WillDekkard
06-17-2010, 03:45 AM
Hear are some notable events that happened on This Date in History
- June 14th
c/p from Wikipedia
* 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.
* 1287 Kublai Khan defeated the force of Nayan and other traditionalist Borjigin princes in East Mongolia and Manchuria.
* 1381 Richard II in England meets leaders of Peasants' Revolt on Blackheath. The Tower of London is stormed by rebels who enter without resistance.
* 1645 English Civil War: Battle of Naseby 12,000 Royalist forces are beaten by 15,000 Parliamentarian soldiers.
* 1648 Margaret Jones is hanged in Boston for witchcraft in the first such execution for the Massachusetts colony.
* 1775 American Revolutionary War: the Continental Army is established by the Continental Congress, marking the birth of the United States Army.
* 1777 The Stars and Stripes is adopted by Congress as the Flag of the United States.
* 1789 Mutiny on the Bounty: Bounty mutiny survivors including Captain William Bligh and 18 others reach Timor after a nearly 7,400 km (4,000-mile) journey in an open boat.
* 1789 Whiskey distilled from maize is first produced by American clergyman the Rev Elijah Craig. It is named Bourbon because Rev Craig lived in Bourbon County, Kentucky.
* 1800 The French Army of First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte defeats the Austrians at the Battle of Marengo in Northern Italy and re-conquers Italy.
* 1807 Emperor Napoleon I's French Grande Armee defeats the Russian Army at the Battle of Friedland in Poland (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.
* 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".
* 1839 Henley Royal Regatta: the village of Henley, on the River Thames in Oxfordshire, stages its first Regatta.
* 1846 Bear Flag Revolt begins Anglo settlers in Sonoma, California, start a rebellion against Mexico and proclaim the California Republic.
* 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.
* 1863 Second Assault on the Confederate works at the Siege of Port Hudson during the American Civil War.
* 1872 Trade unions are legalised in Canada.
* 1900 Hawaii becomes a United States territory.
* 1900 The Reichstag approves a second law that allows the expansion of the German navy.
* 1907 Norway adopts female suffrage.
* 1919 John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown depart St. John's, Newfoundland on the first nonstop transatlantic flight.
* 1926 Brazil leaves the League of Nations
* 1937 Pennsylvania becomes the first (and only) state of the United States to celebrate Flag Day officially as a state holiday.
* 1937 U. S. House of Representatives passes the 1937 Marihuana Tax Act.
* 1938 Action Comics issue one is released, introducing Superman.
* 1940 World War II: Paris falls under German occupation, and Allied forces retreat.
* 1940 The Soviet Union presents an ultimatum to Lithuania resulting in Lithuanian loss of independence
* 1940 A group of 728 Polish political prisoners from Tarnσw become the first residents of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
* 1941 June deportation, the first major wave of Soviet mass deportations and murder of Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians, begins.
* 1942 Anne Frank begins to keep a diary.
* 1951 UNIVAC I is dedicated by U.S. Census Bureau.
* 1952 The keel is laid for the nuclear submarine USS Nautilus.
* 1954 U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law that places the words "under God" into the United States' Pledge of Allegiance.
* 1955 Chile becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
* 1959 A group of Dominican exiles with leftist tendencies that departed from Cuba land in the Dominican Republic with the intent of deposing Rafael Leσnidas Trujillo Molina. Save for four of them, all are killed and/or executed by Trujillo's army.
* 1962 The European Space Research Organisation is established in Paris later becoming the European Space Agency.
* 1962 The New Mexico Supreme Court in the case of Montoya v. Bolack, 70 N.M. 196, prohibits state and local governments from denying Indians the right to vote because they live on a reservation.
* 1966 The Vatican announces the abolition of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum (index of prohibited books), which was originally instituted in 1557.
* 1967 Mariner program: Mariner 5 is launched toward Venus.
* 1976 The trial begins at Oxford Crown Court of Donald Neilson, the killer known as the Black Panther.
* 1982 The Falklands War ends: Argentine forces in the capital Stanley unconditionally surrender to British forces.
* 1985 TWA Flight 847 is hijacked by Hezbollah shortly after take-off from Athens, Greece.
* 1990 Miners from Jiu Valley are called to Bucharest by President Ion Iliescu to quell demonstrations in University Square by anti-government protesters.
