UN
Day
World
Blood Donor Day
Events
of the day
1276 β 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 β 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 β Kublai Khan defeated the force
of Nayan and other traditionalist Borjigin
princes in East Mongolia and Manchuria.
1381 β Richard II of England meets leaders
of Peasants' Revolt on Blackheath. The
Tower of London is stormed by rebels who
enter without resistance.
1645 β English Civil War: Battle of Naseby
β 12,000 Royalist forces are beaten by
15,000 Parliamentarian soldiers.
1648 β Margaret Jones is hanged in Boston
for witchcraft in the first such execution
for the Massachusetts colony.
1775 β American Revolutionary War: the
Continental Army is established by the
Continental Congress, marking the birth
of the United States Army.
1777 β The Stars and Stripes is adopted
by Congress as the Flag of the United
States.
1789 β 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 β 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 β The French Army of First Consul
Napoleon Bonaparte defeats the Austrians
at the Battle of Marengo in Northern Italy
and re-conquers Italy.
1807 β 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 β 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 β 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 β Beginning of the French colonization
of Algeria: 34,000 French soldiers begin
their invasion of Algiers, landing 27
kilometers west at Sidi Fredj.
1839 β Henley Royal Regatta: the village
of Henley-on-Thames, on the River Thames
in Oxfordshire, stages its first Regatta.
1846 β Bear Flag Revolt begins β Anglo
settlers in Sonoma, California, start
a rebellion against Mexico and proclaim
the California Republic.
1863 β American Civil War: Battle of Second
Winchester β a Union garrison is defeated
by the Army of Northern Virginia in the
Shenandoah Valley town of Winchester,
Virginia.
1863 β Second Assault on the Confederate
works at the Siege of Port Hudson during
the American Civil War.
1872 β Trade unions are legalised in Canada.
1900 β Hawaii becomes a United States
territory.
1900 β The Reichstag approves a second
law that allows the expansion of the German
navy.
1907 β Norway adopts female suffrage.
1919 β John Alcock and Arthur Whitten
Brown depart St. John's, Newfoundland
on the first nonstop transatlantic flight.
1926 β Brazil leaves the League of Nations
1937 β Pennsylvania becomes the first
(and only) state of the United States
to celebrate Flag Day officially as a
state holiday.
1937 β U.S. House of Representatives passes
the Marihuana Tax Act.
1940 β World War II: Paris falls under
German occupation, and Allied forces retreat.
1940 β The Soviet Union presents an ultimatum
to Lithuania resulting in Lithuanian loss
of independence.
1940 β A group of 728 Polish political
prisoners from TarnΓ³w become the first
residents of the Auschwitz concentration
camp.
1941 β June deportation, the first major
wave of Soviet mass deportations and murder
of Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians,
begins.
1944 β World War II: After several failed
attempts, the British Army abandons Operation
Perch, its plan to capture the German-occupied
town of Caen.
1945 β World War II: U.S and Filipino
forces at the Battle of Bessang Pass in
Ilocos Sur province in Northern Luzon.
1945 β 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 β Roswell UFO incident A supposed
UFO crash lands in Roswell, New Mexico
1951 β UNIVAC I is dedicated by the U.S.
Census Bureau.
1952 β The keel is laid for the nuclear
submarine USS Nautilus.
1954 β 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 β Chile becomes a signatory to the
Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1959 β Disneyland Monorail System, the
first daily operating monorail system
in the Western Hemisphere, opens to the
public in Anaheim, California.
1959 β A group of Dominican exiles depart
from Cuba and land in the Dominican Republic
with the intent of overthrowing the totalitarian
government of Rafael LeΓ³nidas Trujillo
Molina. Save for four of them, all are
killed and/or executed.
1962 β The European Space Research Organisation
is established in Paris β later becoming
the European Space Agency.
1965 β 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 β The Vatican announces the abolition
of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum (index
of prohibited books), which was originally
instituted in 1557.
1967 β Mariner program: Mariner 5 is launched
toward Venus.
1982 β The Falklands War ends: Argentine
forces in the capital Stanley unconditionally
surrender to British forces.
1985 β TWA Flight 847 is hijacked by Hezbollah
shortly after take-off from Athens, Greece.
1994 β 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 LeinapΓ€ev
(Estonia)
Mourning and Hope Day in Lithuania.
Women's Day (Iraq)
World Blood Donor Day (International observance)
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