This Day in History June 14: The Fall of Paris
Captain William Bligh gripped the splintered wood of a tiny, open launch boat, staring at the distant shoreline of Timor through salt-crusted eyes. It was June 14, 1789, and he had just completed an impossible 4,600-mile journey across the unforgiving Pacific Ocean after being cast adrift by his mutinous crew on the HMS Bounty. This…