* 2001 China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan form the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.
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- June 14th
c/p from Wikipedia
* 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.
* 1287 Kublai Khan defeated the force of Nayan and other traditionalist Borjigin princes in East Mongolia and Manchuria.
* 1381 Richard II in England meets leaders of Peasants' Revolt on Blackheath. The Tower of London is stormed by rebels who enter without resistance.
* 1645 English Civil War: Battle of Naseby 12,000 Royalist forces are beaten by 15,000 Parliamentarian soldiers.
* 1648 Margaret Jones is hanged in Boston for witchcraft in the first such execution for the Massachusetts colony.
* 1775 American Revolutionary War: the Continental Army is established by the Continental Congress, marking the birth of the United States Army.
* 1777 The Stars and Stripes is adopted by Congress as the Flag of the United States.
* 1789 Mutiny on the Bounty: Bounty mutiny survivors including Captain William Bligh and 18 others reach Timor after a nearly 7,400 km (4,000-mile) journey in an open boat.
* 1789 Whiskey distilled from maize is first produced by American clergyman the Rev Elijah Craig. It is named Bourbon because Rev Craig lived in Bourbon County, Kentucky.
* 1800 The French Army of First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte defeats the Austrians at the Battle of Marengo in Northern Italy and re-conquers Italy.
* 1807 Emperor Napoleon I's French Grande Armee defeats the Russian Army at the Battle of Friedland in Poland (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.
* 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".
* 1839 Henley Royal Regatta: the village of Henley, on the River Thames in Oxfordshire, stages its first Regatta.
* 1846 Bear Flag Revolt begins Anglo settlers in Sonoma, California, start a rebellion against Mexico and proclaim the California Republic.
* 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.
* 1863 Second Assault on the Confederate works at the Siege of Port Hudson during the American Civil War.
* 1872 Trade unions are legalised in Canada.
* 1900 Hawaii becomes a United States territory.
* 1900 The Reichstag approves a second law that allows the expansion of the German navy.
* 1907 Norway adopts female suffrage.
* 1919 John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown depart St. John's, Newfoundland on the first nonstop transatlantic flight.
* 1926 Brazil leaves the League of Nations
* 1937 Pennsylvania becomes the first (and only) state of the United States to celebrate Flag Day officially as a state holiday.
* 1937 U. S. House of Representatives passes the 1937 Marihuana Tax Act.
* 1938 Action Comics issue one is released, introducing Superman.
* 1940 World War II: Paris falls under German occupation, and Allied forces retreat.
* 1940 The Soviet Union presents an ultimatum to Lithuania resulting in Lithuanian loss of independence
* 1940 A group of 728 Polish political prisoners from Tarnσw become the first residents of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
* 1941 June deportation, the first major wave of Soviet mass deportations and murder of Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians, begins.
* 1942 Anne Frank begins to keep a diary.
* 1951 UNIVAC I is dedicated by U.S. Census Bureau.
* 1952 The keel is laid for the nuclear submarine USS Nautilus.
* 1954 U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law that places the words "under God" into the United States' Pledge of Allegiance.
* 1955 Chile becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
* 1959 A group of Dominican exiles with leftist tendencies that departed from Cuba land in the Dominican Republic with the intent of deposing Rafael Leσnidas Trujillo Molina. Save for four of them, all are killed and/or executed by Trujillo's army.
* 1962 The European Space Research Organisation is established in Paris later becoming the European Space Agency.
* 1962 The New Mexico Supreme Court in the case of Montoya v. Bolack, 70 N.M. 196, prohibits state and local governments from denying Indians the right to vote because they live on a reservation.
* 1966 The Vatican announces the abolition of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum (index of prohibited books), which was originally instituted in 1557.
* 1967 Mariner program: Mariner 5 is launched toward Venus.
* 1976 The trial begins at Oxford Crown Court of Donald Neilson, the killer known as the Black Panther.
* 1982 The Falklands War ends: Argentine forces in the capital Stanley unconditionally surrender to British forces.
* 1985 TWA Flight 847 is hijacked by Hezbollah shortly after take-off from Athens, Greece.
* 1990 Miners from Jiu Valley are called to Bucharest by President Ion Iliescu to quell demonstrations in University Square by anti-government protesters.
* 2001 China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan form the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.
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