June 14

Today in History
• 1565 - Catharina de Medici and Duke of Alva discuss Calvinism
• 1623 - 1st breach-of-promise lawsuit: Rev Gerville Pooley, Virginia files against Cicely Jordan
• 1642 - 1st compulsory education law in America passed by Massachusetts
• 1658 - Battle of the Dunes: English and French forces defeat the Spanish near Dunkirk
• 1777 - US Continental Congress adopts the Stars and Stripes flag
• 1789 - Captain William Bligh and his loyal men cast offf from HMS Bounty reach Timor
• 1834 - Hardhat diving suit patented by Leonard Norcross, Dixfield, Maine
• 1847 - Robert Bunsen invents the Bunsen burner


Holidays - Traditional and Obscure
• Army Birthday
• Falkland Islands Liberation Day
• Flag Day
• National Bourbon Day
• National New Mexico Day
• Pahili Day
• World Blood Donor Day
• Raja Sankranti

Birthdays
• 1529 - Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria, Governor of Bohemia
• 1657 - Cornelis Cruys, Niels Olsen Creutz, Norwegian/Dutch admiral
• 1736 - Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist (formulated Coulomb's Law)
• 1801 - Heber C. Kimball, American religious leader (Church of the Latter Day Saints)
• 1811 - Harriet Beecher Stowe, author, Uncle Tom's Cabin
• 1812 - Fernando Wood, American politician, New York City mayor (1855-58 and 1860-62)
• 1819 - Henry Gardner, 23rd Governor of Massachusetts (1855-58)
• 1864 - Alois Alzheimer, German psychiatrist and neuropathologist (Alzheimer Disease)