Today in History - Famous Events

🏰 On this day in History - June 14, 2026

1847 Robert von Bunsen invents the Bunsen burner

1965 Cincinnati Red Jim Maloney no-hits NY Mets but loses in 11, 1-0

1565 Catharina de Medici & Duke of Alva discuss Calvinism

1966 Dutch police beat construction workers, 60 injured

1998 wins Oldsmobile Golf Classic

1834 Hardhat diving suit patented by Leonard Norcross, Dixfield, Maine

1991 "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves" opens

1919 1st nonstop air crossing of Atlantic (Alcock & Brown) leaves Nfld

1907 Norway restricts woman's voting rights

1863 Battle of 2nd Winchester, Virginia

1861 Harpers Ferry evacuated by rebels in face of McClellan's advance

1777 Continental Congress adopts Stars & Stripes replacing Grand Union flag

1940 German U-47 sinks airship Balmoral

1535 Karel V's fleet sails under Andrea Doria to Tunis

1846 California (Bear Flag) Republic proclaimed in Sonoma

1974 Angels' Nolan Ryan strikes out 19 Red Sox in 12 innings

1957 Edouard Carpentier beats Lou Thesz, to become NWA wrestling champ

1979 Canada all out 45 in Cricket World Cup v England, in 40 3 overs

1968 Off duty Dutch military permitted to wear regular clothing

1979 NY Giants Willie McCovey 513th HR is an NL lefty record

1992 Ozzie Smith breaks Roy McMillan's NL mark by taking part in his 1,305th career double play

1946 Canadian Library Association established

1922 Pres Harding is 1st US president to use radio, dedicating the Francis Scott Key memorial in Baltimore

1876 1st player to hit for cycle (George Hall, Phila Athletics)

1995 Giants infielder Mike Benjamin goes 6-for-7 in 13-inning 4-3 win

1952 52nd US Golf Open: Julius Boros shoots a 281 at Northwood Club Dallas

1990 Date of the events in the movie Mr Destiny

1989 Ground breaking begins in Minn on world's largest mall

1917 Gen Pershing & his HQ staff arrived in Paris during WW I

1958 58th US Golf Open: Tommy Bolt shoots a 283 at Southern Hills in Tulsa

1975 45th French Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats M Navratilova (26 62 61)

1898 France signs Niger Convention

1965 Beatles release album "Beatles VI"

1987 "A Team," last aired on NBC-TV after 4« years

1949 WROC TV channel 8 in Rochester, NY (NBC) begins broadcasting

1924 WOKO-AM radio begins transmitting from Albany NY

1959 Beverly Hanson wins LPGA American Women's Golf Open

1645 Battle at Naseby Leicester: New Model army under Oliver Cromwell & Thomas Fairfax beats royalists

1967 Mariner 5 Launch (Venus Flyby)

1969 John & Yoko appear on David Frost's British TV Show

1966 Miami beats St Petersburg (Florida State League) 4-3 in 29 innings longest uninterrupted game in organized baseball

1944 1st B-29 raid against mainland Japan

1881 Player piano patented by John McTammany Jr (Cambridge, Mass)

1948 Klemens Gottwald becomes president of Czechoslovakia

1973 46th National Spelling Bee: Barrie Trinkle wins spelling vouchsafe

1993 Tansu Ciller appointed 1st female premier of Turkey

1647 English New Model-army installed

1964 Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open

1994 Stanley Cup: NY Rangers beat Vancouver Canucks, 4 games to 3

1952 Keel laid for 1st nuclear powered sub Nautilus

1924 Test Cricket debuts of Herbert Sutcliffe & Maurice Tate v S Africa

1981 27th LPGA Championship won by Donna Caponi Young

1990 NL announces plans to expand from 12 to 14 teams for 1993 season

1846 California declares independence from Mexico

1926 2nd French Womens Tennis: Suzanne Lenglen beats Mary K Browne (61 60)

