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What happened in history on this day: June 14?
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- 1623 - First breach-of-promise lawsuit: Rev Gerville Pooley, Va files against.
- 1645 - At Naseby in Northamptonshire, King Charles' army is decisively beaten. The King escapes, leaving five years of confidential correspondence, all baggage and artillery, his infantry killed or captured.
- 1649 - Jesuits set fire to Sainte-Marie in North America, abandoning the settlement created in 1639, due to Iroquois on the warpath against them.
- 1736 - Birth of Charles-Augustin de Coulomb physicist (formulated Coulomb's Law).
- 1775 - The Continental Congress adopts the New England army as the Continental Army, and votes to raise ten companies of riflemen.
- 1777 - The American Continental Congress adopts a resolution stating that "the flag of the United States be thirteen alternate stripes red and white" and that "the Union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new Constellation."
- 1801 - Death of Benedict Arnold in London, England; US Revolutionary War general.
- 1811 - Birth of Harriet Beecher Stowe; author (Uncle Tom's Cabin).
- 1820 - Birth of John Bartlett; US editor (compiled Familiar Quotations).
- 1828 - Charles, Duke of Prussia, dies at age 70.
- 1834 - Hardhat diving suit patented by Leonard Norcross, of Dixfield, Maine, USA.
- 1834 - Sandpaper patented by Isaac Fischer Junior, in Springfield, Vermont, USA.
- 1841 - First Canadian (Province of Canada) parliament opens in Kingston, Ontario.
- 1846 - California (Bear Flag) Republic proclaimed in Sonoma.
- 1850 - Fire destroys part of San Francisco.
- 1855 - Birth of Robert Marion in La Follette, Wisconsin, USA; presidential candidate (Progressive).
- 1856 - Birth of Andrey Markov in Russia; mathematician (Markov Chain).
- 1864 - Birth of Alois Alzheimer in Germany; psychiatrist/pathologist (Alzheimer's Disease).
- 1864 - Battle of Pine Mount, General Leonidas Polk is killed in action.
- 1868 - Birth of Karl Landsteiner; immunologist/pathologist (Nobel Prize 1930).
- 1870 - All-pro Cincinnati Red Stockings suffer first loss in 130 games.
- 1874 - Birth of Edward Bowes; radio host (Major Bowes Amateur Hour).
- 1876 - Philadelphia Athletics' George Hall becomes first major league baseball player to hit for the cycle.
- 1877 - In the USA, the first Flag Day observance is held on the 100th anniversary of the adoption of the Stars and Stripes.
- 1881 - Player piano is patented in USA by John McTammany, Junior, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
- 1906 - Birth of Carl Esmond in Wien, Austria; actor (Smash-Up).
- 1906 - Birth of Gil Lamb in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; actor (Hit Parade of 1947, Riding High).
- 1906 - J H Metcalf discovers asteroid #600 Musa.
- 1908 - Birth of John Scott Trotter in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA; orchestra leader, musical director (Kraft Music Hall radio show, George Gobel Show TV show, Charlie Brown cartoon specials).
- 1909 - Birth of Burl Ives in Hunt, Illinois, USA; folk singer and actor (Wayfaring Stranger radio show, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, "The Blue Tail Fly", "A Holly Jolly Christmas", "A Little Bitty Tear", "Funny Way of Laughin'", "Call Me Mr. In-Between", Alias Smith and Jones TV show).
- 1910 - Birth of Rudolf Kempe in Niederpoyritz, Germany; conductor (Tonhalle Orchestra 1965-72).
- 1916 - Birth of Dorothy McGuire in Omaha, Nebraska, USA; actress (Rich Man, Poor Man, Old Yeller, Summer Magic, Little Women, The Young and The Restless, St. Elsewhere, Highway to Heaven, The Love Boat).
- 1917 - Birth of Lash La Rue in Gretna, Louisiana, USA; cowboy actor (Lash of the West, Wyatt Earp).
- 1917 - US General John Pershing and his headquarters staff arrive in Paris, France.
- 1919 - John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown in Vickers-Vimy biplane depart Saint John's, Newfoundland, commencing attempt at non-stop transatlantic flight.
- 1919 - Birth of Sam Wanamaker in Chicago, Illinois, USA; actor (Holocaust, Competition, Raw Deal).
- 1921 - Birth of Gene Barry in New York City, New York, USA; actor (Bat Masterson, Name of the Game, Burke's Law).
- 1922 - US President Warren Harding is first US president to use radio, dedicating the Francis Scott Key memorial in Baltimore, Maryland.
- 1923 - Ralph Peer of Okeh Records records Fiddlin' John Carson doing "The Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane", the beginning of the country music recording industry.
