Politics & Government

Five Things You Need to Know: June 14

These are the things you need to know.

Here is what you need to know today, June 14.

1. The U.S. Open has begun in Bethesda. The first few days are practice rounds and tournament play starts Thursday. Watch out for some gnarly traffic. , but don't worry, I won't neglect my Takoma Park duties.

2. Today is flag day. And not just any flag, OUR flag. Woodrow Wilson established the holiday in 1916 and in 1949 congress passed an act to make it an official holiday. I don't know what took them so long, it's a pretty great flag.

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3. Harriet Beecher Stowe would be 200 today if she was still alive. She wrote the anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin in 1852. It was the best selling novel of the 19th century.

4.  Jorge Luis Borges, one of South America's greatest writers, died on this day in 1986, 25 years ago.

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5. Takoma Park is looking for poets. If you are one, to be part of the Third Thursday Poetry Series.


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