June 14
Flag Day in the United States
Birthdays:
1988 ~ Kevin McHale (né Kevin Michael McHale), American actor. He is best known for his role as Artie Abrams in the musical television show, Glee. He was born in Plano, Texas.
1969 ~ Steffi Graf (née Stefanie Marie Graf), German tennis player. She was born in Mannheim, Germany.
1968 ~ Campbell Brown (née Alma Dale Campbell Brown), American journalist. She was born in Ferriday, Louisiana. Her father is James Brown, the former Insurance Commissioner of Louisiana.
1961 ~ Boy George (né George Alan O’Dowd), British musician.
1952 ~ Pat Summitt (née Patricia Sue Head; d. June 28, 2016), American women’s professional basketball coach who transformed women’s sports. She was born in Clarksville, Tennessee. She died 14 days after her 64th birthday in Knoxville, Tennessee of early onset Alzheimer’s disease.
1950 ~ Rowan Williams (né Rowan Douglas Williams), Welsh cleric. In 2002 he became the Archbishop of Canterbury. He retired in 2012. He was born in Wales.
1946 ~ Donald J. Trump (né Donald John Trump), American businessman, entrepreneur, and 45th President of the United States. He served one term as President, from January 2017 until January 2021. During his term he had a major impact on the judiciary by appointing a series of deeply conservative federal judges. He also ordered a rollback of environmental regulations and criminal justice reforms. During his term as President, he was impeached twice. In November 2022, he announced his intentions to run again for the 2024 election. He was facing numerous criminal investigations, thus by formally announcing his candidacy, he might stall or prevent the filing of charges. He was born in New York, New York.
1944 ~ Laurie Colwin (d. Oct. 24, 1992), American author. She was born and died in Manhattan, New York. She died of a heart attack at age 48.
1939 ~ Peter Mayle (d. Jan. 18, 2018), British author. He is best known for his memoirs of living in Provence, France. He was born in Brighton, England. He died at age 78 in Ménerbes, France.
1935 ~ John Egerton (d. Nov. 21, 2013), American journalist and writer who paid homage to the food of the South. He was known for his writings on the Civil Rights Movement, Southern food, and Southern culture. He was born in Atlanta, Georgia. He died of a heart attack at age 78 in Nashville, Tennessee.
1935 ~ Vivian Gornick, American feminist author and critic. She was born in The Bronx, New York.
1933 ~ Jerzy Kosiński (né Józef Lewinkopf; d. May 3, 1991), Polish-born author. He was a Holocaust survivor. He was born in Łódź, Poland. He died by suicide at age 57 in New York, New York.
1931 ~ Marla Gibbs (née Margaret Theresa Bradley), African-American actress best known for her role as Florence Jefferson on the television sit-com The Jeffersons. She was born in Chicago, Illinois.
1930 ~ Charles McCarry (d. Feb. 26, 2019), American CIA agent who became a best-selling spy novelist. He was born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. He died at age 88 in Fairfax County, Virginia.
1928 ~ Che Guevara (né Ernesto Guevara; d. Oct. 9, 1967), Argentine-Cuban revolutionary and guerrilla leader. He was also a physician. He was born in Rosario Santa Fe, Argentina. He was executed at age 39 for attempting to incite a revolution in La Higuera, Santa Cruz, Bolivia.
1927 ~ Seymour Lazar (né Seymour Manuel Lazar; d. Mar. 30, 2016), American celebrity lawyer who embraced the counterculture. He was born in Brooklyn, New York. He died at age 88 in Palm Springs, California.
1926 ~ Don Newcombe (né Donald Newcombe; d. Feb. 19, 2019), African-American Dodgers professional baseball pitcher who smashed racial barriers. In 1949, he became the first African-American to pitcher as a starter in a World Series game. He was born in Madison, New Jersey. He died at age 92 in Los Angeles, California.
1925 ~ Pierre Salinger (né Pierre Emil George Salinger; d. Oct. 16, 2004), American journalist. He also served as 11thWhite House Press Secretary under Presidents John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson from January 1961 until March 1964. He subsequently became a United States Senator from California. He served in the Senate from August through December 1964. He was born in San Francisco, California. He died of heart failure at age 79 in Cavaillon, France.
