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 . [1]
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]
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]
1846 - Bear Flag Revolt begins - American settlers in Sonoma, California start a rebellion against Mexico and proclaim the California Republic . [4]
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]
1900 - Hawaii becomes a United States territory .[6]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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] ; 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] , 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 , 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 )
1901 - Clarence Day , ice hockey player
1903 - Alonzo Church , mathematican and logician
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 )
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 , Argentine 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
1950 - Rowan Williams , Archbishop of Cantebury
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
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 - General 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 , author (b. 1859 )
1928 - Emmeline Pankhurst , feminist (b. 1857 )
1932 - Dorimčne 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 )
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 , Argentine writer (b. 1899 )
1986 - Alan Jay Lerner , American composer (b. 1918 )
1991 - Dame Peggy Ashcroft , 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 )
Holidays and observances
External links
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