1953 Yanks sweep Indians 6-2, 3-0 before 74,708 win streak at 18 straight

1991 Space Shuttle STS 40 (Columbia 12) lands

1864 US Union warship USS Kearsarge appears at Cherbourg

1775 US Army founded

1846 Belgian Liberal Party forms

1996 Karl Krikken out handled the ball for Derbyshire v Indians

1880 14th Belmont: L Hughes aboard Grenada wins in 2:47

1940 German forces occupied Paris during WW II

1998 World Bowl in Frankfurt Germany

1958 British parachutists lands on Cyprus

1957 42.0 cm rain falls on East St Louis, Illinois (state record)

1951 1st commercial computer, UNIVAC 1, enters service at Census Bureau

1967 USSR launches Kosmos 166 for observation of Sun from Earth orbit

1623 1st breach-of-promise lawsuit: Rev Gerville Pooley, Va files against Cicely Jordan, he loses

1953 Elvis Presley graduates from LC Humes High School in Memphis Tenn

1956 "New Faces of 1956" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 221 perfs

1942 French govt of Reynaud resigns

1906 Pogrom against Jews in Bialystok, Polish Russia

1597 At 4:30 AM Willem Barents leaves Novaya Zemlya for Netherlands

1958 Nelson Mandela weds Winnie Madikizela

1928 Republican Natl Convention, met in KC, nominated Herbert Hoover

1923 Recording of 1st country music hit (Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane)

1907 Govt of Transvaal sends home 50,000 Chinese day workers

1834 Isaac Fischer Jr patents sandpaper

1989 Queen Elizabeth II knights Ronald Reagan

1938 Chlorophyll patented by Benjamin Grushkin

1935 Chaco War between Bolivia & Paraguay ends

1979 Rock group "Little Feat" disbands

1982 Argentina surrenders to Britain on Falkland Is, ends 74-day conflict

1978 Sierra Leone adopts constitution

1963 Valery Bykovsky in Vostok 5 orbits earth 81 times in 5 days

1954 Pres Eisenhower signs order adding words "under God" to the Pledge

1952 Jim Peters runs world record marathon (2:20:42.2)

1978 Down 9-7 in 10th with 2 outs, Yanks Paul Blair hits a 3 run HR

1942 Anne Frank begins her diary

1952 General strike in Tunisia

1901 1st golf championship is played

1967 Steve Allen Show," premieres on CBS-TV

1944 General Charles de Gaulle lands at Courselles France

1992 10th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Dave Stockton

1984 Southern Baptist convention decide on no women clergy members

1934 WOQ-AM in KC Missouri goes off the air

1932 German govt of von Papen forms

1789 Capt William Blighs reaches Timor

1755 1e edition of Dr Johnsons "Dictionary"

1938 Dorothy Lathrop wins 1st Caldecott Medal (kid books author)

1951 "Courtin' Time" opens at National Theater NYC for 37 performances

1673 Battle at Schooneveld: Michiel de Ruyter beats French/English fleet

1969 Oakland A's Reggie Jackson gets 10 RBIs to beat Red Sox 21-7

1980 Theme From NY, NY by Frank Sinatra hits #32

1658 Battle at Dunes: English & French fleet beat Spanish

1992 46th NBA Championship: Chic Bulls beat Port Trailblazers, 4 games to 2

1987 4th full-duration test firing of redesigned SRB motor

1953 Military coup by general Gustavo Rojas Pinilla in Colombia

1998 "Comic Relief" benefit comedy show

1615 Jacques Le Maire sail to Zuidland/Terra Australis

1933 Lou Gehrig & Joe McCarthy thrown out of game, McCarthy suspended 3 games but Gehrig isn't, so he continues his streak at 1,249 games

