| Celebrities
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Steffi Graf (1969)
Boy George (1961)
Burl Ives (1909)
Yasmine Bleeth (1968)
Donald Trump (1946)
Will Patton (1954)
Newt Gingrich (1943)
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811)
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Lyrids
Meteor Shower
June 14-16
The Lyrids usually rain up to 10 meteors per hour during its
peak. |
| June
14th Flag Day Trivia |
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► June 14, 1777 was the day that the Second Continental
Congress adopted the 13 stars and stripes flag designed by Betsy
Ross.
► In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson officially proclaimed
this day as Flag Day.
► In 1949, the United State's Congress made it even
more official by proclaiming today National Flag Day.
► It is still not considered an official national holiday
in the United States, although it is officially a State Holiday
in Pennsylvania. |
| The
Pledge of Allegiance |
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I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America,
and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation, under God,
indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
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Francis
Bellamy's original Pledge:
I Pledge allegiance to my Flag, and to the Republic for which
it stands: one Nation indivisible, With Liberty and Justice
for all. |
| In
Case You Didn't Know... |
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► The Pledge of allegiance was written for the children's
magazine Youth's Companion by Christian Socialist author
and Baptist minister Francis Bellamy on September 7, 1892.
► In 1923 the National Flag Conference called for the
words my Flag to be changed to the Flag of the United States.
The reason given was to ensure that immigrants knew to which
flag reference was being made. The words "of America"
were added in 1924. The United States' Congress officially
recognized the Pledge as the official national pledge on December
28, 1945.
► In New York City on April 22, 1951, the Board of
Directors of the Knights of Columbus adopted a resolution
to amend their recitation of Pledge of Allegiance at the opening
of each of the meetings of the 800 Fourth Degree Assemblies
of the Knights of Columbus by addition of the words "under
God" after the words "one nation."
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