June 14 facts for kids

June 14 is the 165th day of the year (166th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 200 days remain until the end of the year. June 14th is a day filled with many important events throughout history, from the founding of cities to major battles and scientific discoveries. It's also a day when many famous people were born or passed away, and when special holidays are celebrated around the world.

Events

Historic Moments (Before 1600)

• 1158 – The city of Munich was founded by Henry the Lion in Germany.
• 1216 – During the First Barons' War, Prince Louis of France captured Winchester and much of England from King John.
• 1276 – The remaining court of the Song Dynasty crowned Emperor Duanzong while hiding from Mongol invaders.
• 1285 – In Vietnam, Prince Trần Quang Khải led his forces to destroy most of the invading Mongol navy.
• 1287 – Kublai Khan defeated a group of princes who were against him in Mongolia.
• 1381 – King Richard II of England met with leaders of the Peasants' Revolt. Rebels stormed the Tower of London without resistance.
• 1404 – Welsh rebel leader Owain Glyndŵr, who called himself Prince of Wales, joined forces with the French against King Henry IV of England.

Big Changes (1601–1900)

• 1618 – The first Dutch newspaper, Courante uyt Italien, Duytslandt, &c., was printed in Amsterdam.
• 1645 – During the English Civil War, Royalist forces were defeated by Parliamentarian soldiers at the Battle of Naseby.
• 1658 – In the Franco-Spanish War, the French army, led by Turenne, won a big victory over the Spanish at the Battle of the Dunes.
• 1690 – King William III of England arrived in Ireland to face the former King James II of England.
• 1775 – The Continental Army was created by the Continental Congress, marking the start of the United States Armed Forces.
• 1777 – The Second Continental Congress passed the Flag Act of 1777, making the Stars and Stripes the official flag of the United States.
• 1789 – After the Mutiny on the Bounty, Captain William Bligh and 18 others reached Timor after a long journey in an open boat.
• 1800 – First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte's French Army defeated the Austrians at the Battle of Marengo in Italy, taking back control of the region.
• 1807 – Emperor Napoleon's French army defeated the Russian Army at the Battle of Friedland in Poland, ending the War of the Fourth Coalition.
• 1821 – Badi VII, the last king of Sennar, gave up his throne to Ismail Pasha, ending the 300-year-old Sudanese kingdom.
• 1822 – Charles Babbage suggested building a difference engine, an early type of mechanical computer, in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society.
• 1830 – The French colonization of Algeria began as French soldiers landed near Algiers to invade the city.
• 1839 – The village of Henley-on-Thames in England held its first regatta (a series of boat races).
• 1846 – The Bear Flag Revolt began as Anglo settlers in Sonoma, California, started a rebellion against Mexico and declared the California Republic.
• 1863 – During the American Civil War, a Union army was defeated by the Army of Northern Virginia at the Second Battle of Winchester.
• 1863 – A second attack happened on the Confederate defenses at the Siege of Port Hudson during the American Civil War.
• 1872 – Trade unions became legal in Canada.
• 1888 – The White Rajahs' lands became the British protectorate of Sarawak.
• 1900 – Hawaii became a United States territory.
• 1900 – The second German Naval Law called for the Imperial German Navy to double in size, leading to a naval arms race with Britain.

Modern Times (1901–Present)

