On this day in History - Jun 14

1381 - King Richard II of England meets the leaders of Peasants Revolt.
1381 - Simon Sudbury, dies. Archbishop of Canterbury
1529 - Archduke Ferdinand II of Austria, was born. Regent of Tyrol and Further Austria
1642 - Saskia van Uylenburg, dies (b. 1612). Wife of Rembrandt van Rijn
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.
1671 - Tomaso Albinoni, was born (d. 1751). Italian composer.
1726 - Thomas Pennant was born (d. 16 Dec 1798). Welsh naturalist and traveller, one of the leading zoologists of his time.
1736 - Charles Augustin de Coulomb, was born (d. 23 Aug 1806). French physicist best known for the formulation of Coulomb's law, which states that the force between two electrical charges is proportional to the product of the charges and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them.
1746 Colin Maclaurin, dies. Scottish mathematician born in February 1698. In 1742 he published Treatise of fluxions, the first systematic exposition of Newton's methods written as a reply to Berkeley's attack on the calculus for its lack of rigorous foundations.
1775 - American Revolutionary War: The United States Army is established by the Continental Congress.
1777 - Stars and Stripes adopted by Congress as the Flag of the United States.
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.
1800 - Jean-Baptiste Kleber (47) was murdered. French general, architect.
1801 - Heber C. Kimball, was born (d. 1868). Mormon church leader.
1801 - Benedict Arnold, dies (b. 1741). American general.
1811 - Harriet Beecher Stowe, was born (d. 1896). American author. Uncle Tom's Cabin
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."
1825 - Pierre Charles L'Enfant, dies. French architect
1832 - Nikolaus Otto, was born (d. 1891). Engineer.
1835 - Nascimento de Nikolai Rubinstein. Pianista russo.
1837 - Giacomo Leopardi, dies (b. 1798). Italian writer.
1846 - Bear Flag Revolt begins - American settlers in Sonoma, California start a rebellion against Mexico and proclaim the California Republic.
1856 - Andrey Andreyevich Markov, was born (d. 20 Jul 1922). Russian mathematician who helped to develop the theory of stochastic processes, especially those called Markov chains, sequences of random variables in which the future variable is determined by the present variable but is independent of the way in which the present state arose from its predecessors.
1862 - John Ulric Nef was born (d. 13 Aug 1915). Swiss-American chemist
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.
1864 - Alois Alzheimer, was born (d. 19 Dec 1915). German psychiatrist who recognized the disease named after him. At a meeting German psychiatrists in Nov 1906, Alzheimer reported a case of an his patient. The title of his lecture was Über eiene eigenartige Erkrankung der Hirnrinde (On a peculiar disorder of the cerebral cortex). Later on, at the suggestion of Emil Kraepelin, presenile dementia was designated "Alzheimer's disease." This disease is a progressive, degenerative disorder that affects the brain.
1864 - General Leonidas Pope dies.
1868 - Karl Landsteiner was born (d. 26 Jun 1943). Austrian immunologist and pathologist, who received the 1930 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the major blood groups and development of the ABO system of blood typing that much reduced risk and made blood transfusion a routine medical practice.
1872 - Trade unions legalised in Canada.
1876 - Elkanah Billings dies (b. 5 May 1820). Canadian geologist and paleontologist, who was the first Canadian paleontologist. For three years as the editor of the Ottawa Citizen, he wrote a series of articles on science, including geology and paleontology.
1877 - Jane Bathori, was born (d. 1970). Opera singer.
1883 - Edward FitzGerald, dies (b. 1809). Poet.
1894 - Muere el pintor Federico Madrazo.
1899 - Yasunari Kawabata, was born (d. 1972). Japanese writer.
1900 - Hawaii becomes a United States territory.
1900 - The Reichstag approves a second law that allows the expansion of the German navy.
1901 - Clarence Day, was born. Hockey player.
1903 - Alonzo Church, was born. Mathematican and logician
1906 - Margaret Bourke-White, was born (d. 1971). American photojournalist.
1907 - Women in Norway won the right to vote.
1909 - Burl Ives, was born (d. 1995). American musician.
1909 - Morte, no Rio de Janeiro, de Affonso Penna (Affonso Augusto Moreira Penna), 7º Presidente do Brasil. Seu vice, Nilo Peçanha, assume a presidência.
1910 - Rudolf Kempe, was born (d. 1976). German conductor.
1910 - A Maçonaria decide nomear uma «comissão de resistência» encarregada de colaborar d forma mais activa com a Carbonária.
1912 - E. Cuyler Hammond was born (d. 3 Nov 1986). Scientist who was the first to link smoking with lung cancer. In 1957, while research director of the American Cancer Society, Hammond told congressional investigators that cigarette smoking is a cause of lung cancer and has a severe effect on a number of other diseases.
