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 100m 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, Mormon church leader (d. 1868)
1811 - Harriet Beecher Stowe, American 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)
1899 - Yasunari Kawabata, Japanese writer (d. 1972)
1901 - Clarence Day, hockey player
1903 - Alonzo Church, 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, actor (d. 1993)
1921 - Gene Barry, actor
1922 - Kevin Roche, architect
1925 - Pierre Salinger, U.S. political operative
1926 - Hermann Kant, author
1926 - Don Newcombe, baseball player
1928 - Ernesto (Che) Guevara, Argentine revolutionary (d. 1967)
1929 - Cy Coleman, composer (d. 2004)
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, U.S. business tycoon
1947 - Barry Melton, guitarist (Country Joe and the Fish)
1949 - Jimmy Lea, British musician (Slade)
1949 - Harry Turtledove, science fiction author
1950 - Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury
1951 - Paul Boateng, British politician
1952 - Pat Summitt, Basketball Hall of Fame women's basketball coach
1958 - Eric Heiden, speed skater
1961 - Boy George, British singer (Culture Club)
1961 - Sam Perkins, NBA player
1968 - Yasmine Bleeth, actress
1969 - Steffi Graf, German tennis player
1973 - Sami Kapanen, NHL hockey player
1977 - Chris McAlister, American football player
1979 - Nourtan F. Abdeltawab, Egyptian Scientist
1982 - Lang Lang, pianist

Deaths

1381 - Simon Sudbury, Archbishop of Canterbury
1642 - Saskia van Uylenburg, wife of Rembrandt van Rijn (b. 1612)
1801 - Benedict Arnold, American general (b. 1741)
1825 - Pierre Charles L'Enfant, French architect
1837 - Giacomo Leopardi, Italian writer (b. 1798)
1864 - Confederate General and Episcopal Bishop Leonidas Pope
1883 - Edward FitzGerald, 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, feminist (b. 1857)
1932 - Dorimène Roy Desjardins, business pioneer
1936 - Maxim Gorky, Russian author (b. 1868)
1936 - G. K. Chesterton, English author (b. 1874)
1946 - John Logie Baird, television pioneer (b. 1888)
1967 - Eddie Eagan, American sportsman (b. 1897)
1972 - Martin Dies, American politician
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, science fiction author (b. 1937)
1995 - Rory Gallagher, musician and 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)
2004 - Eamonn McGirr, singer and entertainer
2005 - Mimi Parent, surrealist 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

BBC: On This Day

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