• 1907 – The National Association for Women's Suffrage helped Norwegian women gain the right to vote in parliamentary elections.
• 1919 – John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown began the first nonstop transatlantic flight from Newfoundland.
• 1926 – Brazil left the League of Nations.
• 1937 – Pennsylvania became the only U.S. state to officially celebrate Flag Day as a state holiday.
• 1940 – World War II: The German occupation of Paris began.
• 1940 – The Soviet Union gave an ultimatum to Lithuania, causing Lithuania to lose its independence.
• 1940 – The first 728 Polish political prisoners arrived at the Auschwitz concentration camp.
• 1941 – The June deportation, a major wave of Soviet mass deportations and killings of people from Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, began.
• 1944 – World War II: The British Army gave up on Operation Perch, their plan to capture the German-occupied town of Caen.
• 1945 – World War II: Filipino soldiers liberated areas in Ilocos Sur and started the Battle of Bessang Pass in Northern Luzon.
• 1949 – Albert II, a rhesus monkey, became the first mammal and first monkey in space by riding a V-2 rocket to a high altitude.
• 1951 – The UNIVAC I, one of the earliest computers, was officially used by the U.S. Census Bureau.
• 1954 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a law adding the words "under God" to the United States Pledge of Allegiance.
• 1955 – Chile joined the Buenos Aires Convention, a copyright treaty.
• 1959 – The Disneyland Monorail System, the first daily operating monorail in the Western Hemisphere, opened in Anaheim, California.
• 1962 – The European Space Research Organisation was created in Paris, which later became the European Space Agency.
• 1966 – The Vatican announced the end of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum ("index of prohibited books"), which had been in place since 1557.
• 1967 – Mariner program: The Mariner 5 spacecraft was launched towards Venus.
• 1982 – Falklands War: Argentine forces in Stanley surrendered to British forces.
• 1985 – Five countries from the European Economic Community signed the Schengen Agreement, creating a free travel zone with no border controls.
• 1986 – The Mindbender roller coaster derailed at Galaxyland in Edmonton, Alberta, killing three riders.
• 1994 – The 1994 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot happened after the New York Rangers defeated the Vancouver Canucks to win the Stanley Cup.
• 2002 – The Near-Earth asteroid 2002 MN passed by Earth at a distance of about one-third of the distance to the Moon.
• 2017 – A tragic fire in a high-rise apartment building in North Kensington, London, UK, resulted in 72 deaths and 74 injuries.

Births

Historic Figures (Before 1900)

• 1444 – Nilakantha Somayaji, an Indian astronomer and mathematician.
• 1479 – Giglio Gregorio Giraldi, an Italian poet and scholar.
• 1529 – Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria.
• 1627 – Johann Abraham Ihle, a German astronomer.
• 1691 – Jan Francisci, a Slovak organist and composer.
• 1726 – Thomas Pennant, a Welsh ornithologist and historian.
• 1730 – Antonio Sacchini, an Italian composer and teacher.
• 1736 – Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, a French physicist and engineer known for his work on electricity.
• 1763 – Simon Mayr, a German composer and teacher.
• 1780 – Henry Salt, an English historian and diplomat.
• 1796 – Nikolai Brashman, a Czech-Russian mathematician.
• 1798 – František Palacký, a Czech historian and politician.
• 1801 – Heber C. Kimball, an American religious leader.
• 1811 – Harriet Beecher Stowe, an American author and activist, famous for Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• 1819 – Henry Gardner, an American politician who was the 23rd Governor of Massachusetts.
• 1820 – John Bartlett, an American author and publisher.
• 1829 – Bernard Petitjean, a French Roman Catholic missionary to Japan.
• 1838 – Yamagata Aritomo, a Japanese Field Marshal and politician, who served as Prime Minister.
• 1840 – William F. Nast, an American businessman.
• 1848 – Bernard Bosanquet, an English philosopher.
• 1848 – Max Erdmannsdörfer, a German conductor and composer.
• 1855 – Robert M. La Follette, an American lawyer and politician, who was the 20th Governor of Wisconsin.
• 1856 – Andrey Markov, a Russian mathematician.
• 1862 – John Ulric Nef, a Swiss-American chemist.
• 1864 – Alois Alzheimer, a German psychiatrist and neuropathologist, who studied Alzheimer's disease.
• 1868 – Karl Landsteiner, an Austrian biologist and physician who won a Nobel Prize for discovering blood groups.
• 1868 – Anna B. Eckstein, a German peace activist.
• 1870 – Sophia of Prussia.
• 1871 – Hermanus Brockmann, a Dutch rower.
• 1871 – Jacob Ellehammer, a Danish mechanic and engineer.
• 1872 – János Szlepecz, a Slovene priest and author.
• 1877 – Jane Bathori, a French soprano.
• 1877 – Ida Maclean, a British biochemist, the first woman admitted to the London Chemical Society.
• 1878 – Léon Thiébaut, a French fencer.
• 1879 – Arthur Duffey, an American sprinter and coach.
• 1884 – John McCormack, an Irish tenor and actor.
• 1884 – Georg Zacharias, a German swimmer.
• 1890 – May Allison, an American actress.
• 1894 – Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg.
• 1894 – José Carlos Mariátegui.
• 1894 – W. W. E. Ross, a Canadian geophysicist and poet.
• 1895 – Jack Adams, a Canadian-American ice hockey player, coach, and manager.
• 1898 – Theobald Wolfe Tone FitzGerald, an Irish Army Officer and painter.
• 1900 – Ruth Nanda Anshen, an American writer and philosopher.
• 1900 – June Walker, an American stage and film actress.

