This day in history - June 14
Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 3:08 pm
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
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.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcock_and_Brown" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIVAC_I" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TWA_Flight_847" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
- Jim