Portal:United States/On this day/June 14
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Events
- 1648 - Margaret Jones is hanged in Boston for witchcraft in the first such execution for the Massachusetts colony.
- 1775 - American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army is established by the Continental Congress, marking the birth of the United States Army.
- 1777 - Stars and Stripes adopted by Congress as the Flag of the United States.
- 1789 - Whisky distilled from maize is first produced by American clergyman the Rev Elijah Craig. It is named Bourbon because Rev Craig lived in Bourbon County, Kentucky.
- 1846 - Bear Flag Revolt begins - Anglo settlers in Sonoma, California, start a rebellion against Mexico and proclaim the California Republic.
- 1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Second Winchester – A Union garrison is defeated by the Army of Northern Virginia in the Shenandoah Valley town of Winchester, Virginia.
- 1900 - Hawaii becomes a United States territory.
- 1937 - Pennsylvania becomes the first (and only) state of the United States to celebrate Flag Day officially as a state holiday.
- 1937 - U. S. House of Representatives passes the 1937 Marihuana Tax Act.
- 1938 - Action Comics issue one was released, introducing Superman.
- 1940 - World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Naval Expansion Act into law which aims to increase the United States Navy's tonnage by 11%.
- 1951 - UNIVAC I is dedicated by U.S. Census Bureau.
- 1952 - The keel is laid for the nuclear submarine USS Nautilus.
- 1954 - U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law that places the words "under God" to the United States' Pledge of Allegiance.
- 1962 - Albert DeSalvo, better known as the Boston Strangler, killed Anna Slesers, his first victim.
- 1962 - New Mexico Supreme Court in the case of Montoya v. Bolack, 70 N.M. 196, prohibited state and local governments from denying Indians the right to vote because they lived on a reservation.
- 1967 - Mariner program: Mariner 5 is launched toward Venus.
