On this day, June 14: the Grenfell Tower fire kills 72 in London

At this date in history:

In 1623, in the first breach of promise trial in the United States, Reverend Greville Pooley sued Cicely Jordan in Charles City, Virginia, for abandoning him for another man.

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In 1775, the Continental Congress established the army as America's primary military service.

In 1777, the Stars and Stripes became the national flag of the United States.

In 1922, Warren G. Harding became the first American president to broadcast a message on the radio. The occasion was the dedication of the Francis Scott Key Memorial in Baltimore.

In 1933, the first Superman comic book – Action Comic No. 1 – was published.

In 1940, German troops marched on the Champs-Élysées in Paris as Allied forces abandoned the French capital.

In 1951, Univac I, the world's first commercial computer, designed for the United States Census Bureau, was introduced.

In 1954, the phrase “under God” was officially added to the United States Pledge of Allegiance.

In 1982, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher announced a ceasefire with Argentina, ending the Falkland Islands War after 74 days.

In 1985, Shiite Muslim gunmen hijacked TWA Flight 847 carrying 153 passengers and crew from Athens to Rome. The ordeal ended 17 days later in Beirut, where one of the hostages, an American sailor, was killed.

In 1998, the Chicago Bulls won their sixth NBA title in eight years and third in a row, defeating the Utah Jazz in the championship series.

In 2003, the Czech Republic voted overwhelmingly to join the European Union.

In 2013, Hassan Rouhani was elected president of Iran.

In 2017, the Irish parliament elected Leo Varadkar, the country's youngest and first openly gay prime minister.

In 2017, a fire at Grenfell Tower, a high-rise apartment building in west London, killed 72 people.

In 2017, a gunman opened fire at a Republican team's charity baseball practice in suburban Washington, D.C., seriously injuring House Republican Whip Steve Scalise of Louisiana. The shooting also left three others shot and two others injured as they tried to flee.

In 2022, Canada and Denmark officially settled a territorial dispute dubbed the “Whiskey War” that lasted nearly 50 years.

In 2023, nearly 80 people died after a boat carrying migrants capsized in Greek waters, the deadliest maritime accident off the country's coast since the 2015 migrant crisis.