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On This Day

June 14

1993
Longest time between the birth of triplets: A Vancouver, British Columbia woman delivers two of her triplets. The first baby had been born 45 days earlier.

1985
Shiite Muslim extremists hijack an airplane flying from Athens to Rome. One American was killed and 39 American men were held hostage until June 30.

1983
First man-made object to escape the Solar System, Pioneer 10.

1976
The Gong Show debuts on NBC.

1968
Dr. Benjamin Spock is convicted of conspiracy to aid others in draft evasion. He was sentenced to two years.

1952
First nuclear powered submarine: The keel is laid for the Nautilus.

1942
Office of Strategic Services (OSS) is established, by Pres. F.D. Roosevelt, with William J. Donovan as the director.

1940
World War II: Paris falls to Germany.

1777
American Flag: The flag of 13 stars and 13 stripes is adopted, replacing Grand Union flag.

1961
Boy George (George Allan O'Dowd), British singer. Music: Do You Really Want To Hurt Me (1982, #1) and Karma Chameleon (1983, #1).

1952
Eddie Mekka, American actor. TV: Laverne & Shirley (Carmine Ragusa).

1949
Bob Frankston, computer scientist. He and Dan Bricklin created VisiCalc, the first computer spreadsheet (1979).

1940
Jack Bannon, American actor. TV: Lou Grant (Art Donovan).

1919     d. 1993
Sam Wanamaker, American actor. Film: The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965) and Private Benjamin (1980). He is best known for rebuilding London's famous Globe Theater.

1918
Dorothy McGuire, American actress. Film: The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965, the Virgin Mary).

1909     d. 1995
Burl Ives (Burle Icle Ivanhoe), American Oscar-winning actor, singer. Film: Big Country (1958, Oscar) and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958, Big Daddy). TV: The Bold Ones (Walter Nichols). He was jailed in Mona, Utah, for singing Foggy Foggy Dew (An Irish ballad) in public, which authorities deemed a bawdy song.

1868     d. 1943
Karl Landsteiner, Austrian-born American pathologist, discovered the four basic blood types (1900) and that the donor and recipient of blood transfusions must be of the same type.

1820     d. 1905
John Bartlett, American publisher, editor, compiled A Collection of Familiar Quotations (1855).

1811     d. 1896
Harriet Beecher Stowe, American author. Writings: Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852, which was the first American novel to sell 1,000,000 copies).

1736     d. 1806
Charles Augustin Coulomb, French physicist, and for whom the coulomb (a measure of electrical charge) is named.

1994     b. 1924
Henry Mancini, American Oscar-Grammy-winning composer. Music: Moon River (1961) and The Pink Panther (1964).

1993     b. 1900
V.T. Hamlin (Vincent T. Hamlin), American cartoonist, created Alley Oop (1933).

1989     b. ????
Judy Johnson, baseball hall of famer who played in the Negro leagues.

1986     b. 1905
Marlin Perkins, American zoo director, TV personality, host of Wild Kingdom for 23 years.

1977     b. 1907
Alan Reed (Teddy Bergman), American actor. TV: The Flintstones (voice of Fred).

1946     b. 1888
John Logie Baird, Scottish inventor, "Father of the Television." He gave the first demonstration of true TV in London (1926) and later patented a 3-D TV system (1944).

1914     b. 1835
Adlai Ewing Stevenson, 23rd U.S. Vice-President (1893-97).

1825     b. 1754
Pierre Charles L'Enfant, French-born American Revolutionary War officer, engineer. He designed the city of Washington D.C.

1801     b. 1741
Benedict Arnold, American general, traitor, attempted to betray West Point to the British during the American Revolution.

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