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1594 Jun 14 |
Orlando di Lasso (b.~1532), Franco-Flemish composer, died in Munich. He was the most famous and influential musician in Europe at the end of the 16th century. Along with Palestrina (of the Roman School), he is considered to be the chief representative of the mature polyphonic style of the Franco-Flemish School. Links: Germany, Flanders, Composer, Renaissance 
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1789 Jun 14 |
Captain William Bligh of the HMS Bounty arrived in Timor in a small boat. Links: Timor-Leste
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1800 Jun 14 |
French General Napoleon Bonaparte pushed the forces of Austria out of Italy in the Battle of Marengo. In 2007 the sword he wore was auctioned off for over $6.4 million. Links: Austria, Italy, France
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1841 Jun 14 |
The first Canadian parliament opened in Kingston. Links: Canada
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1856 Jun 14 |
Ahmad Raza Khan was born in Bareilly, Rohilkhand, British India, a city now in Uttar Pradesh, India. He later founded the Barelvi tradition of Islam. Deobandis and Barelvis are the two major groups of Muslims in the Subcontinent apart from the Shia. Barelvi Hanafis deem Deobandis to be kaafir. Those hostile to the Barelvis deprecated them as the shrine-worshipping, the grave-worshiping, ignorant Barelvis. Links: India, Islam, Religion
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1877 Jun 14 |
Two Nez Perce Indians killed 3 white men. Links: AmerIndian
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1919 Jun 14 |
John William Alcot and Arthur Witten Brown took off from St. John's, Newfoundland, for Clifden, Ireland, on the first nonstop transatlantic flight. Links: Canada
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1919 Jun 14 |
Pilot John William Alcock (1892-1919) and navigator Arthur Witten Brown (1886-1948) took off from St. John’s, Newfoundland, for Clifden, Ireland, on the first nonstop transatlantic flight. The flight lasted 16 hours and 28 minutes and carried the first transatlantic airmail. They won a 10 thousand pound prize, first offered by the Daily Mail in 1913. Links: Canada, Britain, Ireland, Aviation
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1928 Jun 14 |
British suffragette Emily Pankhurst (b.1858) died. Links: Britain, Women
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1932 Jun 14 |
Representative Edward Eslick died on the floor of the House of Representatives while pleading for the passage of the bonus bill for US veterans. Links: USA, DC
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1935 Jun 14 |
A commission of neutral nations (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru, and the United States) declared an armistice in the Chaco War between Bolivia and Paraguay. A definite settlement was finally reached in 1938. Links: Bolivia
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1941 Jun 14 |
Over 10,000 people (10,861 according to some sources) were deported as whole families from Estonia. About 230 Estonian officers serving in the 22nd Estonian Territorial Corps of the Red Army were imprisoned at the summer camp of the Estonian Army in southeastern Estonia. Most of them were sent to the Norilsk prison camp, where most of them either died or were executed. Links: Russia, Estonia, USSR
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1941 Jun 14 |
The Russian secret police gathered up some 40,000 men, women and children and exiled them to Siberia in cattle cars. This was the first of many shipments. Some 10,000 Estonians, more than 15,000 Latvians and between 16,000 and 18,000 Lithuanians were herded onto cattle trains and transported to the far eastern reaches of the Soviet Union, where many of them died. Links: Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, USSR
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1943 Jun 14 |
A US Army B-17 took off from Mackay, Australia, and crashed in fog at nearby Bakers Creek, killing 40 of the 41 servicemen crammed into the bomb bay and crannies of the aircraft. Wartime censorship restrictions suppressed news of the crash. Links: Australia
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1943 Jun 14 |
The US Supreme Court, in West Virginia Board of Education v. Barnette, ruled schoolchildren could not be compelled to salute the flag of the United States and say the Pledge of Allegiance. Links: USA, Supreme Court
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1945 Jun 14 |
Burma was liberated by the British. Links: Britain,
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1949 Jun 14 |
The State of Vietnam was formed. Links: Vietnam
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1954 Jun 14 |
President Eisenhower signed an order adding the words "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance. On Feb 7 Eisenhower had attended a service where Rev. George M. Docherty (d.2008 at 97), a Scotland-born pastor of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, in Washington, DC, repeated his 1952 sermon saying the pledge should acknowledge God. Links: USA, EisenhowerD
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1956 Jun 14 |
British forces left the Suez. Links: Egypt
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1965 Jun 14 |
