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June 14 is the 165th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (166th in Leap Year s), with 200 days remaining.
Events
- 1381 - King Richard II Of England meets the leaders of Peasants' Revolt .
- – 12,000 Royalist forces are beaten by 15,000 Parliamentarian soldiers.
- 1648 - Margaret Jones is hanged in Boston for Witch craft in the first such execution for the Massachusetts colony.
- is established by the Continental Congress .
- 1777 - Stars and Stripes adopted by Congress as the Flag Of The United States .
- mutiny survivors including Captain William Bligh and 18 others reach Timor after a nearly 4,000 mile journey in an open boat.
- 1789 - Whisky distilled from maize is first produced by American clergyman the Rev Elijah Craig . Its named Bourbon because Rev Craig lived in Bourbon County, Kentucky .
- 1800 - Napoleon Bonaparte 's French Army defeats the Austrians at the Battle of Marengo in Northern Italy and re-conquers Italy .
- 1822 - Charles Babbage proposes a Difference Engine in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society entitled "Note on the application of machinery to the computation of astronomical and mathematical tables."
- 1839 - The village of Henley, on the River Thames in Oxfordshire , stages its first Regatta .
- 1846 - Bear Flag Revolt begins - Anglo settlers in Sonoma, California , start a rebellion against Mexico and proclaim the California Republic .
- – A Union garrison is defeated by the Army Of Northern Virginia in the Shenandoah Valley town of Winchester, Virginia .
- 1872 - Trade Union s are legalised in Canada .
- 1900 - Hawaii becomes a United States Territory .
- 1900 - The Reichstag approves a second law that allows the expansion of the German navy.
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- 1907 - Norway adopts female suffrage.
- 1908 - Fourth German Navy Bill is passed authorising the financing the building of another four major warships.
- 1919 - John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown depart St. John's, Newfoundland on the first nonstop Transatlantic flight.
- 1937 - Pennsylvania becomes the first (and only) of the United States to celebrate Flag Day officially as a State Holiday .
- falls under German occupation.
- 1940 - World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Naval Expansion Act into law which aims to increase the United States Navy 's tonnage by 11%.
- 1940 - A group of 728 Polish political prisoners from Tarnów become the first residents of the Auschwitz Concentration Camp .
- 1941 - Soviet mass deportations and murder of Estonians , Lithuania ns and Latvia ns begun.
- 1942 - Anne Frank begins to keep a diary.
- 1951 - UNIVAC I is dedicated by U.S. Census Bureau .
- 1952 - The Keel is laid for the nuclear submarine USS ''Nautilus'' .
- 1954 - U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law that places the words "under God" to the United States ' Pledge Of Allegiance .
- 1955 - Chile becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires Copyright Treaty .
- 1959 - A group of left-leaning Dominican exiles in Cuba landed in the Dominican Republic with the intent of assassinating Trujillo. They would later be known as the J14 or "Catorce de Junio" (14th of June) group.
- 1962 - Anna Slesersby becomes the first victim of Albert DeSalvo , better known as the Boston Strangler .
- 1962 - The European Space Research Organisation is established in Paris – later becoming the European Space Agency .
- 1964 - In Pretoria , South Africa , black leader Nelson Mandela is among eight activists to be sentenced to life imprisonment for acts of sabotage. Mandela is sent to the notorious Robben Island - 7 miles from Cape Town on the South African coast.
- 1966 - The Vatican announces the abolition of the ''index librorum prohibitum'' (index of prohibited books), which was originally instituted in 1557 .
- is launched toward Venus .
- 1967 - The People's Republic Of China tests its first Hydrogen Bomb .
- 1970 - Manchester United footballer Bobby Charlton plays his 106th and last international match for England v West Germany in the World Cup finals in Mexico . His first game had been in April 1958 against Scotland .
- 1971 - In America , The New York Times begins printing extracts from top secret Pentagon papers covering the Vietnam War .
- 1976 - The trial begins at Oxford Crown Court of Donald Neilson , the killer known as the Black Panther .
