14th June anniversaries

• Birth
  • 1811
  • United States
  • "Birth of Harriet Beecher Stowe, American writer and campaigner for the abolition of slavery whose novel Uncle Tom's Cabin achieved global success." more
  • 1907
  • Great Britain
  • "Birth of Nicolas Bentley, illustrator, whose elegant black and white line drawings illustrated the columns of J B Morton (Beachcomber)."
  • 1907
  • Great Britain
  • "Birth of James Robertson Justice, British film actor." more
  • 1909
  • United States
  • "Birth of Burl Ives, award-winning American singer and actor (Big Rock Candy Mountain, Frosty the Snowman, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, etc)"
  • 1928
  • Argentina
  • "Birth of Che Guevara, Argentine-born revolutionary and guerrilla leader ."
• event
  • 1645
  • Great Britain
  • "Battle of Naseby, Parliament's New Model Army crushes the Royalist forces"
  • 1777
  • United States
  • The Stars and Stripes were adopted as the flag of the United States.
  • 1789
  • Great Britain
  • "Capt. William Bligh and the other survivors of the Mutiny on the Bounty arrive in Timor after a 4,600 mile voyage in an open boat." more
  • 1822
  • Great Britain
  • "Charles Babbage presented a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society entitled ""Note on the application of machinery to the computation of astronomical and mathematical tables""." more
  • 1834
  • United States
  • "Isaac Fischer, Jr. of Vermont, USA patented a process for making sandpaper"
  • 1839
  • Great Britain
  • First Regatta held at Henley-on-Thames. more
  • 1908
  • Germany
  • "The 4th German Navy Bill was passed, authorising the financing and building of four major warships."
  • 1919
  • Canada
  • Alcock and Brown depart from Newfoundland on the first nonstop transatlantic flight. more
  • 1982
  • Great Britain
  • The Falklands War ended when Argentine forces surrendered at Port Stanley
  • 1999
  • South Africa
  • Thabo Mbeki was elected President of South Africa
• Death
  • 1856
  • Great Britain
  • "Death of Dr Samuel Palmer, the Rugeley Poisoner, executed for the murder of John Cook but also suspected of murdering 5 of his children, his wife, brother and mother-in-law amongst others." more
  • 1927
  • Great Britain
  • "Death of Jerome K Jerome, British novelist and playwright" more
  • 1928
  • Great Britain
  • "Death of Emmeline Pankhurst, one of the main founders of the British suffragette movement."
  • 1936
  • Great Britain
  • "Death of G K Chesterton, English writer." more