About June 14
June 14, 2024 is the 166th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 200 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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Gemini is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Pearl is the modern birthstone for this month. Moonstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 229 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On June 14
- 1285 –Forces led by Prince Tran Quang Khai of Vietnam’s Tran Dynasty destroys most of the invading Mongol naval fleet in a battle at Chuong Duong.
- 1287 –Kublai Khan defeated the force of Nayan and other traditionalist Borjigin princes in East Mongolia and Manchuria.
- 1777 –The Stars and Stripes is adopted by Congress as the Flag of the United States.
- 1789 –Mutiny on the Bounty: Bounty mutiny survivors including Captain William Bligh and 18 others reach Timor after a nearly 7,400 km journey in an open boat.
- 1821 –Badi VII, king of Sennar, surrenders his throne and realm to Isma'il Pasha, general of the Ottoman Empire, ending the existence of that Sudanese kingdom.
- 1863 –American Civil War: Battle of Second Winchester – a Union garrison is defeated by the Army of Northern Virginia in the Shenandoah Valley town of Winchester, Virginia.
- 1900 –Hawaii becomes a United States territory.
- 1900 –The Reichstag approves a second law that allows the expansion of the German navy.
- 1907 –Norway adopts female suffrage.
- 1937 –Pennsylvania becomes the first (and only) state of the United States to celebrate Flag Day officially as a state holiday.
- 1940 –World War II: Paris falls under German occupation, and Allied forces retreat.
- 1944 –World War II: After several failed attempts, the British Army abandons Operation Perch, its plan to capture the German-occupied town of Caen.
- 1945 –World War II: Filipino troops of the 15th, 66th and 121st Infantry Regiment, Philippine Commonwealth Army, USAFIP-NL was completed and they liberating the captured in Ilocos Sur start the Battle of Bessang Pass in Northern Luzon.
- 1945 –World War II: U.S and Filipino forces at the Battle of Bessang Pass in Ilocos Sur province in Northern Luzon.
- 1947 –Roswell UFO incident A supposed UFO crash lands in Roswell, New Mexico
- 1952 –The keel is laid for the nuclear submarine USS Nautilus.
- 1959 –A group of Dominican exiles with leftist tendencies that departed from Cuba land in the Dominican Republic with the intent of deposing Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina. Save for four of them, all are killed and/or executed by Trujillo’s army.
- 1965 –Nguyen Cao Ky became Prime Minister of South Vietnam at the head of a military junta; General Nguyen Van Thieu became the figurehead chief of state.
- 1982 –The Falklands War ends: Argentine forces in the capital Stanley unconditionally surrender to British forces.
- 1985 –TWA Flight 847 is hijacked by Hezbollah shortly after take-off from Athens, Greece.
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