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
- 1276 –While taking exile in Fuzhou in southern China, away from the advancing Mongol invaders, the remnants of the Song Dynasty court hold the coronation ceremony for the young prince Zhao Shi, making him Emperor Duanzong of Song.
- 1648 –Margaret Jones is hanged in Boston for witchcraft in the first such execution for the Massachusetts colony.
- 1789 –Whiskey distilled from maize is first produced by American clergyman the Rev Elijah Craig. It is named Bourbon because Rev Craig lived in Bourbon County, Kentucky.
- 1807 –Emperor Napoleon I’s French Grande Armee defeats the Russian Army at the Battle of Friedland in Poland (modern Russian Kaliningrad Oblast) ending the War of the Fourth Coalition.
- 1830 –Beginning of the French colonization of Algeria: 34,000 French soldiers begin their invasion of Algiers, landing 27 kilometers west at Sidi Fredj.
- 1863 –Second Assault on the Confederate works at the Siege of Port Hudson during the American Civil War.
- 1872 –Trade unions are legalised in Canada.
- 1900 –Hawaii becomes a United States territory.
- 1900 –The Reichstag approves a second law that allows the expansion of the German navy.
- 1937 –U.S. House of Representatives passes the Marihuana Tax Act.
- 1940 –A group of 728 Polish political prisoners from Tarnów become the first residents of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
- 1940 –World War II: Paris falls under German occupation, and Allied forces retreat.
- 1941 –June deportation, the first major wave of Soviet mass deportations and murder of Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians, begins.
- 1945 –World War II: U.S and Filipino forces at the Battle of Bessang Pass in Ilocos Sur province in Northern Luzon.
- 1954 –U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law that places the words “under God” into the U.S. Pledge of Allegiance.
- 1955 –Chile becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
- 1959 –Disneyland Monorail System, the first daily operating monorail system in the Western Hemisphere, opens to the public in Anaheim, California.
- 1962 –The European Space Research Organisation is established in Paris – later becoming the European Space Agency.
- 1967 –Mariner program: Mariner 5 is launched toward Venus.
- 1985 –TWA Flight 847 is hijacked by Hezbollah shortly after take-off from Athens, Greece.
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