June, 14th in History

[Spiritus Temporis]

Events

Tuesday 14, 2005:
Asafa Powell from Jamaica sets a new world record on the 100 m sprint in Athens with 9.77 seconds.

Monday 14, 2004:
The Workers Party of Bangladesh is split, as Khandaker Ali Abbas leaves to form a new party.

Friday 14, 2002:
Twelve are killed and 50 injured by a car bomb explosion in front of the U.S. consulate in Karachi, Pakistan.

Tuesday 14, 1994:
The New York Rangers win the Stanley Cup over the Vancouver Canucks 3-2 in Game 7, breaking a 54-year drought.

Monday 14, 1993:
A weeklong product tampering scare, later proven to be a hoax, occurs as customers throughout the USA discover syringes in unopened cans of Diet Pepsi Cola.

Friday 14, 1985:
TWA Flight 847 is hijacked by Hezbollah.

Monday 14, 1982:
Falklands War ends: Argentine forces in the capital Stanley unconditionally surrender to British forces.

Monday 14, 1976:
The Gong Show debuts on NBC.

Wednesday 14, 1967:
The People's Republic of China tests its first hydrogen bomb.

Tuesday 14, 1966:
The Vatican announces the abolition of the index librorum prohibitum (index of prohibited books), which was originally instituted in 1557.

Thursday 14, 1962:
Anna Slesersby becomes the first victim of Albert DeSalvo, better known as the Boston Strangler.

Sunday 14, 1959:
1959 - A group of left-leaning Dominican exiles in Cuba landed in the Dominican Republic with the intent of assassinating Trujillo. They would later be known as the J14 or "Catorce de Junio" (14th of June) group.

Tuesday 14, 1955:
Chile becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.

Monday 14, 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.

Saturday 14, 1952:
The keel is laid for the nuclear submarine USS Nautilus.

Thursday 14, 1951:
UNIVAC I is dedicated by U.S. Census Bureau.

Sunday 14, 1942:
Anne Frank begins to keep a diary.

Saturday 14, 1941:
Soviet mass deportations and murder of Estonians, Lithuanians and Latvians begun.

Friday 14, 1940:
A group of 728 Polish political prisoners from Tarnów become the first residents of the Auschwitz concentration camp.

Monday 14, 1937:
Pennsylvania becomes the first (and only) of the United States to celebrate Flag Day officially as a state holiday.

Saturday 14, 1919:
John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown depart St. John's, Newfoundland on the first nonstop transatlantic flight.

Wednesday 14, 1905:
Battleship Potemkin uprising: Sailors start a mutiny aboard the Battleship Potemkin, denouncing the crimes of autocracy, demanding liberty and an end to war. (See also Eisenstein's classic film on the subject, The Battleship Potemkin).

Thursday 14, 1900:
The Reichstag approves a second law that allows the expansion of the German navy.

Friday 14, 1872:
Trade unions are legalised in Canada.

Sunday 14, 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.

Sunday 14, 1846:
Anglo settlers in Sonoma, California, start a rebellion against Mexico and proclaim the California Republic.

Friday 14, 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."

Sunday 14, 1789:
Mutiny on the Bounty: HMAV Bounty mutiny survivors including Captain William Bligh and 18 others reach Timor after a nearly 4,000 mile journey in an open boat.

Saturday 14, 1777:
Stars and Stripes adopted by Congress as the Flag of the United States.

Wednesday 14, 1775:
American Revolutionary War: The United States Army is established by the Continental Congress.

Sunday 14, 1648:
Margaret Jones is hanged in Boston for witchcraft in the first such execution for the Massachusetts colony.

Wednesday 14, 1645:
English Civil War: Battle of Naseby – 12,000 Royalist forces are beaten by 15,000 Parliamentarian soldiers.

Thursday 14, 1381:
King Richard II of England meets the leaders of Peasants' Revolt.

Source: http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/14-june/on-this-day.html


People born on June 14

1982:
Lang Lang, Chinese pianist (b: June 14, 1982) (Biography of Lang Lang)

1980:
Chauncey Leopardi, American Actor (b: June 14, 1980) (Biography of Chauncey Leopardi)

1977:
Chris McAlister, American football player (b: June 14, 1977) (Biography of Chris McAlister)

1969:
Steffi Graf, German tennis player (b: June 14, 1969) (Biography of Steffi Graf)

1968:
Yasmine Bleeth, American actress (b: June 14, 1968) (Biography of Yasmine Bleeth)

1961:
Boy George, British singer (Culture Club) (b: June 14, 1961) (Biography of Boy George)
Sam Perkins, basketball player (b: June 14, 1961) (Biography of Sam Perkins)