- 1925 - Birth of Pierre Salinger; newsman (ABC)/press secretary (President John Kennedy).
- 1928 - Birth of Ernesto (Che) Guevara; Latin American revolutionary.
- 1928 - Republican National Convention in Kansas City nominates Herbert Hoover for US President.
- 1929 - Birth of Cy Coleman [Seymour Kaufman]; songwriter ("Witchcraft", "Sweet Charity").
- 1931 - Birth of Marla Gibbs in Chicago, Illinois, USA; actress (Florence - The Jeffersons, Mary - 227).
- 1931 - The overloaded pleasure craft Saint-Philibert, carrying passengers home to Nantes from Île de Noirmoutier, overturns and sinks at the mouth of the river Loire in France; over 450 drown.
- 1933 - Birth of Jerzy Kosinski; novelist (Painted Bird, Being There).
- 1934 - Max Baer knocks out Primo Carnera in 11 rounds for heavyweight boxing championship in Long Island City.
- 1935 - Chaco War between Bolivia and Paraguay ends.
- 1936 - C Jackson discovers asteroid #1490 Limpopo.
- 1938 - Chlorophyll patented by Benjamin Grushkin.
- 1938 - Dorothy Lathrop wins the first Caldecott Medal (kid books author).
- 1939 - NBC debuts The Ethel Waters Show on television.
- 1940 - Birth of Ben Davidson in Los Angeles, California, USA; actor (Rhino - Ball Four, Code R).
- 1940 - Birth of Jack Bannon in Los Angeles, California, USA; actor (Art - Lou Grant, Trauma Center).
- 1940 - German forces occupy Paris, France.
- 1940 - Soviet Premier Josef Stalin sends an ultimatum to Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, making territorial demands.
- 1941 - Ground broken for Boeing Plant II (ex-AFLC Plant 13) Wichita, Kansas.
- 1942 - First bazooka rocket gun produced, in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
- 1943 - Birth of Muff Mervyn Winwood; singer (Spencer Davis Group - "Gimme Some Lovin").
- 1946 - Birth of Donald John Trump in Queens, New York, USA, to Fred C. Trump and Mary MacLeod; master builder (Trump Towers/Plaza/Castle), TV personality (The Apprentice).
- 1946 - Birth of Ralph McAllister Ingersol II in New York City, New York, USA; newspaper publisher.
- 1946 - Canadian Library Association established.
- 1949 - Birth of Bob Frankston; computer programmer (VisiCalc).
- 1949 - Birth of Rochelle Firestone in Kansas City, Missouri, USA; actress (Hellhole).
- 1949 - Birth of Alan White; drummer (Yes - Roundabout).
- 1949 - State of Vietnam formed.
- 1951 - First commercial computer, Reminton Rand UNIVAC 1, enters service at US Census Bureau in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- 1952 - Birth of Eddie Mekka in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA; actor (Carmine - Laverne and Shirley).
- 1952 - Keel laid for first nuclear powered submarine the USS Nautilus.
- 1953 - New York Yankees sweep Cleveland Indians 6-2, 3-0 before 74,708; win streak at 18 straight.
- 1954 - Birth of Will Patton in Charleston, South Carolina, USA; actor (No Way Out, Ballzaire the Cajun, The Agency, Into the West, Numb3rs).
- 1954 - US President Dwight Eisenhower signs order adding words "under God" to the Pledge.
- 1958 - Birth of Eric Heiden in Wisconsin, USA; .5/1/1.5/5/10K speed skater (Olympic-5 golds-1980).
- 1959 - The Disneyland-Alweg Monorail System begins operation in Tomorrowland at Disneyland in California. It represents the first urban monorail system in the USA.
- 1959 - The Matterhorn Mountain with its Matterhorn Bobsleds ride opens in Fantasyland at Disneyland in California. It is the first thrill ride at Disneyland, and the first ride to use cylindrical rails and urethane wheels. The mountain is 147 feet high, 1/100th the height of the real Matterhorn mountain, and uses 2175 steel girders. Final cost of the attraction is US$1.5 million.
- 1961 - 106 degrees F, hottest temperature in San Francisco, California.
- 1961 - Birth of Boy George O'Dowd; androgynous rock musician and druggie (Culture Club).
- 1962 - Anna Sleasers is first Boston Strangler victim.
- 1963 - Valery Bykovsky in Vostok 5 orbits Earth 81 times in five days.
- 1965 - The Beatles release the album "Beatles VI".
- 1965 - Cincinnati Reds' pitcher Jim Maloney no-hits New York Mets but loses in 11, 1-0.
- 1965 - H.V. Kaltenborn, newscaster (Who Said That?), dies at age 86.
- 1966 - Pope Paul VI abolishes the Catholic Church's list of forbidden books.
