June 14

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

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] (http://www.army.mil/birthday/228/default.htm)
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.[2] (http://library.puc.edu/pitcairn/bounty/wmbligh.shtml)
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] (http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Babbage.html)
1846 - Bear Flag Revolt begins - American settlers in Sonoma, California start a rebellion against Mexico and proclaim the California Republic. [4] (http://www.nps.gov/prsf/coast_defense/spanish/spike/bearflag.htm)
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] (http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=ArchivedFeatures&Params=A218)
1900 - Hawaii becomes a United States territory.[6] (http://www.publicbookshelf.com/public_html/The_Great_Republic_By_the_Master_Historians_Vol_IV/hawaiiann_ch.html)
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] (http://www.aviation-history.com/airmen/alcock.htm)
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] (http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq59-20.htm)
1940 - Holocaust: A group of 728 Polish political prisoners from Tarn�w 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] (http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/industry/06/14/computing.anniversary/)
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] (http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/china/nuke.htm)
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: 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. [11] (http://www.mugshots.net/zsa_zsa_gabor/); 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] (http://www.snopes.com/horrors/food/syringe.asp), 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.