Historical Events on June 14 (original) (raw)
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Henry the Young King
1170 Henry the Young King, is crowned aged 15 at Westminster Abbey, during the lifetime of his father Henry II in an attempt to settle the succession [1]
- 1206 Chinese southern Song dynasty officially declares war on the northern Jin dynasty
- 1276 While taking exile in Fuzhou, southern China, from advancing Mongol invaders, remnants of the Song Dynasty court hold coronation ceremony for young prince Zhao Shi, making him Emperor Duanzong of Song
- 1325 Explorer Ibn Battuta begins his travels, leaving his home in Tangiers to travel to Mecca (gone 24 years)
Peasants' Revolt
1381 Richard II in England meets leaders of the Peasants' Revolt on Blackheath. The Tower of London is stormed by rebels who enter without resistance.
1565 Catharina de Medici and Duke of Alva discuss Calvinism
1597 At 4:30 AM Dutch explorer Willem Barents leaves Novaya Zemlya on his third Arctic expedition to return to the Netherlands (dies on the return voyage)
1615 Dutch mariner Jacques Le Maire sets sails from Texel, North Holland, to find a new route to the Pacific and the Spice Islands and the southern continent (Terra Australis)
1623 1st breach-of-promise lawsuit: Rev Gerville Pooley, Virginia files against Cicely Jordan, he loses
1634 Russia and Poland sign Peace treaty of Polianov
1642 First compulsory education law in America is passed by Massachusetts
1658 Battle of the Dunes: English and French forces defeat the Spanish near Dunkirk during Franco-Spanish War
1671 French officer Simon-François Daumont de Saint-Lusson takes possession for France of Lake Huron and Superior "and all the other contiguous and adjacent countries, rivers, lakes and streams, here, both discovered and yet to be discovered", at assembly of fourteen Amerindian nations at Sault-Sainte-Marie [1]
1673 Battle at Schooneveld: Dutch admiral Michiel de Ruyter beats French and English fleet
Williamite War
1690 English King William III's army lands at Carrickfergus in Ireland
Continental Army Forms
1775 US Army first forms as the Continental Army to fight American Revolutionary War
Stars & Stripes Flag Adopted
1777 US Continental Congress adopts the Stars & Stripes flag, designed by Francis Hopkinson, replacing the Grand Union flag
- 1800 Battle of Marengo (Alessandria): Napoleon Bonaparte's French army overcomes Austrian forces in Piedmont, Italy
- 1807 Emperor Napoleon I's French Grande Armee defeats the Russian Army at the Battle of Friedland in Prussia (modern Russian Kaliningrad Oblast) ending War of the Fourth Coalition
- 1821 King of Sennar, Badi VII, surrenders his throne and realm to General Ismail Pasha of the Ottoman Empire, bringing the 300-year-old Sudanese kingdom to an end
Babbage's Difference Engine
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"
1834 Hardhat diving suit patented by Leonard Norcross of Dixfield, Maine
1834 Sandpaper is patented by Isaac Fischer Jr. in Springfield, Vermont
1839 First Henley Regatta held (it became the Henley Royal Regatta in 1851)
1841 First Canadian Parliament opens in Kingston, Ontario
1846 Belgian Liberal Party forms
1846 California (Bear Flag) Republic proclaimed in Sonoma, declaring independence from Mexico
1850 Third great fire of early San Francisco, starts in a bakery chimney
Harpers Ferry Evacuated
1861 Confederates burn the B&O Railroad bridge and the US Armory buildings at Harpers Ferry before evacuating in face of General George McClellan's advance [1]
- 1861 First train trip in South America, a train leaves Asuncion central station in Paraguay along the Asuncion - Encarnacion railway [1]
- 1863 Battle of 2nd Winchester, Virginia; Confederate force defeats Union army garrison and captures Winchester
- 1864 US Union warship USS Kearsarge appears off Cherbourg
