14 June History
- 1381 - The Peasant's Revolt, led by Wat Tyler, climaxes when rebels plunder and burn the Tower of London and kill the Archbishop of Canterbury.
- 1642 - Massachusetts passes the first compulsory education law in the colonies.
- 1645 - Oliver Cromwell's army routs the king's army at Naseby.
- 1775 - The U.S. Army is founded when the Continental Congress authorizes the muster of troops.
- 1777 - The Continental Congress authorizes the "stars and stripes" flag for the new United States.
- 1789 - Captain William Bligh of the HMS Bounty arrives in Timor in a small boat. He had been forced to leave his ship when his crew mutinied.
- 1846 - A group of settlers declare California to be a republic.
- 1864 - At the Battle of Pine Mountain, Georgia, Confederate General Leonidas Polk is killed by a Union shell.
- 1893 - The city of Philadelphia observes the first Flag Day.
- 1907 - Women in Norway win the right to vote.
- 1919 - John William Alcot and Arthur Witten Brown take off from St. John's, Newfoundland, for Clifden, Ireland, on the first nonstop transatlantic flight.
- 1922 - President Warren G. Harding becomes the first president to speak on the radio.
- 1927 - Nicaraguan President Porfirio Diaz signs a treaty with the U.S. allowing American intervention in his country.
- 1932 - Representative Edward Eslick dies on the floor of the House of Representatives while pleading for the passage of the bonus bill.
- 1940 - German forces occupy Paris.
- 1942 - The Supreme Court rules that requiring students to salute the American flag is unconstitutional.
- 1944 - Boeing B-29 bombers conduct their first raid against mainland Japan.
- 1945 - Burma is liberated by the British.
- 1949 - The State of Vietnam is formed.
- 1951 - UNIVAC, the first computer built for commercial purposes, is demonstrated in Philadelphia by Dr. John W. Mauchly and J. Prosper Eckert, Jr.
- 1954 - Americans take part in the first nation-wide civil defense test against atomic attack.
- 1965 - A military triumvirate takes control in Saigon, South Vietnam.
- 1982 - Argentina surrenders to the United Kingdom ending the Falkland Islands War.
- 1985 - Gunmen hijack a passenger jet over the Middle East.
- 1989 - Congressman William Gray, an African American, is elected Democratic Whip of the House of Representatives.
- 1995 - Chechen rebels take 2,000 people hostage in a hospital in Russia.
14 June Birthdays
- 1811 - Harriet Beecher Stowe, American author (Uncle Tom's Cabin).
- 1820 - John Bartlett, editor, compiler of Barlett's Familiar Quotations.
- 1855 - Robert Marion "Fighting Bob" La Follette, reform movement leader, Governor of Wisconsin, U.S. Senator and Progressive Party presidential candidate.
- 1906 - Margaret Bourke-White, American photojournalist.
- 1925 - Pierre Salinger, press secretary for John F. Kennedy.
- 1933 - Jerzy Kosinski, Polish-American novelist (The Painted Bird, Being There).
- 1946 - Donald Trump, New York real estate mogul.