A bit of June 14th history…
1642 - 1st compulsory education law in America passed in Massachusetts
1645 - “New Model Army” under Oliver Cromwell beat royalist forces of English King Charles I at battle of Naseby (pictured)
1775 - US army 1st forms as the Continental Army to fight the American Revolutionary War
1777- US Continental Congress adopts Stars and Stripes flag
1847 - Robert Bunsen invents bunsen burner
1954 - President Eisenhower signs order adding “under God” to the Pledge of Allegiance
2013 - US government charges NSA leaker Edward Snowden with violating the Espionage Act and theft of government property
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