Historical Events on June 14

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• 1206 Chinese southern Song dynasty officially declares war on the northern Jin dynasty
• 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
• 1325 Explorer Ibn Battuta begins his travels, leaving his home in Tangiers to travel to Mecca (gone 24 years)

• 1535 Emperor Charles V's fleet sails under Andrea Doria to Tunis
• 1565 Catharina de Medici and Duke of Alva discuss Calvinism
• 1597 At 4:30 AM Dutch explorer Willem Barents leaves Novaya Zemlya on his third Arctic expedition to return to the Netherlands (dies on the return voyage)
• 1615 Dutch mariner Jacques Le Maire sets sails from Texel, North Holland, to find a new route to the Pacific and the Spice Islands and the southern continent (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 of the Dunes: English and French forces defeat the Spanish near Dunkirk during Franco-Spanish War
• 1671 French officer Simon-François Daumont de Saint-Lusson takes possession for France of Lake Huron and Superior "and all the other contiguous and adjacent countries, rivers, lakes and streams, here, both discovered and yet to be discovered", at assembly of fourteen Amerindian nations at Sault-Sainte-Marie [1]
• 1673 Battle at Schooneveld: Dutch admiral Michiel de Ruyter beats French and English fleet

• 1800 Battle of Marengo (Alessandria): Napoleon Bonaparte's French army overcomes Austrian forces in Piedmont, Italy
• 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 King of Sennar, Badi VII surrenders his throne and realm to general Ismail Pasha of the Ottoman Empire, bringing the 300 year old Sudanese kingdom to an end

• 1834 Hardhat diving suit patented by Leonard Norcross of 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; Confederate force defeats Union army garrison and captures Winchester
• 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

• 1881 Player piano patented by John McTammany Jr (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
• 1898 Niger Convention signed in Paris by France and Great Britain agreeing to the partition of West Africa
• 1900 Having been annexed to the USA on 12 August 1898, Hawaii is constituted as an organized territory
• 1900 The Reichstag approves a second law that allows the expansion of the German navy
• 1904 At the battle of Telissu, the Japanese rout the Russians and inflict heavy casualties
• 1904 Dutch troops occupy Kuto Reh, Sumatra, killing all inhabitants
• 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

• 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
• 1921 Orchestral version of Ralph Vaughn Williams’ “The Lark Ascending” premieres, with dedicatee Marie Hall as violinist and Adrian Boult conducting the British Symphony Orchestra.in the Queen's Hall, London
• 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 English players Herbert Sutcliffe and Maurice Tate in 1st Test England v South Africa at Edgbaston
• 1924 WOKO-AM radio begins transmitting from Albany, NY

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

• 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 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 1st commercial computer, UNIVAC 1, enters service at Census Bureau

• 1952 General strike in Tunisia
• 1952 Keel laid for 1st nuclear powered sub USS Nautilus (4th to be named Nautilus)

• 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
• 1957 42.0 cm rain falls on East St Louis, Illinois (state record)

• 1958 British parachutists lands on Cyprus
• 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 Valery Bykovsky in Vostok 5 orbits earth 81 times in 5 days

• 1965 Beatles release album "Beatles VI"
• 1965 Cincinnati Reds pitcher Jim Maloney no-hits New York Mets but loses in 11 innings, 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 "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" second studio album by Iron Butterfly is released
• 1968 Off duty Dutch military permitted to wear regular clothing

• 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
• 1972 Tropical storm (later hurricane) Agnes forms over Yucatán Peninsula
• 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)
• 1978 Sierra Leone adopts constitution

• 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 against allowing women clergy members
• 1985 "Michael Nesmith In Television Parts" premieres on NBC-TV

• 1985 Lebanese Shiite Muslim extremists hijacked TWA Flight 847
• 1987 4th full-duration test firing of redesigned SRB motor

• 1988 "Guy" debut album by Guy is released

• 1989 Groundbreaking begins in Bloomington, Minnesota on world's largest mall - "The Mall of America"
• 1989 MLB Texas Rangers' Nolan Ryan becomes 2nd pitcher to defeat all 26 teams
• 1989 Ronald Reagan is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II (honorary knighthood)

• 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 Mona Van Duyn is named 1st female US poet laureate
• 1993 Japanese space probe Sakigake passes Earth

• 1993 Tansu Ciller appointed 1st female Prime Minister of Turkey, succeeding Süleyman Demirel
• 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

• 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
• 2006 Ringo Starr's ninth All-Starr Band debuts in concert; members include: Billy Squier, Richard Marx, Edgar Winter, Rod Argent, Hamish Stuart, and Sheila E.
• 2012 An explosion at an Indian steel plant kills 11 people and severely injures 16
• 2012 Ringo Starr's twelfth All-Starr Band debuts in concert; members include: Steve Lukather, Gregg Rolie, Todd Rundgren, Richard Page, Gregg Bissonette, and Mark Rivera, 2012-13 / Warren Ham, 2014-17
• 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 for the first time
• 2015 "Jurassic World", 1st film to make $500 million worldwide in its opening weekend
• 2016 First mammal made extinct by human-induced climate change announced - the Bramble Cay melomys from Torres Strait
• 2017 Bernie Sanders supporter opens fire at Republican politicians practising baseball near Washington, D.C., injuring 4
• 2017 Fire in Grenfell Tower block in London, England kills 79 and injures 37
• 2017 Leo Varadkar formally elected Irish Prime Minister (taoiseach) in Dáil ceremony in Dublin - youngest Irish Prime Minister at 38 and 1st openly gay
• 2017 US Library of Congress names Tracey K. Smith as Poet Laureate
• 2017 US Senate approves new sanctions against Russia as punishment for meddling in the 2016 election

• 2018 Malaysia's national debt reassessed at $250 billion, up from previous estimate $170 billion, 80% of gross domestic product
• 2018 Rashid Khan makes his Test debut for Afghanistan against India
• 2018 US government confirms 1500 boys being held separated from their parents in Casa Padre, shelter facility for illegal immigrants in a former Walmart in Brownsville, Texas

• 2019 Petition to create world's first "time free zone" on Sommaroy island which has complete daylight for 2 months, delivered to the Norwegian parliament
• 2019 Swiss women hold a national strike over the country's slow pace towards equality
• 2020 India reports surge of nearly 12,000 a day confirmed COVID-19 cases (320,922 overall), the world's fourth-affected country, as death toll hits 9,195

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