June 14

June 14 in recent years
2024 (Friday)
2023 (Wednesday)
2022 (Tuesday)
2021 (Monday)
2020 (Sunday)
2019 (Friday)
2018 (Thursday)
2017 (Wednesday)
2016 (Tuesday)
2015 (Sunday)

June 14 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.

Events

Up to 1900

1057 – Pope Stephen IX is elected.
1158 – Munich is founded by Henry the Lion on the banks of the river Isar.
1177 – The Cham people conquer the Khmer city of Angkor in present-day Cambodia, where the Angkor Wat temple is located. They came over the Tonle Sap lake on their way there.
1216 – First Barons' War: Prince Louis of France captures the city of Winchester and then conquers over half of the Kingdom of England.
1276 – 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 Emperor Duanzong of Song.
1285 – Forces led by Prince Tran Quang Khai of Vietnam's Tran Dynasty destroys most of the invading Mongol naval fleet in the Battle of Chuong Duong.
1381 – Richard II of England meets with leaders of the Peasants' Revolt.
1645 – English Civil War: The Battle of Naseby results in 12,000 royalists being defeated by 15,000 parliamentarian soldiers.
1648 – Margaret Jones is hanged in Boston, Massachusetts, being the first execution for witchcraft in the Massachusetts colony.
1775 – The Continental Army is founded by the Continental Congress. This is regarded as the founding of the United States Army.
1777 – The Stars and Stripes is chosen as the national flag of the United States.
1789 – After the Mutiny on the Bounty, William Bligh and 18 other survivors reach the island of Timor, after a 7,400–kilometre open-boat journey.
1797 – The Ligurian Republic is declared in Genoa.
1800 – Napoleonic Wars: The French re-conquer Italy after defeating the Austrians at the Battle of Marengo.
1807 – Napoleon Bonaparte's French Grande Armee defeats the Russian Army at the Battle of Friedland in what was then part of Poland, ending the War of the Fourth Coalition
1811 – Harriet Beecher Stowe, writer of Uncle Tom's Cabin, is born.
1822 – Charles Babbage proposes a difference engine to the Royal Astronomical Society, which he describes as 'note on application of machinery to the computation of astronomical and mathematical tables'.
1830 – The French invasion of Algiers begins.
1839 – The first Henley-on-Thames Royal Regatta takes place in Oxfordshire.
1846 – Not knowing of the Mexican-American War, 22 American settlers found the Republic of California, which is annexed by the United States soon after.
1863 – American Civil War: Second Battle of Winchester.
1872 – Trade Unions are legalised in Canada.
1891 – A bridge collapse near Munchenstein in Switzerland, causes a train to derail, killing 78 people.
1900 – Hawaii is annexed by the United States.
1900 – The Reichstag approves a second law that allows the expansion of the German navy.

1901 – 2000

1907 – Norway gives women the right to vote.
1913 – Football: The club Racing Santander is founded in Santander, Cantabria, Spain.
1914 – The five-ring flag of the Olympics is first raised.
1919 – John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown depart from St. John's, Newfoundland on the first non-stop trans–Atlantic flight.
1926 – Brazil leaves the League of Nations.
1937 – Itatiaia National Park becomes the first National Park in Brazil.
1937 – Pennsylvania starts to celebrate Flag Day as a public holiday.
1940 – World War II: Paris falls under German occupation.
1940 – Holocaust: The Auschwitz Concentration Camp is opened.
1940 – The Soviet Union issues an ultimatum to Lithuania, ending its independence.
1941 – June deportation: The first major wave of Soviet mass deportations and murders of Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians begins.
1942 – Anne Frank starts to write in her diary.
1949 – Bao Dai is installed as the South Vietnamese leader in Saigon.
1951 – UNIVAC (Universal Automatic Computer) is dedicated by the US Census bureau.
1954 – Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill adding 'under God' into the US Pledge of Allegiance.
1955 – Chile signs the Buenos Aires Convention.
1962 – The European Space Research Organisation is founded in Paris, later becoming the European Space Agency.
1965 – Nguyen Cao Ky becomes leader of South Vietnam, leading a military junta.
1967 – The Mariner 5 space probe is launched to Venus.
1967 – The People's Republic of China tests its first hydrogen bomb.
1982 – The Falklands War comes to an end, as Argentine forces surrender to the British in Port Stanley.
1985 – TWA Flight 847 is hijacked by Hezbollah shortly after take-off from Athens.
1993 – Tansu Ciller becomes the first female Prime Minister of Turkey.
1994 – A riot occurs in Vancouver after a Stanley Cup ice hockey match, where the New York Rangers defeated the Vancouver Canucks.
1998 – The Storebaelt Bridge, consisting of western and eastern sections and connecting the Danish islands of Funen and Zealand, is opened to traffic.
1998 – The Chicago Bulls win a 6th NBA championship in 8 years. Part of the successful team was Michael Jordan.
1999 – Thabo Mbeki is chosen to succeed Nelson Mandela as President of South Africa.

