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June 14

June 14 is the 165th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (166th in leap years), with 200 days remaining.

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Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances

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: HMS Bounty mutiny survivors including Captain William Bligh and 18 others reach Timor after a nearly 4,000 mile journey in an open boat.[1]
• 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."[1]
• 1846 - Bear Flag Revolt begins - American settlers in Sonoma, California start a rebellion against Mexico and proclaim the California Republic. [1]
• 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.[1]
• 1900 - Hawaii becomes a United States territory.[1]
• 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.[1]
• 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 %. [1]
• 1940 - Holocaust: A group of 728 Polish political prisoners from Tarnow become the first residents of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
• 1941 - Mass deportations by Soviet Union authorities take place in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
• 1951 - UNIVAC I is dedicated by U.S. Census Bureau.[1]
• 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.[1]
• 1976 - The Gong Show debuts on NBC.
• 1982 - Falklands War ends: War ends between United Kingdom and Argentina over the Falkland/Malvinas Islands ends.
• 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. [1]; 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 [1], 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 the U.S. consulate in Karachi, Pakistan.

Births

• 1671 - Tomaso Albinoni, 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)
• 1864 - Alois Alzheimer, physician (d. 1915)
• 1877 - Jane Bathori, opera singer (d. 1970)
• 1901 - Clarence Day, ice hockey player
• 1906 - Margaret Bourke-White, photojournalist (d. 1971)
• 1909 - Burl Ives, musician (d. 1995)
• 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 - Don Newcombe, baseball player
• 1926 - Hermann Kant, author
• 1928 - Ernesto (Che) Guevara, revolutionary (d. 1967)
• 1929 - Cy Coleman, composer
• 1933 - Jerzy Kosinski, author (d. 1999)
• 1940 - Ben Davidson, American football player
• 1945 - Jörg Immendorf, painter
• 1945 - Rod Argent, musician ("The Zombies")
• 1946 - Donald Trump, business tycoon
• 1946 - Marla Gibbs, actress
• 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] ==
• 1982 - Lang Lang, pianist

Deaths

• 1801 - Benedict Arnold, General (b. 1741)
• 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)
• 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)
• 2004 - Ulrich Inderbinen, mountain guide (b. 1900)

Holidays and observances

• Flag Day (United States)
• Mother's Day (Afghanistan)
• Roman Empire - eighth day of the Vestalia in honor of Vesta
• Roman Catholic Church - Feast of Saint Basil the Great, doctor and patron of hospital administrators

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