- 1870 All-pro Cincinnati Red Stockings suffer 1st loss in 130 games
- 1872 Trade unions are legalised in Canada
- 1876 1st player to hit for cycle (George Hall, Philadelphia Athletics)
- 1876 California Street Cable Car Railroad Co gets its franchise
1st African American Graduates West Point
1877 Henry Ossian Flipper becomes 1st African American to graduate from West Point Military Academy [1]
- 1898 Niger Convention signed in Paris by France and Great Britain agreeing to the partition of West Africa
- 1900 Having been annexed to the USA on 12 August 1898, Hawaii is constituted as an organized territory
- 1900 The Reichstag approves a second law that allows the expansion of the German navy
- 1904 At the battle of Telissu, the Japanese rout the Russians and inflict heavy casualties
- 1904 Dutch troops occupy Kuto Reh, Sumatra, killing all inhabitants
- 1906 Pogrom against Jews in Bialystok, Polish Russia
- 1907 Government of Transvaal sends home 50,000 Chinese day workers
- 1907 Norway adopts female suffrage for middle class women only in parliamentary elections
- 1908 Fourth German Navy Bill is passed authorising the financing of the building of another four major warships
Funeral of Emily Davison
1913 Funeral for Emily Davison includes a procession of 6,000 suffragettes in London, England [1]
Immigration Act
1913 The South African Government pass the Immigration Act, which restricts the entry and free movement of Asians; it leads to widespread agitation and rioting by resident Indians, led by civil rights activist M.K. Gandhi
Democratic Convention
1916 Democratic Convention convenes in St Louis; Woodrow Wilson campaigns on the slogan "he kept out of the war"
- 1916 Representatives of eight Allied nations hold an economic conference in Paris at which they discuss ways to cripple their enemies economic power during and after the war
- 1917 First German air attack on England, Gotha bombers kill 162 civilians and injure 432 in East London
- 1917 General Pershing and his HQ staff arrived in Paris during WW I
- 1919 John Alcock and Arthur Brown leave Newfoundland in the first non-stop air crossing of the Atlantic
- 1921 Orchestral version of Ralph Vaughn Williams’ “The Lark Ascending” premieres, with dedicatee Marie Hall as violinist and Adrian Boult conducting the British Symphony Orchestra.in the Queen's Hall, London
- 1922 Charles Hoffner wins PGA golf tournament
1st US President on the Radio
1922 US President Warren G. Harding is 1st US President to use radio, dedicates the Francis Scott Key memorial in Baltimore
- 1923 Recording of first country music hit (Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane)
- 1924 Test Cricket debuts of English players Herbert Sutcliffe and Maurice Tate in 1st Test England v South Africa at Edgbaston
- 1924 WOKO-AM radio begins transmitting from Albany, NY
Herbert Hoover Nominated
1928 Republican National Convention, meeting in Kansas City, nominates Herbert Hoover for President
- 1929 Prussia and Vatican sign Concord
- 1930 VVGZ soccer team forms in Zwijndrecht
- 1931 French steamer "St Philbert" overturns off St Nazaire, France, drowning 450 people
Baer KO's Carnera
1934 American boxer Max Baer KO's defending champion Primo Carnera of Italy in 11th round at Madison Square Garden for the lineal world heavyweight title
- 1934 WOQ-AM in Kansas City Missouri goes off the air
- 1935 Chaco War between Bolivia & Paraguay ends
- 1936 Oranienburg Concentration Camp opens in Germany
- 1938 American children's literature writer and illustration Dorothy Lathrop wins 1st Caldecott Medal for Illustration for her work "Animals of the Bible"
- 1938 Chlorophyll patented by Benjamin Grushkin
Auschwitz Camp Opens
1940 Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp opens in Nazi controlled Poland with Polish POWs, later expanded to include civilian Jews, Roman Catholics, Gypsies and Soviet POWs (at least 1.1 million would die within its walls)
