bransonglobe.com HISTORY June 14-16, 2020 • 17 Today in History: Movies, TV and more • 1775 US Army first forms as the Continental Army to fight American Revolutionary War • 1777 US Continental Congress adopts the Stars & Stripes flag, designed by Francis Hopkinson, replacing the Grand Union flag • 1847 Robert Bunsen invents the Bunsen burner • 1916 Democratic Convention convenes in St Louis; Woodrow Wilson campaigns on the slogan “he kept out of the war” • 1922 US President Warren G. Harding is 1st US President to use radio, dedicates the Francis Scott Key memorial in Baltimore • 1928 Republican National Convention, meeting in Kansas City, nominates Herbert Hoover for President • 1940 Auschwitz concentration camp opens in Nazi controlled Poland with Polish POWs (approx. 3 million would die within its walls) • 1951 1st commercial computer, UNIVAC 1, enters service at Census Bureau • 1953 Eisenhower condemns McCarthy’s book burning proposal • 1953 Elvis Presley graduates from L. C. Humes High School in Memphis, Tennessee • 1954 President Eisenhower signs order adding words “under God” to the Pledge • 1967 California Governor Ronald Reagan signs the Therapeutic Abortion Act, legalizing abortions in the state under certain circumstances, the second state after Colorado to do so • 1973 US President Richard Nixon administration imposes 60-day economy-wide price freeze, superseding Special Rule No. 1 for oil companies • 1982 Argentina surrenders to Great Britain, ending the 74day Falklands Islands conflict • 1984 Southern Baptist convention decide on no women Movies & TV • 1967 “Steve Allen Show” premieres on CBS-TV • 1976 “Gong Show” premieres on TV (syndication) • 1991 “Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves” opens directed by Kevin Reynolds and starring Kevin Costner and Morgan Freeman • 1996 “Cable Guy” starring Jim Carrey is released • 2002 “The Bourne Identity” directed by Doug Liman and starring Matt Damon is reclergy members • 1989 Zsa Zsa Gabor arrested for slapping Beverly Hills motorcycle patrolman • 1993 Ruth Bader Ginsburg is nominated to the United States Supreme Court by President Bill Clinton • 2013 The US government charges NSA leaker Edward Snowden with violating the Espionage Act and theft of government property • leased in the US 2015 “Jurassic World”, 1st film to make $500 million worldwide in its opening weekend EXP 6/30/20
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