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June 14
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{{PAGENAME}} is the 165th day of the year in the
Gregorian calendar (166th in
leap years), with 200 days remaining.
Events
*
1381 - King
Richard II of England meets the leaders of
Peasants' Revolt.
*
1645 -
English Civil War:
Battle of Naseby – 12,000
Kingdom of England Royalist forces are beaten by 15,000
Long Parliament Parliamentarian soldiers.
*
1648 -
Margaret Jones is hanged in
Boston, Massachusetts Boston for
witchcraft in the first such execution for the
Massachusetts colony.
*
1775 -
American Revolutionary War: The
United States Army is established by the
Continental Congress.
*
1777 - Stars and Stripes adopted by Congress as the
Flag of the United States.
*
1789 -
Mutiny on the Bounty (history) Mutiny on the Bounty:
Mutiny on the Bounty (history) HMAV ''Bounty'' 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 I of France 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 -
United States Anglo settlers in
Sonoma, California, start a rebellion against
Mexico and proclaim the
California Republic.
*
1863 -
American Civil War:
Battle of Second Winchester – A
United States Union garrison is defeated by the
Army of Northern Virginia in the
Shenandoah Valley town of
Winchester, Virginia.
*
1872 -
Trade unions are legalised in
Canada.
*
1900 -
Hawaii becomes a
United States territory.
* 1900 - The
Reichstag (institution) Reichstag approves a second law that allows the expansion of the
Germany German navy.
*
1905 -
Battleship Potemkin uprising: Sailors start a mutiny aboard the Battleship Potemkin, denouncing the crimes of autocracy, demanding liberty and an end to war. (See also Eisenstein's classic film on the subject,
The Battleship Potemkin).
*
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 (aviator) 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
national holiday state holiday.
*
1940 -
World War II:
Paris falls under
Germany 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
Poland Polish political prisoners from
Tarnów become the first residents of the
Auschwitz concentration camp.
*
1941 -
Soviet Union Soviet mass deportations and murder of
Estonia Estonians,
Lithuanians and
Latvians begun.
*
1942 -
Anne Frank begins to keep a diary.
*
1951 -
UNIVAC I is dedicated by
United States Bureau of the Census U.S. Census Bureau.
*
1952 - The
keel is laid for the nuclear submarine
USS Nautilus (SSN-571) 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 Convention 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
Roman Curia Vatican announces the abolition of the ''index librorum prohibitum'' (index of prohibited books), which was originally instituted in
1557.
*
1967 -
Mariner program:
Mariner 5 is launched toward
Venus (planet) 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
United States 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.
*
1982 -
Falklands War ends:
Argentina Argentine forces in the capital
Stanley, Falkland Islands Stanley unconditional surrender unconditionally surrender to
United Kingdom 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
United States USA discover
syringes 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
Workers Party of Bangladesh (Ali) 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 sprints sprint in
Athens with 9.77 seconds.
Births
*
1444 (
O.S.) -
Nilakantha Somayaji, Indian mathematician (d.
1544) [http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Nilakantha.html]
*
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) [http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Hutton_James.html]
*
1736 -
Charles Augustin de Coulomb, French mathematician (d.
1806) [http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Coulomb.html]
*
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) [http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Markov.html]
*
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 in Literature Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1972)
*
1903 -
Alonzo Church, American mathematican and logician (d.
1995) [http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Church.html]
*
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 [http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Selberg.html]
*
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)
*
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
*
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 (composer) 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.
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, American 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 in Literature 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
*
Liberation Day (
Falkland Islands)
*
Flag Day (
United States)
*
Mother's Day (
Afghanistan)
*
Roman Empire – eighth day of the
Vestalia in honor of
Vesta (mythology) Vesta
*
World Blood Donor Day [http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2005/pr25/en/index.html] – Celebration of
blood donation on the birthdate of
Karl Landsteiner, who discovered ABO
blood groups
*
International Weblogger's Day – Celebration of the work of webloggers around the world
*
United States: Birthday of the
U.S. Army
External links
-
BBC: On This Day
-
Estonia, June 14 - A National Day of Commemoration
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June 13 -
June 15 -
May 14 -
July 14 –
historical anniversaries listing of all days
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