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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.
In common years it is always in ISO week 24.
[edit] Events
- 1381 - King Richard II of England meets the leaders of Peasants' Revolt.
- 1438 - Fourteenth and final day of Beligum invasion into the city of Frantia, Guam.
- 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 7,400 km (4,000-mile) journey in an open boat.
- 1789 - Whisky distilled from maize is first produced by American clergyman the Rev Elijah Craig. It is 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 - Henley Royal Regatta: 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.
- 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).
- 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.
- 1934 - James J. Braddock scored one of the most upsetting victories in of his boxing career by beating John "Corn" Griffin - roughly marking the advent of his comeback to success and eventually winning World Heavyweight championship
- 1937 - Pennsylvania becomes the first (and only) state of the United States to celebrate Flag Day officially as a state holiday.
- 1937 - U. S. House of Representatives passes the 1937 Marihuana Tax Act.
- 1938 - Action Comics issues the first Superman comic.
- 1940 - World War II: Paris falls under German occupation.
- 1940 - Spanish invade Tangier international zone.
- 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 Dominican exiles with leftist tendencies which departed from Cuba landed in the Dominican Republic with the intent of deposing Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina's dicatorial regime. Save for four of them, all were killed and/or executed by Trujillo's army. This feat would be the inspiration for a clandestine group that would seek to continue undermining Trujillo's power and would be called "Movimiento Catorce de Junio" (14th of June Movement).
- 1962 - Anna Slesers 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.
- 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.
- 1982 - Falklands War ends: Argentine 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 syringes in unopened cans of Diet Pepsi Cola.
- 1994 - The New York Rangers win their first Stanley Cup since 1940, defeating the Vancouver Canucks in seven games, ending the Curse of 1940. This win also triggered the 1994 Stanley Cup riot.
- 1999 - Thabo Mbeki is inaugurated as the President of South Africa.
- 2001 - China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan form the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.
- 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 - Asafa Powell from Jamaica sets a new world record on the 100 m sprint in Athens with 9.77 seconds.
[edit] Births
- 1444 (O.S.) - Nilakantha Somayaji, Indian mathematician (d. 1544)
- 1479 (O.S.) - Giglio Gregorio Giraldi, Italian poet (d. 1552)
- 1529 (O.S.) - Archduke Ferdinand II of Austria (d. 1595)
- 1726 - James Hutton, Scottish geologist (d. 1797)
- 1736 - Charles Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist (d. 1806)
- 1796 - Nikolai Brashman, Russian mathematician (d. 1866)
- 1801 - Heber C. Kimball, American religious leader (d. 1868)
- 1811 - Harriet Beecher Stowe, American author (d. 1896)
- 1812 - Fernando Wood, New York City mayor (d. 1881)
- 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, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1943)
- 1870 - Sophia of Prussia, consort of Constantine I of Greece (d. 1932)
- 1871 - Jacob Ellehammer, Danish inventor (d. 1946)
- 1877 - Jane Bathori, French mezzo-soprano (d. 1970)
- 1890 - May Allison, American actress (d. 1989)
- 1893 - Siggie Nordstrom, Swedish singer (The Nordstrom Sisters) (d. 1980)
- 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)
- 1905 - Steve Broidy, American motion picture executive (d. 1991)
- 1906 - Margaret Bourke-White, American photojournalist (d. 1971)
- 1907 - Nicolas Bentley, British writer and illustrator (d. 1978)
- 1909 - Burl Ives, American musician (d. 1995)
- 1910 - Rudolf Kempe, German conductor (d. 1976)
- 1913 - Joe Morris, C.C., LL.D., Canadian trade unionist (d.1996)
- 1916 - Dorothy McGuire, American actress (d. 2001)