From 2001

2002 – Near–Earth asteroid "2002 MN" misses the Earth by 121,000 kilometers (75,000 miles).
2003 – In a referendum, a majority of voters in the Czech Republic approves entry to the EU.
2013 – The Airbus A350 aircraft has its first flight.
2015 – The Philae spacecraft, which made the first successful landing on a comet in November 2014, wakes up. It had gone into hibernation a few days after landing.
2015 – Flooding in Tbilisi, Georgia, kills 12 people and results in several zoo animals either being killed or escaping onto the streets.
2017 – Grenfell Tower fire: A massive fire occurs in a tower block in North Kensington, London, killing 72 people.
2017 – 2017 Congressional baseball shooting: Gunman James T. Hodgkinson opens fire on a baseball practice session among US Republican members of Congress, before being shot dead by police. Congressman Steve Scalise is severely injured in the attack.
2017 – Leo Varadkar becomes Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland.
2018 – The 2018 FIFA World Cup starts in Moscow, as hosts Russia defeat Saudi Arabia 5–0.
2019 – June Spencer, English actress, becomes a centenarian.

Births

Up to 1900

1444 – Nilakantha Somayaji, Indian astronomer and mathematician (d. 1544)
1463 – Henry IV, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1514)
1479 – Giglio Gregorio Giraldi, Italian poet (d. 1552)
1529 – Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria (d. 1595)
1691 – Jan Francisci, Hungarian organist and composer (d. 1758)
1712 – Sayat-Nova, Armenian singer, poet and composer (d. 1795)
1726 – James Hutton, Scottish geologist (d. 1797)
1726 – Thomas Pennant, Welsh naturalist (d. 1798)
1730 – Antonio Sacchini, Italian composer (d. 1786)
1736 – Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist (d. 1806)
1763 – Simon Mayr, German composer (d. 1845)
1780 – Henry Salt, English artist, diplomat and Egyptologist (d. 1827)
1796 – Nikolai Brashman, Russian mathematician (d. 1866)
1798 – Frantisek Palacky, Czech scholar and politician (d. 1876)
1801 – Heber C. Kimball, American religious leader (d. 1868)
1811 – Harriet Beecher Stowe, American writer (d. 1896)
1812 – Fernando Wood, Mayor of New York City (d. 1881)
1819 – Henry Gardner, 23rd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1892)
1832 – Nikolaus Otto, German engineer (d. 1891)
1835 – Nikolai Rubinstein, Russian composer, pianist and conductor (d. 1881)
1838 – Yamagata Aritomo, Japanese military leader, and two-time Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1922)
1840 – William F. Nast, American attaché, railroad executive and inventor (d. 1893)
1855 – Robert M. La Follette, Sr., 20th Governor of Wisconsin (d. 1925)
1856 – Andrei Markov, Russian mathematician (d. 1922)
1862 – John Ulric Nef, Swiss-born chemist (d. 1915)
1864 – Alois Alzheimer, German doctor, discovered Alzheimer's disease (d. 1915)
1868 – Karl Landsteiner, Austrian doctor, won the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1943)
1870 – Sophia of Prussia, Queen consort of Greece (d. 1932)
1871 – Jacob Ellehammer, Danish inventor (d. 1946)
1877 – Jane Bathori, French soprano (d. 1970)
1884 – John McCormack, Irish fencer (d. 1945)
1884 – Georg Zacharias, German swimmer (d. 1953)
1888 – Jacques de Lacretelle, French writer (d. 1985)
1893 – Siggie Nordstrom, Swedish singer (d. 1980)
1894 – Marie-Adelaide, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (d. 1924)
1895 – Jack Adams, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1968)
1895 – Pan Yuliang, Chinese painter (d. 1977)
1899 – Yasunari Kawabata, Japanese writer (d. 1972)

