History Blog

June 14

Happy Birthday RIP Burle Ives(1909–1995) Eugene Klass(“Gene Barry” 1919–2009); “Marla Gibbs”(Margaret Bradley)–88 “Eddie Mekka”(Edward Mekjian)–67 “Boy” George O’Dowd–58 Traylor Howard–53 Stefanie “Steffi” Graf–50 Sutan Amrull(“Raja”)–45 Daniel Newman–38 Kevin McHale–31 ; 1775 – The United States Army (the Continental Army is established by the Continental Congress) was founded ; 1789 – Whiskey distilled from maize is first produced by American clergyman the Rev Elijah Craig. It is named Bourbon because Rev Craig lived in Bourbon County, Kentucky