyone. It’s not in my heart. It’s not how I am. I am not even interested in that!” Would Michael like to be as black as he once was? “I love black.”
1996 - Columbia Pictures released The Cable Guy, starring Jim Carrey, on more than 4,000 screens across the U.S. Carrey received $20 million for the film, a record for a film comedian. Also opening this day was Moll Flanders, with Robin Wright, Morgan Freeman, Stockard Channing, John Lynch, Brenda Fricker and Aisling Corcoran.
1997 - The single by Puff Daddy and Faith Evans, I’ll Be Missing You, was #1 in the U.S. The hit was number one for eleven weeks and won a Grammy Award.
1997 - The Chicago Bulls captured their fifth professional basketball championship in seven years. The Bulls scored a 90-86 victory over the Utah Jazz in Game 6 of the NBA finals.
1998 - Michael Jordan poured in 45 points as the Chicago Bulls clinched their sixth NBA championship, defeating the Utah Jazz in game six played in Salt Lake City, 87-86.
1999 - The U.S. Supreme Court struck down a 65-year-old ban on broadcast advertising of casino gambling. It said the ban aimed at protecting compulsive gamblers violated free-speech rights.
2001 - U.S. President George Bush (II) sparred with European leaders in Sweden over climate change, unwavering in his opposition to a global warming treaty.
2002 - These movies made debuts in the U.S.: The Bourne Identity, starring Matt Damon, Franka Potente, Clive Owen, Chris Cooper, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje and Julia Stiles; Scooby Doo, with Matthew Lillard, Freddie Prinze Jr., Sarah Michelle Gellar, Linda Cardellini and Rowan Atkinson; and Windtalkers, starring Nicolas Cage, Adam Beach, Peter Stormare, Noah Emmerich, Mark Ruffalo and Brian Van Holt.
2002 - June Jordan, black radical and UC Berkeley poet and professor, died of cancer. She was 65 years old. One of the most published African American writers in history, Jordan’s work included 28 books of poems, political essays and children’s fiction.
2003 - A car driven by Phoenix AZ Bishop Thomas O’Brien struck and killed pedestrian Jim Reed. O’Brien was later convicted of leaving the scene of an accident and sentenced to probation.
2004 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a California atheist did not have the legal standing to challenge the constitutionality of the words “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance. The Court dodged the underlying question of whether the Pledge of Allegiance is an unconstitutional blending of church and state.
2004 - The Israeli Supreme Court ruled that Israeli municipalities must permit the sale of pork where a majority of residents demand it.
2005 - A magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck northern California -- about 90 miles southwest of the coastal community of Crescent City; meanwhile, a 7.9 quake rattled cities in Bolivia and Peru, heavily damaging mountain villages in northern Chile, and killing eight; and a 6.9 magnitude earthquake struck the Rat Islands and Aleutian Islands area of Alaska, epicentered 35 miles southeast of Amchitka, 175 miles southwest of Adak.
2005 - Athens, Greece: Asafa Powell of Jamaica broke/set the world 100-meter dash record with a time of 9.77 seconds.
2006 - Librarian of Congress James H. Billington named Donald Hall, former poet laureate of New Hampshire, as the poet laureate of the U.S.
2007 - Colgate warned that a counterfeit toothpaste bearing its name had been found in four U.S. states and might contain diethylene glycol, a poisonous chemical used in antifreeze.
2008 - A 7.2 magnitude earthquake in northern Japan killed 12 people as it sheared off hillsides, jolted buildings and shook nuclear power plants. Hundreds of people were injured in the quake.
2009 - Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers earned their 15th NBA title as Bryant scored 30 points and Pau Gasol added 14 and 15 rebounds in a 99-86 win in Game 5 over the Orlando Magic.
2009 - Protests, riots and violence broke out in several Iranian cities following an election which many in Iran said was fraudulent. Demonstrations took place late into the night, with waves of police fighting protestors in Tehran, Shiraz, Mashad and Rasht. The protesters chanted “Death to the dictator!”
