History of june 14 1276 - While taking exile in Fuzhou in southern China, away from the advancing Mongol invaders, the remnants of the Song Dynasty court hold the coronation ceremony for the 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. 1535 - Karel Vs fleet sails under Andrea Doria to Tunis 1565 - Catharina de Medici & 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, Va files against Cicely Jordan, he loses 1634 - Russia & Poland sign Peace treaty of Polianov 1642 - 1st compulsory education law in America passed by Massachusetts 1645 - Battle of Naseby, Leicestershire: New Model Army under Oliver Cromwell & Thomas Fairfax beats royalists 1658 - Battle at Dunes: English & French fleet beat Spanish 1673 - Battle at Schooneveld: Michiel de Ruyter beats French/English fleet 1775 - US Army founded 1777 - Continental Congress adopts Stars & Stripes replacing Grand Union flag 1789 - Capt William Bligh reaches Timor 1797 - Napoleon forms Ligurian Republic 1800 - Battle of Marengo (Alessandria): Bonaparte vs Austria 1807 - Emperor Napoleon Is French Grande Armee defeats the Russian Army at the Battle of Friedland in Prussia (modern Russian Kaliningrad Oblast) ending the War of the Fourth Coalition. 1821 - Badi VII, king of Sennar, surrenders his throne and realm to Ismail Pasha, general of the Ottoman Empire, ending the existence of that Sudanese kingdom. Inventor Charles BabbageInventor Charles Babbage 1822 - Charles Babbage proposes a difference engine in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society entitled Note on the application of machinery to the computation of astronomical and mathematical tables. 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 1847 - Robert von Bunsen invents the Bunsen burner 1850 - Fire destroys part of San Francisco 1861 - Harpers Ferry evacuated by rebels in face of McClellans advance 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, Phila Athletics) French Emperor Napoleon BonaparteFrench Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte 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, Mass) 1898 - France signs Niger Convention 1900 - Hawaiian Territorial Government begins 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 1901 - 1st golf championship is played 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 the building of another four major warships. 1917 - 1st German air attack on England, 100+ killed in East London 1917 - Gen Pershing & his HQ staff arrived in Paris during WW I 1919 - 1st nonstop air crossing of Atlantic (Alcock & Brown) leaves Newfoundland 1922 - 5th PGA Championship: Gene Sarazen at Oakmont CC Oakmont Pa 1922 - Charles Hoffner wins PGA golf tournament 1922 - Pres Harding is 1st US president to use radio, dedicating the Francis Scott Key memorial in Baltimore 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 - 2nd French Womens Tennis: Suzanne Lenglen beats Mary K Browne (6-1 6-0) 31st US President Herbert Hoover31st US President Herbert Hoover 1928 - Republican National Convention, meeting in KC, nominates Herbert Hoover for President 1929 - Prussia & Vatican sign Concord 1930 - VVGZ soccer team forms in Zwijndrecht 1931 - French St Philbert overturns off St Nazaire France, drowns 450 1931 - Reinhard Heydrichs 1st meeting with Himmler 1932 - German government of von Papen forms 1933 - Lou Gehrig & Joe McCarthy thrown out of game, McCarthy suspended 3 games but Gehrig isnt, so he continues his streak at 1,249 games 1934 - Hitler & Benito Mussolini meet in Vienna 1934 - Max Baer KOs Primo Carnera in 11 for HW box champ in Long Island City 1934 - WOQ-AM in KC Missouri goes off the air 1935 - Chaco War between Bolivia & Paraguay ends 1936 - Oranienburg Concentration Camp opens 1938 - Bradman scores 144* in 1st Test Cricket at Trent Bridge 1938 - Chlorophyll patented by Benjamin Grushkin 1938 - Dorothy Lathrop wins 1st Caldecott Medal (kid books author) Dictator of Nazi Germany Adolf HitlerDictator of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler 1940 - Auschwitz concentration camp opens (3 million killed there) 1940 - German U-47 sinks airship Balmoral 1940 - German forces occupied Paris during WW II 1941 - Ground broken for Boeing Plant II (ex-AFLC Plant 13) Wichita KS 1941 - Estonia loses 11,000 inhabitants as a consequence of mass deportations into Siberia 1942 - 1st bazooka rocket gun produced Bridgeport Ct 1942 - Anne Frank begins her diary 1942 - French government of Reynaud resigns 1942 - Walt Disneys Bambi animated movie is released Thumpers 1st job 1944 - 1st B-29 raid against mainland Japan 1944 - General Charles de Gaulle lands at Courselles France 1946 - Canadian Library Association established 1948 - Klemens Gottwald becomes president of Czechoslovakia 1949 - State of Vietnam forms, Bao Dai installed as Emperor 1949 - WROC TV channel 8 in Rochester, NY (NBC) begins broadcasting French President Charles de GaulleFrench President Charles de Gaulle 1951 - Courtin Time opens at National Theater NYC for 37 performances 1951 - 1st commercial computer, UNIVAC 1, enters service at