1901 – 1950

1903 – Alonzo Church, American mathematician and theorist (d. 1995)
1907 – Chico Landi, Brazilian racing driver (d. 1989)
1909 – Burl Ives, American musician (d. 1995)
1910 – Rudolf Kempe, German conductor (d. 1976)
1910 – Carlo Ceseroli, Italian footballer (d. 1995)
1916 – Georg Henrik von Wright, Finnish philosopher (d. 2003)
1917 – Lise Norgaard, Danish journalist, novelist and screenwriter
1919 – June Spencer, English actress
1919 – Gene Barry, American actor (d. 2009)
1920 – Jacques Datin, French songwriter (d. 1973)
1921 – Martha Greenhouse, American actress (d. 2013)
1922 – Kevin Roche, Irish architect (d. 2019)
1923 – Judith Kerr, German-born English writer (d. 2019)
1924 – James W. Black, Scottish physician (d. 2010)
1925 – Serge Moscovici, French psychologist (d. 2014)
1925 – Pierre Salinger, American journalist and politician (d. 2004)
1926 – Hermann Kant, German writer (d. 2016)
1928 – Che Guevara, Argentinian Marxist revolutionary (d. 1967)
1928 – Robert Brout, Belgian physicist (d. 2011)
1929 – Gunilla Pontén, Swedish fashion designer (d. 2019)
1930 – Odile Versois, French actress (d. 1980)
1931 – Marla Gibbs, American actress, singer and screenwriter
1931 – Junior Walker, American saxophonist and singer (d. 1995)
1933 – Jerzy Kosinski, Polish-American writer (d. 1991)
1933 – Vladislav Rastorotsky, Soviet gymnastics coach
1936 – Renaldo Benson, American singer-songwriter (d. 2005)
1936 – George Hugh Niederauer, American bishop (d. 2017)
1939 – Steny Hoyer, American politician
1940 – Jack Bannon, American actor (d. 2017)
1940 – Francesco Guccini, Italian singer, musician and actor
1942 – Andy Irvine, English-Irish singer-songwriter and bouzouki player
1943 – Piet Keizer, Dutch footballer (d. 2017)
1945 – Rod Argent, English rock musician
1945 – Carlos Reichenbach, Brazilian director and producer (d. 2012)
1946 – Ahmad Zahir, Afghan singer (d. 1979)
1946 – Donald Trump, American businessman, politician and 45th President of the United States
1946 – Robert Louis-Dreyfus, French businessman (d. 2009)
1947 – Barry Melton, American guitarist
1949 – Jim Lea, British musician (Slade)
1949 – Papa Wemba, Congolese singer and musician (d. 2016)
1949 – Alan White, British musician
1950 – Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury

1951 – 1975

1951 – Paul Boateng, British politician
1952 – Pat Summitt, American basketball player and coach (d. 2016)
1953 – Hana Laszlo, Israeli actress and comedienne
1954 – Frank Hadden, Scottish rugby union coach
1955 – Kirron Kher, Indian actress
1955 – Paul O'Grady, British TV presenter and entertainer
1955 – Michael D. Duvall, American politician
1956 – King Diamond, Danish singer
1956 – Gianna Nannini, Italian singer-songwriter and musician
1958 – Olaf Scholz, German politician, former Mayor of Hamburg
1958 – Eric Heiden, American speed skater
1958 – Pamela Geller, American blogger, author, political activist and animator
1961 – Boy George, British singer
1961 – Dusan Kojic, Serbian singer-songwriter and musician
1966 – Traylor Howard, American actress
1968 – Yasmine Bleeth, American actress
1969 – Steffi Graf, German tennis player
1969 – Kyle Hebert, American actor
1970 – Heather McDonald, American actress, comedienne and author
1971 – Ramon Vega, Swiss footballer
1971 – Bruce Bowen, American basketball player
1973 – Sami Kapanen, Finnish ice hockey player

