Notable Historical Events on June 14th
June 14th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
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. The Tower of London is stormed by rebels who enter without resistance. |
1535 |
Karel V's fleet sails under Andrea Doria to Tunis |
1565 |
Catharina de Medici & Duke of Alva discuss Calvinism |
1597 |
At 4:30 AM Willem Barents leaves Novaya Zemlya for Netherlands |
1615 |
Jacques Le Maire sail to Zuidland/Terra Australis |
1623 |
1st breach-of-promise lawsuit: Rev Gerville Pooley, Va files against Cicely Jordan, he loses |
1634 |
Russia & Poland sign Peace treaty of Polianov |
1642 |
1st compulsory education law in America passed by Massachusetts |
1645 |
Battle of Naseby, Leicestershire "New Model Army" under Oliver Cromwell & Thomas Fairfax beat royalists forces of English King Charles I |
1658 |
Battle at Dunes: English & French fleet beat Spanish |
1673 |
Battle at Schooneveld: Michiel de Ruyter beats French/English fleet |
1775 |
US Army founded |
1777 |
Continental Congress adopts Stars & Stripes replacing Grand Union flag |
1789 |
Capt William Bligh reaches Timor |
1797 |
Napoleon forms Ligurian Republic |
1800 |
Battle of Marengo (Alessandria): Bonaparte vs Austria |
1807 |
Emperor Napoleon I's French Grande Armee defeats the Russian Army at the Battle of Friedland in Prussia (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 |
First Henley Regatta held (it became the Henley Royal Regatta in 1851) |
1841 |
1st Canadian parliament opens in Kingston, Ontario |
1846 |
Belgian Liberal Party forms |
1846 |
California (Bear Flag) Republic proclaimed in Sonoma, declaring independence from Mexico |
1847 |
Robert von Bunsen invents the Bunsen burner |
1850 |
Fire destroys part of San Francisco |
1861 |
Harpers Ferry evacuated by rebels in face of General George McClellan's advance |
1863 |
Battle of 2nd Winchester, Virginia |
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, Phila Athletics) |
1876 |
California Street Cable Car Railroad Co gets its franchise |
1880 |
14th Belmont: L Hughes aboard Grenada wins in 2:47 |
1881 |
Player piano patented by John McTammany Jr (Cambridge, Mass) |
1898 |
France signs Niger Convention |
1900 |
Hawaiian Territorial Government begins |
1900 |
The Reichstag approves a second law that allows the expansion of the German navy. |
1900 |
Having been annexed to the USA on 12 August 1898, Hawaii is constituted as an organised territory |
1901 |
1st golf championship is played |
1904 |
Dutch troops occupy Kuto Reh, Sumatra, killing all inhabitants |
1904 |
At the battle of Telissu, the Japanese rout the Russians and inflict heavy casualties |
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 the building of another four major warships. |
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 Gandhi |
1916 |
The Democratic Convention convenes in St Louis; Wilson campaigns on the slogan 'he kept out 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 |
1st German air attack on England, 100+ killed in East London |
1917 |
Gen Pershing & his HQ staff arrived in Paris during WW I |
1919 |
1st nonstop air crossing of Atlantic (Alcock & Brown) leaves Newfoundland |
1922 |
5th PGA Championship: Gene Sarazen at Oakmont CC Oakmont Pa |
1922 |
Charles Hoffner wins PGA golf tournament |
1922 |
Pres Harding is 1st US president to use radio, dedicating the Francis Scott Key memorial in Baltimore |
1923 |
Recording of 1st country music hit (Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane) |
1924 |
Test Cricket debuts of Herbert Sutcliffe & Maurice Tate v South Africa |
1924 |
WOKO-AM radio begins transmitting from Albany NY |
1926 |
2nd French Womens Tennis: Suzanne Lenglen beats Mary K Browne (6-1 6-0) |
1928 |
Republican National Convention, meeting in KC, nominates Herbert Hoover for President |
1929 |
Prussia & Vatican sign Concord |
1930 |
VVGZ soccer team forms in Zwijndrecht |
1931 |
French "St Philbert" overturns off St Nazaire France, drowns 450 |
1931 |
Reinhard Heydrich's 1st meeting with Himmler |
1932 |
German government of von Papen forms |
1933 |
Lou Gehrig & Joe McCarthy thrown out of game, McCarthy suspended 3 games but Gehrig isn't, so he continues his streak at 1,249 games |
1934 |
Hitler & Benito Mussolini meet in Vienna |
1934 |