1924 ~ Sir James Black (né James Whyte Black, d. Mar. 22, 2010), Scottish physician and recipient of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He died at age 85 in London, England.
1919 ~ Sam Wanamaker (né Samuel Wattenmacker; d. Dec. 18, 1993), American actor. He was born in Chicago, Illinois. He died of prostate cancer at age 74 in London, England.
1917 ~ Atle Selberg (d. Aug. 6, 2007), Norwegian mathematician. He was 1950 recipient of the Fields Medal. He was born in Langesund, Norway. He died at age 90 in Princeton, New Jersey.
1909 ~ Burl Ives (né Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives; d. Apr. 14, 1995), American actor, writer, and folk singer. He was born in Hunt City, Illinois. He died of cancer at age 85 in Anacortes, Washington.
1904 ~ Margaret Bourke-White (d. Aug. 27, 1971), American photojournalist. She was born in The Bronx, New York. She died of Parkinson’s disease at age 67 in Stamford, Connecticut.
1903 ~ Alonzo Church (d. Aug. 11, 1995), American mathematician. He was born in Washington, D.C. He died at age 92 in Hudson, Ohio.
1891 ~ Alexander Volkov (d. July 3, 1977), Russian novelist and mathematician. He died 19 days after his 86th birthday in Moscow, Soviet Union.
1877 ~ Ida MacLean (né Ida Smedley; d. Mar. 2, 1944), British biochemist. She was the first woman admitted into the London Chemical Society. She was the first female staff member at the Manchester University where she became an assistant lecturer in the chemistry department in 1906. She was born in Birmingham, England. She died in London, England at age 66.
1868 ~ Karl Landsteiner (d. June 26, 1943), Austrian biologist, physician and recipient of the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He died 12 days after his 75th birthday in New York, New York.
1864 ~ Alois Alzheimer (né Aloysius Alzheimer; d. Dec. 19, 1915), German physician and neuroscientist who first described the signs of dementia, which ultimately was determined to be the symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease. He died of heart failure at age 51.
1856 ~ Andrey Markov (d. July 20, 1922), Russian mathematician. He died at age 66 in Petrograd, Russia.
1832 ~ Nikolaus Otto (né Nikolaus August Otto; d. Jan. 26, 1891), German inventor and engineer. He invented the internal combustion engine. He died at age 58 in Cologne, Germany.
1819 ~ Henry Gardner (né Henry Joseph Gardner; d. July 21, 1892), Governor of Massachusetts. He served as Governor from January 1855 until January 1858. He was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts. He died at age 73 in Milton, Massachusetts.
1812 ~ Fernando Wood (d. Feb. 14, 1881), Mayor of New York City. He first served from January 1855 until January 1858, and his second term was from January 1860 until December 1862. He also served as a member of Congress from New York in the United States House of Representatives. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He died at age 68 in Hot Springs, Arkansas.
1811 ~ Harriett Beecher Stowe (née Harriett Elizabeth Beecher; d. July 1, 1896), American novelist and abolitionist, best known for her novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin. She was born in Litchfield, Connecticut. She died 2 weeks after her 85thbirthday in Hartford, Connecticut.
1810 ~ Ward Hunt (d. Mar. 24, 1886), Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He was appointed to the High Court by President Ulysses S. Grant. He served from December 1872 until January 1882. He replaced Samuel Nelson on the Court. He was succeeded by Samuel Blatchford. He was born in Utica, New York. He died in Washington, D.C., at age 75.
1796 ~ Nikolai Brashman (d. May 25, 1866), Czech-Russian mathematician. He died 3 weeks before his 70th birthday in Moscow, Russian Empire.
1736 ~ Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (d. Aug. 23, 1806), French physicist who developed Coulomb’s Law. He died at age 70 in Paris, France.
1529 ~ Ferdinand II, Archduke of Further Austria (d. Jan. 24, 1595). He reigned over Further Austria from June 1564 until his death on January 1595. He was married twice. His first wife was Philippine Welser (1527 ~ 1580). They married in secret in 1557 because she was not of royal lineage. It was a morganatic marriage, so she was never made archduchess consort. After her death, he married Anne Juliana Gonzaga (1566 ~ 1621). He was of the House of Habsburg. He was the son of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor and Anna of Hungary. He died at age 65.