From 1976

1976 – Alan Carr, British comedian
1976 – Massimo Oddo, Italian footballer
1977 – Joe Worsley, English rugby player
1978 – Diablo Cody, American screenwriter
1979 – Paradorn Srichaphan, Thai tennis player
1981 – Lonneke Engel, Dutch model
1981 – Elano, Brazilian footballer
1981 – Alastair Kellock, Scottish rugby union player
1982 – Lang Lang, Chinese pianist
1982 – Luda Kroiter, Moldovan 5-time world salsa champion
1984 – Siobhan Donaghy, British singer
1984 – Yury Prilukov, Russian swimmer
1985 – Oleg Medvedev, Russian luger
1986 – Haley Hudson, American actress and singer
1988 – Dayo Okeniyi, Nigerian actor
1988 – Kevin McHale, American actor
1989 – Lucy Hale, American actress
1989 – Cory Higgins, American basketball player
1989 – Joao Rojas, Ecuadorean footballer
1990 – Patrice Cormier, Canadian ice hockey player
1991 – Erick Barrondo, Guatemalan race walker
1991 – Kostas Manolas, Greek footballer
1991 – André Carrillo, Peruvian footballer
1991 – Jesy Nelson, English singer (Little Mix)
1992 – Daryl Sabara, American actor
1992 – Evan Sabara, American actor
1993 – Svetlana Issakova, Estonian figure skater
1993 – Callum McGregor, Scottish footballer

Deaths

Up to 1930

1161 – Emperor Qinzong of China (b. 1100)
1205 – Walter, Count of Brienne
1349 – Günther von Schwarzburg, King of Germany (b. 1304)
1381 – Simon Sudbury, Archbishop of Canterbury
1497 – Giovanni Borgia, 2nd Duke of Gandia, son of Pope Alexander VI (b. 1474)
1516 – John III of Navarre (b. 1469)
1544 – Antoine, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1489)
1548 – Carpentras, French composer (b. 1470)
1594 – Orlande di Lasso, Flemish composer (b. 1532)
1642 – Saskia van Uylenburgh, wife of Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn (b. 1612)
1648 – Margaret Jones, first person to be executed for witchcraft in Massachusetts
1662 – Henry Vane the Younger, English colonial governor and politician (b. 1613)
1703 – Jean Herauld Gourville, French adventurer (b. 1625)
1746 – Colin Maclaurin, Scottish mathematician (b. 1698)
1800 – Louis Charles Antoine Desaix, French general (b. 1768)
1801 – Benedict Arnold, American soldier (b. 1841)
1825 – Pierre Charles L'Enfant, French-American architect and designer (b. 1754)
1837 – Giacomo Leopardi, Italian writer (b. 1798)
1883 – Charles J. Jenkins, Governor of Georgia (b. 1805)
1886 – Alexander Ostrovsky, Russian dramatist (b. 1823)
1908 – Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby, British Governor-General of Canada (b. 1841)
1914 – Adlai E. Stevenson, American politician (b. 1835)
1920 – Max Weber, German sociologist and political economist (b. 1864)
1923 – Isabelle Bogelot, French philanthropist (b. 1838)
1926 – Mary Cassatt, American painter (b. 1843)
1927 – Ottavio Bottecchia, Italian cyclist (b. 1894)
1927 – Jerome K. Jerome, British writer (b. 1859)
1928 – Emmeline Pankhurst, British women's rights campaigner (b. 1858)

1931 – 2010

1932 – Peter Adler Alberti, Danish politician and swindler (b. 1851)
1936 – G. K. Chesterton, British writer (b. 1874)
1936 – Hans Poelzig, German architect, painter and designer (b. 1869)
1946 – John Logie Baird, Scottish inventor and television pioneer (b. 1888)
1953 – Klement Gottwald, Czech politician (b. 1896)
1968 – Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian writer (b. 1901)
1976 – Knud, Hereditary Prince of Denmark (b. 1900)
1979 – Ahmad Zahir, Afghan singer (b. 1946)
1986 – Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine writer and poet (b. 1899)
1986 – Alan Jay Lerner, American composer (b. 1918)
1991 – Peggy Ashcroft, British actress (b. 1907)
1994 – Henry Mancini, American composer (b. 1924)
1994 – Marcel Mouloudji, French singer and actor (b. 1922)
1996 – Noemi Gerstein, Argentine artist (b. 1908)
1997 – Richard Jaeckel, American actor (b. 1926)
2000 – Attilio Bertolucci, Italian poet and writer (b. 1911)
2004 – Ulrich Inderbinen, Swiss mountain guide (b. 1900)
2005 – Carlo Maria Giulini, Italian conductor (b. 1914)
2007 – Ruth Graham, American poet, wife of Billy Graham (b. 1920)
2007 – Kurt Waldheim, Austrian UN Secretary-General (b. 1918)
2007 – Robin Olds, American fighter pilot (b. 1922)
2009 – Ivan Della Mea, Italian singer-songwriter (b. 1940)
2010 – Leonid Kizim, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1941)

