On This Date, June 14th

June 14th is the 165th day of the year (166th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 200 days remaining until the end of the year.


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767 – Abu Hanifa dies, Iraqi scholar and educator (b. 699)

1158 – Munich is founded by Henry the Lion on the banks of the river Isar.

1287 – Kublai Khan defeats 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.

1444 – Nilakantha Somayaji born, Indian astronomer and mathematician (d. 1544)

1690 – King William III of England (William of Orange) lands in Ireland to confront the former King James II.

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: HMS 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.

1801 – Benedict Arnold dies, American general during the American Revolution later turned British spy (b. 1741)

1811 – Harriet Beecher Stowe born, American author and activist (d. 1896)

1846 – Bear Flag Revolt begins: Anglo settlers in Sonoma, California, start a rebellion against Mexico and proclaim the California Republic.

1872 – Trade unions are legalized 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 grants women the right to vote.

1909 – Burl Ives born, American actor and singer (d. 1995)

1920 – Max Weber dies, German sociologist and economist (b. 1864)

1926 – Brazil leaves the League of Nations

1937 – U.S. House of Representatives passes the Marihuana Tax Act.

1940 – Seven hundred twenty-eight Polish political prisoners from Tarnów become the first inmates of the Auschwitz concentration camp.

1941 – June deportation: the first major wave of Soviet mass deportations and murder of Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians, begins.

1946 – Donald Trump born, American businessman, television personality and 45th President of the United States

1949 – Albert II, a rhesus monkey, rides a V-2 rocket to an altitude of 134 km (83 mi), thereby becoming the first monkey in space.

1951 – UNIVAC I is dedicated by the U.S. Census Bureau.

1954 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law that places the words “under God” into the United States Pledge of Allegiance.

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 Trujillo. All but four are killed or executed.

1962 – The European Space Research Organisation is established in Paris – later becoming the European Space Agency.

1966 – The Vatican announces the abolition of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum (“index of prohibited books”), which was originally instituted in 1557.

1967 – China tests its first hydrogen bomb.

1969 – MC Ren born, American rapper and producer

1994 – Henry Mancini dies, American composer and conductor (b. 1924)

2002 – Near-Earth asteroid 2002 MN misses the Earth by 75,000 miles (121,000 km), about one-third of the distance between the Earth and the Moon.

Source:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_14


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