- 1940 German forces enter Paris during WWII
- 1940 German U-47 sinks airship Balmoral
- 1941 Estonia loses 11,000 inhabitants as a consequence of mass deportations into Siberia
Wichita's Boeing Plant II
1941 Ground broken for Boeing Plant II (ex-AFLC Plant 13) in Wichita, Kansas
- 1942 1st bazooka rocket gun produced (Bridgeport, Connecticut)
Anne Frank Begins Her Diary
1942 Anne Frank begins writing her diary, in Dutch, two days after her 13th birthday [1]
- 1942 French government of Reynaud resigns
- 1944 First B-29 raid against mainland Japan
De Gaulle Returns to France
1944 French General Charles de Gaulle returns to France, landing in Normandy, proclaiming Bayeux the capital of Free France
- 1946 Canadian Library Association established
The Christmas Song
1946 Nat King Cole records "The Christmas Song" (written by Mel Tormé and Bob Wells) for the first time
- 1948 Klemens Gottwald becomes president of Czechoslovakia
State of Vietnam Forms
1949 French-allied State of Vietnam is officially formed during the First Indochina War, Bảo Đại installed as Emperor
- 1949 WROC TV channel 8 in Rochester, NY (NBC) begins broadcasting
- 1951 UNIVAC I, the first commercial computer, enters service at the Census Bureau
Spahn Ties Whitney Record
1952 Boston Brave Warren Spahn ties NL record held by Jim Whitney with 18 strikeouts against the Cubs in 15 innings
Peters' World Record Marathon
1952 British runner Jim Peters runs world record marathon (2:20:42.2)
- 1952 General strike in Tunisia
- 1952 Keel is laid for the first nuclear-powered submarine, USS Nautilus (fourth to be named Nautilus)
Eisenhower Condemns McCarty
1953 Eisenhower condemns McCarthy's book burning proposal
Elvis Graduates
1953 Elvis Presley graduates from L. C. Humes High School in Memphis, Tennessee
- 1953 Military coup by General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla in Colombia
- 1953 MLB New York Yankees sweep double header against Cleveland Indians, 6-2 and 3-0, before 74,708; win streak extended to 18 straight
- 1954 President Eisenhower signs order adding words "under God" to the Pledge
- 1955 Chile becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty
- 1957 42.0 cm rain falls on East St Louis, Illinois (state record)
Pro Wrestling
1957 Edouard Carpentier beats Lou Thesz to become NWA wrestling champion
1958 British parachutists lands on Cyprus
1961 106°F, hottest temperature in San Francisco
1962 Albert DeSalvo, better known as the Boston Strangler, murders Anna Slesers, his first victim
1962 The European Space Research Organisation is established in Paris - later becoming the European Space Agency
1963 Russian cosmonaut Valery Bykovsky, aboard Vostok 5, orbits earth 81 times in 5 days
Music History
1964 Drummer Ringo Starr re-unites with the Beatles in Melbourne, Australia, after recovering from tonsillitis
- 1965 Beatles release album "Beatles VI"
- 1965 Cincinnati Reds pitcher Jim Maloney no-hits New York Mets but loses in 11 innings, 1-0
A Spaniard in the Works
1965 John Lennon's second book "A Spaniard in the Works" is published
- 1966 Dutch police beat construction workers, 60 injured
- 1966 Miami beats St. Petersburg (Florida State League) 4-3 in 29 innings, the longest uninterrupted game in organized baseball
The Steve Allen Comedy Hour
1967 "The Steve Allen Comedy Hour" premieres on CBS-TV
Event of Interest
1967 California Governor Ronald Reagan signs the Therapeutic Abortion Act, legalizing abortions in the state under certain circumstances, the second state after Colorado to do so
1967 NASA launches Mariner 5 for a Venus flyby, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida
1967 USSR launches Kosmos 166 for observation of Sun from Earth orbit
1968 "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" second studio album by Iron Butterfly is released
