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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On June 14, 1777, the Continental Congress in Philadelphia adopted the Stars and Stripes as the national flag.
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• On this date:
• In 1775, the Continental Army, forerunner of the United States Army, was created.
• In 1801, former American Revolutionary War General and notorious turncoat Benedict Arnold died in London.
• 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 (OWSH'-vitz) 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 1952, President Harry S. Truman officiated at the keel-laying of the nuclear-powered submarine USS Nautilus at the Electric Boat Shipyard in Groton (GRAH'-tuhn), Conn.
• In 1954, the words "under God" were added to the Pledge of Allegiance.
• In 1967, the space probe Mariner 5 was launched from Cape Kennedy on a flight that took it past Venus.
• In 1972, the Environmental Protection Agency ordered a ban on continued domestic use of the pesticide DDT, to take effect at year's end.
• In 1982, Argentine forces surrendered to British troops on the disputed Falkland Islands.
• In 1985, the 17-day hijack ordeal of TWA Flight 847 began as a pair of Lebanese Shiite (SHEE'-eyet) Muslim extremists seized the jetliner shortly after takeoff from Athens, Greece.
• In 1993, President Bill Clinton chose Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.
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• Ten years ago: A wave estimated at about 20 feet tall capsized the charter fishing boat Taki-Tooo off the northern Oregon coast; nine people were killed, two oth

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