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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Events
- 1381 - King Richard II of England meets the leaders of Peasants Revolt
- 1645 - English Civil War: Battle of Naseby
- 1775 - The United States Army is established
- 1777 - Stars and Stripes adopted by Congress as the Flag of the United States
- 1789 - HMS Bounty mutineers reach Timor.
- 1822 - Charles Babbage proposes a Difference engine
- 1834 - Isaac Fischer, Jr. patents sandpaper
- 1841 - The first Parliament of Canada meets, in Kingston, Ontario
- 1846 - Foundation of the California Republic
- 1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Second Winchester
- 1872 - Trade unions legalised in Canada
- 1881 - John McTammany, Jr. patents the player piano
- 1900 - The Republic of Hawaii becomes a United States territory
- 1919 - John Alcock and Arthur Brown depart St. John's, Newfoundland on the first nonstop transatlantic flight
- 1923 - Warren G. Harding becomes the first President of the United States to use the radio
- 1937 - Pennsylvania becomes the first (and only) of the United States to celebrate Flag Day officially as a state holiday)
- 1938 - Dorothy Lathrop wins the first Caldecott Medal
- 1940 - World War II: Germans enter Paris during
- 1940 - Auschwitz is opened by the Germans
- 1941 - Mass deportations by Soviet Union authorities take place in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania
- 1949 - The state of Vietnam is formed
- 1951 - UNIVAC I is dedicated by U.S. Census Bureau
- 1952 - The keel is laid for the nuclear submarine USS Nautilus
- 1954 - The first nationwide civil defense drill is held in the United States
- 1956 - Words "under God" added to the United States Pledge of Allegiance
- 1966 - The Vatican announces abolishment of the Index of Prohibited Books
- 1982 - War ends between United Kingdom and Argentina over the Falkland/Malvinas Islands (the "Falklands War")
- 1985 - TWA Flight 847 is hijacked by Hezbollah
Births
- 1671 - Tomaso Albinoni, composer (+ 1751)
- 1736 - Charles Augustin de Coulomb, mathematician, grandfather of soil mechanics (+ 1806)
- 1832 - Nikolaus Otto, engineer (+ 1891)
- 1852 - Harriet Beecher Stowe, author (+ 1896)
- 1864 - Alois Alzheimer, physician (+ 1915)
- 1877 - Jane Bathori, opera singer (+ 1970)
- 1901 - Clarence Day, ice hockey player
- 1906 - Margaret Bourke-White, photojournalist
- 1909 - Burl Ives, musician (+ 1995)
- 1919 - Dorothy McGuire, actress (+ 2001)
- 1919 - Sam Wanamaker, actor (+ 1993)
- 1919 or 1921 - Gene Barry, actor
- 1925 - Pierre Salinger, political operative
- 1926 - Don Newcombe, baseball player
- 1926 - Hermann Kant, author
- 1928 - Ernesto (Che) Guevara, revolutionary (+ 1967)
- 1929 - Cy Coleman, composer
- 1933 - Jerzy Kosinski, author (+ 1999)
- 1940 - Ben Davidson, American football player
- 1943 - Newt Gingrich, United States politican
- 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 politican
- 1958 - Eric Heiden, Olympic speed skater
- 1961 - Boy George, singer ("Culture Club")
- 1968 - Yasmine Bleeth, actress
- 1969 - Steffi Graf, tennis player
Deaths
- 1801 - Benedict Arnold, General
- 1864 - General Leonidas Pope
- 1920 - Max Weber, sociologist
- 1926 - Mary Cassatt, artist
- 1927 - Jerome K. Jerome, author
- 1928 - Emmeline Pankhurst, feminist
- 1932 - Dorimène Roy Desjardins, business pioneer
- 1936 - Maxim Gorky, author
- 1936 - G. K. Chesterton, author
- 1946 - John Logie Baird, television pioneer
- 1972 - Martin Dies, American politician
- 1986 - Jorge Luis Borges, writer
- 1986 - Alan Jay Lerner, composer
- 1991 - Dame Peggy Ashcroft, actress
- 1994 - Henry Mancini, composer
- 1995 - Roger Zelazny, science fiction author
- 1995 - Rory Gallagher, musician, composer
- 1996 - Ella Fitzgerald, singer
- 1997 - Richard Jaeckel, actor
Holidays and observances
- Flag Day (United States)
- Mother's Day (Afghanistan)
- Roman Empire - eighth day of the Vestalia in honor of Vesta
See Also:
June 13 - June 15 - May 14 - July 14 -- listing of all days
January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