- 1976 - The Gong Show debuts on NBC .
- forces in the capital Stanley Unconditionally Surrender to British forces.
- 1985 - TWA Flight 847 is hijacked by Hezbollah .
- 1991 - Marshall Ledbetter occupies the Florida State Capitol .
- 1993 - A weeklong product tampering scare, later proven to be a hoax, occurs as customers throughout the USA discover Syringe s in unopened cans of Diet Pepsi Cola .
- 1994 - The New York Rangers win the Stanley Cup over the Vancouver Canucks 3-2 in Game 7, breaking a 54-year drought.
- 2002 - Twelve are killed and 50 injured by a Car Bomb explosion in front of the U.S. consulate in Karachi , Pakistan .
- 2004 - The Workers Party Of Bangladesh is split, as Khandaker Ali Abbas leaves to form a New Party .
- 2005 - Phil Jackson is rehired to coach the Los Angeles Lakers .
- 2005 - Asafa Powell from Jamaica sets a new world record on the 100 M Sprint in Athens with 9.77 seconds.
Births
- 1444 ( O.S. ) - Nilakantha Somayaji , Indian mathematician (d. 1544 ) {Link without Title}
- 1479 ( O.S. ) - Giglio Gregorio Giraldi , Italian poet (d. 1552 )
- 1529 ( O.S. ) - Archduke Ferdinand II Of Austria (d. 1595 )
- 1671 - Tomaso Albinoni , Italian composer (d. 1751 )
- 1726 - James Hutton , Scottish geologist (d. 1797) {Link without Title}
- 1736 - Charles Augustin De Coulomb , French mathematician (d. 1806 ) {Link without Title}
- 1801 - Heber C. Kimball , American religious leader (d. 1868 )
- 1811 - Harriet Beecher Stowe , American author (d. 1896 )
- 1832 - Nikolaus Otto , German engineer (d. 1891 )
- 1855 - Robert La Follette , U.S. Senator (d. 1925 )
- 1856 - Andrey Markov , Russian mathematician (d. 1922 ) {Link without Title}
- 1864 - Alois Alzheimer , German physician (d. 1915 )
- 1868 - Karl Landsteiner , Austrian biologist and physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 1943 )
- 1871 - Jacob Ellehammer , Danish inventor (d. 1946 )
- 1877 - Jane Bathori , French mezzo-soprano (d. 1970 )
- 1890 - May Allison , American actress (d. 1989 )
- 1894 - Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess Of Luxembourg (d. 1924 )
- 1899 - Yasunari Kawabata , Japanese writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1972 )
- 1903 - Alonzo Church , American mathematican and logician (d. 1995 ) {Link without Title}
- 1906 - Margaret Bourke-White , American photojournalist (d. 1971 )
- 1909 - Burl Ives , American musician (d. 1995 )
- 1910 - Rudolf Kempe , German conductor (d. 1976 )
- 1917 - Atle Selberg , Norwegian mathematician {Link without Title}
- 1919 - Dorothy McGuire , American actress (d. 2001 )
- 1919 - Sam Wanamaker , American actor (d. 1993 )
- 1921 - Gene Barry , American actor
- 1922 - Kevin Roche , Irish architect
- 1925 - Pierre Salinger , John F. Kennedy 's White House Press Secretary (d. 2004 )
- 1926 - Hermann Kant , German author
- 1926 - Don Newcombe , baseball player
- 1928 - Ernesto Rafael Guevara De La Serna , (Che) Argentine-born revolutionary (d. 1967 )
- 1929 - Cy Coleman , American composer (d. 2004 )
- 1933 - Jerzy Kosinski , Polish author (d. 1999 )
- 1933 - Vladislav Rastorotsky , Soviet gymnastics coach
- 1939 - Dr. John F. MacArthur , American evangelist
- 1945 - Rod Argent , English musician ( The Zombies )
- 1946 - Marla Gibbs , American actress
- 1946 - Donald Trump , American businessman
