14 June History


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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.