This day in history - June 14

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1775 - The Continental Army was founded.

1777 - The Continental Congress adopted the Stars and Stripes as the national flag. In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed this date as Flag Day.

1846 - A group of American settlers established the California Republic during the Mexican War.

1900 - Hawaii became a U.S. territory.

1919 - British aviators John Alcock and Arthur Brown began the first non-stop flight across the Atlantic, taking off from Newfoundland.

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Though their flight was quite an achievement, Charles Lindbergh flew much farther eight years later.

1942 - The first bazooka rocket launcher was manufactured.

1951 - The first commercially manufactured computer, UNIVAC 1, went into operation at Census Bureau. It cost $159,000, contained 5,200 vacuum tubes, weighed 19 tons, and could perform fewer than 2,000 operations per second.

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Modern PCs that cost less than $1,000 can perform several hundred million operations per second.

1985 - Lebanese Shiite Muslim terrorists hijacked TWA Flight 847 en route from Athens to Rome. It was the beginning of a 17-day ordeal in which U.S. Navy diver Robert Stethem was beaten, shot to death, and thrown out of the plane on the ground in Beirut.

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- Jim