- 1947 - Barry Melton , American guitarist ( Country Joe And The Fish )
- 1949 - Jimmy Lea , British musician ( Slade )
- 1949 - Harry Turtledove , American author
- 1950 - Rowan Williams , Archbishop Of Canterbury
- 1951 - Paul Boateng , British politician
- 1952 - Pat Summitt , American basketball coach
- 1953 - Janet Mackey , New Zealand Labour Party Politician
- 1954 - Will Patton , American actor
- 1955 - Paul O'Grady , British comedian, actor and television presenter
- 1958 - Eric Heiden , American speed skater
- 1961 - Boy George , British singer ( Culture Club )
- 1961 - Sam Perkins , American basketball player
- 1967 - Kelly Nash , Radio Personality
- 1968 - Yasmine Bleeth , American actress
- 1969 - Steffi Graf , German tennis player
- 1977 - Chris McAlister , American football player
- 1980 - Chauncey Leopardi , American actor
- 1982 - Lang Lang , Chinese pianist
Deaths
- 1161 - Emperor Qinzong of China (b. 1100 )
- 1381 - Simon Sudbury , Archbishop Of Canterbury
- 1497 - Giovanni Borgia , Duke of Borgia (assassinated)
- 1544 - Antoine, Duke Of Lorraine (b. 1489 )
- 1548 - Carpentras , French composer
- 1594 - Orlande De Lassus , Flemish composer
- 1662 - Henry Vane The Younger , British Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1613 )
- 1674 - Marin Le Roy De Gomberville , French writer (b. 1600 )
- 1703 - Jean Herauld Gourville , French adventurer (b. 1625 )
- 1794 - Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess Of Hertford , Viceroy of Ireland (b. 1718 )
- 1800 - Louis Charles Antoine Desaix De Veygoux , French military leader (killed in battle) (b. August 17 , 1768 )
- 1800 - Jean-Baptiste Kleber , French general (assassinated) (b. 1753 )
- 1801 - Benedict Arnold , American general (b. 1741 )
- 1825 - Pierre Charles L'Enfant , French architect (b. 1754 )
- 1837 - Giacomo Leopardi , Italian writer (b. 1798 )
- 1883 - Edward FitzGerald , English poet (b. 1809 )
- 1886 - Alexandr Ostrovsky , Russian dramatist (b. 1823 )
- 1920 - Max Weber , German sociologist (b. 1864 )
- 1926 - Mary Cassatt , American artist (b. 1843 )
- 1927 - Jerome K. Jerome , British author (b. 1859 )
- 1928 - Emmeline Pankhurst , British feminist (b. 1857 )
- 1932 - Dorimène Roy Desjardins , Canadian business pioneer
- 1936 - G. K. Chesterton , English author (b. 1874 )
- 1936 - Maxim Gorky , Russian author (b. 1868 )
- 1946 - John Logie Baird , Scottish television pioneer (b. 1888 )
- 1967 - Eddie Eagan , American sportsman (b. 1897 )
- 1968 - Salvatore Quasimodo , Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901 )
- 1972 - Martin Dies , American politician (b. 1900 )
- 1986 - Jorge Luis Borges , Argentine writer (b. 1899 )
- 1986 - Alan Jay Lerner , American composer (b. 1918 )
- 1991 - Dame Peggy Ashcroft , British actress (b. 1907 )
- 1994 - Henry Mancini , American composer (b. 1924 )
- 1995 - Rory Gallagher , Irish musician and composer (b. 1949 )
- 1995 - Roger Zelazny , American author (b. 1937 )
- 1997 - Richard Jaeckel , American actor (b. 1926 )
- 2002 - June Jordan , American writer and teacher (b. 1936 )
- 2004 - Ulrich Inderbinen , Swiss mountain guide (b. 1900 )
- 2004 - Eamonn McGirr , Irish-born singer and entertainer
- 2005 - Mimi Parent , Canadian painter (b. 1924 )
Holidays and observances
External links
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