Historical anniversaries/June 14

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
• 1885 - E. L. Grant Watson is born
• 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
• 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

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