Year 1777
The United States adopted the Stars and Stripes flag.
JUNE 14
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14 June: What Happened On This Day in History
Curated historical timeline of momentous political pacts, freedom struggle uprisings, constitutional developments, scientific breakthroughs, and prominent birthdays recorded on 14 June.
Observances & Special Days
World Blood Donor Day
Year 1789
Whiskey was first made from corn. It was named Bourbon.
Year 1886
Orphanage for little girls was established.
Year 1926
Brazil withdrew from the League of Nations.
Year 1929
Jatindra Nath Das was arrested in Calcutta.
Year 1945
Wavell plan for granting autonomy to India, announced.
Year 1947
Congress Working Committee met at New Delhi to draft the resolution to be placed before All India Congress Committee on the acceptance of Mountbatten plan for the partition of India.
Year 1958
Dr. C.V. Raman receives the Lenin Peace Prize in Kremlin.
Year 1962
The European Space Research Organization was established in Paris – later becoming the European Space Agency.
Year 1967
China tested the first hydrogen bomb.
Year 1985
M.C. Sharma was appointed as the Narcotics Commissioner of India. He headed this office till 10-12-1985.
Year 1987
Rajiv Gandhi, PM, rules out the termination of Rs. 1700 crore Bofors gun deal.
Year 1990
Veerendra Verma sworn in as the new Governor of Punjab and Administrator of Chandigarh.
Year 1992
Tin Bigha activists lathi-charged in the Tin Bigha corridor in Coochbehar.
Year 1995
RBI announces the introduction of appointing ombudsmen to redress grievances and disputes of bank customers.
Year 1999
South Africa’s first black president, Nobel laureate Nelson Mandela, ended his term.
Year 2020
Indian actor Sushant Singh Rajput committed suicide.
Born 1444
Nilakantha Somayaji, Indian astronomer, and mathematician (d. 1544)
Born 1868
Karl Landsteiner, Austrian biologist, and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1943)
Born 1880
Satish Chandra Dasgupta, the rural Scientist, was born.
Born 1905
Smt. Hirabai Barodekar, the famous veteran Maharashtrian classical singer was born.
Born 1909
E.M.S. Namboodiripad was born in Palghat in Kerala
Born 1920
Bharat Bhushan, an Indian actor.
Born 1928
Che Guevara, an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and military theorist.
Born 1946
Donald Trump, the 45th president of the United States.
Born 1952
Kirron Anupam Kher, an Indian theatre, film, and television actress.
Born 1967
Kumar Mangalam Birla, an Indian billionaire industrialist.
Born 1968
RajThackeray, an Indian politician and chairperson of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS), the regional political party.
Born 1969
Steffi Graf, German tennis player
Born 1971
Pritam Chakraborty, an Indian composer.
Born 1971
Ganesh Acharya, an Indian choreographer.
Died 1825
Pierre Charles L'Enfant, French-American architect, and engineer, designed Washington, D.C. (b. 1754)
Died 1916
Govind Ballal Deval, a Marathi Playwright
Died 1920
Max Weber, a German sociologist, jurist, and political economist.
Died 1946
John Logie Baird, a Scottish inventor, electrical engineer, and innovator, demonstrating the world’s first working television system.
Died 1961
Sir Karyamanikkam Shrinivas Krishnan died.
Died 2010
Manohar Malgonkar, an Indian Author
Died 2020
Sushant Singh Rajput, an Indian actor.