Notable People (1901–Present)

• 1903 – Alonzo Church, an American mathematician and logician.
• 1903 – Rose Rand, an Austrian-American logician and philosopher.
• 1904 – Margaret Bourke-White, an American photographer and journalist.
• 1905 – Steve Broidy, an American businessman.
• 1905 – Arthur Davis, an American animator and director.
• 1907 – Nicolas Bentley, an English author and illustrator.
• 1907 – René Char, a French poet and author.
• 1909 – Burl Ives, an American actor and singer.
• 1910 – Rudolf Kempe, a German pianist and conductor.
• 1913 – Joe Morris, an English-Canadian trade union leader.
• 1916 – Dorothy McGuire, an American actress.
• 1917 – Lise Nørgaard, a Danish journalist, author, and screenwriter.
• 1917 – Gilbert Prouteau, a French poet and director.
• 1917 – Atle Selberg, a Norwegian-American mathematician.
• 1919 – Gene Barry, an American actor.
• 1919 – Sam Wanamaker, an American actor and director.
• 1921 – Martha Greenhouse, an American actress.
• 1923 – Judith Kerr, a German-English author and illustrator.
• 1923 – Green Wix Unthank, an American soldier, lawyer, and judge.
• 1924 – James Black, a Scottish pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize winner.
• 1925 – Pierre Salinger, an American journalist and politician, who was the White House Press Secretary.
• 1926 – Don Newcombe, an American baseball player.
• 1928 – Ernesto "Che" Guevara, an Argentinian-Cuban physician, author, and revolutionary leader.
• 1929 – Cy Coleman, an American pianist and composer.
• 1929 – Alan Davidson, an Australian cricketer.
• 1929 – Johnny Wilson, a Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach.
• 1931 – Marla Gibbs, an American actress and comedian.
• 1931 – Ross Higgins, an Australian actor.
• 1931 – Junior Walker, an American saxophonist.
• 1933 – Jerzy Kosiński, a Polish-American novelist and screenwriter.
• 1933 – Vladislav Rastorotsky, a Russian gymnast and coach.
• 1936 – Renaldo Benson, an American singer-songwriter.
• 1936 – Irmelin Sandman Lilius, a Finnish author and poet.
• 1938 – Julie Felix, an American-English singer-songwriter.
• 1939 – Steny Hoyer, an American lawyer and politician.
• 1939 – Peter Mayle, an English author and screenwriter.
• 1939 – Colin Thubron, an English journalist and author.
• 1942 – Jonathan Raban, an English author and academic.
• 1942 – Roberto García-Calvo Montiel, a Spanish judge.
• 1943 – Harold Wheeler, an American composer and conductor.
• 1944 – Laurie Colwin, an American novelist and short story writer.
• 1945 – Rod Argent, an English singer-songwriter and keyboard player.
• 1945 – Carlos Reichenbach, a Brazilian director and producer.
• 1945 – Richard Stebbins, an American sprinter.
• 1946 – Robert Louis-Dreyfus, a French-Swiss businessman.
• 1946 – Tõnu Sepp, an Estonian instrument maker.
• 1946 – Donald Trump, an American businessman, television personality, and 45th President of the United States.
• 1947 – Roger Liddle, Baron Liddle, an English politician.
• 1947 – Barry Melton, an American singer-songwriter and guitarist.
• 1947 – Paul Rudolph, a Canadian singer and guitarist.
• 1948 – Laurence Yep, an American author and playwright.
• 1949 – Jim Lea, an English singer-songwriter and bass player.
• 1949 – Roger Powell, an English-Australian scientist.
• 1949 – Antony Sher, a South African-British actor and director.
• 1949 – Harry Turtledove, an American historian and author.
• 1949 – Alan White, an English drummer and songwriter.
• 1950 – Rowan Williams, a Welsh archbishop and theologian.
• 1951 – Paul Boateng, an English lawyer and politician.
• 1951 – Danny Edwards, an American golfer.
• 1952 – Pat Summitt, an American basketball player and coach.