- 1967 - Launch of Mariner V for Venus fly-by.
- 1967 - USSR launches Kosmos 166 for observation of Sun from Earth orbit.
- 1967 - CBS debuts The Steve Allen Comedy Hour.
- 1968 - Birth of Yasmine Bleeth; actress (Baywatch, Titans, Nash Bridges).
- 1969 - Birth of Steffi Graf in Brühl, Federal Republic of Germany; tennis player (Grand Slam 1988).
- 1970 - Cincinnati Red Stockings loses first game after winning 130 straight.
- 1970 - Blood, Sweat and Tears becomes the first Western rock band to play Soviet-bloc countries, opening a tour of Yugoslavia, Romania and Poland.
- 1971 - Birth of Traylor Howard; actress; (Monk, Two Guys A Girl and a Pizza Place).
- 1975 - USSR launches Venera 10 for Venus landing.
- 1976 - The Gong Show TV show premieres on syndicated TV.
- 1976 - 12th Mayor's Trophy Game: New York Yankees beat New York Mets 8-4.
- 1977 - Death of Alan Reed at age 69; actor (Mr Adams and Eve), voice actor (Falstaff Openshaw - Fred Allen's Alley radio show, Fred Flinstone - The Flintstones TV show).
- 1977 - Death of Alan Mills at age 63 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada; folksinger ("I Know An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly"), host (CBC Radio's Folk Songs For Young Folks).
- 1977 - Death of Robert Middleton AKA Samuel Messer at age 66 of congestive heart failure; actor (Barney - The Monroes TV show, The Honeymooners, Burke's Law, Rawhide, Tales of Wells Fargo, The Untouchables, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Gunsmoke).
- 1978 - Down 9-7 in 10th with two outs, New York Yankees Paul Blair hits a three-run home run.
- 1979 - Rock group "Little Feat" disbands.
- 1980 - E Bowell discovers asteroid #2937 Gibbs, #2938 Hopi and #3160 Angerhofer.
- 1982 - Death of Marjorie Bennett at age 87 of cancer; actress (Blossom - Dobie Gillis TV show, Birdie Brockway - Lassie).
- 1982 - Argentina surrenders to Britain on Falkland Islands, ends 74-day conflict. Nearly 1000 people were killed.
- 1983 - Fire kills five at a Ramada Inn in Fort Worth, Texas.
- 1984 - Birth of Siobhán Donaghy, British singer and songwriter (Sugababes).
- 1985 - TWA Flight 847, carrying 153 passengers from Athens, Greece to Rome, Italy, is hijacked by a Hezbollah fringe group. One passenger, U.S. Navy Petty Officer Robert Stethem, is killed.
- 1986 - Death of Alan Jay Lerner at age 67 of lung cancer in New York, USA; lyricist and composer (Camelot, Brigadoon, My Fair Lady).
- 1986 - Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine author, dies in Geneva, Switzerland at age 86 (born 1899).
- 1986 - Death of Marlin Perkins at age 81 of cancer near Saint Louis, Missouri, USA; zoologist, TV host (Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom TV show, Zoo Parade TV show).
- 1987 - Los Angeles Lakers win NBA title with a 106-93, victory over the Boston Celtics.
- 1987 - NBC-TV airs action-adventure series The A Team for the last time.
- 1989 - Ground-breaking begins in Minnesota on the world's largest mall.
- 1989 - Nolan Ryan becomes second pitcher to defeat all 26 teams.
- 1989 - Detroit Pistons sweep Los Angeles Lakers for NBA title, Kareem Abdul Jabber's final NBA game.
- 1989 - Rocker Carole King gets a star in Hollywood's Walk of Fame.
- 1990 - In the Kazakh-Xinjiang border region, a magnitude 6.8 earthquake occurs. One person killed, 3,000 houses destroyed and 20,000 people left homeless.
- 1990 - In Panay, Philippine Islands, a magnitude 6.8 earthquake occurs. At least four people killed, 15 injured.
- 1990 - Detroit Pistons beat Portland Trail Blazers, four games to one for NBA championship.
- 1991 - Leroy Burrell of USA sets the 100m record (9.90) in New York City.
- 1991 - Space Shuttle STS 40 (Columbia 12) lands.
- 1991 - Birth of Daryl Sabara; actor (Father of the Pride, Miss/Guided).
- 1992 - The Chicago Bulls win their second NBA championship by defeating the Portland Trail Blazers in the best-of-seven series four games to two.
- 1993 - Mulitpartyists win a referendum on the future of the one-party system in Malawi.
- 1993 - Tansu Çiller becomes prime minister of Turkey.