Max Baer KO's Primo Carnera in 11 for HW box champ in Long Island City |
1934 |
WOQ-AM in KC Missouri goes off the air |
1935 |
Chaco War between Bolivia & Paraguay ends |
1936 |
Oranienburg Concentration Camp opens |
1938 |
Bradman scores 144* in 1st Test Cricket at Trent Bridge |
1938 |
Chlorophyll patented by Benjamin Grushkin |
1938 |
Dorothy Lathrop wins 1st Caldecott Medal (kid books author) |
1940 |
Auschwitz concentration camp opens in Nazi controlled Poland with Polish POWs (approx. 3 million would eventually be killed ) |
1940 |
German U-47 sinks airship Balmoral |
1940 |
German forces occupied Paris during WW II |
1941 |
Ground broken for Boeing Plant II (ex-AFLC Plant 13) Wichita KS |
1941 |
Estonia loses 11,000 inhabitants as a consequence of mass deportations into Siberia |
1942 |
1st bazooka rocket gun produced Bridgeport Ct |
1942 |
Anne Frank begins her diary |
1942 |
French government of Reynaud resigns |
1942 |
Walt Disney's "Bambi" animated movie is released Thumper's 1st job |
1944 |
1st B-29 raid against mainland Japan |
1944 |
General Charles de Gaulle lands at Courselles France |
1946 |
Canadian Library Association established |
1946 |
Nat King Cole records "The Christmas Song" for the first time |
1948 |
Klemens Gottwald becomes president of Czechoslovakia |
1949 |
State of Vietnam forms, Bao Dai installed as Emperor |
1949 |
WROC TV channel 8 in Rochester, NY (NBC) begins broadcasting |
1951 |
"Courtin' Time" opens at National Theater NYC for 37 performances |
1951 |
1st commercial computer, UNIVAC 1, enters service at Census Bureau |
1952 |
52nd US Golf Open: Julius Boros shoots a 281 at Northwood Club Dallas |
1952 |
Boston Brave Warren Spahn strikes out 18 Cubs in 15 innings |
1952 |
General strike in Tunisia |
1952 |
Jim Peters runs world record marathon (2:20:42.2) |
1952 |
Keel laid for 1st nuclear powered sub USS Nautilus (4th to be named Nautilus) |
1952 |
Braves Warren Spahn ties NL record of Jim Whitney with 18 strikeouts against the Cubs in 15-inning, 3-1 loss |
1953 |
Eisenhower condemns McCarthy's book burning proposal |
1953 |
Elvis Presley graduates from LC Humes High School in Memphis Tenn |
1953 |
Military coup by general Gustavo Rojas Pinilla in Colombia |
1953 |
Yanks sweep Indians 6-2, 3-0 before 74,708 win streak at 18 straight |
1954 |
Pres Eisenhower signs order adding words "under God" to the Pledge |
1955 |
Chile becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty. |
1956 |
"New Faces of 1956" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 221 perfs |
1957 |
42.0 cm rain falls on East St Louis, Illinois (state record) |
1957 |
Edouard Carpentier beats Lou Thesz, to become NWA wrestling champ |
1958 |
58th US Golf Open: Tommy Bolt shoots a 283 at Southern Hills in Tulsa |
1958 |
British parachutists lands on Cyprus |
1959 |
Beverly Hanson wins LPGA American Women's Golf Open |
1961 |
106°F, hottest temperature in SF |
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 |
NY Met Duke Snider hits his 400th HR |
1963 |
Valery Bykovsky in Vostok 5 orbits earth 81 times in 5 days |
1964 |
Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open |
1965 |
Beatles release album "Beatles VI" |
1965 |
Cincinnati Red Jim Maloney no-hits NY Mets but loses in 11, 1-0 |
1965 |
John Lennon's 2nd 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 longest uninterrupted game in organized baseball |
1967 |
Mariner 5 Launch (Venus Flyby) |
1967 |
Steve Allen Show" premieres on CBS-TV |
1967 |
USSR launches Kosmos 166 for observation of Sun from Earth orbit |
1968 |
Off duty Dutch military permitted to wear regular clothing |
1969 |
John & Yoko appear on David Frost's British TV Show |
1969 |
Oakland As' Reggie Jackson gets 10 RBIs to beat Red Sox 21-7 |
1970 |
Cincinnati Red Stockings loses 1st game after winning 130 straight |
1972 |
Hurricane Agnes kills 117 |
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 |
1973 |
46th National Spelling Bee: Barrie Trinkle wins spelling vouchsafe |
1973 |
US President Richard Nixon administration imposes 60-day economy-wide price freeze, superseding Special Rule No. 1 for oil companies |
1974 |
Angels' Nolan Ryan strikes out 19 Red Sox in 12 innings |
1975 |
45th French Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats M Navratilova (26 62 61) |
1975 |
Janis Ian releases "At 17" |
1975 |
