14th
June, on this day
1276 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.
1381 Richard
II in England meets leaders of Peasants'
Revolt on Blackheath. Tower of London stormed by rebels who enter
without resistance
1623 1st breach-of-promise lawsuit: Rev Gerville Pooley, Va files
against
Cicely Jordan. He loses
1642 1st compulsory education law in America passed by Massachusetts
1645 English Civil War: Battle
of Naseby, Northamptonshire. Parliamentary forces commanded by
Oliver Cromwell defeat the Royalist troops of Charles I despite being
heavily outnumbered
1648 Margaret Jones is hanged in Boston for witchcraft in the first
such execution for the Massachusetts colony.
1775 US
Army founded
1777 In America, Congress adopts the Stars and Stripes as its official
flag
1789 Whisky distilled from maize is first produced by American clergyman
the Rev Elijah
Craig. Its named Bourbon because Rev Craig lived in Bourbon County,
Kentucky
1789 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.
1800 Napoleon Bonaparte's French Army defeats the Austrians at the
Battle of Marengo in Northern Italy and re-conquers Italy
1807 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.
1821 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.
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, Dixfield, Maine
1834 Sandpaper patented by Isaac Fischer Jr, Springfield, Vermont
1839 The village of Henley, on the River Thames in Oxfordshire, stages
its
first Regatta
1841 1st Canadian parliament opens in Kingston, Ontario
1846 California
(Bear Flag) Republic proclaimed in Sonoma
1847 Bunson invents a gas burner. Lab teachers celebrate worldwide
1850 Fire destroys part of SF
1863 Battle
of 2nd Winchester, Virginia
1864 Battle of Pine Mount, Gen Leonidas Polk killed in action
1881 Player piano patented by John McTammany, Jr, Cambridge, Mass
1900 Hawaiian Republic becomes the US Territory of Hawaii
1907 Norway adopts female suffrage
1908 Fourth German Navy Bill is passed authorising the financing the
building of another four major warships
1917 General Pershing and his HQ staff arrived in Paris during WW
I
1919 Captain John
Alcock and his partner, Lt Arthur
Whitten-Brown, fling a Vickers Vimy, take off from Newfoundland,
Canada at the beginning of the first non-stop transatlantic flight
to Galway in Ireland
1926 Brazil leaves the League of Nations
1928 Republican National Convention, met in KC, nominated Herbert
Hoover
1931 French "St Philbert" overturned off St Nazaire France,
drowns 450
1934 Max
Baer KO's Primo Carnera in 11 for HW box champ in Long Island
City
1935 Chaco War between Bolivia and Paraguay ends
1937 U. S. House of Representatives passes the 1937
Marihuana Tax Act.
1938 Action Comics issue one was released, introducing Superman.
1938 Chlorophyll patented by Benjamin Grushkin
1940 German forces occupy Paris
1940 A group of 728 Polish political prisoners from Tarnów
become the first residents of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
1941 Soviet mass deportations and murder of Estonians, Lithuanians
and Latvians, the June
deportation, began.
1942 Anne
Frank begins to keep a diary.
1942 1st bazooka rocket gun produced Bridgeport, Ct
1942 Walt Disney's "Bambi"
is released
1944 1st B-29 raid against mainland Japan
1949 State of Vietnam formed
1951 1st commercial computer, UNIVAC
1, enters service at Census Bureau
1952 Keel laid for 1st nuclear powered sub the Nautilus
1953 Elvis Presley graduates from LC Humes High School in Memphis,
Tenn
1962 The European Space Research Organisation is established in Paris
– later becoming the European Space Agency
1962 Albert
DeSalvo, better known as the Boston Strangler, killed Anna Slesers,
his first victim.
1962 New Mexico Supreme Court in the case of Montoya v. Bolack, 70
N.M. 196, prohibited state and local governments from denying Indians
the right to vote because they lived on a reservation.
1963 Valery Bykovsky in Vostok 5 orbits earth 81 times in 5 days
1964 In Pretoria, South Africa, black leader Nelson Mandela is among
eight activists to be sentenced to life imprisonment for acts of sabotage.
Mandela is sent to the notorious Robben Island - 7 miles from Cape
Town on the South African coast
1965 Beatles release the album "Beatles VI"
1965 John Lennon's 2nd book "A
Spaniard in the Works" is published
1966 The Vatican announces the abolition of the index librorum prohibitum
(index of prohibited books), which was originally instituted in 1557.
1967 Launch of Mariner V for Venus fly-by
1967 USSR launches Kosmos 166 for observation of Sun from Earth orbit
1968 British yachtsman Robin Knox-Johnson sets out to sail solo around
the world
1969 John and Yoko appear on David
Frost's British TV Show
1970 Manchester United footballer Bobby
Charlton plays his 106th and last international match for England
v West Germany in the World Cup finals in Mexico.His first game had
been in April 1958 against Scotland
1971 In America, the New York Times begins printing extracts from
top secret Pentagon papers covering the Vietnam War
1975 USSR launches Venera 10 for Venus landing
1976 The trial begins at Oxford Crown Court of Donald
Neilson, the killer known as the Black Panther.