2010 - The U.S. gave BP (British Petroleum) permission to start burning oil and gas piped up from its broken seafloor well. This, in an ongoing effort to limit the crude oil spewing into the Gulf of Mexico.
2011 - In an effort to help combat childhood obesity, the Los Angeles Unified School District agreed to stop serving flavored milk; neither chocolate nor strawberry milk was to be available in school cafeterias after July 1, 2011.
2011 - The Wallow Fire in eastern Arizona had burned more than 733 square miles, as it became the largest wildfire in state history.
2011 - Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark opened at the Foxwoods Theatre on Broadway. The musical features music and lyrics by Bono and The Edge, from a book by Julie Taymor and Glen Berger (with revisions by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa). The show is based on the Spider-Man comics created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, published by Marvel Comics, as well as the 2002 film and the Greek myth of Arachne. It tells Spider-Man’s origin story, his romance with Mary Jane and his battles with the Green Goblin. Folded into the story are highly technical stunts, such as aerial combat scenes and actors swinging from "webs", and the show became notorious for its many troubles, including injuries to several actors. The spectacle was successful, running for 1066 shows and closing on Jan 04, 2014.
2012 - Australia announced a 2.3 million-square-km marine preserve expansion. The action created the world’s largest network of marine reserves and restricted fishing, and oil and gas exploration.
2013 - Movies opening this day in the U.S. included: Man of Steel, starring Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Russell Crowe, Michael Shannon, Kevin Costner, Diane Lane, Laurence Fishburne, Christopher Meloni, Ayelet Zurer and Jadin Gould; Berberian Sound Studio, with Toby Jones, Tonia Sotiropoulou, Susanna Cappellaro, Cosimo Fusco, Suzy Kendall, Layla Amir and Hilda Péter; The Bling Ring, starring Katie Chang, Israel Broussard, Emma Watson, Claire Julien, Taissa Farmiga, Georgia Rock, Leslie Mann, Carlos Miranda, Gavin Rossdale and Stacy Edwards; Hatchet III, starring Danielle Harris, Kane Hodder, Zach Galligan, Caroline Williams, Derek Mears, Cody Blue Snider, Rileah Vanderbilt, Robert Diago DoQui, Sean Whalen, Jason Trost, Diane Ayala Goldner and John Michael Sudol; and Stuck in Love, with Logan Lerman, Kristen Bell, Jennifer Connelly, Lily Collins, Greg Kinnear, Stephen and Liana Liberato.
2013 - The Airbus A350’s maiden flight went smoothly in France, intensifying competition with U.S. rival Boeing in the long-haul wide-body aircraft market.
2014 - Afghan insurgents cut the index fingers off several voters in Herat province and killed 11 others, including four election workers. All this, to punish them for voting in the presidential runoff election.
2015 - Lions, tigers and even a hippopotamus escaped from a zoo in Tbilisi, Georgia. The excapes came after heavy flooding destroyed the animal enclosures, prompting authorities to warn residents in Tbilisi to stay inside.
2016 - The Riviera Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada was imploded. The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Center said it was spending $42 million to level the 13-building Riviera campus with plans for expansion.
2016 - The Democratic National committee reported that its computer network had been hacked by Russian government hackers who gained access to opposition research on presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.
2017 - Republican Congressman Steve Scalise and several other people were wounded in the Washington suburb of Alexandria, VA when a gunman opened fire at a baseball practice session. The U.S. lawmakers were practicing for the annual Congressional Baseball Game for Charity. Also shot were Crystal Griner, a U.S. Capitol Police officer assigned to protect Scalise; Zack Barth, a congressional aide; and Matt Mika, a Tyson Foods lobbyist. The gunman was killed and later identified as James T. Hodgkinson of Belleville, Illinois.
2018 - A report by the Justice Department’s inspector general faulted the FBI and its former director, James Comey, over the handling of the Hillary Clinton email probe in 2016. The 568-page report found no bias in the investigation itself, or in the ultimate decision announced by Comey not to prosecute Clinton for mishandling classified materials.
