Historical Events on June 14

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• 1276 While taking exile in Fuzhou, southern China, from advancing Mongol invaders, remnants of the Song Dynasty court hold coronation ceremony for young prince Zhao Shi, making him Emperor Duanzong of Song
• 1381 Richard II in England meets leaders of Peasants' Revolt on Blackheath. The Tower of London is stormed by rebels who enter without resistance

• 1565 Catharina de Medici and Duke of Alva discuss Calvinism
• 1597 At 4:30 AM Willem Barents leaves Novaya Zemlya for Netherlands
• 1615 Jacques Le Maire sail to Zuidland/Terra Australis
• 1623 1st breach-of-promise lawsuit: Rev Gerville Pooley, Virginia files against Cicely Jordan, he loses
• 1634 Russia and Poland sign Peace treaty of Polianov
• 1642 1st compulsory education law in America passed by Massachusetts

• 1658 Battle at Dunes: English and French fleet beat Spanish
• 1673 Battle at Schooneveld: Michiel de Ruyter beats French/English fleet

• 1800 Battle of Marengo (Alessandria): Bonaparte vs Austria
• 1807 Emperor Napoleon I's French Grande Armee defeats the Russian Army at the Battle of Friedland in Prussia (modern Russian Kaliningrad Oblast) ending War of the Fourth Coalition
• 1821 Badi VII, king of Sennar, surrenders his throne and realm to Ismail Pasha, general of the Ottoman Empire, bringing the 300 year old Sudanese kingdom to an end

• 1834 Hardhat diving suit patented by Leonard Norcross, Dixfield, Maine
• 1834 Sandpaper patented by Isaac Fischer Jr, Springfield, Vermont
• 1839 First Henley Regatta held (it became the Henley Royal Regatta in 1851)
• 1841 1st Canadian parliament opens in Kingston, Ontario
• 1846 Belgian Liberal Party forms
• 1846 California (Bear Flag) Republic proclaimed in Sonoma, declaring independence from Mexico

• 1850 Third great fire of early San Francisco, starts in a bakery chimney

• 1863 Battle of 2nd Winchester, Virginia
• 1864 US Union warship USS Kearsarge appears off Cherbourg
• 1870 All-pro Cincinnati Red Stockings suffer 1st loss in 130 games
• 1872 Trade unions are legalised in Canada.
• 1876 1st player to hit for cycle (George Hall, Philadelphia Athletics)
• 1876 California Street Cable Car Railroad Co gets its franchise
• 1880 14th Belmont: L Hughes aboard Grenada wins in 2:47


• 1881 Player piano patented by John McTammany Jr (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
• 1898 France signs Niger Convention
• 1900 The Reichstag approves a second law that allows the expansion of the German navy
• 1900 Having been annexed to the USA on 12 August 1898, Hawaii is constituted as an organised territory
• 1904 Dutch troops occupy Kuto Reh, Sumatra, killing all inhabitants
• 1904 At the battle of Telissu, the Japanese rout the Russians and inflict heavy casualties
• 1906 Pogrom against Jews in Bialystok, Polish Russia
• 1907 Government of Transvaal sends home 50,000 Chinese day workers
• 1907 Norway adopts female suffrage for middle class women only in parliamentary elections
• 1908 Fourth German Navy Bill is passed authorising the financing of the building of another four major warships

• 1913 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Philadelphia CC: Defending champion Mary Browne beats Dorothy Green 6-2, 7-5

• 1916 Representatives of eight Allied nations hold an economic conference in Paris at which they discuss ways to cripple their enemies economic power during and after the war
• 1917 1st German air attack on England, 100+ killed in East London
• 1917 General Pershing and his HQ staff arrived in Paris during WW I
• 1919 1st nonstop air crossing of Atlantic (Alcock & Brown) leaves Newfoundland
• 1922 Charles Hoffner wins PGA golf tournament

• 1923 Recording of 1st country music hit (Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane)
• 1924 Test Cricket debuts of Herbert Sutcliffe & Maurice Tate v South Africa
• 1924 WOKO-AM radio begins transmitting from Albany NY
• 1926 French Championships Men's Tennis: Henri Cochet wins 1st of 4 home titles; beats fellow Frenchman René Lacoste 6-2, 6-4, 6-3
• 1926 French Women's Tennis Championships: Suzanne Lenglen beats Mary Kendall Browne 6-1, 6-0

