June 14

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on June 14. From 1900 until now. June 14 is under the sign of Gemini. Famous birthdays on this day include Donald Trump (1946), Yasmine Bleeth (1968) and Boy George (1961). Several movies were released around June 14 over the years, such as Sweet Smell of Success in 1957 directed by Alexander Mackendrick and Blade Runner in 1982 directed by Ridley Scott.
But much more happened on June 14 over the years: find out below

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Holidays

Flag Day (United States)
Liberation Day (Falkland Islands)
International Weblogger's Day ? Celebration of the work of webloggers around the world
World Blood Donor Day [7] ? Celebration of blood donation on the birthdate of Karl Landsteiner, who discovered ABO blood groups
Roman Empire ? eighth day of the Vestalia in honor of Vesta
Mother's Day (Afghanistan)
United States: Birthday of the U.S. Army
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2019 An unnamed United States official claims that, just prior to the attack on two merchant vessels, an Iranian vessel launched a surface to air missile at a MQ-9 Reaper drone in the vicinity of the attack. An additional MQ-9 Reaper is reported to have been shot down by Houthi rebels several days prior in the Red Sea. (CNN)
2018 Turkish general election, 2018: Three people are killed and eight wounded in Suruç, Turkey, after election campaigning turned into riots. (Reuters via MSN)
2017 War in Afghanistan: After a week-long assault, ISIL-KP captures the Tora Bora cave complex from the Taliban, allegedly in reaction to the 2017 Nangarhar airstrike. The Taliban say the fighting is still underway. (New York Times)
2016 Afghanistan–Pakistan skirmishes: Afghan and Pakistani soldiers clash at the Torkham border crossing between the two countries, leaving one Afghan soldier and a Pakistani major killed. At least 22 other people were also injured. Tensions between Afghanistan and Pakistan have grown since the latter's attempts to build a gate at the crossing. (Al Jazeera)
2015 War in Afghanistan: Fifteen Taliban militants, including the shadow governor for Kunar Province, are killed in a NATO airstrike. (IANS via Business Standard)
2014 2014 pro-Russian conflict in Ukraine: A Ukraine military Ilyushin Il-76 airlifter is shot down, killing all 49 people on board. (CNN)
2013 Syrian civil war:: The United States offers unspecified military equipment to the rebels after determining that the Syrian regime used chemical weapons against the opposition. (Al Jazeera)
2012 Arab Spring:
2011 2011 Syrian uprising:
2010 The Mo Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership is awarded to no one for a second consecutive year. (Aljazeera)
2009 Europe's first death from H1N1 is reported in Paisley, Scotland. (Reuters) (RTÉ) (The Irish Times)
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.
2007 A U.S. federal jury convicts former Klansman James Ford Seale of kidnapping and conspiracy in connection with the 1964 deaths of two African-American teenagers in Mississippi. (AP via USA Today)
2006 Violent riots in Conakry, Guinea continue. (CNN)
2005 A major earthquake strikes about 80 miles (130 kilometers) off the coast of northern California on Tuesday night, briefly prompting a tsunami warning along the Pacific coast but with no immediate reports of damages or injuries. (AP)
2004 Cartoon Network relaunches itself with a new logo and slogan "This is Cartoon Network."
2003 Czech citizens vote ampquotyesampquot to joining the European Union by 77% with 55% turnout.
2002 Astrophysics – An asteroid (2002 MN), the size of a soccer field, barely misses hitting the Earth. (Closest approach )
2001 The black beret becomes the standard headgear for all United State Army soldiers.
1999 Thabo Mbeki is elected President of South Africa.
1998 Comic Relief benefit comedy show
1996 Cable Guy starring Jim Carrey is released
1995 49th NBA Championship: Houston Rockets sweep Orlando Magic in 4 games
1994 Stanley Cup: New York Rangers beat Vancouver Canucks, 4 games to 3
1993 Japanese space probe Sakigake passes Earth
1992 10th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Dave Stockton
1991 Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves opens
1990 44th NBA Championship: Detroit Pistons beat Por Trailblazers, 4 games to 1
1989 Queen Elizabeth II knights Ronald Reagan