1919 ou 1916?- Dorothy McGuire,was born (d. 2001). American actress (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Gentlemen’s Agreement, The Young and the Restless, Rich Man, Poor Man, Little Women [TV: 1979], The Last Best Year);
1917 - Atle Selberg was born. Norwegian-born mathematician who is one of the foremost analytic number theorists.He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1950 for his work in number theory on generalisations of the sieve methods of Viggo Brun. In 1986 he won the Wolf Prize.
1919 - Sam Wanamaker, was born (d. 1993). Actor.
1919 - Nascimento, em São Paulo, de Linda Batista (Florinda Grandino de Oliveira), atriz brasileira e cantora da MPB.
1919 - Gene Barry, [Eugene Klass] was born in New York, N. Y. . Actor (Bat Masterson, Burke’s Law, The Name of the Game, War of the Worlds, A Cry for Love, Our Miss Brooks, La Cage aux Folles ).
1919 - John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown depart St. John's, Newfoundland on the first nonstop transatlantic flight.
1920 - Max Weber, dies (b. 1864). German sociologist.
1922 - Kevin Roche, was born. Architect.
1922 - Fundação do Sport Clube Lusitânia - Portugal
1924 - Sir James Whyte Black was born. British pharmacologist who (along with George H. Hitchings and Gertrude B. Elion) received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1988 for his development of two important drugs, propranolol and cimetidine.
1925 - Pierre Salinger, was born. Political operative
1926 - Hermann Kant, was born. Author
1926 - Don Newcombe, was born. Baseball player
1926 - Mary Stevenson Cassatt, dies (b. 22 May 1844 /43??). Expatriate US Impressionist painter, specialized in Children
1927 - President Porfirio Diaz of Nicaragua signed a treaty with the U.S. allowing American intervention in his country.
1927 - Jerome K. Jerome, dies (b. 1859). Author.
1928 - Emmeline Pankhurst, dies (b. 1857). Feminist.
1928 - Che Guevara, (Ernesto Guevara de la Serna),was born (d. 1967). Argentine revolutionary.
1929 - Cy Coleman, was born. Composer .
1932 - Dorimène Roy Desjardins, dies. Business pioneer.
1933 - Jerzy Kosinski, was born (d. 1999). Author.
1936 - Maxim Gorky, dies (b. 1868). Russian author.
1936 - G. K. Chesterton, dies (b. 1874). English author.
1937 - Pennsylvania becomes the first (and only) of the United States to celebrate Flag Day officially as a state holiday.
1940 - Ben Davidson was born. American football player.
1940 - World War II: Paris falls under German occupation. O exército alemão entra em Paris, previamente tornada cidade livre.
1940 - World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Naval Expansion Act into law which aims to increase the United States Navy's tonnage by 11 %.
1940 - Holocaust: A group of 728 Polish political prisoners from Tarnów become the first residents of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
1941- Mass deportations by Soviet Union authorities take place in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
1942 - Anne Frank begins to keep a diary.
1944 - Muere el dramaturgo español Joaquín Álvarez Quintero.
1945 - Rod Argent, was born. Musician (The Zombies)
1945 - Nascimento em Porto Alegre - RS, de Carlos Reichenbach (Carlos Oscar Reichenbach Filho), actor e director do cinema brasileiro.
1945 - Jörg Immendorf, was born. Painter
1946 - Marla Gibbs, was born. Actress
1946 - Donald Trump, was born. Business tycoon.
1946- Federigo Enriques, 75, Italian mathematician who made important contributions to geometry and to the history and philosophy of mathematics.
1946 - John Logie Baird, dies (b. 1888). Television pioneer.
1947 - Barry Melton, dies (b. 1947). Guitarist (Country Joe and the Fish).
1949 - Jimmy Lea, was born. Musician (Slade)
1949 - Harry Turtledove, was born. Science fiction author.

1949 - The state of Vietnam was formed.
1950 - Rowan Williams, was born. Archbishop of Canterbury
1951 - Paul Boateng, was born. British politician
1951 - UNIVAC I is dedicated by U.S. Census Bureau.
1952 - The keel is laid for the nuclear submarine USS Nautilus.
1952 - Pat Summitt, was born. Basketball Hall of Fame women's basketball coach
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.
1955 - Chile becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1958 - Eric Heiden, was born. Speed skater
1961 - Boy George, was born. Singer (Culture Club).
1961 - Sam Perkins‘The Big Smooth’ was born. Basketball player: Univ. of North Carolina [all-American], Olympic gold medalist [1984], Dallas Mavericks, Los Angeles Lakers, Seattle SuperSonics, Indiana Pacers.
