June 14 Events |
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| June 14th, 2004 (June 14 2004) | Event | The Workers Party of Bangladesh is split, as Khandaker Ali Abbas leaves to form a new party. | |
| June 14th, 2001 (June 14 2001) | Event | China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan form the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation. | |
| June 14th, 1985 (June 14 1985) | Event | TWA Flight 847 is hijacked by Hezbollah shortly after take-off from Athens, Greece. | |
| June 14th, 1982 (June 14 1982) | Event | The Falklands War ends: Argentine forces in the capital Stanley unconditionally surrender to British forces. | |
| June 14th, 1976 (June 14 1976) | Event | The trial begins at Oxford Crown Court of Donald Neilson, the killer known as the Black Panther. | |
| June 14th, 1967 (June 14 1967) | Event | Mariner program: Mariner 5 is launched toward Venus. | |
| June 14th, 1966 (June 14 1966) | Event | The Vatican announces the abolition of the index librorum prohibitum (index of prohibited books), which was originally instituted in 1557. | |
| June 14th, 1962 (June 14 1962) | Event | Albert DeSalvo, better known as the Boston Strangler, murders Anna Slesers, his first victim. | |
| June 14th, 1962 (June 14 1962) | Event | The European Space Research Organisation is established in Paris - later becoming the European Space Agency. | |
| June 14th, 1962 (June 14 1962) | Event | The New Mexico Supreme Court in the case of Montoya v. Bolack, 70 N.M. 196, prohibits state and local governments from denying Indians the right to vote because they live on a reservation. | |
| June 14th, 1959 (June 14 1959) | Event | A group of Dominican exiles with leftist tendencies that departed from Cuba land in the Dominican Republic with the intent of deposing Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina. Save for four of them, all were killed and/or executed by Trujillo s army. This feat would be the inspiration for a clandestine group that would seek to continue undermining Trujillo s power and would be called "Movimiento Catorce de Junio" (14th of June Movement). | |
| June 14th, 1955 (June 14 1955) | Event | Chile becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty. | |
| June 14th, 1954 (June 14 1954) | Event | U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law that places the words "under God" into the United States Pledge of Allegiance. | Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes |
| June 14th, 1952 (June 14 1952) | Event | The keel is laid for the nuclear submarine USS Nautilus. | |
| June 14th, 1951 (June 14 1951) | Event | UNIVAC I is dedicated by U.S. Census Bureau. | |
| June 14th, 1942 (June 14 1942) | Event | Anne Frank begins to keep a diary. | Anne Frank Quotes |
| June 14th, 1941 (June 14 1941) | Event | Soviet mass deportations and murder of Estonians, Lithuanians and Latvians, the June deportation, begin. | |
| June 14th, 1940 (June 14 1940) | Event | World War II: Paris falls under German occupation, and Allied forces retreat. | |
| June 14th, 1940 (June 14 1940) | Event | World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs into law the Naval Expansion Act which aims to increase the United States Navy s tonnage by 11%. | |
| June 14th, 1940 (June 14 1940) | Event | A group of 728 Polish political prisoners from Tarnow become the first residents of the Auschwitz concentration camp. | |
| June 14th, 1938 (June 14 1938) | Event | Action Comics issue one was released, introducing Superman. | |
| June 14th, 1937 (June 14 1937) | Event | Pennsylvania becomes the first (and only) state of the United States to celebrate Flag Day officially as a state holiday. | |
| June 14th, 1937 (June 14 1937) | Event | U. S. House of Representatives passes the 1937 Marihuana Tax Act. | |
| June 14th, 1934 (June 14 1934) | Event | James J. Braddock scores one of the most upsetting victories in of his boxing career by beating John "Corn" Griffinroughly marking the advent of his comeback to success and eventually winning World Heavyweight championship. | |
| June 14th, 1926 (June 14 1926) | Event | Brazil leaves the League of Nations | |
| June 14th, 1919 (June 14 1919) | Event | John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown depart St. John s, Newfoundland on the first nonstop transatlantic flight. | |
| June 14th, 1908 (June 14 1908) | Event | Fourth German Navy Bill is passed authorising the financing the building of another four major warships. | |
| June 14th, 1907 (June 14 1907) | Event | Norway adopts female suffrage. | |
| June 14th, 1900 (June 14 1900) | Event | Hawaii becomes a United States territory. | |
| June 14th, 1900 (June 14 1900) | Event | The Reichstag approves a second law that allows the expansion of the German navy. | |
| June 14th, 1872 (June 14 1872) | Event | Trade unions are legalised in Canada. | |
| June 14th, 1863 (June 14 1863) | Event | 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. | |
| June 14th, 1846 (June 14 1846) | Event | Bear Flag Revolt beginsAnglo settlers in Sonoma, California, start a rebellion against Mexico and proclaim the California Republic. | |
| June 14th, 1839 (June 14 1839) | Event | Henley Royal Regatta: the village of Henley, on the River Thames in Oxfordshire, stages its first Regatta. | |
| June 14th, 1822 (June 14 1822) | Event | 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". | Charles Babbage Quotes |
| June 14th, 1821 (June 14 1821) | Event | Badi VII, king of Sennar, surrenders his throne and realm to Ismail Pasha, general of the Ottoman Empire, ending the existence of that Sudanese kingdom. | |
| June 14th, 1807 (June 14 1807) | Event | Emperor Napoleon I s French Grande Armee defeats the Russian Army at the Battle of Friedland in Poland (modern Russian Kaliningrad Oblast) ending the War of the Fourth Coalition. | |
| June 14th, 1800 (June 14 1800) | Event | The French Army of First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte defeats the Austrians at the Battle of Marengo in Northern Italy and re-conquers Italy. | Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes |
| June 14th, 1789 (June 14 1789) | Event | Mutiny on the Bounty: Bounty mutiny survivors including Captain William Bligh and 18 others reach Timor after a nearly 7,400 km (4,000-mile) journey in an open boat. | |
| June 14th, 1789 (June 14 1789) | Event | Whisky distilled from maize is first produced by American clergyman the Rev Elijah Craig. It is named Bourbon because Rev Craig lived in Bourbon County, Kentucky. | |
| June 14th, 1777 (June 14 1777) | Event | The Stars and Stripes is adopted by Congress as the Flag of the United States. | |
| June 14th, 1775 (June 14 1775) | Event | American Revolutionary War: the Continental Army is established by the Continental Congress, marking the birth of the United States Army. | |
| June 14th, 1648 (June 14 1648) | Event | Margaret Jones is hanged in Boston for witchcraft in the first such execution for the Massachusetts colony. | |
| June 14th, 1645 (June 14 1645) | Event | English Civil War: Battle of Naseby - 12,000 Royalist forces are beaten by 15,000 Parliamentarian soldiers. | |
| June 14th, 1381 (June 14 1381) | Event | Richard II in England meets leaders of Peasants Revolt on Blackheath. The Tower of London is stormed by rebels who enter without resistance. | |
| June 14th, 1276 (June 14 1276) | Event | While taking exile in Fuzhou in southern China, away from the advancing Mongol invaders, the remnants of the Song Dynasty court hold the coronation ceremony for the young prince Zhao Shi, making him Emperor Duanzong of Song. | |