• 1929 Prussia and Vatican sign Concord
• 1930 VVGZ soccer team forms in Zwijndrecht
• 1931 French "St Philbert" overturns off St Nazaire France, drowns 450

• 1932 German government of von Papen forms

• 1934 Max Baer KO's Primo Carnera in 11 for HW box champ in Long Island City
• 1934 WOQ-AM in Kansas City Missouri goes off the air
• 1935 Chaco War between Bolivia & Paraguay ends
• 1936 Oranienburg Concentration Camp opens in Germany

• 1938 Chlorophyll patented by Benjamin Grushkin
• 1938 Dorothy Lathrop wins 1st Caldecott Medal (kid books author)
• 1940 German forces enter Paris during WWII
• 1940 Auschwitz concentration camp opens in Nazi controlled Poland with Polish POWs (approx. 3 million would die within its walls)
• 1940 German U-47 sinks airship Balmoral

• 1941 Estonia loses 11,000 inhabitants as a consequence of mass deportations into Siberia
• 1942 1st bazooka rocket gun produced (Bridgeport, Connecticut)

• 1942 French government of Reynaud resigns
• 1944 1st B-29 raid against mainland Japan

• 1946 Canadian Library Association established

• 1948 Klemens Gottwald becomes president of Czechoslovakia

• 1949 WROC TV channel 8 in Rochester, NY (NBC) begins broadcasting
• 1951 "Courtin' Time" opens at National Theater NYC for 37 performances


• 1951 1st commercial computer, UNIVAC 1, enters service at Census Bureau
• 1952 US Open Men's Golf, Northwood GC: Julius Boros wins 1st of 3 majors by 4 shots from Ed Oliver
• 1952 Boston Brave Warren Spahn strikes out 18 Cubs in 15 innings
• 1952 General strike in Tunisia
• 1952 Jim Peters runs world record marathon (2:20:42.2)
• 1952 Keel laid for 1st nuclear powered sub USS Nautilus (4th to be named Nautilus)
• 1952 Braves Warren Spahn ties NL record of Jim Whitney with 18 strikeouts against the Cubs in 15-inning, 3-1 loss

• 1953 Military coup by General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla in Colombia
• 1953 Yanks sweep Indians 6-2, 3-0 before 74,708 win streak at 18 straight
• 1954 President Eisenhower signs order adding words "under God" to the Pledge
• 1955 Chile becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty
• 1956 "New Faces of 1956" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 221 performances
• 1957 42.0 cm rain falls on East St Louis, Illinois (state record)
• 1957 Edouard Carpentier beats Lou Thesz to become NWA wrestling champion

• 1958 British parachutists lands on Cyprus
• 1959 US Open Men's Golf, Winged Foot GC: Billy Casper wins first of his 2 Open titles, 1 stroke ahead of runner-up Bob Rosburg
• 1961 106°F, hottest temperature in San Francisco
• 1962 Albert DeSalvo, better known as the Boston Strangler, murders Anna Slesers, his first victim
• 1962 The European Space Research Organisation is established in Paris - later becoming the European Space Agency
• 1963 NY Met Duke Snider hits his 400th HR
• 1963 Valery Bykovsky in Vostok 5 orbits earth 81 times in 5 days
• 1965 Beatles release album "Beatles VI"
• 1965 Cincinnati Red Jim Maloney no-hits NY Mets but loses in 11, 1-0

• 1966 Dutch police beat construction workers, 60 injured
• 1966 Miami beats St Petersburg (Florida State League) 4-3 in 29 innings longest uninterrupted game in organized baseball
• 1967 Mariner 5 Launch (Venus Flyby)

• 1967 USSR launches Kosmos 166 for observation of Sun from Earth orbit

• 1968 Off duty Dutch military permitted to wear regular clothing
• 1968 "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" 2nd studio album by Iron Butterfly is released

• 1972 Tropical storm (later hurricane) Agnes forms over Yucatán Peninsula
• 1972 Members of the NI Social Democratic and Labour Party hold a meeting with representatives of the Irish Republican Army in Derry; the IRA representatives outline their conditions for talks with the British Government
• 1973 46th National Spelling Bee: Barrie Trinkle wins spelling vouchsafe

• 1975 Janis Ian releases "At Seventeen"
• 1975 USSR launches Venera 10 for Venus landing