1968 Off duty Dutch military permitted to wear regular clothing
1972 Members of the NI Social Democratic and Labour Party hold a meeting with representatives of the Irish Republican Army in Derry; the IRA representatives outline their conditions for talks with the British Government
1972 Tropical storm (later hurricane) Agnes forms over Yucatán Peninsula
1973 46th National Spelling Bee: Barrie Trinkle wins spelling vouchsafe
Event of Interest
1973 US President Richard Nixon administration imposes 60-day economy-wide price freeze, superseding Special Rule No. 1 for oil companies
Baseball Record
1974 MLB Angels' Nolan Ryan strikes out 19 Boston Red Sox over 13 innings in a 15-inning 2-1 win for California at Anaheim Stadium
1975 Janis Ian releases "At Seventeen"
1975 USSR launches Venera 10 for Venus landing
1976 "Gong Show" premieres on TV (syndication)
1978 Sierra Leone adopts constitution
1979 Rock group "Little Feat" disbands
Music History
1980 "Theme From New York, New York" by Frank Sinatra spreads to #32 on the charts
1981 No Nukes concert at Hollywood Bowl
1984 Southern Baptist convention decide against allowing women clergy members
1985 "Michael Nesmith In Television Parts" premieres on NBC-TV
Sports History
1985 Earl Weaver comes out of retirement to manage Baltimore Orioles
- 1985 Lebanese Shiite Muslim extremists hijacked TWA Flight 847
- 1987 4th full-duration test firing of redesigned SRB motor
- 1988 "Guy" debut album by Guy is released
Music History
1988 Woman sues Chuck Berry for $5,000,000, alleges he hit her
Music History
1989 "You've Got A Friend" singer-songwriter Carole King gets a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame
- 1989 Groundbreaking begins in Bloomington, Minnesota on world's largest mall - "The Mall of America"
- 1989 MLB Texas Rangers' Nolan Ryan becomes 2nd pitcher to defeat all 26 teams
- 1989 Ronald Reagan is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II (honorary knighthood)
Film & TV History
1989 Zsa Zsa Gabor arrested for slapping Beverly Hills motorcycle patrolman
1990 Date of the events in the movie Mr Destiny
1990 NL announces plans to expand from 12 to 14 teams for 1993 season
1990 Supreme Court rules police check for drunk drivers constitutional
1991 Leroy Burrell of USA sets 100m record (9.90) in NYC
1991 Space Shuttle STS 40 (Columbia 12) lands
Sports History
1992 MLB St. Louis Cardinals shortstop Ozzie Smith breaks Roy McMillan's NL mark by taking part in his 1,305th career double play
- 1992 Mona Van Duyn is named 1st female US poet laureate
- 1993 Japanese space probe Sakigake passes Earth
Event of Interest
1993 Ruth Bader Ginsburg is introduced by President Bill Clinton as his nominee to the United States Supreme Court in a Rose Garden ceremony at the White House
1993 Tansu Ciller appointed 1st female Prime Minister of Turkey, succeeding Süleyman Demirel
1994 Stanley Cup Final, Madison Square Garden: New York Rangers beat Vancouver Canucks, 3-2 for a 4-3 series victory; Rangers end their record 54-year Championship drought
1995 Giants infielder Mike Benjamin goes 6-for-7 in 13-inning 4-3 win
1996 Karl Krikken out handled the ball for Derbyshire v Indians
1998 "Comic Relief" benefit comedy show
1998 Atlantic, Iowa rainfall of 13.18 inches (33.5 cm) sets new state record
2001 China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan form the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation
The Bourne Identity
2002 "The Bourne Identity" directed by Doug Liman and starring Matt Damon is released in the US
2005 Asafa Powell of Jamaica sets a new Men's 100 meters world record of 9.77 at the Athens Olympic Stadium
2006 Ringo Starr's ninth All-Starr Band debuts in concert; members include: Billy Squier, Richard Marx, Edgar Winter, Rod Argent, Hamish Stuart, and Sheila E.