1962 - Anna Slesersby becomes the first victim of Albert DeSalvo, better known as the Boston Strangler.
1966 - The Vatican announces the abolition of the index librorum prohibitum (index of prohibited books), which was originally instituted in 1557.
1967 - Mariner program: Mariner 5 is launched toward Venus.
1967 - The People's Republic of China tests its first hydrogen bomb.
1967 - Eddie Eagan, dies (b. 1897). American sportsman.
1968 - Yasmine Bleeth, was born. Actress (Nash Bridges, Baywatch, Titans)
1968 - Desaparece o poeta italiano Salvatore Quasimodo (n. 20 Ago 1901). Prémio Nobel da Literatura em 1959 "for his lyrical poetry, which with classical fire expresses the tragic experience of life in our own times" ( See here his speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1959).
1969 - Steffi Graf, was born. German tennis player champ: Australian Open [1988, 1989, 1990, 1994], French Open [1987, 1988, 1993], Wimbledon [1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993], U.S. Open [1988, 1989, 1993].
1971 - Alexandra Castillo was born in Santiago, Chile. Actress.
1972 - Martin Dies, dies. American politician.
1972 - the insecticide DDT was banned from use in the U.S. after 31 Dec 1972, by executive order of the Environmental Protection Agency.
1976 - The trial begins at Oxford Crown Court of Donald Neilson, the killer known as the Black Panther.
1976 - The Gong Show debuts on NBC.
1977 - Chris McAlister, was born. American football player.
1977 - Nascimento de Camila Pitanga. Actriz brasileira.
1982 - Lang Lang, was born. Pianist.
1982 - Falklands War ends: Argentine forces in the capital Port Stanley unconditionally surrender to British forces.
1985 - TWA Flight 847 is hijacked by Hezbollah.
1986 - Jorge Luis Borges, dies (b. 1899). Argentine writer.
1986 - Alan Jay Lerner, dies (b. 1918). American composer.
1989 - Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor is arrested in Beverly Hills, California after slapping a motorcycle police officer. She later complains that the handling she received "was like Nazi Germany". Ultimately, Gabor is sentenced to 72 hours in jail.
1991 - Dame Peggy Ashcroft, dies (b. 1907). Actress.
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.
1993 - Realiza-se um referendo no Malawi pelo qual é aprovado o multipartidarismo neste país.
1994 - Primeiro vôo do Boeing 777-200
1994 - The New York Rangers win the Stanley Cup over the Vancouver Canucks 3-2 in Game 7, breaking a 54-year drought.
1994 - Henry Mancini, dies (b. 1924). Academy Award-winning composer. On Apr 14, 2004, the US Postal Service issued a stamp in his honor.
1995 - Roger Zelazny, dies (b. 1937). Science fiction author.
1995 - Rory Gallagher, dies (b. 1949). Musician and composer.
1997 - Richard Jaeckel, dies (b. 1926). Actor.
1997 - El presidente croata Franjo Tudjman [14 May 1922 – 10 Dec 1999], que lidera la nacionalista-conservadora Unión Democrática Croata (HDZ), es reelegido para un nuevo mandato de cinco años.
2000 - No maior passo pela paz desde o fim da Guerra da Coréia, os líderes da Coréia do Norte e do Sul assinam um acordo prometendo trabalhar pela reconciliação e por uma eventual reunificação.
2002 - Portugal perde com a Coreia do Sul por 1-0 e é afastada da fase seguinte do Campeonato do Mundo de Futebol de 2002. Para além disso João Pinto é expulso e acusado de agredir o árbitro.
2002 - June Jordan, dies (b. 1936). American writer and teacher.
2002 - Twelve are killed and 50 injured by a car bomb explosion in front of the U.S. consulate in Karachi, Pakistan.
2003 - The Los Angeles, USA radio station KROQ opens the eleventh annual of the KROQ Weenie Roast with AFI, The Ataris, Blur, Chevelle, Deftones, Finch, Foo Fighters, Godsmack, Good Charlotte, Hot Hot Heat, Interpol, Jane's Addiction, Less Than Jake, Liam Lynch, Staind, Sum 41, Thrice, The Transplants, The Used, The White Stripes, and Pete Yorn.
2003 - End of two days of referendum, by which voters in the Czech Republic endorse entry of their country into the European Union.
2004 - Ulrich Inderbinen, dies (b. 1900). Mountain guide.
Flag Day (United States)
Mother's Day (Afghanistan)
Roman Empire - eighth day of the Vestalia in honor of Vesta
Dave Day - Memorable Daves celebrated around the world
Roman Catholic Church - Feast of Saint Basil the Great, doctor and patron of hospital administrators
International Weblogger's Day - Celebration of the work of webloggers around the world