June 2014 in History

Events in History

Jun 3 President Obama announces his plan for a $1 billion fund to increase deployment of US troops to Europe

Jun 4 10 Nigerian generals and five other senior military officers are court-martialed for providing arms and information to jihadist terrorist group Boko Haram
Jun 11 Islamic State of Iraq forces seize control of government offices and other important buildings in the northern city of Mosul
Jun 12 Israeli leadership blames Hamas after 3 Israeli teenagers are kidnapped in the West Bank
Jun 14 49 people are killed after a Ukrainian Ilyushin Il-76 airlifter is shot down
Jun 14 Alexander Stubb becomes Prime Minister of Finland

Jun 15 Juan Manuel Santos is reelected President of Columbia

Jun 18 King Juan Carlos I of Spain abdicates the Spanish throne to make way for his son Felipe VI

Jun 19 Felipe VI ascends to the Spanish throne after the abdication of his father King Juan Carlos

Jun 21 Qhapaq Ñan, the Andean Road System of the Inca Empire, 30,000km long (18,600 miles) through six countries, granted World Heritage status by UNESCO [1]

Jun 23 Claude Monet's Water Lilies is sold at auction for US$54 million

Jun 23 Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz is re-elected President of Mauritania
Jun 24 Rebels in Ukraine have agreed to a ceasefire
Jun 25 The US Supreme Court rules that police cannot examine the digital contents of a cell phone without a court order
Jun 26 Following the military coup in Thailand, people are warned that anyone calling for protest on social media will be prosecuted for sedition

Jun 29 Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi announces establishment of worldwide "caliphate" at the Great Mosque of al-Nuri in Mosul, Iraq

Jun 30 The corpses of the 3 Israeli teenagers kidnapped in the West Bank earlier in month are found
Jun 30 US Supreme Court rules that family-owned corporations can reject provisions of the Affordable Care Act ('Obamacare') on religious grounds

Jun 21 TV journalist Katie Couric (57) weds financier John Molner in East Hampton, New York
Jun 29 "Hart of Dixie" actress Brandi Burkhardt (35) weds Douglas Kazanjian in Annapolis, Maryland

Jun 1 Ann B. Davis, American stage and screen actress (Bob Cummings Show - "Schultzy"; The Brady Bunch - "Alice"), dies from subdural hematoma incurred in a fall at 88
Jun 6 Eric Hill, British children's books author and illustrator (Where's Spot), dies at 86
Jun 7 Norman Willis, English union leader (General Secretary of the UK's Trades Union Congress), dies at 81
Jun 15 Daniel Keyes, American author (Flowers for Algernon), dies from complications from pneumonia at 86
Jun 17 Patsy Byrne, English actress, dies at 80
Jun 22 Felix Dennis, English publisher and poet (Dennis Publishing), dies at 67
Jun 24 Eli Wallach, American actor, dies at 98
Jun 25 Harry Hookway, Chief Executive of the British Library (1973-84), dies at 93
Jun 28 Meshach Taylor, American actor, dies from colorectal cancer at 67
Jun 29 John Freeland, Legal advisor UK foreign office and judge at the European Court of Human Rights, dies at 86
Jun 30 Bob Hastings, American actor, dies from prostate cancer at 89