Today in History, English
Today in History, English


IDTimeCategoryEvent
67861June 14Event1830 – Beginning of the French colonization of Algeria: 34,000 French soldiers begin their invasion of Algiers, landing 27 kilometers west at Sidi Fredj.
67862June 14Event1839 – Henley Royal Regatta: the village of Henley-on-Thames, on the River Thames in Oxfordshire, stages its first regatta.
67863June 14Event1846 – Bear Flag Revolt begins – Anglo settlers in Sonoma, California, start a rebellion against Mexico and proclaim the California Republic.
67864June 14Event1863 – American Civil War: Second Battle of Winchester – a Union garrison is defeated by the Army of Northern Virginia in the Shenandoah Valley town of Winchester, Virginia.
67865June 14Event1863 – Second Assault on the Confederate works at the Siege of Port Hudson during the American Civil War.
67866June 14Event1872 – Trade unions are legalised in Canada.
67867June 14Event1900 – Hawaii becomes a United States territory.
67868June 14Event1900 – The Reichstag approves a second law that allows the expansion of the German navy.
67869June 14Event1907 – Norway grants women the right to vote.
67870June 14Event1919 – John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown depart from St. John's, Newfoundland on the first nonstop transatlantic flight.
67871June 14Event1926 – Brazil leaves the League of Nations
67872June 14Event1937 – Pennsylvania becomes the first (and only) state of the United States to celebrate Flag Day officially as a state holiday.
67873June 14Event1937 – U.S. House of Representatives passes the Marihuana Tax Act.
67874June 14Event1940 – World War II: Paris falls under German occupation, and Allied forces retreat.
67875June 14Event1940 – The Soviet Union presents an ultimatum to Lithuania resulting in Lithuanian loss of independence.
67876June 14Event1940 – A group of 728 Polish political prisoners from Tarnów become the first residents of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
67877June 14Event1941 – June deportation: the first major wave of Soviet mass deportations and murder of Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians, begins.
67878June 14Event1944 – World War II: After several failed attempts, the British Army abandons Operation Perch, its plan to capture the German-occupied town of Caen.
67879June 14Event1945 – World War II: Filipino troops of the 15th, 66th and 121st Infantry Regiment, Philippine Commonwealth Army, USAFIP-NL liberate the captured in Ilocos Sur and start the Battle of Bessang Pass in Northern Luzon.
67880June 14Event1949 – Albert II, a rhesus monkey, rides a V-2 rocket to an altitude of 134 km (83 mi), thereby becoming the first monkey in space.
67881June 14Event1951 – UNIVAC I is dedicated by the U.S. Census Bureau.
67882June 14Event1952 – The keel is laid for the nuclear submarine USS Nautilus.
67883June 14Event1954 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law that places the words "under God" into the United States Pledge of Allegiance.
67884June 14Event1955 – Chile becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
67885June 14Event1959 – Disneyland Monorail System, the first daily operating monorail system in the Western Hemisphere, opens to the public in Anaheim, California.
67886June 14Event1959 – A group of Dominican exiles depart from Cuba and land in the Dominican Republic with the intent of overthrowing the totalitarian government of Rafael Trujillo. All but four are killed or executed.
67887June 14Event1962 – The European Space Research Organisation is established in Paris – later becoming the European Space Agency.
67888June 14Event1966 – The Vatican announces the abolition of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum ("index of prohibited books"), which was originally instituted in 1557.
67889June 14Event1967 – Mariner program: Mariner 5 is launched towards Venus.
67890June 14Event1967 – The People's Republic of China tests its first hydrogen bomb.

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