1988 Woman sues Chuck Berry for $5,000,000 alleges he hit her
1987 41st NBA Championship: LA Lakers beat Boston Celtics, 4 games to 2
1985 Michael Nesmith In Television Parts premieres on NBC-TV
1984 Southern Baptist convention decide on no women clergy members
1983 5 killed in a fire at a Ramada Inn in Fort Worth, Texas
1982 Argentina surrenders to Britain on Falkland Islands, ends 74-day conflict.
1981 27th LPGA Championship won by Donna Caponi Young
1980 Theme From NY, New York by Frank Sinatra hits #32
1979 New York Giants Willie McCovey 513th HR is an NL lefty record
1978 Sierra Leone adopts constitution
1976 Gong Show premieres on TV (syndication)
1975 45th French Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats M Navratilova (26 62 61)
1973 46th National Spelling Bee: Barrie Trinkle wins spelling vouchsafe
1972 Hurricane Agnes kills 117
1971 Norway begins oil production in the North Sea.
1970 Cincinnati Red Stockings loses first game after winning 130 straight.
1969 Oakland Athletics Reggie Jackson gets 10 RBIs to beat Red Sox 21-7
1968 Off duty Dutch military permitted to wear regular clothing
1967 Mariner 5 Launch (Venus Flyby)
1966 Dutch police beat construction workers, 60 injured
1965 Cincinnati Reds' pitcher Jim Maloney no-hits New York Mets but loses in 11, 1-0.
1964 Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open
1963 New York Met Duke Snider hits his 400th HR
1962 The European Space Research Organisation is established in Paris : later becoming the European Space Agency.
1961 106 degrees F, hottest temperature in San Francisco, California.
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.
1958 58th US Golf Open: Tommy Bolt shoots a 283 at Southern Hills in Tulsa
1957 42.0 cm rain falls on East St. Louis, Illinois (state record)
1956 New Faces of 1956 opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 221 performances
1955 Chile becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1954 US President Dwight Eisenhower signs order adding words "under God" to the Pledge.
1953 Elvis Presley graduates from LC Humes High School in Memphis, Tennessee
1952 52nd US Golf Open: Julius Boros shoots a 281 at Northwood Club Dallas
1951 1st commercial computer, UNIVAC 1, enters service at Census Bureau
1949 State of Vietnam forms, Bao Dai installed as Emperor
1948 Klemens Gottwald becomes President of Czechoslovakia
1946 Canadian Library Association established.
1944 1st B-29 raid against mainland Japan
1942 French government of Reynaud resigns
1941 Estonia loses 11,000 inhabitants as a consequence of mass deportations into Siberia
1940 Auschwitz concentration camp opens (3 million killed there)
1939 Tientsin Incident: The Japanese blockade the British concession in Tianjin, China, beginning a crisis which almost causes an Anglo-Japanese war in the summer of 1939.
1938 Dorothy Lathrop wins the first Caldecott Medal (kid books author).
1937 Pennsylvania becomes the first (and only) state of the United States to celebrate Flag Day officially as a state holiday.
1936 Oranienburg Concentration Camp opens
1935 Chaco War between Bolivia and Paraguay ends.
1934 Hitler and Mussolini meet in Vienna
1932 German government of von Papen forms
1931 French St Philbert overturns off St. Nazaire France, drowns 450
1930 VVGZ soccer team forms in Zwijndrecht
1929 Prussia and Vatican sign Concord
1928 Republican National Convention in Kansas City nominates Herbert Hoover for US President.
1926 2nd French Womens Tennis: Suzanne Lenglen beats Mary K Browne (61 60)
1924 WOKO-AM radio begins transmitting from Albany, New York
1923 Recording of 1st country music hit (Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane)
1922 5th PGA Championship: Gene Sarazen at Oakmont Country Club - Oakmont, Pennsylvania
1919 John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown depart St. John's, Newfoundland on the first nonstop transatlantic flight.
1917 1e German air attack on England, 100+ killed in East-London
1907 Government of Transvaal sends home 50,000 Chinese day workers
1906 Pogrom against Jews in Bialystok, Polish Russia
1904 Dutch troops occupies Kuto Reh, Sumatra, killing all inhabitants
1903 The town of Heppner, Oregon, is nearly destroyed by a cloud burst that resulted in a flash flood that kills an estimated 238 people.
1901 1st golf championship is played
1900 Hawaiian Territorial Government begins
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