Census Bureau 1952 - 52nd US Golf Open: Julius Boros shoots a 281 at Northwood Club Dallas 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 - Eisenhower condemns McCarthys book burning proposal 1953 - Elvis Presley graduates from LC Humes High School in Memphis Tenn 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 - Pres 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 perfs Singer & Cultural Icon Elvis PresleySinger & Cultural Icon Elvis Presley 1957 - 42.0 cm rain falls on East St Louis, Illinois (state record) 1957 - Edouard Carpentier beats Lou Thesz, to become NWA wrestling champ 1958 - 58th US Golf Open: Tommy Bolt shoots a 283 at Southern Hills in Tulsa 1958 - British parachutists lands on Cyprus 1959 - Beverly Hanson wins LPGA American Womens Golf Open 1961 - 106°F, hottest temperature in SF 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 1964 - Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open 1965 - Beatles release album Beatles VI 1965 - Cincinnati Red Jim Maloney no-hits NY Mets but loses in 11, 1-0 1965 - John Lennons 2nd book A Spaniard in the Works is published 1966 - Dutch police beat construction workers, 60 injured Musician and Beatle John LennonMusician and Beatle John Lennon 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 - Steve Allen Show premieres on CBS-TV 1967 - USSR launches Kosmos 166 for observation of Sun from Earth orbit 1968 - Off duty Dutch military permitted to wear regular clothing 1969 - John & Yoko appear on David Frosts British TV Show 1969 - Oakland As Reggie Jackson gets 10 RBIs to beat Red Sox 21-7 1970 - Cincinnati Red Stockings loses 1st game after winning 130 straight 1972 - Hurricane Agnes kills 117 1973 - 46th National Spelling Bee: Barrie Trinkle wins spelling vouchsafe 1974 - Angels Nolan Ryan strikes out 19 Red Sox in 12 innings 1975 - 45th French Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats M Navratilova (26 62 61) 1975 - Janis Ian releases At 17 1975 - USSR launches Venera 10 for Venus landing 1976 - Gong Show premieres on TV (syndication) TV Personality, Comedian and Composer Steve AllenTV Personality, Comedian and Composer Steve Allen 1976 - 12th Mayors Trophy Game Yanks beat Mets 8-4 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 45 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 1980 - Theme From NY, NY by Frank Sinatra hits #32 1981 - 27th LPGA Championship won by Donna Caponi Young 1981 - No Nukes concert at Hollywood Bowl 1982 - Argentina surrenders to Britain on Falkland Is, ends 74-day conflict 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 Balt Orioles 1985 - Lebanese Shiite Muslim extremists hijacked TWA Flight 847 Singer/Actor Frank SinatraSinger/Actor Frank Sinatra 1987 - 41st NBA Championship: LA Lakers beat Boston Celtics, 4 games to 2 1987 - 4th full-duration test firing of redesigned SRB motor 1987 - Colleen Walker wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic 1988 - Woman sues Chuck Berry for $5,000,000 alleges he hit her 1989 - Ground breaking begins in Minn on worlds 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 - Rocker Carol King gets a star in Hollywoods walk of fame 1989 - Zsa Zsa Gabor arrested for slaping 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 - Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves opens 1991 - Leroy Burrell of USA sets 100m record (9.90) in NYC US President & Actor Ronald ReaganUS President & Actor Ronald Reagan 1991 - Space Shuttle STS 40 (Columbia 12) lands 1992 - 10th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Dave Stockton 1992 - 46th NBA Championship: Chicago Bulls beat Port Trailblazers, 4 games to 2 1992 - Anne-Marie Palli wins ShopRite LPGA Golf Classic 1992 - Mona Van Duyn is named 1st female US poet laureate 1992 - Ozzie Smith breaks Roy McMillans 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: NY Rangers beat Vancouver Canucks, 4 games to 3 1995 - 49th NBA Championship: Houston Rockets sweep Orlando Magic in 4 games 1995 - Giants infielder Mike Benjamin goes 6-for-7 in 13-inning 4-3 win 1996 - Cable Guy starring Jim Carrey is released 1996 - Karl Krikken out handled the ball for Derbyshire v Indians 1998 - Comic Relief benefit comedy show 1998 - World Bowl in Frankfurt Germany 1998 - 52nd NBA Championship: Chicago Bulls beat Utah Jazz, 4 games to 2 2000 - 34th Country Weekly Presents the TNN Music Awards: George Strait & Faith Hill wins 2001 - China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan form the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation. 2005 - Asafa Powell of Jamaica sets a new Mens 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 - 55th LPGA Championship won by Anna Nordqvist 2012 - An explosion at an Indian steel plant kills 11 people and severely injures 16 2012 - The worlds first stem-cell assisted vein transplant is undertaken by Swedish doctors on a 10 year old girl 2013 - Hassan Rouhani is elected President of Iran 2013 - Massive flooding occurs in northern India killing up to 10,000 people
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