- 1994 - Death of Henry Mancini at age 70 of liver and pancreatic cancer in Beverly Hills, California, USA; pianist, composer, orchestra leader (Glenn Miller-Tex Beneke orchestra, worked on over 100 films, "Moon River", "Days of Wine and Roses", Peter Gunn TV show theme, Pink Panther movie theme, over 90 albums, "Love Theme From Romeo and Juliet" album (1969)).
- 1994 - Hacker Kevin Poulsen pleads guilty to seven counts of mail fraud, wire and computer fraud, money laundering, and obstruction of justice.
- 1994 - The New York Rangers defeat the Vancouver Canucks at Madison Square Garden in New York in Game 7 of the 1994 Stanley Cup Finals to win their first Stanley Cup Championship in 54 years.
- 1995 - Death of Rory Gallagher at age 46 of complications following a liver transplant in London, England; Irish blues guitarist (albums "Live in Europe" and "Blueprint").
- 1996 - Cal Ripken sets a new consecutive games world record by playing in his 2,216th consecutive baseball game.
- 1997 - ABC airs the final episode of TV show Lois and Clark.
- 1997 - Death of Richard Jaeckel at age 70 of melanoma cancer; actor (Baywatch TV show, Spenser For Hire TV show, Supercarrier, Salvage 1, Firehouse, Banyon TV show).
- 1998 - The Chicago Bulls win their 6th NBA title in 8 years when they beat the Utah Jazz, 87-86 in Game Six. This is also Michael Jordan's last game as a Chicago Bulls player.
- 2000 - Italian President Carolo Ciampi pardons Mehmet Ali Agca for the attempted assassination on Pope John Paul II 19 years ago.
- 2002 - In Karachi, Pakistan, a car bomb in front of the U.S. Consulate kills 12 Pakistanis and injures 50.
- 2005 - Ichiro Suzuki of the Seattle Mariners becomes the third fastest major league player to reach the 1000-hit mark, in his 696th game. Suzuki also holds the record in Japan for being quickest player to attain a 1,000 hits, in his first 757 games.
- 2006 - Princess Cruises holds a ship naming ceremony in New York, hosted by Martha Stewart, for the cruise ship Crown Princess (113,000 gross tons, 3080 passengers).
- 2007 - The San Antonio Spurs sweep the Cleveland Cavaliers to win the 2007 NBA Finals.
- 2007 - The Green Party enters government for the first time in Ireland, with Fianna Fáil and the Progressive Democrats.
- 2008 - At RM's Joe's Garage sale in Tustin, California, a 1960 Meskowski Bowes Seal Fast Special race car sells for US$462,000. Also, a 1923 Miller 122 Supercharged race car sells for US$2,035,000.
- 2008 - The space shuttle Discovery returns to Earth after a 14-day mission, landing at Cape Canaveral, Florida. Among the returning is Garrett Reisman, after 95 days in space.
- 2008 - In Iwate, northern Japan, a 7.2 magnitude earthquake occurs, killing nine, injuring over 200, and causing landslides.
- 2008 - Expo 2008 is held in Zaragoza, Spain, with the topic of "Water and sustainable development".
- 2009 - In Catalunya, Spain, round 6 of the FIM MotoGP Championship is won by Valentino Rossi.
- 2009 - The Los Angeles Lakers defeat the Orlando Magic 99-86 to win their 15th NBA championship in five games. Lakers coach Phil Jackson wins his record 10th title.
- 2009 - Three-time heavyweight boxing champion Lennox Lewis is inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame. Lewis retired in 2003 with a record of 41-2-1, including 32 knockouts.
- 2009 - In Greece, round 7 of the FIA World Rally Championship is won by Mikko Hirvonen.
- 2009 - Anna Nordqvist finishes at 15-under-par 273 to win the LPGA Championship in Havre de Grace, Maryland, USA.
- 2009 - Death of Bob Bogle at age 75 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; co-founder and original lead guitarist of the early rock band The Ventures.
- 2013 - Iran election of president: Hassan Rohani 50 percent, Muhammad Baqer Qalibaf 17 percent, Saeed Jalili 11 percent.
- 2017 - A fire at Grenfell Tower in London, England kills 71 people.
- 2018 - (to July 15) The 2018 FIFA World Cup is held in Russia and is won by France.
- 2020 - The US Supreme Court rules 6-3 on Bostock v. Clayton County that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits firing workers on the basis of their sexual orientation or gender identity.
- 2021 - Death of Enrique Bolaños, 29th President of Nicaragua (born 1928).
- 2022 - New York's highest court rules an elephant is not legally considered a person.
- 2022 - Death of AB Yehoshua at age 85; Israeli writer, activist (Peace Now).
- 2023 - Death of John Hollins at age 76; soccer player and manager (Chelsea team).
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