SUNDAY, JUNE 14, 2010

Today is Monday, June 14, the 165th day of 2010. There are 200 days left in the year.

1642 _ First compulsory education law in America passed by Massachusetts

1775 _ U.S. Army founded

1777 _ Continental Congress adopts Stars & Stripes replacing Grand Union flag

1834 _ Sandpaper patented by Isaac Fischer Jr., Springfield, Vt.

1900 _ Hawaiian Republic becomes the U.S. Territory of Hawaii

1940 _ German forces occupied Paris during WW II

1951 _ First commercial computer, UNIVAC 1, enters service at Census Bureau

1967 _ USSR launches Kosmos 166 for observation of Sun from Earth orbit

1982 _ Argentina surrenders to Britain on Falkland Is, ends 74-day conflict

1989 _ Nolan Ryan becomes second pitcher to defeat all 26 teams