June 14

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

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] - Mutiny on the Bounty: HMAV Bounty mutiny survivors including Captain William Bligh and 18 others reach Timor after a nearly 4,000 mile journey in an open boat.[1] - 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."[1] - Bear Flag Revolt begins - American settlers in Sonoma, California start a rebellion against Mexico and proclaim the California Republic. [1] - 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.[1] - Hawaii becomes a United States territory.[1]

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.[1] - 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 %. [1]

1940 - Holocaust: A group of 728 Polish political prisoners from Tarnów 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.[1] - 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.[1]

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: Argentine forces in the capital Port Stanley unconditionally surrender to British forces.

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. [1]; 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 [1], 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.