• 1954 – Will Patton, an American actor.
• 1955 – Paul O'Grady, an English television host and performer.
• 1955 – Kirron Kher, an Indian actress and politician.
• 1958 – James Gurney, an American artist and author.
• 1958 – Nick Van Eede, an English singer-songwriter.
• 1959 – Marcus Miller, an American bass player and composer.
• 1960 – Tonie Campbell, an American hurdler.
• 1961 – Boy George, an English singer-songwriter and producer.
• 1961 – Dušan Kojić, a Serbian singer-songwriter and bass player.
• 1961 – Sam Perkins, an American basketball player.
• 1967 – Dedrick Dodge, an American football player and coach.
• 1967 – Paul Martin, an Australian rugby league player.
• 1968 – Faizon Love, a Cuban-American actor and screenwriter.
• 1969 – Éric Desjardins, a Canadian ice hockey player and coach.
• 1969 – Steffi Graf, a German tennis player.
• 1970 – Heather McDonald, an American comedian and actress.
• 1971 – Bruce Bowen, an American basketball player.
• 1971 – Ramon Vega, a Swiss footballer.
• 1972 – Rick Brunson, an American basketball player and coach.
• 1972 – Matthias Ettrich, a German computer scientist who founded KDE.
• 1972 – Claude Henderson, a South African cricketer.
• 1972 – Danny McFarlane, a Jamaican hurdler and sprinter.
• 1973 – Sami Kapanen, a Finnish-American ice hockey player and manager.
• 1976 – Alan Carr, an English comedian and actor.
• 1976 – Massimo Oddo, an Italian footballer and manager.
• 1977 – Boeta Dippenaar, a South African cricketer.
• 1977 – Chris McAlister, an American football player.
• 1977 – Joe Worsley, an English rugby player and coach.
• 1978 – Steve Bégin, a Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1978 – Diablo Cody, an American director and screenwriter.
• 1978 – Annia Hatch, a Cuban-American gymnast and coach.
• 1978 – Nikola Vujčić, a Croatian basketball player.
• 1979 – Shannon Hegarty, an Australian rugby league player.
• 1981 – Elano, a Brazilian footballer and manager.
• 1982 – Jamie Green, an English racing driver.
• 1982 – Nicole Irving, an Australian swimmer.
• 1982 – Lang Lang, a Chinese pianist.
• 1982 – Trine Rønning, a Norwegian footballer.
• 1983 – Trevor Barry, a Bahamian high jumper.
• 1983 – Louis Garrel, a French actor and director.
• 1984 – Lorenzo Booker, an American football player.
• 1984 – Mark Cosgrove, an Australian cricketer.
• 1984 – Siobhán Donaghy, an English singer-songwriter.
• 1984 – Yury Prilukov, a Russian swimmer.
• 1985 – Oleg Medvedev, a Russian luger.
• 1985 – Andy Soucek, a Spanish racing driver.
• 1986 – Rhe-Ann Niles-Mapp, a Barbadian netball player.
• 1986 – Matt Read, a Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1987 – Andrew Cogliano, a Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1987 – Mohamed Diamé, a Senegalese footballer.
• 1988 – Adrián Aldrete, a Mexican footballer.
• 1988 – Kevin McHale, an American actor and singer.
• 1989 – Lucy Hale, an American actress and singer-songwriter.
• 1989 – Brad Takairangi, an Australian-Cook Islands rugby league player.
• 1990 – Patrice Cormier, a Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1990 – Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal, a Norwegian long-distance runner.
• 1991 – Kostas Manolas, a Greek footballer.
• 1991 – Jesy Nelson, an English singer.
• 1992 – Daryl Sabara, an American actor.
• 1992 – Devante Smith-Pelly, a Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1993 – Gunna, an American rapper.
• 1994 – Moon Tae-il, a South Korean singer.
• 1997 – David Bangala, a French football defender.
• 1997 – Fujii Kaze, a Japanese singer-songwriter.
• 1999 – Chou Tzuyu, a Taiwanese singer.
• 2000 – RJ Barrett, a Canadian basketball player.
• 2000 – Naomi Girma, an American soccer player.