2018 - In a case that sparked international revulsion, the four main suspects involved in the gruesome deaths of 71 migrants in a truck on an Austrian highway in 2015 were given 25-year jail sentences. Ten others were also found guilty in the deaths and handed prison sentences of up to 12 years by the court in the southern town of Kecskemet, Hungary. The bodies were already in an advanced state of decomposition when they were discovered in an abandoned poultry refrigerator truck in August 2015.
2019 - Films showing for the first time in U.S. theatres included: Men in Black: International, starring Tessa Thompson, Chris Hemsworth and Rebecca Ferguson; Shaft, starring Samuel L. Jackson, Alexandra Shipp and Avan Jogia; American Woman, with Christina Hendricks, Aaron Paul and Sienna Miller; Being Frank, starring Samantha Mathis, Danielle Campbell and Anna Gunn; The Dead Don’t Die, with Bill Murray, Adam Driver and Alyssa Maria App; Hampstead, starring Diane Keaton, Hugh Skinner and Brendan Gleeson; In the Aisles, with Sandra Hüller, Franz Rogowski and Peter Kurth; Plus One, starring Maya Erskine, Jack Quaid and Ed Begley Jr.; Say My Name, with Lisa Brenner, Nick Blood and Celyn Jones; and Vault, starring Theo Rossi, Clive Standen and Samira Wiley.
2019 - The World Health Organization emergency committee met to decide on declaring an Ebola epidemic to be an international threat. This, after an outbreak that began in Democratic Republic of Congo had crossed into Uganda. (The committee declined to declare a global emergency.)
2019 - Women across Switzerland held a strike to highlight their wealthy nation’s poor record on female rights. The protest resurrected the passion of the first such walkout in 1991.
2020 - In Japan and New Zealand people marched peacefully, highlighting the outrage over the May 25 death of George Floyd in Minnesota.
2020 - The Israeli government approved plans to build a new settlement in the occupied Golan Heights -- named after POTUS Trump. “Ramat Trump”, Hebrew for “Trump Heights”, would house 300 families.
2021 - Joe Biden attended his first NATO summit as president. He took aim, along with European officials, at China for a second day, with a warning about Beijing’s growing military strength.
2021 - 31-year-old porn actor and producer Ruben Andre Garcia, who recruited young women under false pretenses to appear in videos for San Diego-based website GirlsDoPorn.com, was sentenced to 20 years in prison in connection with his pleas to federal sex-trafficking and conspiracy charges. Garcia admitted that in order to recruit victims to appear in the videos, he and his co-conspirators threatened, deceived and lied to them, promising that the videos would never be posted online, that “no one” would ever find out, and that the videos would never be released in the United States. In actuality, the co-conspirators were posting the videos on GirlsDoPorn, GirlsDoToys, and PornHub, one of the world’s most heavily-trafficked porn sites. Many of the victim videos were viewed millions of times.
2021 - Novavax Inc said its COVID-19 vaccine was more than 90% effective, including protection against a variety of concerning variants of the coronavirus. The results came after a large, late-stage U.S.-based clinical trial.
2022 - The House passed a bill extending security to family members of Supreme Court justices. The new law came after the leak of a Supreme Court draft opinion that the court’s conservative majority was poised to overturn "Roe v. Wade". The judges were spooked by demonstrators protesting outside their homes and a man who arrested near Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s house (on an attempted murder charge.)
2022 - Floodwaters started receding in the region around Yellowstone National Park. Hundreds of tourists and locals had been isolated after the Yellowstone River and tributaries wiped out roads and bridges -- and closed off all entrances to the park at the onset of the busy summer tourist season. “We’re on an island so to speak,” said Gardiner, Montana campground manager Marshall Haley. Raging floods destroyed several houses along the river. Crews had managed to make some rescues by air and boat.
