SomeFacts | June 14

On this day - June 14

1158 — The city of Munich is founded by Henry the Lion on the banks ...

1216 — First Barons' War: Prince Louis of France takes the city ...

1276 — While in exile in Fuzhou, away from the advancing Mongol ...

1285 — Second Mongol invasion of Vietnam: Forces led by Prince Trần ...

1287 — Kublai Khan defeats the force of Nayan and other ...

1381 — Richard II of England meets leaders of the Peasants' ...

1404 — Welsh rebel leader Owain Glyndŵr, having declared himself ...

1618 — Joris Veseler prints the first Dutch newspaper Courante uyt ...

1645 — English Civil War: Battle of Naseby: Twelve thousand Royalist ...

1658 — Franco-Spanish War: Turenne and the French army win a decisive ...

1690 — King William III of England (William of Orange) lands in ...

1775 — American Revolutionary War: the Continental Army is ...

1777 — The Second Continental Congress passes the Flag Act of 1777 ...

1789 — Mutiny on the Bounty: HMS Bounty mutiny survivors including ...

1800 — The French Army of First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte defeats the ...

1807 — Emperor Napoleon's French Grande Armée defeats the ...

1821 — Badi VII, king of Sennar, surrenders his throne and realm to ...

1822 — Charles Babbage proposes a difference engine in a paper to the ...

1830 — Beginning of the French colonization of Algeria: Thirty-four ...

1839 — Henley Royal Regatta: the village of Henley-on-Thames, on the ...

1846 — Bear Flag Revolt begins: Anglo settlers in Sonoma, California, ...

1863 — Second Assault on the Confederate works at the Siege of Port ...

1863 — American Civil War: Second Battle of Winchester: A Union ...

1872 — Trade unions are legalized in Canada.

1888 — The White Rajahs territories become the British protectorate ...

1900 — The second German Naval Law calls for the Imperial German Navy ...

1900 — Hawaii becomes a United States territory.

1907 — The National Association for Women's Suffrage succeeds in ...

1919 — John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown depart from St. ...

1926 — Brazil leaves the League of Nations.

1934 — The landmark Australian Eastern Mission returns from its ...

1937 — U.S. House of Representatives passes the Marihuana Tax Act.

1937 — Pennsylvania becomes the first (and only) state of the United ...

1940 — Seven hundred and twenty-eight Polish political prisoners from ...

1940 — The Soviet Union presents an ultimatum to Lithuania, resulting ...

1940 — World War II: The German occupation of Paris begins.

1941 — June deportation: The first major wave of Soviet mass ...

1944 — World War II: After several failed attempts, the British Army ...

1945 — World War II: Filipino troops of the Philippine Commonwealth ...

1949 — Albert II, a rhesus monkey, rides a V-2 rocket to an altitude ...

1950 — An Air France Douglas DC-4 crashes near Bahrain International ...

1951 — UNIVAC I is dedicated by the U.S. Census Bureau.

1954 — U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law that ...

1955 — Chile becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.

1959 — Disneyland Monorail System, the first daily operating monorail ...

1962 — The European Space Research Organisation is established in ...

1966 — The Vatican announces the abolition of the Index Librorum ...

1967 — Mariner program: Mariner 5 is launched towards Venus.

1972 — Japan Air Lines Flight 471 crashes on approach to Palam ...

1982 — Falklands War: Argentine forces in the capital Stanley ...

1985 — Five member nations of the European Economic Community sign ...

1986 — The Mindbender derails, killing three riders and severely ...

1994 — The 1994 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot occurs after the New York ...

2002 — Near-Earth asteroid 2002 MN misses the Earth by 75,000 miles ...

2014 — A Ukraine military Ilyushin Il-76 airlifter is shot down, ...

2017 — Republican U.S. House Majority Whip Steve Scalise of ...

2017 — The Grenfell Tower fire, a catastrophic fire in a high-rise ...