USSR launches Venera 10 for Venus landing |
1976 |
"Gong Show" premieres on TV (syndication) |
1976 |
12th Mayor's Trophy Game Yanks beat Mets 8-4 |
1978 |
Down 9-7 in 10th with 2 outs, Yanks Paul Blair hits a 3 run HR |
1978 |
Sierra Leone adopts constitution |
1979 |
Canada all out 45 in Cricket World Cup v England, in 40 3 overs |
1979 |
NY Giants Willie McCovey 513th HR is an NL lefty record |
1979 |
Rock group "Little Feat" disbands |
1980 |
Theme From NY, NY by Frank Sinatra hits #32 |
1981 |
27th LPGA Championship won by Donna Caponi Young |
1981 |
No Nukes concert at Hollywood Bowl |
1982 |
Argentina surrenders to Britain on Falkland Is, ends 74-day conflict |
1983 |
5 killed in a fire at a Ramada Inn in Fort Worth, Tx |
1984 |
Southern Baptist convention decide on no women clergy members |
1985 |
"Michael Nesmith In Television Parts" premieres on NBC-TV |
1985 |
Earl Weaver comes out of retirement to manage Balt Orioles |
1985 |
Lebanese Shiite Muslim extremists hijacked TWA Flight 847 |
1987 |
41st NBA Championship: LA Lakers beat Boston Celtics, 4 games to 2 |
1987 |
4th full-duration test firing of redesigned SRB motor |
1987 |
Colleen Walker wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic |
1988 |
Woman sues Chuck Berry for $5,000,000 alleges he hit her |
1989 |
Ground breaking begins in Minn on world's largest mall |
1989 |
Nolan Ryan becomes 2nd pitcher to defeat all 26 teams |
1989 |
Ronald Reagan is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II (honorary knighthood) |
1989 |
Singer-songwriter Carol King gets a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame |
1989 |
Zsa Zsa Gabor arrested for slaping Beverly Hills motorcycle patrolman |
1990 |
44th NBA Championship: Det Pistons beat Por Trailblazers, 4 games to 1 |
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 |
"Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves" opens |
1991 |
Leroy Burrell of USA sets 100m record (9.90) in NYC |
1991 |
Space Shuttle STS 40 (Columbia 12) lands |
1992 |
10th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Dave Stockton |
1992 |
46th NBA Championship: Chicago Bulls beat Port Trailblazers, 4 games to 2 |
1992 |
Anne-Marie Palli wins ShopRite LPGA Golf Classic |
1992 |
Mona Van Duyn is named 1st female US poet laureate |
1992 |
Ozzie Smith breaks Roy McMillan's NL mark by taking part in his 1,305th career double play |
1993 |
Japanese space probe Sakigake passes Earth |
1993 |
Tansu Ciller appointed 1st female premier of Turkey |
1994 |
Stanley Cup: NY Rangers beat Vancouver Canucks, 4 games to 3 |
1995 |
49th NBA Championship: Houston Rockets sweep Orlando Magic in 4 games |
1995 |
Giants infielder Mike Benjamin goes 6-for-7 in 13-inning 4-3 win |
1996 |
"Cable Guy" starring Jim Carrey is released |
1996 |
Karl Krikken out handled the ball for Derbyshire v Indians |
1998 |
"Comic Relief" benefit comedy show |
1998 |
World Bowl in Frankfurt Germany |
1998 |
52nd NBA Championship: Chicago Bulls beat Utah Jazz, 4 games to 2 |
2000 |
34th Country Weekly Presents the TNN Music Awards: George Strait & Faith Hill wins |
2000 |
Greg Maddux makes his 387th putout, breaking Jack Morris' career record |
2001 |
China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan form the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation. |
2005 |
Asafa Powell of Jamaica sets a new Men's 100 meters world record of 9.77 at the Athens Olympic Stadium |
2007 |
61st NBA Championship: San Antonio Spurs beat Cleveland Cavaliers, 4 games to 0 |
2009 |
63rd NBA Championship: Los Angeles Lakers beat Orlando Magic, 4 games to 1 |
2009 |
55th LPGA Championship won by Anna Nordqvist |
2012 |
An explosion at an Indian steel plant kills 11 people and severely injures 16 |
2012 |
The world's first stem-cell assisted vein transplant is undertaken by Swedish doctors on a 10 year old girl |
2013 |
Hassan Rouhani is elected President of Iran |
2013 |
Massive flooding occurs in northern India killing up to 10,000 people |
2014 |
49 people are killed after a Ukrainian Ilyushin Il-76 airlifter is shot down |
2014 |
Alexander Stubb becomes Prime Minister of Finland |
2018 |
US, South Korea, Japan vow to work on North Korean denuclearisation |
2018 |
Comcast offers to buy Fox media assets for $65 billion in cash |
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