2023 - As has become a yearly custom, the U.S. Congress passed bipartisan legislation raising the (then $31.4 trillion) debt ceiling to avoid a default. This, after a deal was struck between President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy -- to set budget caps on annual defense and nondefense appropriations.
2024 - The animated Inside Out 2 opened in U.S. theatres. The movie features characters voiced by Amy Poehler, Phyllis Smith, Lewis Black, Tony Hale and Liza Lapira -- among many others.
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Birthdays on This Day June 14
1811 - Harriet Beecher Stowe
author: Uncle Tom’s Cabin; died July 1, 18961820 - John Bartlett
compiler, editor: Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations; died Dec 3, 19051864 - Dr. Alois Alzheimer
psychiatrist, pathologist: first to describe the disease named after him: Alzheimer’s Disease; died [of a severe cold complicated by endocarditis] Dec 19, 19151895 - Cliff ‘Ukulele Ike’ Edwards
musician: ukulele; singer: Ja Da; Vaudeville, Broadway headliner: Ziegfeld Follies, George White Scandals; actor: Sagebrush Law, Sundown Jim, Millionaires in Prison, Marianne; voice of Disney character Jiminy Cricket; died Jul 17, 19711901 - Hap (Clarence) Day
Hockey Hall-of-Famer: Univ. of Toronto, Toronto St. Patricks, Toronto Maple Leafs [Stanley Cup: 1931-32], NY Americans; referee; coach: Toronto Maple Leafs [won five Stanley Cups, including three in a row]; manager: Toronto Maple Leafs; died Feb 17, 19901904 - Margaret Bourke-White
photojournalist: LIFE magazine; 1st woman photojournalist attached to US Armed Forces in WWII: covered Italy, siege of Moscow, U.S. Forces crossing into Germany, concentration camps; division of India, Mahatma Gandhi; Korean War correspondent; book [w/husband Erskine Caldwell]: You Have Seen Their Faces; died Aug 27, 19711905 - Nappy Lamare
singer, musician: banjo, guitar: bands: Ben Pollack, Bob Crosby Straw Hat Strutters, Riverboat Dandies, Hilton Nappy Lamare and His Rendevous Ballroom Orchestra; died May 8, 19881908- John Scott Trotter
conductor, arranger, musical director: NBC Radio: Kraft Music Hall [w/Bing Crosby: 1937-1946]; died Oct 29, 19751909 - Burl (Icle Ivanhoe) Ives
singer: A Holly Jolly Christmas, A Little Bitty Tear, Funny Way of Laughin’, Call Me Mr. In- Between; Academy Award winning actor: The Big Country [1958], Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, East of Eden, Smokey, Our Man in Havana, The Bold Ones, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer; radio series: The Wayfaring Stranger [1944]; died Apr 14, 19951913 - Henry Banks
auto racer: PPG Indy Car World Series champ [1950]; first president of American Racing Drivers Club [ARDC] [1939]; died Dec 18, 19941916 - Dorothy McGuire
actress: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Gentlemen’s Agreement, The Young and the Restless, Rich Man, Poor Man, Little Women [TV: 1979], The Last Best Year; died Sep 13, 20011919 - Gene Barry (Eugene Klass)
actor: Bat Masterson, Burke’s Law, The Name of the Game, War of the Worlds, A Cry for Love, Our Miss Brooks, La Cage aux Folles; died Dec 9, 20091919 - Sam Wanamaker
actor: Superman 4, Private Benjamin, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Taras Bulba; director: The Executioner, Killing of Randy Webster, Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger; died Dec 18, 19931922 - Kevin Roche
