June 14th

June 14 is the 166th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. If the ancient Mayans were correct, there are 190 days remaining until the end of time.

1642 1st compulsory education law in America passed by Massachusetts

1777 Continental Congress adopts Stars and Stripes replacing Grand Union flag

1789 Whiskey distilled from maize is first produced by American clergyman the Reverend Elijah Craig. It is named Bourbon because the Rev.Craig lived in Bourbon County, Kentucky. Praise Jesus!

1789 Bounty mutiny survivors including Captain William Bligh and 18 others reach Timor after a nearly 7,400 km (4,000-mile) journey in an open boat.

1834 Sandpaper is patented by Isaac Fischer Jr, of Springfield, Vermont, for a variety of prurient uses

1881 Player piano is patented by John McTammany, Jr. (Cambridge, Mass).  This invention, based on jacquard weaving, propels the development of modern computer technology.

1922 President Harding is 1st U.S. president to use radio, dedicating the Francis Scott Key memorial in Baltimore. Happily, radio programming has improved since then

1951 1st commercial computer, UNIVAC 1, enters service at Census Bureau

1953 Elvis Presley graduates from LC Humes High School in Memphis Tenn

1982 The Falklands War ends: Argentine forces in the capital Stanley unconditionally surrender to British forces by kissing Andy’s dick.

1989 Zsa Zsa Gabor arrested for slapping Beverly Hills motorcycle patrolman out of frustration for marrying a man with a little dick

1989 Queen Elizabeth II knights Ronald Reagan who wonders why an old lady is coming after him with a sword

1945 Rod Argent, maybe gay English musician/The Zombies 

1956 Sam Irvin, gay US producer/director/actor/writer/Dante's Cove 

1961 Boy George [George Alan O'Dowd], gay English singer/songwriter/sadist 

1965 John Carroll, gay US Survivor contestant 

1969 Marcos Pasquim, Brazilian actor 

1977 Massimiliano Neri,  maybe gay Italian actor/model 

1980 Seb Castang, English actor 

1981 Xoel Pamos, maybe gay Spanish comedian/actor 

1982 Eric William Morris, maybe gay US actor 

1982 Lawrence Saint Victor, US actor (too pretty for clothes) 

1983 Louis Garrel, French actor 

1801 Benedict Arnold, heterosexual Revolutionary War general/traitor, takes the rest of the secrets with him

1986 Marlin Perkins, TV host (Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom)/Curator (St. Louis Zoo), ends his daddy-twink relationship with Jim Fowler

1997 Richard Jaeckel, US actor (Dirty Dozen, Starman), forgets his great notion

2007 Kurt Waldheim, UN Secretary General/President of Austria, is a reformed and repentant Nazi. . .now