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• ... that the core of the Medieval Bulgarian Army (pictured) was the heavy cavalry, which consisted of 12,000–30,000 heavily armed riders?
• ... that Odell McBrayer, an unsuccessful Republican candidate for Governor of Texas in 1974, proposed the televising of executions to deter violent crime?
• ... that Indo-Maldivian relations grew stronger after India responded to Maldives' request for help and thwarted a militant plot to overthrow the government in 1988?
• ... that Edward, Prince of Wales stayed at Perry Belmont's House in Washington D.C. at the behest of President Woodrow Wilson?
• ... that Indonesian journalist, S. K. Trimurti, who often used a pseudonym in her reporting to avoid arrest by Dutch colonial authorities, later became the country's first minister of labor?
• ... that critical reception to Hogarth's Sigismunda mourning over the Heart of Guiscardo was so harsh the artist was forced to remove the painting from exhibition?
  

• Pakistan condemns a United States-led air strike near the border with Afghanistan that allegedly killed 11 Pakistani paramilitary troops, in clashes that also killed eight Taliban militants.
• Amid an outbreak of tornadoes and derechos in central and eastern North America, a tornado hits a Boy Scout camp in Iowa, killing four.
• Japan's House of Councillors passes a censure motion against Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda (pictured), the first such motion to be passed since World War II.
• Sudan Airways Flight 109 crashes on landing at Khartoum International Airport in Khartoum, Sudan, killing dozens.
• IBM and Los Alamos National Laboratory break a processing speed record with the world's first petaflop computer, Roadrunner.
• Following a coal mine collapse in the Donetsk region of Ukraine, 24 miners are rescued with 12 still missing and one reported dead.

June 14: Liberation Day in the Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands; Flag Day in the United States

• 1777 – The Second Continental Congress adopted the stars and stripes design for the flag of the United States.
• 1807 – In the last major battle in the War of the Fourth Coalition, the French decisively defeated the Russians at the Battle of Friedland near present-day Pravdinsk, Russia.
• 1822 – Charles Babbage (pictured) proposed a difference engine in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society.
• 1846 – Settlers in the Town of Sonoma began a rebellion against Mexico, proclaiming the California Republic.
• 1982 – Argentine forces surrendered to the British, ending the Falklands War.
• 1985 – A group with alleged links to Hezbollah hijacked TWA Flight 847 shortly after take-off from Athens.

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