Deaths

Historic Figures (Before 1900)

• 809 – Ōtomo no Otomaro, a Japanese general.
• 847 – Methodius I, a patriarch of Constantinople.
• 957 – Guadamir, a bishop in Spain.
• 976 – Aron, a Bulgarian nobleman.
• 1161 – Emperor Qinzong of the Song dynasty.
• 1349 – Günther von Schwarzburg, a German king.
• 1381 – Simon Sudbury, an English archbishop.
• 1497 – Giovanni Borgia, 2nd Duke of Gandía, son of Pope Alexander VI.
• 1516 – John III of Navarre.
• 1544 – Antoine, Duke of Lorraine.
• 1548 – Carpentras, a French composer.
• 1583 – Shibata Katsuie, a Japanese samurai.
• 1594 – Jacob Kroger, a German goldsmith.
• 1594 – Orlande de Lassus, a Flemish composer.
• 1662 – Henry Vane the Younger, an English-American politician and former Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
• 1674 – Marin le Roy de Gomberville, a French author.
• 1679 – Guillaume Courtois, a French painter.
• 1746 – Colin Maclaurin, a Scottish mathematician.
• 1794 – Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford, an English politician.
• 1800 – Louis Desaix, a French general.
• 1800 – Jean-Baptiste Kléber, a French general.
• 1801 – Benedict Arnold, an American general who later became a British spy.
• 1825 – Pierre Charles L'Enfant, a French-American architect who designed Washington, D.C..
• 1837 – Giacomo Leopardi, an Italian poet and philosopher.
• 1864 – Leonidas Polk, an American general and bishop.
• 1877 – Mary Carpenter, an English educational and social reformer.
• 1883 – Edward FitzGerald, an English poet.
• 1886 – Alexander Ostrovsky, a Russian director and playwright.
• 1898 – Dewitt Clinton Senter, an American politician and former Governor of Tennessee.

Notable People (1901–Present)

