June 14
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June 14 is the 165th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (166th in leap years), with 200 days remaining.
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Events
- 1381 - King Richard II of England meets the leaders of Peasants' Revolt.
- 1645 - English Civil War: Battle of Naseby – 12,000 Royalist forces are beaten by 15,000 Parliamentarian soldiers.
- 1648 - Margaret Jones is hanged in 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: HMAV Bounty mutiny survivors including Captain William Bligh and 18 others reach Timor after a nearly 4,000 mile journey in an open boat.
- 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."
- 1846 - Bear Flag Revolt begins - Anglo settlers in Sonoma, California, start a rebellion against Mexico and proclaim the California Republic.
- 1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Second Winchester – A 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 approves a second law that allows the expansion of the 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).
- 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.
- 1940 - World War II: Paris 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, Lithuanians and Latvians 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.
- 1966 - The 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.
- 1967 - The People's Republic of China tests its first hydrogen bomb.
- 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: Argentine forces in the capital Stanley unconditionally surrender to British forces.
- 1985 - TWA Flight 847 is hijacked by Hezbollah.
- 1993 - A weeklong product tampering scare, later proven to be a hoax, occurs as customers throughout the 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 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
- 1479 - Giglio Gregorio Giraldi, Italian poet (d. 1552)
- 1529 - Archduke Ferdinand II of Austria (d. 1595)
- 1671 - Tomaso Albinoni, Italian composer (d. 1751)
- 1736 - Charles Augustin de Coulomb, French mathematician (d. 1806)
- 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)
- 1864 - Alois Alzheimer, German physician (d. 1915)
- 1868 - Karl Landsteiner, Austrian biologist and physician (d. 1943)
- 1877 - Jane Bathori, French mezzo-soprano (d. 1970)
- 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)
- 1906 - Margaret Bourke-White, American photojournalist (d. 1971)
- 1909 - Burl Ives, American musician (d. 1995)
- 1910 - Rudolf Kempe, German conductor (d. 1976)
- 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, Argentine-born Marxist revolutionary (d. 1967)
- 1929 - Cy Coleman, American composer (d. 2004)
- 1933 - Jerzy Kosinski, Polish author (d. 1999)
- 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
- 1954 - Will Patton, American actor
- 1956 - Kim Bendix Petersen, (a.k.a. King Diamond) Heavy Metal singer
- 1958 - Eric Heiden, American speed skater
- 1961 - Boy George, British singer (Culture Club)
- 1961 - Sam Perkins, basketball player
- 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)
- 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 - Maxim Gorky, Russian author (b. 1868)
- 1936 - G. K. Chesterton, English author (b. 1874)
- 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 - Roger Zelazny, American author (b. 1937)
- 1995 - Rory Gallagher, Irish musician and composer (b. 1949)
- 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
- Flag Day (United States)
- Mother's Day (Afghanistan)
- Roman Empire – eighth day of the Vestalia in honor of Vesta
- World Blood Donor Day * – 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
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