June 14
June 14th is the 165th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (166th in leap yearss), with 200 days remaining.
Events:
- 1735 - United States Army established.
- 1777 - Stars and Stripes adopted by Congress as United States flag
- 1789 - Bounty mutineers reach Timor
- 1822 - Charles Babbage proposes a Difference Engine
- 1834 - Isaac Fischer, Jr. patents sandpaper
- 1841 - First Canadian Parliament
- 1846 - Foundation of the Caifornia Republic
- 1863 - Battle of Second Winchester in American Civil War
- 1881 - John McTammany, Jr. patents player piano
- 1900 - Republic of Hawaii becomes a U.S. territory
- 1923 - Warren G. Harding becomes first U.S. President to use the radio
- 1937 - Pennsylvania becomes the first (and only) of the United States to celebrate Flag Day officially as a national holiday)
- 1940 - Germans enter Paris during World War II
- 1940 - Auschwitz is opened by the Germans
- 1949 - State of Vietnam formed
- 1951 - UNIVAC dedicated by U.S. Census Bureau
- 1952 - Keel laid for the nuclear submarine Nautilus
- 1954 - First nationwide civil defense drill held in United States
- 1956 - Words "under God" added to the United States Pledge of Allegiance
- 1966 - Vatican announces abolishment of the Index of Prohibited Books
- 1982 - Falkland War ends
- 1985 - TWA Flight 847 hijacked by Hezbollah
Births:
- 1671 - Tomaso Albinoni (Italian composer)
- 1736 - Charles Augustin de Coulomb, mathematician, grandfather of soil mechanics
- 1811 - Harriet Beecher Stowe (author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
- 1820 - John Bartlett
- 1864 - Alois Alzheimer
- 1901 - Clarence Day, hockey player
- 1906 - Margaret Bourke-White, photojournalist
- 1909 - Burl Ives
- 1917 - Lash Larue, actor
- 1919 - Sam Wanamaker, actor
- 1925 - Pierre Salinger
- 1926 - Don Newcombe, baseball player
- 1928 - Che Guevara, revolutionary
- 1933 - Jerzy Kosinski, author
- 1946 - Donald Trump (business tycoon)
- 1946 - Marla Gibbs, actress
- 1949 - Harry Turtledove, science fiction author
- 1958 - Eric Heiden, Olympic speed skater
- 1961 - Boy George (singer for The Culture Club)
- 1968 - Yasmine Bleeth, actress
- 1969 - Stephanie Graf (tennis player)
Deaths:
- 1801 - Benedict Arnold
- 1864 - General Leonidas Pope
- 1898 - Lewis Carroll, author
- 1920 - Max Weber, sociologist
- 1927 - Jerome K. Jerome, author
- 1936 - Maxim Gorky, author
- 1936 - G.K. Chesterton, author
- 1946 - John Baird, Television pioneer
- 1986 - Jorge Luis Borges (Argentinian writer)
- 1994 - Henry Mancini, Composer
- 1995 - Roger Zelazny, science fiction author
Holidays
- Flag Day (United States), Mother's Day (Afghanistan)
See Also: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
June 13 - June 15 - May 14 - July 14 - more historical anniversaries