On This Day:
Saturday June 14, 2014 This is the 165th day of the year, with 200 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: Ivory Soap Ivory Soap was developed by James N. Gamble in 1879. It was originally going to be called P & G White Soap, but Harley Procter became inspired at a church service and came up with the name Ivory Soap. Approximately 40 billion bars of Ivory Soap have been sold since 1879. Ivory Soap is famous for the fact that it floats, and for years it was believed that this was due to a mistake made by an employee who mixed up a batch of extra frothy soap. Recent research, however, shows that James N. Gamble may have always intended for the soap to float. The slogan "99-44/100% Pure" was originated in 1882, and the first Ivory Baby appeared in 1886.
Holidays Feast day of St. Dogmael, Saints Valerius and Rufinus, and St. Methodius I of Constantinople.
United States: Flag Day.
Japan: Rice Planting Festival.
Malawi: Freedom Day.
Events 1642 - Massachusetts passed the first compulsory education law in the colonies.
1775 - The United States Army was established by the Continental Congress.
1777 - The Continental Congress adopted the Stars and Stripes as the nation's flag.
1789 - English Captain William Bligh and 18 others, cast adrift from the HMS Bounty seven weeks before, reached Timor, after traveling 4,000 miles in a small, open boat.
1834 - Isaac Fischer, Jr. of Vermont patented sandpaper.
1841 - The first Canadian parliament opened.
1846 - U.S. settlers in Sonoma proclaimed the Republic of California.
1881 - The player piano was patented by John McTammany, Jr. of Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1940 - German troops entered Paris during World War II.
1951 - The U.S. Census Bureau dedicated the UNIVAC, the world's first commercially produced electronic digital computer.
1954 - President Dwight Eisenhower signed an order adding the words "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance.
1954 - Americans took part in the first nationwide civil defense test against atomic attack.
1982 - Argentine forces surrendered to British troops on the Falkland Islands, ending the Falkland Islands War.
2002 - A car bomb exploded near the US Consulate in Karachi, Pakistan killing 12 people and wounding more than 50 others, all Pakistanis.
Births 1811 - Harriet Beecher Stowe, American novelist.
1820 - John Bartlett, American quotations compiler, editor.
1864 - Alois Alzheimer, German psychiatrist, pathologist.
1906 - Margaret Bourke-White, American photojournalist.
1909 - Burl Ives (Icle Ivanhoe), American singer, actor.
1928 - Che Guevara, Argentinean communist revolutionary.
1946 - Donald Trump, American entrepreneur, real estate developer.
1961 - Boy George (born George Alan O'Dowd), British pop singer-songwriter.
1969 - Steffi Graf, German tennis player.
Deaths 1801 - Benedict Arnold, American general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.
1946 - John Logie Baird, Scottish inventor who developed television.
1994 - Henry Mancini, American composer.
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