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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.
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. [1] (http://www.army.mil/birthday/228/default.htm)
- 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.[2] (http://library.puc.edu/pitcairn/bounty/wmbligh.shtml)
- 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."[3] (http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Babbage.html)
- 1846 - Bear Flag Revolt begins - American settlers in Sonoma, California start a rebellion against Mexico and proclaim the California Republic. [4] (http://www.nps.gov/prsf/coast_defense/spanish/spike/bearflag.htm)
- 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 legalised in Canada.[5] (http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=ArchivedFeatures&Params=A218)
- 1900 - Hawaii becomes a United States territory.[6] (http://www.publicbookshelf.com/public_html/The_Great_Republic_By_the_Master_Historians_Vol_IV/hawaiiann_ch.html)
- 1900 - The Reichstag approves a second law that allows the expansion of the German navy.
- 1919 - John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown depart St. John's, Newfoundland on the first nonstop transatlantic flight.[7] (http://www.aviation-history.com/airmen/alcock.htm)
- 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 %. [8] (http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq59-20.htm)
- 1940 - Holocaust: A group of 728 Polish political prisoners from Tarnów become the first residents of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
- 1941 - Mass deportations by Soviet Union authorities take place in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
- 1942 - Anne Frank begins to keep a diary.
- 1951 - UNIVAC I is dedicated by U.S. Census Bureau.[9] (http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/industry/06/14/computing.anniversary/)
- 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.
- 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.[10] (http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/china/nuke.htm)
- 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 Port Stanley unconditionally surrender to British forces.
- 1985 - TWA Flight 847 is hijacked by Hezbollah.
- 1989 - Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor is arrested in Beverly Hills, California after slapping a motorcycle police officer. [11] (http://www.mugshots.net/zsa_zsa_gabor/); she later complains that the handling she received "was like Nazi Germany". Ultimately, Gabor is sentenced to 72 hours in jail.
- 1993 - A weeklong product tampering scare, later proven to be a hoax [12] (http://www.snopes.com/horrors/food/syringe.asp), 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.
- 1997 - The Los Angeles, USA radio station KROQ opens the fifth annual of the KROQ Weenie Roast with Blur, The Chemical Brothers, The Cure, Echo and the Bunnymen, Foo Fighters, The Mighty, Mighty Bosstones, Oasis, The Offspring, Radiohead, Reel Big Fish, Social Distortion, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Third Eye Blind, and The Wallflowers.
- 2002 - Twelve are killed and 50 injured by a car bomb explosion in front of the U.S. consulate in Karachi, Pakistan.
- 2003 - The Los Angeles, USA radio station KROQ opens the eleventh annual of the KROQ Weenie Roast with AFI, The Ataris, Blur, Chevelle, Deftones, Finch, Foo Fighters, Godsmack, Good Charlotte, Hot Hot Heat, Interpol, Jane's Addiction, Less Than Jake, Liam Lynch, Staind, Sum 41, Thrice, The Transplants, The Used, The White Stripes, and Pete Yorn.
Births
- 1529 - Archduke Ferdinand II of Austria, Regent of Tyrol and Further Austria
- 1671 - Tomaso Albinoni, Italian composer (d. 1751)
- 1736 - Charles Augustin de Coulomb, mathematician, grandfather of soil mechanics (d. 1806)
- 1811 - Harriet Beecher Stowe, author (d. 1896)
- 1832 - Nikolaus Otto, engineer (d. 1891)
- 1856 - Andrey Markov, mathematician (d. 1922)
- 1864 - Alois Alzheimer, physician (d. 1915)
- 1877 - Jane Bathori, opera singer (d. 1970)
- 1901 - Clarence Day, ice hockey player
- 1903 - Alonzo Church, mathematican and logician
- 1906 - Margaret Bourke-White, photojournalist (d. 1971)
- 1909 - Burl Ives, American musician (d. 1995)
- 1910 - Rudolf Kempe, German conductor (d. 1976)
- 1919 - Dorothy McGuire, actress (d. 2001)
- 1919 - Sam Wanamaker, actor (d. 1993)
- 1919 or 1921 - Gene Barry, actor
- 1922 - Kevin Roche, architect
- 1925 - Pierre Salinger, political operative
- 1926 - Hermann Kant, author
- 1926 - Don Newcombe, baseball player
- 1928 - Ernesto (Che) Guevara, revolutionary (d. 1967)
- 1929 - Cy Coleman, composer
- 1933 - Jerzy Kosinski, author (d. 1999)
- 1940 - Ben Davidson, American football player
- 1945 - Rod Argent, musician ("The Zombies")
- 1945 - Jörg Immendorf, painter
- 1946 - Marla Gibbs, actress
- 1946 - Donald Trump, business tycoon
- 1949 - Jimmy Lea, Slade, violinist/bassplayer/pianist
- 1949 - Harry Turtledove, science fiction author
- 1951 - Paul Boateng, British politician
- 1952 - Pat Summitt, Basketball Hall of Fame Women's Basketball Coach
- 1958 - Eric Heiden, Olympic speed skater
- 1961 - Boy George, singer ("Culture Club")
- 1968 - Yasmine Bleeth, actress
- 1969 - Steffi Graf, tennis player
- 1977 - Chris McAlister, American football player
- 1982 - Lang Lang, pianist
Deaths
- 1801 - Benedict Arnold, General (b. 1741)
- 1825 - Pierre Charles L'Enfant, architect
- 1864 - General Leonidas Pope
- 1883 - Edward FitzGerald, poet (b. 1809)
- 1920 - Max Weber, sociologist (b. 1864)
- 1926 - Mary Cassatt, artist (b. 1843)
- 1927 - Jerome K. Jerome, author (b. 1859)
- 1928 - Emmeline Pankhurst, feminist (b. 1857)
- 1932 - Dorimène Roy Desjardins, business pioneer
- 1936 - Maxim Gorky, author (b. 1868)
- 1936 - G. K. Chesterton, author (b. 1874)
- 1946 - John Logie Baird, television pioneer (b. 1888)
- 1947 - Barry Melton, guitarist, Country Joe and the Fish (b. 1947)
- 1967 - Eddie Eagan, American sportsman (b. 1897)
- 1972 - Martin Dies, American politician
- 1986 - Jorge Luis Borges, writer (b. 1899)
- 1986 - Alan Jay Lerner, composer (b. 1918)
- 1991 - Dame Peggy Ashcroft, actress (b. 1907)
- 1994 - Henry Mancini, composer (b. 1924)
- 1995 - Roger Zelazny, science fiction author (b. 1937)
- 1995 - Rory Gallagher, musician, composer (b. 1949)
- 1997 - Richard Jaeckel, actor (b. 1926)
- 2002 - June Jordan, American writer and teacher (b. 1936)
- 2004 - Ulrich Inderbinen, mountain guide (b. 1900)
Holidays and observances
June 13 - June 15 - May 14 - July 14 -- listing of all days
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