June 14
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.
- 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.
- 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 Port 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.
- 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
- 1529 - Archduke Ferdinand II of Austria, regent of Tyrol and Further Austria
- 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)
- 1877 - Jane Bathori, French mezzo-soprano (d. 1970)
- 1899 - Yasunari Kawabata, Japanese writer (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
- 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
- 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
- 1982 - Lang Lang, Chinese pianist
Deaths
- 1381 - Simon Sudbury, Archbishop of Canterbury
- 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)
- 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)
- 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 (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
- International Weblogger's Day – Celebration of the work of webloggers around the world
External links
June 13 - June 15 - May 14 - July 14 – listing of all days