1444 ~ Nilakantha Somayaji (d. 1544), Indian mathematician. He is believed to have lived to be 100 years old. The exact date of his death is unknown.
Events that Changed the World:
2017 ~ A gunman began shooting during a Congressional practice baseball game in Alexandria, Virginia. Louisiana Representative Steve Scalise (b. 1965) and four others were shot and wounded. The gunman was killed during a police shoot-out.
1985 ~ Hezbollah hijacked TWA Flight 847 shortly after take-off from Athens, Greece. The hijackers were seeking the release of 700 Shi’ite Muslims prisoners in Israeli custody. One American, Robert Dean Stethem (1961 ~ 1985), was killed. He was the only fatality. The flight was en route from Cairo, Egypt to San Diego, California with stops in Athens, Rome, Boston and Los Angeles.
1982 ~ The Falklands War ended when Argentine forces in Stanley, Falklands unconditionally surrendered to British forces. Hidden land mines planted by the Argentines remain in the countryside 30 years later.
1967 ~ China tested its first hydrogen bomb.
1954 ~ The words, "under G`D" were officially added to the Pledge of Allegiance when President Eisenhower (1890 ~ 1969) signed a bill into law allowing this action.
1951 ~ The first commercial computer, UNICAC I, was dedicated by the United States Census Bureau. It weighed 16,000 pounds and was able to perform 1,000 calculations per second.
1947 ~ A UFO allegedly crashed in Roswell, New Mexico.
1940 ~ Seven hundred twenty-eight Polish political prisoners from Tarnów were brought to Auschwitz and became the first inmates at the concentration camp.
1940 ~ During World War II, Paris fell under German occupation.
1937 ~ The United States House of Representatives passed the Marihuana Tax Act. It placed a tax on the sale of marijuana and became effective on October 1, 1937. It was repealed in 1970.
1922 ~ Warren Harding (1865 ~ 1923) became the first United States president to be heard via radio.
1907 ~ Norway granted women the right to vote.
1900 ~ Hawaii became a Territory of the United States.
1877 ~ Flag Day was established on the 100th anniversary of the adoption of the Stars and Stripes Flag.
1863 ~ The Second Assault on Confederate troops at the Siege of Port Hudson, Louisiana occurred during the American Civil War.
1789 ~ The first known whiskey was distilled from corn by the Reverend Elijah Craig (d. 1808). It was called Bourbon because Rev. Craig lived in Bourbon County, Kentucky.
1789 ~ Nineteen survivors of the mutiny from the HMS Bounty, including Captain William Bligh (1754 ~ 1817), reached Timor, after traveling nearly 4,600 miles in an open boat.
1777 ~ The Stars and Stripes was adopted by Congress as the Flag of the United States.
1775 ~ The Continental Army was established by the Continental Congress. This was the forerunner of the United States Army.
1401 ~ Owain Glyndŵr (1359 ~ 1415), the Welsh rebel leader, declared himself Prince of Wales and allied himself with the French against Henry IV, King of England (1367 ~ 1413).
1158 ~ Henry the Lion, Duke of Bavaria (1129 ~ 1195) founded the city of Munich on the banks of the river Isar.
Good-Byes:
2022 ~ A.B. Yehoshua (né Avraham Gabriel Yehoshua; b. Dec. 9, 1936), Israeli novelist. He was born in Jerusalem, Israel. He died in Tel Aviv, Israel at age 85.
2020 ~ Elsa Joubert (née Elsabé Antoinette Murray Joubert; b. Oct. 19, 1922), South African award-winning author who wrote the 1978 novel The Long Journey of Poppie Nongena ~ translated from Afrikaans into 13 languages ~ that helped arouse white opinion against the racist apartheid system. She died in Cape Town, South Africa at age 97 of complications of Covid-19.
2012 ~ Gitta Sereny (b. Mar. 13, 1921), Austrian-born British author who explored the roots of evil. She wrote extensively about the Holocaust. She was born in Vienna, Austria. She died at age 91 in Cambridge, England.
2009 ~ Jackie Ronne (née Edith Ann Maslin, b. Oct. 13, 1919), American born explorer who was the first American woman on Antarctica. She was born in Baltimore, Maryland. She died at age 89 in Bethesda, Maryland.
