June 14

Tuesday 14, 2005:

Asafa Powell from Jamaica sets a new world record on the 100 m sprint in Athens with 9.77 seconds.

Monday 14, 2004:

The Workers Party of Bangladesh is split, as Khandaker Ali Abbas leaves to form a new party.

Friday 14, 2002:

Twelve are killed and 50 injured by a car bomb explosion in front of the U.S. consulate in Karachi, Pakistan.

Tuesday 14, 1994:

The New York Rangers win the Stanley Cup over the Vancouver Canucks 3-2 in Game 7, breaking a 54-year drought.

Monday 14, 1993:

A weeklong product tampering scare, later proven to be a hoax, occurs as customers throughout the USA discover syringes in unopened cans of Diet Pepsi Cola.

Friday 14, 1985:

TWA Flight 847 is hijacked by Hezbollah.

Monday 14, 1982:

Falklands War ends: Argentine forces in the capital Stanley unconditionally surrender to British forces.

Monday 14, 1976:

The Gong Show debuts on NBC.

Wednesday 14, 1967:

The People's Republic of China tests its first hydrogen bomb.

Tuesday 14, 1966:

The Vatican announces the abolition of the index librorum prohibitum (index of prohibited books), which was originally instituted in 1557.

Thursday 14, 1962:

Anna Slesersby becomes the first victim of Albert DeSalvo, better known as the Boston Strangler.

Sunday 14, 1959:

1959 - A group of left-leaning Dominican exiles in Cuba landed in the Dominican Republic with the intent of assassinating Trujillo. They would later be known as the J14 or "Catorce de Junio" (14th of June) group.

Tuesday 14, 1955:

Chile becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.

Monday 14, 1954:

U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law that places the words "under God" to the United States' Pledge of Allegiance.

Saturday 14, 1952:

The keel is laid for the nuclear submarine USS Nautilus.

Thursday 14, 1951:

UNIVAC I is dedicated by U.S. Census Bureau.

Sunday 14, 1942:

Anne Frank begins to keep a diary.

Saturday 14, 1941:

Soviet mass deportations and murder of Estonians, Lithuanians and Latvians begun.

Friday 14, 1940:

A group of 728 Polish political prisoners from Tarnów become the first residents of the Auschwitz concentration camp.

Monday 14, 1937:

Pennsylvania becomes the first (and only) of the United States to celebrate Flag Day officially as a state holiday.

Saturday 14, 1919:

John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown depart St. John's, Newfoundland on the first nonstop transatlantic flight.

Wednesday 14, 1905:

Battleship Potemkin uprising: Sailors start a mutiny aboard the Battleship Potemkin, denouncing the crimes of autocracy, demanding liberty and an end to war. (See also Eisenstein's classic film on the subject, The Battleship Potemkin).

Thursday 14, 1900:

The Reichstag approves a second law that allows the expansion of the German navy.

Friday 14, 1872:

Trade unions are legalised in Canada.

Sunday 14, 1863:

American Civil War: Battle of Second Winchester – A Union garrison is defeated by the Army of Northern Virginia in the Shenandoah Valley town of Winchester, Virginia.

Sunday 14, 1846:

Anglo settlers in Sonoma, California, start a rebellion against Mexico and proclaim the California Republic.

Friday 14, 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."

Sunday 14, 1789:

Mutiny on the Bounty: HMAV Bounty mutiny survivors including Captain William Bligh and 18 others reach Timor after a nearly 4,000 mile journey in an open boat.

Saturday 14, 1777:

Stars and Stripes adopted by Congress as the Flag of the United States.

Wednesday 14, 1775:

American Revolutionary War: The United States Army is established by the Continental Congress.

Sunday 14, 1648:

Margaret Jones is hanged in Boston for witchcraft in the first such execution for the Massachusetts colony.

Wednesday 14, 1645:

English Civil War: Battle of Naseby – 12,000 Royalist forces are beaten by 15,000 Parliamentarian soldiers.

Thursday 14, 1381:

King Richard II of England meets the leaders of Peasants' Revolt.

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