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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.
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.
1900 - The Reichstag approves a second law that allows the expansion of the German navy.
1937 - 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 - 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.
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" 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.
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.
1994 - The New York Rangers win the Stanley Cup over the Vancouver Canucks 3-2 in Game 7, breaking a 54-year drought.
1997 - The Los Angeles, USA radio station KROQ opens the fifth annual of the KROQ Weenie Roast with Blur, The Chemical Brothers, The Cure, Echo and the Bunnymen, Foo Fighters, The Mighty, Mighty Bosstones, Oasis, The Offspring, Radiohead, Reel Big Fish, Social Distortion, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Third Eye Blind, and The Wallflowers.
2002 - Twelve are killed and 50 injured by a car bomb explosion in front of the U.S. consulate in Karachi, Pakistan.
2003 - The Los Angeles, USA radio station KROQ opens the eleventh annual of the KROQ Weenie Roast with AFI, The Ataris, Blur, Chevelle, Deftones, Finch, Foo Fighters, Godsmack, Good Charlotte, Hot Hot Heat, Interpol, Jane's Addiction, Less Than Jake, Liam Lynch, Staind, Sum 41, Thrice, The Transplants, The Used, The White Stripes, and Pete Yorn.
Births
1529 - Archduke Ferdinand II of Austria, Regent of Tyrol and Further Austria
1671 - Tomaso Albinoni, Italian composer (d. 1751)
1736 - Charles Augustin de Coulomb, mathematician, grandfather of soil mechanics (d. 1806)
1811 - Harriet Beecher Stowe, author (d. 1896)
1832 - Nikolaus Otto, engineer (d. 1891)
1856 - Andrey Markov, mathematician (d. 1922)
1864 - Alois Alzheimer, physician (d. 1915)
1877 - Jane Bathori, opera singer (d. 1970)
1901 - Clarence Day, ice hockey player
1903 - Alonzo Church, mathematican and logician
1906 - Margaret Bourke-White, photojournalist (d. 1971)
1909 - Burl Ives, American musician (d. 1995)
1910 - Rudolf Kempe, German conductor (d. 1976)
1919 - Dorothy McGuire, actress (d. 2001)
1919 - Sam Wanamaker, actor (d. 1993)
1919 or 1921 - Gene Barry, actor
1922 - Kevin Roche, architect
1925 - Pierre Salinger, political operative
1926 - Hermann Kant, author
1926 - Don Newcombe, baseball player
1928 - Ernesto (Che) Guevara, revolutionary (d. 1967)
1929 - Cy Coleman, composer
1933 - Jerzy Kosinski, author (d. 1999)
1940 - Ben Davidson, American football player
1945 - Rod Argent, musician ("The Zombies")
1945 - Jörg Immendorf, painter
1946 - Marla Gibbs, actress
1946 - Donald Trump, business tycoon
1949 - Jimmy Lea, Slade, violinist/bassplayer/pianist
1949 - Harry Turtledove, science fiction author
1951 - Paul Boateng, British politician
1952 - Pat Summitt, Basketball Hall of Fame Women's Basketball Coach
1958 - Eric Heiden, Olympic speed skater
1961 - Boy George, singer ("Culture Club")
1968 - Yasmine Bleeth, actress
1969 - Steffi Graf, tennis player
1977 - Chris McAlister, American football player
1982 - Lang Lang, pianist
Deaths
1801 - Benedict Arnold, General (b. 1741)
1825 - Pierre Charles L'Enfant, architect
1864 - General Leonidas Pope
1883 - Edward FitzGerald, poet (b. 1809)
1920 - Max Weber, sociologist (b. 1864)
1926 - Mary Cassatt, artist (b. 1843)
1927 - Jerome K. Jerome, author (b. 1859)
1928 - Emmeline Pankhurst, feminist (b. 1857)
1932 - Dorimčne Roy Desjardins, business pioneer
1936 - Maxim Gorky, author (b. 1868)
1936 - G. K. Chesterton, author (b. 1874)
1946 - John Logie Baird, television pioneer (b. 1888)
1947 - Barry Melton, guitarist, Country Joe and the Fish (b. 1947)
1967 - Eddie Eagan, American sportsman (b. 1897)
1972 - Martin Dies, American politician
1986 - Jorge Luis Borges, writer (b. 1899)
1986 - Alan Jay Lerner, composer (b. 1918)
1991 - Dame Peggy Ashcroft, actress (b. 1907)
1994 - Henry Mancini, composer (b. 1924)
1995 - Roger Zelazny, science fiction author (b. 1937)
1995 - Rory Gallagher, musician, composer (b. 1949)
1997 - Richard Jaeckel, actor (b. 1926)
2002 - June Jordan, American writer and teacher (b. 1936)
2004 - Ulrich Inderbinen, mountain guide (b. 1900)
Holidays and observances
Flag Day (United States)
Mother's Day (Afghanistan)
Roman Empire - eighth day of the Vestalia in honor of Vesta
Roman Catholic Church - Feast of Saint Basil the Great, doctor and patron of hospital administrators
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