Today is Saturday, June 14, the 165th day of 2014. There are 200 days left in the year. This is Flag Day.

Today’s Highlight in History:
On June 14, 1777, the Continental Congress, meeting in Philadelphia, adopted a resolution specifying that
"the Flag of the thirteen United States shall be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that
the Union be thirteen stars, white on a blue field, representing a new constellation."
On this date:
In 1775, the Continental Army was created.
In 1922, Warren G. Harding became the first president heard on radio, as Baltimore station WEAR broadcast
his speech dedicating the Francis Scott Key memorial at Fort McHenry.
In 1940, German troops entered Paris during World War II; the same day, the Nazis began transporting
prisoners to the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland.
In 1943, the U.S. Supreme Court, in West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, ruled 6-3 that
children in public schools could not be forced to salute the flag of the United States.
In 1954, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a measure adding the phrase "under God" to the
Pledge of Allegiance.
In 1972, the Environmental Protection Agency ordered a ban on continued domestic use of the pesticide
DDT.
In 1982, Argentine forces surrendered to British troops on the disputed Falkland Islands.
Ten years ago: A car bomb exploded during rush hour on a busy street in Baghdad, killing 13 people,
including three General Electric workers and two bodyguards. The Supreme Court allowed schoolchildren to
keep affirming loyalty to one nation "under God," but dodged the underlying question of
whether the Pledge of Allegiance was an unconstitutional blending of church and state.