• 1976 "Gong Show" premieres on TV (syndication)
• 1976 12th Mayor's Trophy Game Yanks beat Mets 8-4
• 1976 French Open Men's Tennis: Adriano Panatta of Italy beats American Harold Solomon 6-1, 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 for his lone Grand Slam singles title
• 1978 Down 9-7 in 10th with 2 outs, Yanks Paul Blair hits a 3 run HR
• 1978 Sierra Leone adopts constitution
• 1979 Canada all out for 45 runs in Cricket World Cup v England, in 40.3 overs
• 1979 NY Giants Willie McCovey 513th HR is an NL lefty record
• 1979 Rock group "Little Feat" disbands

• 1981 No Nukes concert at Hollywood Bowl

• 1983 5 killed in a fire at a Ramada Inn in Fort Worth, Tx
• 1984 Southern Baptist convention decide on no women clergy members
• 1985 "Michael Nesmith In Television Parts" premieres on NBC-TV


• 1985 Earl Weaver comes out of retirement to manage Baltimore Orioles
• 1985 Lebanese Shiite Muslim extremists hijacked TWA Flight 847
• 1987 41st NBA Championship: LA Lakers beat Boston Celtics, 4 games to 2
• 1987 4th full-duration test firing of redesigned SRB motor
• 1987 Senior Tournament Players Championship Men's Golf, Sawgrass CC: South African Gary Player wins by 1 stroke from Bruce Crampton and Chi-Chi Rodriguez
• 1988 Woman sues Chuck Berry for $5,000,000, alleges he hit her
• 1988 "Guy" debut album by Guy is released
• 1989 Groundbreaking begins in Minnesota on world's largest mall
• 1989 Nolan Ryan becomes 2nd pitcher to defeat all 26 teams
• 1989 Ronald Reagan is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II (honorary knighthood)
• 1989 Singer-songwriter Carol King gets a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame
• 1989 Zsa Zsa Gabor arrested for slapping Beverly Hills motorcycle patrolman
• 1990 44th NBA Championship: Det Pistons beat Por Trailblazers, 4 games to 1
• 1990 Date of the events in the movie Mr Destiny
• 1990 NL announces plans to expand from 12 to 14 teams for 1993 season
• 1990 Supreme Court rules police check for drunk drivers constitutional

• 1991 Leroy Burrell of USA sets 100m record (9.90) in NYC
• 1991 Space Shuttle STS 40 (Columbia 12) lands

• 1992 46th NBA Championship: Chicago Bulls beat Port Trailblazers, 4 games to 2
• 1992 Mona Van Duyn is named 1st female US poet laureate
• 1992 Ozzie Smith breaks Roy McMillan's NL mark by taking part in his 1,305th career double play
• 1993 Japanese space probe Sakigake passes Earth
• 1993 Tansu Ciller appointed 1st female premier of Turkey

• 1994 Stanley Cup Final, Madison Square Garden: New York Rangers beat Vancouver Canucks, 3-2 for a 4-3 series victory; Rangers end their record 54-year Championship drought

• 1995 Giants infielder Mike Benjamin goes 6-for-7 in 13-inning 4-3 win

• 1996 Karl Krikken out handled the ball for Derbyshire v Indians
• 1998 "Comic Relief" benefit comedy show
• 1998 52nd NBA Championship: Chicago Bulls beat Utah Jazz, 4 games to 2

• 2001 China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan form the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.

• 2005 Asafa Powell of Jamaica sets a new Men's 100 meters world record of 9.77 at the Athens Olympic Stadium
• 2007 61st NBA Championship: San Antonio Spurs beat Cleveland Cavaliers, 4 games to 0
• 2009 63rd NBA Championship: Los Angeles Lakers beat Orlando Magic, 4 games to 1
• 2009 LPGA Championship Women's Golf, Bulle Rock GC: 22 year old Tour rookie Anna Nordqvist of Sweden wins her only major title by 4 strokes ahead of runner-up Lindsey Wright
• 2012 An explosion at an Indian steel plant kills 11 people and severely injures 16
• 2012 The world's first stem-cell assisted vein transplant is undertaken by Swedish doctors on a 10 year old girl

• 2013 Massive flooding occurs in northern India killing up to 10,000 people

• 2014 49 people are killed after a Ukrainian Ilyushin Il-76 airlifter is shot down
• 2014 Alexander Stubb becomes Prime Minister of Finland
• 2015 "Jurassic World", 1st film to make $500 million worldwide in its opening weekend

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