• 1907 – William Le Baron Jenney, an American architect and engineer.
• 1907 – Bartolomé Masó, a Cuban soldier and politician.
• 1908 – Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby, an English politician and former Governor General of Canada.
• 1914 – Adlai Stevenson I, an American lawyer and politician, who was the 23rd Vice President of the United States.
• 1916 – João Simões Lopes Neto, a Brazilian author.
• 1920 – Max Weber, a German sociologist and economist.
• 1923 – Isabelle Bogelot, a French philanthropist.
• 1926 – Mary Cassatt, an American-French painter.
• 1927 – Ottavio Bottecchia, an Italian cyclist.
• 1927 – Jerome K. Jerome, an English author.
• 1928 – Emmeline Pankhurst, an English activist for women's voting rights.
• 1932 – Dorimène Roy Desjardins, a Canadian businesswoman.
• 1933 – Justinien de Clary, a French target shooter.
• 1936 – G. K. Chesterton, an English essayist, poet, and novelist.
• 1936 – Hans Poelzig, a German architect and painter.
• 1946 – John Logie Baird, a Scottish-English physicist and engineer, known for his work on television.
• 1946 – Jorge Ubico, the 21st President of Guatemala.
• 1949 – Albert II, the first monkey in space.
• 1953 – Tom Cole, a Welsh-American racing driver.
• 1968 – Salvatore Quasimodo, an Italian novelist and poet, Nobel Prize winner.
• 1971 – Carlos P. Garcia, the 8th President of the Philippines.
• 1972 – Dündar Taşer, a Turkish soldier and politician.
• 1977 – Robert Middleton, an American actor.
• 1977 – Alan Reed, an American actor, known as the original voice of Fred Flintstone.
• 1979 – Ahmad Zahir, an Afghan singer-songwriter.
• 1980 – Charles Miller, an American saxophonist.
• 1986 – Jorge Luis Borges, an Argentine writer and poet.
• 1986 – Alan Jay Lerner, an American composer and songwriter.
• 1987 – Stanisław Bareja, a Polish actor and director.
• 1990 – Erna Berger, a German soprano and actress.
• 1991 – Peggy Ashcroft, an English actress.
• 1994 – Lionel Grigson, an English pianist and composer.
• 1994 – Henry Mancini, an American composer and conductor.
• 1994 – Marcel Mouloudji, a French singer and actor.
• 1995 – Els Aarne, a Ukrainian-Estonian pianist and composer.
• 1995 – Rory Gallagher, an Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist.
• 1995 – Roger Zelazny, an American author and poet.
• 1996 – Noemí Gerstein, an Argentinian sculptor.
• 1997 – Richard Jaeckel, an American actor.
• 1999 – Bernie Faloney, an American-Canadian football player.
• 2000 – Attilio Bertolucci, an Italian poet and author.
• 2002 – June Jordan, an American author and activist.
• 2003 – Dale Whittington, an American race car driver.
• 2004 – Ulrich Inderbinen, a Swiss mountaineer.
• 2005 – Carlo Maria Giulini, an Italian conductor.
• 2005 – Mimi Parent, a Canadian-Swiss painter.
• 2006 – Monty Berman, an English director and producer.
• 2006 – Jean Roba, a Belgian author and illustrator.
• 2007 – Ruth Graham, a Chinese-American author and painter.
• 2007 – Robin Olds, an American general and pilot.
• 2007 – Kurt Waldheim, an Austrian politician and former Secretary-General of the United Nations.
• 2009 – Bob Bogle, an American musician.
• 2009 – William McIntyre, a Canadian soldier, lawyer, and judge.
• 2012 – Peter Archer, Baron Archer of Sandwell, an English lawyer and politician.
• 2012 – Bob Chappuis, an American football player.
• 2012 – Margie Hyams, an American pianist.
• 2012 – Karl-Heinz Kämmerling, a German pianist and academic.
• 2012 – Carlos Reichenbach, a Brazilian director and producer.
• 2012 – Gitta Sereny, an Austrian-English historian and journalist.
• 2013 – Elroy Schwartz, an American screenwriter and producer.
• 2014 – Alberto Cañas Escalante, a Costa Rican journalist and politician.
• 2014 – Isabelle Collin Dufresne, a French actress.
• 2014 – Robert Lebeck, a German photographer.
• 2014 – James E. Rogers, an American lawyer and businessman.
• 2015 – Richard Cotton, an Australian geneticist.
• 2015 – Anne Nicol Gaylor, an American activist.
• 2015 – Qiao Shi, a Chinese politician.
• 2016 – Ann Morgan Guilbert, an American actress and singer.
• 2016 – Gilles Lamontagne, a Canadian politician.
• 2020 – Sushant Singh Rajput, an Indian film actor.
• 2022 – A. B. Yehoshua, an Israeli novelist and essayist.

Holidays and Observances

• Christian feast day:
  • Burchard of Meissen
  • Caomhán of Inisheer
  • Elisha (Roman Catholic and Lutheran)
  • Fortunatus of Naples (Roman Catholic)
  • Blessed Francisca de Paula de Jesus (Nhá Chica)
  • Joseph the Hymnographer (Roman Catholic: Orthodox April 3)
  • Methodios I of Constantinople
  • Quintian of Rodez (Rodez)
  • Richard Baxter (Church of England)
  • Valerius and Rufinus
  • June 14 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Commemoration of the Soviet Deportation related observances:
  • Baltic Freedom Day (United States)
  • Commemoration Day for the Victims of Communist Genocide (Latvia)
  • Mourning and Commemoration Day or Leinapäev (Estonia)
  • Mourning and Hope Day (Lithuania)
• Day of Memory for Repressed People (Armenia)
• Flag Day (United States)
• Freedom Day (Malawi)
• Liberation Day (Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands)
• World Blood Donor Day

See also

In Spanish: 14 de junio para niños