architect: Kevin Roche & Associates: Columbus Circle Redevelopment, New York NY; NationsBank Plaza, Atlanta GA; Oakland Museum, Oakland CA; died Mar 1, 20191925 - Pierre Salinger
White House press secretary to President John F. Kennedy, journalist, author: P.S. a Memoir, John F. Kennedy, Commander in Chief : A Profile in Leadership; died Oct 16, 20041926 - Don (Donald) ‘Newk’ Newcombe
baseball: pitcher: Brooklyn Dodgers [Rookie of the Year: 1949/Cy Young Award: 1956/Baseball Writer’s Award: 1956/World Series: 1949, 1950, 1951, 1955/all-star: 1949, 1950, 1951, 1955], Cincinnati Redlegs, Los Angeles Dodgers, Cincinnati Reds, Cleveland Indians; died Feb 19, 20191929 - Cy Coleman (Seymour Kaufman)
pianist, composer: Try to Change Me Now, Witchcraft, Firefly, Young at Heart, Big Spender, If My Friends Could See Me Now, Hey Look Me Over, Real Live Girl, I’ve Got Your Number, When in Rome, Pass Me By, Sweet Talk; died Nov 18, 20041931 - Marla Gibbs
actress: Up Against the Wall, 227, The Jeffersons, The Meteor Man1937 - Renaldo ‘Obie’ Benson
singer: group: The Four Tops: I Can’t Help Myself, Reach Out, I’ll Be There, Baby I Need Your Loving, Bernadette, Ain’t No Woman [Like the One I Got]; songwriter: What’s Going On [Marvin Gaye, 1971]; died July 1, 20051938 - Angela Browne
actress: Brat Farrar, Pere Goriot, Dinner With the Family, The Ghost Train Murder, Ghost Squad; died Jun 20, 20011939 - Tom Matte
football: Baltimore Colts running back: Super Bowl III; died Nov 2, 20211940 - Ben Davidson
football [defensive end]: Green Bay Packers, Washington Redskins, Oakland Raiders [Super Bowl II]; TV pitchman: Miller Lite; actor: Conan the Barbarian; died Jul 2, 20121945 - Rod Argent
keyboards: group: Argent: Hold Your Head Up; group: The Zombies: She’s Not There, Tell Her No, Time of the Season1946 - Donald Trump
45th U.S. President [2017-2021]; married to Melania Knauss [children: Donald Jr. Ivanka Eric Tiffany Barron]; real estate mogul; felon: convicted (in New York City) in 2024 of 34 counts of falsification of business records1948 - Pete Donnelly
hockey: WHA: NY Raiders, Vancouver Blazers, Quebec Nordiques1949 - Jim Lea
musician: bass, violin, keyboards, vocals, songwriter: group: Slade: Get Down and Get With It, Coz I Love You, We’ll Bring Home the Dawn, My Oh My, Run Run Away1949 - Alan White
musician: drummer: group: Yes: Owner of a Lonely Heart; group: Plastic Ono Band1950 - Bill (William Roger) Fahey
baseball: catcher: Washington Senators, Texas Rangers, SD Padres, Detroit Tigers1952 - Eddie Mekka (Edward Mekjian)
actor: Laverne and Shirley, Guiding Light; died Nov 27, 20211952 - Pat Summitt
basketball coach: University of Tennessee [1974-]: has won the most games in NCAA Division I history [record set at 880 wins]; coached the U.S. women’s basketball team to Summer Olympic gold medal [1984]; died Jun 28, 20161954 - Will Patton
actor: Fled, Copycat, Natural Causes, The Client, Midnight Edition, Dillinger, No Way Out, Desperately Seeking Susan, Silkwood; Obie Award-winner: Tourists and Refugees #21956 - Fred Funk
golf champ: PGA TOUR wins: Shell Houston Open [1992], Ideon Classic at Pleasant Valley, Buick Challenge [1995], B.C. Open [1996], Deposit Guaranty Golf Classic [1998], Southern Farm Bureau Classic [2004], THE PLAYERS Championship [2005]; International win: Mexican Open [1993]1958 - Eric Heiden
Olympic gold [5] medalist: speed skater [1980]1961 - Boy George (George Alan O’Dowd)
singer: group: Culture Club: Do You Really Want to Hurt Me, Karma Chameleon1961 - Sam Perkins