A military triumvirate took control in Saigon, South Vietnam. Links: Vietnam
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1968 Jun 14 |
Four of the Boston Five were convicted of conspiracy in their organized draft protest. Mitchell Goodman (1924-1997) organized the protest that included the burning of draft cards. Dr. Benjamin Spock (1903-1998), American pediatrician, was one of the defendants and the trial came to be known as the "Spock trial." The convictions were later overturned. Links: USA, Massachusetts
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1974 Jun 14 |
Leonard K. Firestone (1907-1996), son of Harvey Firestone (1868-1938) - the founder of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., began serving as US ambassador to Belgium. He continued as ambassador there until January 20, 1977. Links: Belgium, USA
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1982 Jun 14 |
Argentine forces surrendered to British troops on the disputed Falkland Islands. 970 people were killed including 255 British soldiers. Argentine dictator Leopaldo Galtieri led the initial attack in the 72-day war. The dead in the ten-week war included 712 Argentines, 255 Britons and 3 islanders. In 2003 it was revealed that some British ships carried nuclear depth charges. In 2005 Lawrence Freedman authored “The Official History of the Falklands Campaign, Volumes I and II. Links: Argentina, Britain, Falkland Islands
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1985 Jun 14 |
The 17-day hijack ordeal of TWA Flight 847 began as a pair of Lebanese Shiite Muslim extremists seized the plane with 104 Americans shortly after takeoff from Athens, Greece. The hijackers killed Petty Officer Robert Dean Stethem and dumped his body on the tarmac in Beirut. In 2002 Stethem’s family was awarded $21.4 million in compensatory damages from the US Treasury. In 1987 Mohammed Ali Hamadi was arrested at the Frankfurt airport, when customs officials discovered liquid explosives in his luggage. The Lebanese man was convicted and served a life sentence in Germany for the 1985 hijacking of a TWA jetliner and killing of a US Navy diver. In 2005 he returned to Lebanon after being paroled in Germany. Links: USA, Germany, Greece, Aviation, Lebanon, Hijacking
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1985 Jun 14 |
European states signed the Schengen Agreement, which allowed for the abolition of systematic border controls between the participating countries. The agreement was incorporated into EU law in 1997. Links: EU
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1986 Jun 14 |
Jorge Luis Borges (b.1899), Argentine author (Book of Sand), died in Geneva. In 1998 a new English translation by Andrew Hurley of his "Collected Fictions" was published. In 1999 Alexander Coleman edited "Selected Poems." Also in 1999 Eliot Weinberger edited "Selected Non-Fictions." In 2004 Edwin Williamson authored “Borges: A Life.” Links: Argentina, Switzerland, Writer, Biography
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1986 Jun 14 |
Alan Jay Lerner (67), Broadway librettist, died in NY. Links: USA, NYC, Theater
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1986 Jun 14 |
Marlin Perkins (b.1905), zoologist and TV host (Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom), died. Links: USA, TV
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1987 Jun 14 |
The Los Angeles Lakers won the National Basketball Association title with a 106-93 home-court victory over the defending champion Boston Celtics. Links: USA, California, Basketball
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1987 Jun 14 |
In West Germany Willy Brandt (1913-1992) made his farewell speech as chairman of the SPD. Links:
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1988 Jun 14 |
Howard Baker made the surprise announcement that he would resign as President Reagan's White House chief of staff on July 1 because of "personal circumstances." Links: USA, ReaganR
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1989 Jun 14 |
Former President Reagan received an honorary knighthood from Britain's Queen Elizabeth II. Links: Britain, USA, ReaganR
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1989 Jun 14 |
US House Democrats chose Richard Gephardt to be majority leader and William H. Gray to be majority whip, the highest leadership position in Congress held by an African American. Links: USA, Black History
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1989 Jun 14 |
Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor was arrested for slapping a Beverly Hills motorcycle patrolman. Links: USA, California, Filmstar, Mad Woman
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1990 Jun 14 |
The US Supreme Court upheld, by a six-to-three vote, police checkpoints that examine drivers for signs of intoxication. Links: USA, Supreme Court, Drunk
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1991 Jun 14 |
The US government reported consumer prices had risen a modest three-tenths of one percent in May. Links: USA, Economics
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1991 Jun 14 |
The space shuttle "Columbia" returned from a medical research mission. Links: USA, NASA
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1991 Jun 14 |
Dame Peggy Ashcroft (83), film and stage, Actress died in London. Links: Filmstar, Theater