2012 An explosion at an Indian steel plant kills 11 people and severely injures 16
2012 Ringo Starr's twelfth All-Starr Band debuts in concert; members include: Steve Lukather, Gregg Rolie, Todd Rundgren, Richard Page, Gregg Bissonette, and Mark Rivera, 2012-13 / Warren Ham, 2014-17
2012 The world's first stem-cell assisted vein transplant is undertaken by Swedish doctors on a 10-year-old girl
2013 Massive flooding occurs in northern India killing up to 10,000 people
Event of Interest
2013 The US government charges NSA leaker Edward Snowden with violating the Espionage Act and theft of government property
- 2014 49 people are killed after a Ukrainian Ilyushin Il-76 airlifter is shot down
- 2014 Alexander Stubb becomes Prime Minister of Finland for the first time
- 2015 "Jurassic World" is the first film to make $500 million worldwide in its opening weekend
- 2016 First mammal made extinct by human-induced climate change announced - the Bramble Cay melomys from Torres Strait
- 2017 Bernie Sanders supporter opens fire at Republican politicians practising baseball near Washington, D.C., injuring 4
- 2017 Fire in Grenfell Tower block in London, England kills 79 and injures 37
- 2017 Leo Varadkar formally elected Irish Prime Minister (taoiseach) in Dáil ceremony in Dublin - youngest Irish Prime Minister at 38 and 1st openly gay
- 2017 US Library of Congress names Tracey K. Smith as Poet Laureate
- 2017 US Senate approves new sanctions against Russia as punishment for meddling in the 2016 election
FIFA World Cup
2018 21st FIFA World Cup opens at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, Russia with British singer Robbie Williams and Russian soprano Aida Garifullina performing
- 2018 Malaysia's national debt reassessed at 250billion,upfrompreviousestimate250 billion, up from previous estimate 250billion,upfrompreviousestimate170 billion, 80% of gross domestic product
Sports History
2018 Rashid Khan makes his Test debut for Afghanistan against India
- 2018 US government confirms 1500 boys being held separated from their parents in Casa Padre, shelter facility for illegal immigrants in a former Walmart in Brownsville, Texas
Event of Interest
2018 US Justice Department concludes James Comey was "insubordinate" in his handling of Hilliary Clinton investigation in 2016
- 2019 Petition to create the world's first "time-free zone" on Sommarøy Island, which experiences complete daylight for two months, is delivered to the Norwegian Parliament
- 2019 Swiss women hold a national strike over the country's slow pace towards equality
- 2020 India reports surge of nearly 12,000 a day confirmed COVID-19 cases (320,922 overall), the world's fourth-affected country, as death toll hits 9,195
Sports History
2021 Cristiano Ronaldo removes sponsors coke bottles from his press table at the European Championships, prompting the company share price to drop $4 billion
- 2021 Heatwave event begins across western US and Canadian states with Denver at 101 degrees and Helena 105 degrees
- 2022 Denmark and Canada agree to split the arctic Hans Island, ending their 50-year "Whiskey War", where each country laid claim by buying whiskey on the island [1]
- 2022 First controversial UK flight to take asylum seekers to Rwanda cancelled after last-minute legal ruling from European Court of Human Rights of "real risk of irreversible harm" [1]
Music History
2022 K-pop group BTS announce they are taking a break to pursue individual projects [1]
2022 Last part of the world's largest floating restaurant, the Jumbo Kingdom seafood restaurant, leaves Hong Kong after 46 years and sinks four days later near the Paracel Islands [1]
2023 An overcrowded fishing boast carrying refugees and migrants capsizes south of Greece killing at least 79, with 104 rescued but hundreds more feared dead [1]
2023 Fossil bones found in Tam Pà Ling (Cave of the Monkeys), Laos, dated to 86,000 years, are oldest known examples of modern humans (Homo sapiens) in South-East Asia [1]
2023 Phosphates discovered on Enceladus, a moon of Saturn. Last of essential building blocks of life found there (others carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen and sulfur) raising possibility of extraterrestrial life [1]
2023 ‘Benchmark’ experiment by IBM quantum computer manages to simulate a magnetic material, working round previous problem of quantum noise [1]
2025 Series of 'No Kings' protests occur in all 50 states across the United States, opposing the Trump administration on the same day as the United States Army military parade in Washington, D.C. [1]