‘The Big Smooth’: basketball: Univ. of North Carolina [all-American], Olympic gold medalalist [1984], Dallas Mavericks, Los Angeles Lakers, Seattle SuperSonics, Indiana Pacers1963 - James Patrick
hockey: NY Rangers, Hartford Whalers, Calgary Flames, Buffalo Sabres1966 - Traylor Howard
actress: Monk, Me, Myself and Irene, Son of the Mask, Dirty Work, Confessions of a Sexist Pig1968 - Yasmine Bleeth
actress: Nash Bridges, Baywatch, Titans1968 - Regan Burns
comedian, actor: Halfway Home, The 1/2 Hour News Hour, Reno 911!, Get Smart’s Bruce and Lloyd: Out of Control; TV host: Oblivious1968 - Faizon Love
actor: Friday, Elf, The Replacements, Couples Retreat, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Matthew 18, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas [voice: Sean ‘Sweet’ Johnson], Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs [voice: Cedric]1968 - Eric Murdock
basketball [guard]: Univ of Providence; NBA: Utah Jazz, Milwaukee Bucks, Vancouver Grizzlies, Denver Nuggets, Miami Heat, New Jersey Nets, LA Clippers, Detroit Pistons1969 - Eric Desjardins
hockey: Montreal Canadiens, Philadelphia Flyers1969 - Steffi (Stephanie) Graf
tennis champ: Australian Open [1988, 1989, 1990, 1994], French Open [1987, 1988, 1993], Wimbledon [1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993], U.S. Open [1988, 1989, 1993]1971 - Fred Baxter
football [tight end]: Auburn Univ; NFL: NY Jets, Chicago Bears, NE Patriots, Washington Redskins1971 - Bruce Bowen
basketball [forward]: Cal State-Fullerton; Miami Heat, Boston Celtics, Philadelphia 76ers and San Antonio Spurs1972 - Rick Brunson
basketball [guard]: Temple Univ; Portland Trail Blazers, NY Knicks, Boston Celtics, Chicago Bulls, Toronto Raptors, LA Clippers1972 - Molly Parker
actress: House of Cards, Deadwood, Kissed, The Center of the World, Bruce Sweeney’s Last Wedding, Gone, That’s What I Am, Oliver Sherman, Dexter, Hemingway & Gellhorn, The Firm1973 - Sami Kapanen
hockey: Hartford Whalers, Carolina Hurricanes, Philadelphia Flyers1976 - Ryan Johnson
hockey [center]: Florida Panthers, TB Lightning, SL Blues1977 - Chris McAlister
football [cornerback]: Univ of Arizona; NFL: Baltimore Ravens1978 - Steve Begin
hockey [center]: Calgary Flames, Montreal Canadiens1983 - J.R. Martinez
motivational speaker: sustained severe burns while in U.S. Army infantry in Iraq; since his recovery, has traveled around U.S. speaking to corporations, veterans groups, schools, and others about his experiences; winner of ABC’s Dancing with the Stars [2011]1988 - Kevin McHale
actor: Glee, Zoey 101, True Blood; singer: group: NLT: That Girl, She Said, I Said [Time We Let Go], Karma1989 - Lucy Hale
actress: Pretty Little Liars, Bionic Woman, Privileged; singer: LP: Road Between; singles: You Sound Good to Me, Nervous Girls1992 - Daryl Sabara
actor: Spy Kids film series, Generator Rex, Wizards of Waverly Place, Father of the Pride, The Polar Express, Keeping Up with the Steins, Halloween, America’s Most Talented Kids, John Carter, The Philosophers1993 - Sammy Watkins
football: NFL: Buffalo Bills [2014–2016]; Los Angeles Rams [2017]; Kansas City Chiefs [2018–2020]: 2020 Super Bowl LIV champs; Baltimore Ravens [2021]; Green Bay Packers [2022]; Baltimore Ravens [2022]
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Hit Music on This Day June 14
1946The Gypsy (facts) - The Ink Spots
All Through the Day (facts) - Perry Como
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