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1992 Jun 14 |
In Sokolina, Bosnia, a massacre occurred that later yielded 47 bodies from a mass grave. Survivors later said that Serbs blew up a busload of Muslim men who had been told that they were on their way to a prisoner exchange. Links: Bosnia, Serbia
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1992 Jun 14 |
The Earth Summit concluded in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The world’s industrial nations reached an agreement to reduce CO2 emissions, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). By 1996 it was clear that the goals were not being met. Links: Brazil, Environment, UN
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1992 Jun 14 |
Chicago Bulls won the NBA championship, beating the Portland Trail Blazers in Game Six, 97-93. Links: USA, Chicago, Basketball
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1992 Jun 14 |
Mona Van Duyn (1921-2004) became the first woman to be named America's poet laureate by the Library of Congress. Links: USA, Poet
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1993 Jun 14 |
President Clinton chose Ruth Bader Ginsburg, an advocate of women's rights, to serve on the Supreme Court, surprising observers who had predicted that Clinton's choice would be Stephen Breyer. Links: USA, ClintonB, Supreme Court
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1994 Jun 14 |
The New York Rangers won hockey's Stanley Cup for the first time in 54 years, defeating the Vancouver Canucks. Links: New York, Hockey
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1994 Jun 14 |
President Clinton unveiled a $9.3 billion welfare reform plan. Links: USA, ClintonB
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1994 Jun 14 |
Henry Mancini (70), Academy Award-winning composer, died in Beverly Hills, Calif. On Apr 14, 2004, the US Postal Service issued a stamp in his honor. Links: USA, Postage, Pop&Rock
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1994 Jun 14 |
Marcel Mouloudji (b.1922), Algeria-born French actor/chansonnier, died in Paris. Links: France, Filmstar, Theater, Pop&Rock
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1995 Jun 14 |
Shamil Basayev, Chechen commander, led a hostage raid on the a Russian hospital in Budyonnovsk [Budennovsk]. Chechen rebels took some 1,500 people hostage in a hospital in Russia. After a 4-day standoff Sergei Stepashin ordered troops to storm the hospital and the rebels escaped with some 100 hostages. Some 100-150 people were killed in the fighting. Links: Russia, Chechnya
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1995 Jun 14 |
Stephen Yokich was elected president of the United Auto Workers at the union’s triennial convention in Anaheim, California. Links: USA, California, Labor
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1996 Jun 14 |
Victor Gonchar, Lukashenko’s most active critic in parliament, was fired upon by police. Links: Belarus
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1996 Jun 14 |
Leaders of Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia signed an agreement to reduce arsenals of heavy weapons. Links: Bosnia, Croatia
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1996 Jun 14 |
Bulgaria passed legislation to give joint ventures at least 50% foreign owned a five year tax holiday, and required that half of the forgiven tax sums be invested in the same businesses. Links: Bulgaria
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1996 Jun 14 |
The FBI disclosed the White House had obtained bureau background reports on at least 408 people without justification. Links: USA, FBI
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1996 Jun 14 |
Money Magazine ranked Madison, Wis., as the best place to live among the nation’s 300 metropolitan areas. Links: USA, Wisconsin, Magazine
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1996 Jun 14 |
A new medium priced home in the US was priced at $135,800. Links: USA, Real Estate
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1996 Jun 14 |
Two teams of scientists announced the discovery of the human gene on chromosome 9 that may cause basal cell carcinoma, a common form of skin cancer. Links: BioTech, Cancer
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1996 Jun 14 |
In Belarus Victor Gonchar, Lukashenko’s most active critic in parliament, was fired upon by police. Links: Belarus
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1996 Jun 14 |
In Bulgaria legislation was passed to give joint ventures at least 50% foreign owned a five year tax holiday, and required that half of the forgiven tax sums be invested in the same businesses. Links: Bulgaria
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1996 Jun 14 |
In Malaysia issues that had blocked the building of the $6.02 billion Bakun hydroelectric dam in Sarawak state on Borneo were resolved. Links: Malaysia, Environment
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1996 Jun 14 |
Sumitomo Corp. announced that it had lost $1.8 billion over the last ten years in unauthorized trades done by head copper trader Yasuo Hamanaka. World copper markets were thrown into turmoil following disclosure by Sumitomo Corp. that a rogue trader had hidden multibillion-dollar losses. Links: Japan, Corp. Scandal
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