From 2011

2011 – Peter Schamoni, German movie director and producer (b. 1934)
2012 – Carlos Reichenbach, Brazilian director and producer (b. 1945)
2013 – Gene Mako, Hungarian-American tennis player (b. 1916)
2014 – Sam Kelly, English actor (b. 1943)
2014 – Isabelle Collin Dufresne, French-American actress (b. 1935)
2014 – Robert Lebeck, German photojournalist (b. 1929)
2014 – Francis Matthews, English actor (b. 1927)
2014 – Benjamin Winter, German equestrian (b. 1988)
2015 – Hugo Blanco, Venezuelan musician (b. 1940)
2015 – Zito, Brazilian footballer (b. 1932)
2015 – Qiao Shi, Chinese politician (b. 1924)
2015 – Anne Nicol Gaylor, American activist (b. 1926)
2016 – Henry McCullough, Northern Irish guitarist (b. 1943)
2016 – Irma Roy, Argentine actress and politician (b. 1932)
2016 – Ronnie Claire Edwards, American actress (b. 1933)
2016 – Anatoli Grishin, Russian sprint canoeist (b. 1939)
2016 – Ann Morgan Guilbert, American actress (b. 1928)
2016 – Gertrude Kerbis, American architect (b. 1926)
2016 – Gilles Lamontagne, Canadian politician (b. 1919)
2017 – James T. Hodgkinson, American home inspector, businessman and gunman (b. 1951)
2017 – Ernestina Herrera de Noble, Argentine newspaper editor (b. 1925)
2017 – Arthur J. Jackson, American military officer (b. 1924)
2018 – Vincent R. Gray, English-New Zealand chemist (b. 1922)
2018 – Mongi Kooli, Tunisian politician (b. 1930)
2018 – Stanislav Govorukhin, Russian film director, actor and screenwriter (b. 1936)
2018 – Sonia Scurfield, Canadian businesswoman and sports team owner (b. 1928)
2018 – Fazlullah, Pakistani terrorist (b. 1974)
2019 – Bernard M. Judge, American newspaper editor (b. 1940)
2019 – Ricardo Migliorisi, Paraguayan painter and designer (b. 1948)
2019 – Roger Béteille, French aeronautical engineer and businessman (b. 1921)
2019 – George E. Felton, British computer scientist (b. 1921)
2019 – Ebert Van Buren, Honduran-American football player (b. 1924)
2019 – James Wyngaarden, American physician (b. 1924)
2020 – Luce Douady, French climber (b. 2003)
2020 – Elsa Joubert, South African writer (b. 1922)
2020 – Noel Kelly, Australian rugby league player and coach (b. 1936)
2020 – Mohammad-Ali Keshavarz, Iranian actor (b. 1930)
2020 – Aarón Padilla Gutiérrez, Mexican footballer (b. 1942)
2020 – Sushant Singh Rajput, Indian actor (b. 1986)
2020 – Haroldo Rodas, Guatemalan politician (b. 1946)
2020 – Claude Samuel, French music critic and radio businessman (b. 1931)
2020 – Keith Tippett, British jazz pianist and composer (b. 1947)
2020 – Raj Mohan Vohra, Indian army lieutenant general (b. 1932)

Observances

Flag Day (United States)
Freedom Day (Malawi)
Liberation Day (Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands)
Women's Day (Iraq)
World Blood Donor Day (after birthday of Karl Landsteiner)
Mourning and Commemoration Day (Estonia)
Mourning and Hope Day (Lithuania)
Day of Memory for Repressed People (Armenia)