1976 Former British Prime Minister Harold
Wilson receives a knighthood
1976 "Gong
Show" premieres on TV (syndication)
1982 Falklands War: Surrender of Argentinian troops by General Menendez
to the British Task Force in Port Stanley following the Argentine
invasion of the British-owned Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic
1983 5 killed in a fire at a Ramada Inn in Fort Worth, Tx
1985 Lebanese Shiite
Moslem gunmen hijack TWA 847 after Athens' takeoff
1997 Queen Elizabeth II birthday honours include a George
Medal for teacher Lisa
Potts, survivor of a machete attack at her school; and a posthumous
Queen's Gallantry medal for headmaster Philip Lawrence murdered outside
his school in London
2001 China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan
form the Shanghai
Cooperation Organisation. |
14th
June 2006
Australia
angry as cleric freed
France
jails 25 for attack plot
Afghan
violence claims more lives
14th June
2007
Abbas
sacks Hamas-led government
IAEA
chief in Iran attack warning
Vatican
urges end to Amnesty aid
14th June
2008
Taleban
jail raid frees hundreds
S
Africa mob burns Mozambican man
Blast
in Chinese mine kills many
14th June
2009
Netanyahu
seeks 'demilitarised Palestine'
Several
dead in Pakistan bombing
Herschel
telescope 'opens eyes'
14th June 2010
Obama
calls for clean energy
Israel
raid probe 'not impartial'
Afghanistan
mineral wealth 'huge'
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Birthdates which
occurred on 14th June :
1736 Charles-Augustin
de Coulomb physicist (formulated Coulomb's Law)
1811 Harriet Beecher Stowe author (Uncle Tom's Cabin)
1820 John Bartlett US, editor (compiled Familiar Quotations)
1855 Robert Marion La Follette Wisconsin, pres candidate (Progressive)
1856 Andrey Markov Russia, mathematician (Markov Chain)
1864 Alois Alzheimer Germany, psychiatrist/pathologist (Alzheimer
Disease)
1868 Karl Landsteiner immunologist/pathologist (Nobel 1930)
1874 Edward Bowes radio host (Major Bowes Amateur Hour)
19-- Andy Christell rocker (Electric Boys-Funk-o-metal Carpet Ride)
19-- Chris DeGarmo rock guitarist (Queensr˜che-The Warning)
19-- Jorge Rivero Mexico, actor (Priest of Love, Last Hard Men)
19-- Kim Lankford Montebello Calif, actress (Gingers-Knots Landing)
19-- Rosa Langschwadt actress (Cecily Davidson-All My Children)
19-- Trish Stewart Hot Springs Ark, actress (Melanmie-Salvage 1)
19-- Yasmine Bleeth actress (Ryan's Hope)
1906 Carl Esmond Wien (Vienna) Austria, actor (Smash-Up)
1906 Gil Lamb Minneapolis, actor (Hit Parade of 1947, Riding High)
1908 John Scott Trotter Charlotte NC, orch leader (George Gobel Show)
1909 Burl Ives Hunt Ill, folk singer/actor (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof)
1910 Rudolf Kempe Niederpoyritz Germany, conductor (Tonhalle Orch
1965-72)
1917 Lash La Rue Gretna La, cowboy actor (Lash of the West, Wyatt
Earp)
1918 Dorothy McGuire Omaha Neb, actress (Old Yeller, Summer Magic)
1919 Sam Wanamaker Chic Ill, actor (Holocaust, Competition, Raw Deal)
1921 Gene Barry NYC, actor (Bat Masterson, Name of the Game, Burke's
Law)
1925 Pierre Salinger newsman (ABC)/press secretary (John Kennedy)
1928 Ernesto (Che) Guevara Latin American revolutionary
1929 Cy Coleman [Seymour Kaufman], songwriter (Witchcraft, Sweet Charity)
1931 Marla Gibbs Chicago Ill, actress (Florence-Jeffersons, Mary-227)
1933 Jerzy Kosinski novelist (Painted Bird, Being There)
1940 Ben Davidson LA Calif, actor (Rhino-Ball Four, Code R)
1940 Jack Bannon LA Calif, actor (Art-Lou Grant, Trauma Center)
1943 Muff Mervyn Winwood singer (Spencer Davis Group-Gimme Some Lovin)
1946 Donald Trump master builder (Trump Towers/Plaza/Castle)
1946 Ralph McAllister Ingersol II NYC, newspaper publisher
1949 Bob Frankston programmer (VisiCalc)
1949 Rochelle Firestone Kansas City MO, actress (Hellhole)
1952 Eddie Mekka Worcester Mass, actor (Carmine-Laverne & Shirley)
1954 Will Patton Charleston SC, actor (No Way Out, Ballzaire the Cajun)
1958 Carina Persson Stockholm Sweden, playmate (August, 1983)
1958 Eric Heiden Wisc, .5/1/1.5/5/10K speed skater (Olympic-5 golds-1980)
1961 Boy George O'Dowd androgynous rock musician & druggie (Culture
Club)
1969 Steffi Graf West Germany, tennis player (Grand Slam 1988)
1970 Simone Fleurice Eden Arcadia Ca, playmate (Feb, 1989)
2160 Montgomery Edward Scott Aberdeen, Scotland (Star Trek)
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Deaths which occurred
on June 14th:
1801 Benedict Arnold Revolutionary War general, dies in London
1828 Charles Duke of Prussia, dies at 70
1962 Anna Sleasers first Boston Strangler victim
1965 H.V. Kaltenborn newscaster (Who Said That?), dies at 86
1977 Alan Reed actor (Mr Adams & Eve/voice (Fred Flintstone),
dies at 69
1977 Robert Middleman actor (Barney-The Monroes), dies at 66
1982 Marjorie Bennett actress (Blossom-Dobie Gillis), dies at 87 of
cancer
1986 Alan Jay Lerner Broadway librettist, dies in NY at 67
1986 Jorge Luis Borges Argentine author, dies in Geneva at 86
1986 Marlin Perkins "Wild Kingdom" host, dies near St Louis
at 81
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