2007 ~ Kurt Waldheim (né Karl Josef Waldheim; b. Dec. 21, 1918), 9th President of Austria. He served as President from July 1986 until July 1992. While running for President, allegations were made that while he was serving as an intelligence officer in Nazi Germany’s Wehrmacht during World War II, he had committed war crimes. He denied the allegations. He had previously served as the 4th Secretary-General of the United Nations. He served in that Office from January 1972 until December 1981. He died of heart failure at age 88 in Vienna, Austria.
1994 ~ Henry Mancini (né Enrico Nicola Mancini; b. Apr. 16, 1924), American composer. He was born in Maple Heights, Ohio. He died of pancreatic cancer at age 70 in Los Angeles, California.
1986 ~ Alan Jay Lerner (b. Aug. 31, 1918), American composer. He was born and died in New York, New York. He died of lung cancer at age 67.
1986 ~ Marlin Perkins (né Richard Marlin Perkins; b. Mar. 28, 1905), American zoologist and television host of Wild Kingdom. He was born in Carthage, Missouri. He died of cancer in St. Louis, Missouri. He was 81 years old at the time of his death.
1986 ~ Jorge Luis Borges (b. Aug. 24, 1899), Argentine writer. He was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He died at age 86 in Geneva, Switzerland.
1968 ~ Salvatore Quasimodo (b. Aug. 20, 1901), Italian writer and recipient of the 1959 Nobel Prize in Literature. He was born in Modica, Sicily, Italy. He died of a cerebral hemorrhage at age 66 in Milan, Italy.
1936 ~ G.K. Chesterton (né Gilbert Keith Chesterton; b. May 29, 1874), English writer. He was born in London, England. He died 16 days after his 63rd birthday.
1928 ~ Emmeline Pankhurst (née Emmeline Goulden; b. July 15, 1858), English suffragist and activist. She was born in Manchester, England. She died a month before her 70th birthday in London, England.
1927 ~ Jerome K. Jerome (né Jerome Klapka Jerome; b. May 1, 1859), British author. He died of a cerebral hemorrhage at age 68.
1926 ~ Mary Cassatt (née Mary Stevenson Cassatt; b. May 22, 1844), American painter. She was born in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania. She died about 3 weeks after her 82nd birthday near Paris, France.
1914 ~ Adlai Stevenson, I (né Adlai Ewing Stevenson; b. Oct. 23, 1835), 23rd United States Vice President. He served under President Grover Cleveland from March 1893 until March 1897. He was born in Christian County, Kentucky. He died at age 78 in Chicago, Illinois.
1877 ~ Mary Carpenter (b. Apr. 3, 1807), British educational and social reformer. She was also an advocate for women’s rights. She died at age 70.
1825 ~ Pierre Charles L’Enfant (b. Aug. 2, 1754), French architect and engineer who designed Washington, D.C. He was born in Paris, France. He died at age 70 in Prince George’s County, Maryland.
1801 ~ Benedict Arnold (b. Jan. 14, 1741), American general turned spy for the British during the American Revolutionary War. He was born in Norwich, Connecticut, British America. He died at age 60 in London, England.
1768 ~ James Short (b. June 21, 1710), Scottish mathematician and telescope maker. He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He died 7 days before his 58th birthday in London, England.
1746 ~ Colin Maclaurin (b. Feb. 1, 1698), Scottish mathematician. He made important contributions to geometry and algebra. The exact date of his birth is not known, but he is believed to have been born on February 1, 1698. He died at age 48 in Edinburgh, Scotland.
1662 ~ Sir Henry Vane the Younger (b. Mar. 26, 1613), English politician and Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The exact date of his birth is unknown, but he was baptized on March 26, 1613. He was executed for treason in England at age 49.
1642 ~ Saskia van Uylenburgh (b. Aug. 2, 1612), Dutch model and wife of Rembrandt. She died at age 29, probably from tuberculosis. The Astroid 461 Saskia is named in her honor.
1497 ~ Giovanni Borgia, 2nd Duke of Gandia (b. 1474), Italian son of Pope Alexander VI. He was murdered at about age 23. The exact date and year of his birth is unknown.
1161 ~ Emperor Qinzong of Song (b. May 23, 1100), 9th Chinese Emperor of the Song Dynasty. He died 23 days after his 61st birthday.
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