- 1917 - Atle Selberg, Norwegian mathematician
- 1919 - Sam Wanamaker, American actor (d. 1993)
- 1921 - Gene Barry, American actor
- 1922 - Kevin Roche, Irish architect
- 1925 - Pierre Salinger, John F. Kennedy's Press Secretary (d. 2004)
- 1926 - Hermann Kant, German author
- 1926 - Don Newcombe, baseball player
- 1928 - Che Guevara, Argentine-born revolutionary (d. 1967)
- 1929 - Cy Coleman, American composer (d. 2004)
- 1931 - Junior Walker, Saxophonist and singer (Jr. Walker & the All Stars)
- 1931 - Marla Gibbs, American actress
- 1932 - Joe Arpaio, sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona
- 1933 - Jerzy Kosinski, Polish author (d. 1999)
- 1933 - Vladislav Rastorotsky, Soviet gymnastics coach
- 1936 - Renaldo "Obie" Benson, singer (The Four Tops) (d. 2005)
- 1936 - Irmelin Sandman Lilius, Finnish actor
- 1939 - John F. MacArthur, American evangelist
- 1939 - Steny Hoyer, U.S. Congressman
- 1944 - Laurie Colwin, American author (d. 1992)
- 1945 - Rod Argent, English musician (The Zombies)
- 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
- 1949 - Alan White, British drummer (Yes)
- 1950 - Rowan Williams, 104th Archbishop of Canterbury
- 1951 - Paul Boateng, British politician
- 1952 - Pat Summitt, American basketball coach
- 1953 - Janet Mackey, New Zealand politician
- 1954 - Will Patton, American actor
- 1955 - Paul O'Grady, British comedian and television presenter
- 1956 - King Diamond, Danish singer (King Diamond, Mercyful Fate)
- 1958 - Eric Heiden, American speed skater
- 1960 - Mike Laga, baseball player
- 1961 - Boy George, British singer (Culture Club)
- 1961 - Sam Perkins, American basketball player
- 1964 - Stacy Burke, American adult actress and model
- 1966 - Traylor Howard, American actress
- 1967 - Kelly Nash, American radio personality
- 1968 - Yasmine Bleeth, American actress
- 1969 - Steffi Graf, German tennis player
- 1969 - Éric Desjardins, French-Canadian hockey player
- 1969 - MC Ren, American rapper
- 1969 - Michael Gerber, American parody author
- 1972 - Matthias Ettrich, German computer scientist (KDE)
- 1973 - Ceca Raznatovic, Serbian singer
- 1975 - Chris Onstad, American cartoonist
- 1977 - Chris McAlister, American football player
- 1978 - Steve Bégin, French-Canadian hockey player
- 1980 - Chauncey Leopardi, American actor
- 1981 - Lonneke Engel, Dutch model.
- 1981 - Naveen Castelino, Indian geek.
- 1982 - Lang Lang, Chinese pianist
- 1983 - Siobhán Donaghy, British singer (Sugababes)
- 1983 - John Stocco, American football player
- 1983 - Louis Garrel, French actor
- 1984 - Lorenzo Booker, American football player
- 1985 - Andrew Bonner, Soccer player
- 1989 - Lucy Hale, American actress
- 1989 - Courtney Halverson, American actress
- 1992 - Dylan Adams, Latverian Warlord
[edit] Deaths
- 775 - Saint Ciarán of Disert-Kieran, Irish saint and writer
- 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, 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)
- 1908 - Frederick Arthur Stanley, Governor general of Canada (b. 1841)
- 1916 - João Simões Lopes Neto, Brazilian writer (b. 1865)
- 1920 - Max Weber, German sociologist (b. 1864)
- 1926 - Mary Cassatt, American artist (b. 1843)
- 1927 - Jerome K. Jerome, British author (b. 1859)
- 1927 - Ottavio Bottecchia, Italian cyclist (b. 1894)
- 1928 - Emmeline Pankhurst, British feminist (b. 1857)
- 1932 - Dorimène Roy Desjardins, Canadian business pioneer
- 1936 - G. K. Chesterton, English author (b. 1874)
- 1936 - Hans Poelzig, German architect (b. 1869)
- 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)
- 1977 - Robert Middleton, American actor (b. 1911)
- 1986 - Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine writer (b. 1899)
- 1986 - Alan Jay Lerner, American composer (b. 1918)
- 1987 - Elizabeth Hartman, American actress (b. 1943)
- 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)
- 1999 - Bernie Faloney, professional football player (b. 1932)
- 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)
- 2005 - Carlo Maria Giulini, Italian conductor (b. 1914)
- 2006 - Jean Roba, Belgian comics author (b. 1930)
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