1956:
Kim Bendix Petersen, (a.k.a. King Diamond) Heavy Metal singer (b: June 14, 1956) (Biography of Kim Bendix Petersen)

1954:
Will Patton, American actor (b: June 14, 1954) (Biography of Will Patton)

1952:
Pat Summitt, American basketball coach (b: June 14, 1952) (Biography of Pat Summitt)

1951:
Paul Boateng, British politician (b: June 14, 1951) (Biography of Paul Boateng)

1950:
Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury (b: June 14, 1950) (Biography of Rowan Williams)

1949:
Jimmy Lea, British musician (Slade) (b: June 14, 1949) (Biography of Jimmy Lea)
Harry Turtledove, American author (b: June 14, 1949) (Biography of Harry Turtledove)

1947:
Barry Melton, American guitarist (Country Joe and the Fish) (b: June 14, 1947) (Biography of Barry Melton)

1946:
Marla Gibbs, American actress (b: June 14, 1946) (Biography of Marla Gibbs)
Donald Trump, American businessman (b: June 14, 1946) (Biography of Donald Trump)

1945:
Rod Argent, English musician (The Zombies) (b: June 14, 1945) (Biography of Rod Argent)

1933:
Jerzy Kosinski, Polish author (b: June 14, 1933 ; d: May 3, 1991) (Biography of Jerzy Kosinski)

1929:
Cy Coleman, American composer (b: June 14, 1929) (Biography of Cy Coleman)

1926:
Hermann Kant, German author (b: June 14, 1926) (Biography of Hermann Kant)
Don Newcombe, baseball player (b: June 14, 1926) (Biography of Don Newcombe)

1925:
Pierre Salinger, John F. Kennedy's White House Press Secretary (b: June 14, 1925 ; d: October 16, 2004) (Biography of Pierre Salinger)

1922:
Kevin Roche, Irish architect (b: June 14, 1922) (Biography of Kevin Roche)

1921:
Gene Barry, American actor (b: June 14, 1921) (Biography of Gene Barry)

1919:
Dorothy McGuire, American actress (b: June 14, 1919 ; d: September 13, 2001) (Biography of Dorothy McGuire)
Sam Wanamaker, American actor (b: June 14, 1919 ; d: December 18, 1993) (Biography of Sam Wanamaker)

1910:
Rudolf Kempe, German conductor (b: June 14, 1910) (Biography of Rudolf Kempe)

1909:
Burl Ives, American musician (b: June 14, 1909 ; d: April 14, 1995) (Biography of Burl Ives)

1906:
Margaret Bourke-White, American photojournalist (b: June 14, 1906) (Biography of Margaret Bourke-White)

1903:
Alonzo Church, American mathematican and logician (b: June 14, 1903) (Biography of Alonzo Church)

1899:
Yasunari Kawabata, Japanese writer (b: June 14, 1899) (Biography of Yasunari Kawabata)

1894:
Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (b: June 14, 1894 ; d: January 24, 1924) (Biography of Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg)

1877:
Jane Bathori, French mezzo-soprano (b: June 14, 1877 ; d: January 25, 1970) (Biography of Jane Bathori)

1868:
Karl Landsteiner, Austrian biologist and physician (b: June 14, 1868) (Biography of Karl Landsteiner)

1864:
Alois Alzheimer, German physician (b: June 14, 1864) (Biography of Alois Alzheimer)

1856:
Andrey Markov, Russian mathematician (b: June 14, 1856 ; d: July 20, 1922) (Biography of Andrey Markov)

1855:
Robert La Follette, U.S. Senator (b: June 14, 1855) (Biography of Robert La Follette)

1832:
Nikolaus Otto, German engineer (b: June 14, 1832) (Biography of Nikolaus Otto)

1811:
Harriet Beecher Stowe, American author (b: June 14, 1811 ; d: July 1, 1896) (Biography of Harriet Beecher Stowe)

1801:
Heber C. Kimball, American religious leader (b: June 14, 1801 ; d: June 22, 1868) (Biography of Heber C. Kimball)

1736:
Charles Augustin de Coulomb, French mathematician (b: June 14, 1736 ; d: August 23, 1806) (Biography of Charles Augustin de Coulomb)

1671:
Tomaso Albinoni, Italian composer (b: June 14, 1671 ; d: January 17, 1751) (Biography of Tomaso Albinoni)

1529:
Archduke Ferdinand II of Austria, regent of Tyrol and Further Austria (b: June 14, 1529 ; d: January 24, 1595) (Biography of Ferdinand II of Austria)

1479:
Giglio Gregorio Giraldi, Italian poet (b: June 14, 1479) (Biography of Giglio Gregorio Giraldi)

Source: http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/14-june/births.html