1985 Lebanese Shiite Muslim extremists hijacked TWA Flight 847

1642 1st compulsory education law in America passed by Massachusetts

1972 Hurricane Agnes kills 117

1993 Japanese space probe Sakigake passes Earth

1989 Rocker Carol King gets a star in Hollywood's walk of fame

1990 44th NBA Championship: Det Pistons beat Por Trailblazers, 4 games to 1

1864 Congress rules Black soldiers must receive equal pay

1961 106шF, hottest temperature in SF

1965 John Lennon's 2nd book "A Spaniard in the Works" is published

1981 No Nukes concert at Hollywood Bowl

1970 Cincinnati Red Stockings loses 1st game after winning 130 straight

1963 NY Met Duke Snider hits his 400th HR

1987 41st NBA Championship: LA Lakers beat Boston Celtics, 4 games to 2

1834 Sandpaper patented by Isaac Fischer Jr, Springfield, Vermont

1942 Walt Disney's "Bambi" animated movie is released Thumper's 1st job

1992 Anne-Marie Palli wins ShopRite LPGA Golf Classic

1987 Colleen Walker wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic

1992 Mona Van Duyn is named 1st female US poet laureate

1952 Braves Warren Spahn ties NL record of Jim Whitney with 18 strikeouts against the Cubs in 15-inning, 3-1 loss

1934 Max Baer KO's Primo Carnera in 11 for HW box champ in Long Island City

1936 Oranienburg Concentration Camp opens

1870 All-pro Cincinnati Red Stockings suffer 1st loss in 130 games

1941 Ground broken for Boeing Plant II (ex-AFLC Plant 13) Wichita KS

1922 Charles Hoffner wins PGA golf tournament

1930 VVGZ soccer team forms in Zwijndrecht

1985 "Michael Nesmith In Television Parts" premieres on NBC-TV

1800 Battle of Marengo (Alessandria): Bonaparte vs Austria

1850 Fire destroys part of SF

1941 Estonia loses 11,000 inhabitants as a consequence of mass deportations into Siberia

1917 1e German air attack on England, 100+ killed in East-London

1931 Reinhard Heydrichs 1st meeting with Himmler

1985 Earl Weaver comes out of retirement to manage Balt Orioles

1991 Leroy Burrell of USA sets 100m record (9.90) in NYC

1983 5 killed in a fire at a Ramada Inn in Fort Worth, Tx

1940 Auschwitz concentration camp opens (3 million killed there)

1996 "Cable Guy" starring Jim Carrey is released

1841 1st Canadian parliament opens in Kingston, Ontario

1989 Nolan Ryan becomes 2nd pitcher to defeat all 26 teams

1953 Eisenhower condemns McCarthy's book burning proposal

1938 Bradman scores 144* in 1st Test Cricket at Trent Bridge

1988 Woman sues Chuck Berry for $5,000,000 alleges he hit her

1949 State of Vietnam forms, Bao Dai installed as Emperor

1922 5th PGA Championship: Gene Sarazen at Oakmont CC Oakmont Pa

1952 Boston Brave Warren Spahn strikes out 18 Cubs in 15 innings

1976 "Gong Show" premieres on TV (syndication)

1990 Supreme Court rules police check for drunk drivers constitutional

1931 French "St Philbert" overturns off St Nazaire France, drowns 450

1839 1st Henley Regatta held

1934 Hitler & Mussolini meet in Vienna

1976 12th Mayor's Trophy Game Yanks beat Mets 8-4

1995 49th NBA Championship: Houston Rockets sweep Orlando Magic in 4 games

1904 Dutch troops occupies Kuto Reh, Sumatra, killing all inhabitants

1989 Zsa Zsa Gabor arrested for slaping Beverly Hills motorcycle patrolman

1975 Janis Ian releases "At 17"

1876 California Street Cable Car Railroad Co gets its franchise

1975 USSR launches Venera 10 for Venus landing

1900 Hawaiian Territorial Government begins

1929 Prussia & Vatican sign Concord

1541 Duke Willem van Gulik of Gelre marries Jeanne d'Albret

1634 Russia & Poland sign Peace treaty of Polianov

1942 1st bazooka rocket gun produced Bridgeport Ct

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