June
14
World
Blood Donor Day
Every year, on 14 June, countries around the world celebrate
World Blood Donor Day (WBDD). The event, established in 2004,
serves to raise awareness of the need for safe blood and blood
products and to thank blood donors for their voluntary life-saving
gifts of blood.
World Blood
Donor Day is one of eight official global public health campaigns
marked by the World Health Organization (WHO), along with World
Health Day, World Tuberculosis Day, World Immunization Week,
World Malaria Day, World No Tobacco Day, World Hepatitis Day,
and World AIDS Day.
Events
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.
1285 – Forces led by Prince Tran Quang Khai of Vietnam's Tran
Dynasty destroys most of the invading Mongol naval fleet in
a battle at Chuong Duong.
1287 – Kublai Khan defeated the force of Nayan and other traditionalist
Borjigin princes in East Mongolia and Manchuria.
1381 – Richard II of England meets leaders of Peasants' Revolt
on Blackheath. The Tower of London is stormed by rebels who
enter without resistance.
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 Continental Army is established
by the Continental Congress, marking the birth of the United
States Army.
1777 – The Stars and Stripes is adopted by Congress as the Flag
of the United States.
1789 – Mutiny on the Bounty: Bounty mutiny survivors including
Captain William Bligh and 18 others reach Timor after a nearly
7,400 km (4,600 mi) journey in an open boat.
1789 – Whiskey distilled from maize is first produced by American
clergyman the Rev Elijah Craig. It is named Bourbon because
Rev Craig lived in Bourbon County, Kentucky.
1800 – The French Army of First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte 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 Isma'il 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".
1830 – Beginning of the French colonization of Algeria: 34,000
French soldiers begin their invasion of Algiers, landing 27
kilometers west at Sidi Fredj.
1839 – Henley Royal Regatta: the village of Henley-on-Thames,
on the River Thames in Oxfordshire, stages its first Regatta.
1846 – Bear Flag Revolt begins – Anglo settlers in Sonoma, California,
start a rebellion against Mexico and proclaim the California
Republic.
1863 – 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.
1863 – Second Assault on the Confederate works at the Siege
of Port Hudson during the American Civil War.
1872 – Trade unions are legalised in Canada.
1900 – Hawaii becomes a United States territory.
1900 – The Reichstag approves a second law that allows the expansion
of the German navy.
1907 – Norway adopts female suffrage.
1919 – John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown depart St. John's,
Newfoundland on the first nonstop transatlantic flight.
1926 – Brazil leaves the League of Nations
1937 – Pennsylvania becomes the first (and only) state of the
United States to celebrate Flag Day officially as a state holiday.
1937 – U.S. House of Representatives passes the Marihuana Tax
Act.
1940 – World War II: Paris falls under German occupation, and
Allied forces retreat.
1940 – The Soviet Union presents an ultimatum to Lithuania resulting
in Lithuanian loss of independence.
1940 – A group of 728 Polish political prisoners from Tarnów
become the first residents of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
1941 – June deportation, the first major wave of Soviet mass
deportations and murder of Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians,
begins.
1944 – World War II: After several failed attempts, the British
Army abandons Operation Perch, its plan to capture the German-occupied
town of Caen.
1945 – World War II: U.S and Filipino forces at the Battle of
Bessang Pass in Ilocos Sur province in Northern Luzon.
1945 – World War II: Filipino troops of the 15th, 66th and 121st
Infantry Regiment, Philippine Commonwealth Army, USAFIP-NL was
completed and they liberating the captured in Ilocos Sur start
the Battle of Bessang Pass in Northern Luzon.
1947 – Roswell UFO incident A supposed UFO crash lands in Roswell,
New Mexico
1951 – UNIVAC I is dedicated by the U.S. Census Bureau.
1952 – 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" into the U.S.
Pledge of Allegiance.
1955 – Chile becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright
treaty.
1959 – Disneyland Monorail System, the first daily operating
monorail system in the Western Hemisphere, opens to the public
in Anaheim, California.
1959 – A group of Dominican exiles depart from Cuba and land
in the Dominican Republic with the intent of overthrowing the
totalitarian government of Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina.
Save for four of them, all are killed and/or executed.
1962 – The European Space Research Organisation is established
in Paris – later becoming the European Space Agency.
1965 – Nguyen Cao Ky became Prime Minister of South Vietnam
at the head of a military junta; General Nguyen Van Thieu became
the figurehead chief of state.
1966 – The Vatican announces the abolition of the Index Librorum
Prohibitorum (index of prohibited books), which was originally
instituted in 1557.
1967 – Mariner program: Mariner 5 is launched toward Venus.
1982 – The Falklands War ends: Argentine forces in the capital
Stanley unconditionally surrender to British forces.
1985 – TWA Flight 847 is hijacked by Hezbollah shortly after
take-off from Athens, Greece.
1994 – The 1994 Stanley Cup riot occurs after the New York Rangers
win the Stanley Cup from Vancouver, causing an estimated C$1.1
million, thus forcing 200 arrests and injuries. One person is
also left with permanent brain damage.
Holidays
and observances
Christian
Feast Day:
Elisha
Methodios I of Constantinople
June 14 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Flag Day (United States)
Freedom Day (Malawi)
Liberation Day (Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South
Sandwich Islands)
Mourning and Commemoration Day or Leinapäev (Estonia)
Mourning and Hope Day in Lithuania.
Women's Day (Iraq)
World Blood Donor Day (International observance)
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