What are the important events that happened on June 14? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

June 14: Facts & Myths About This Day

June 14 is the 166^th 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.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is June 1, 2024 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 28,638,720 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectahexacontahexagon’ day.

Gemini is the zodiac 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.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,193 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

June 14 Historical Events

• 1287 –
  Kublai Khan defeated the force of Nayan and other traditionalist Borjigin princes in East Mongolia and Manchuria.
• 1645 –
  English Civil War: Battle of Naseby – 12,000 Royalist forces are beaten by 15,000 Parliamentarian soldiers.
• 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.
• 1822 –
  Charles Babbage proposes a difference engine in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society entitled “Note on the application of machinery to the computation of astronomical and mathematical tables”.
• 1830 –
  Beginning of the French colonization of Algeria: 34,000 French soldiers begin their invasion of Algiers, landing 27 kilometers west at Sidi Fredj.
• 1839 –
  Henley Royal Regatta: the village of Henley-on-Thames, on the River Thames in Oxfordshire, stages its first Regatta.
• 1944 –
  World War II: After several failed attempts, the British Army abandons Operation Perch, its plan to capture the German-occupied town of Caen.
• 1951 –
  UNIVAC I is dedicated by the U.S. Census Bureau.
• 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.
• 1994 –
  The 1994 Stanley Cup riot occurs after the New York Rangers win the Stanley Cup from Vancouver, causing an estimated C$1.1 million, thus forcing 200 arrests and injuries. One person is also left with permanent brain damage.

Who were born on June 14?

• 1855 –
  Robert La Follette, American politician (d. 1925)
• 1870 –
  Sophia of Prussia, Prussian-born consort of Constantine I of Greece (d. 1932)
• 1907 –
  Chico Landi, Brazilian racing driver (d. 1989)
• 1907 –
  Nicolas Bentley, British writer and illustrator (d. 1978)
• 1936 –
  Renaldo “Obie” Benson, American singer (The Four Tops) (d. 2005)
• 1939 –
  Steny Hoyer, American politician
• 1940 –
  Jack Bannon, American actor
• 1945 –
  Marilyn Schreffler, American voice actor (d. 1988)
• 1954 –
  Will Patton, American actor
• 1989 –
  Lucy Hale, American actress

Who died on June 14?

• 1662 –
  Henry Vane the Younger, English Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony and English Commonwealth Parliamentary leader (b. 1613)
• 1800 –
  Louis Charles Antoine Desaix, French military leader (b. 1768)
• 1837 –
  Giacomo Leopardi, Italian writer (b. 1798)
• 1886 –
  Alexander Ostrovsky, Russian dramatist (b. 1823)
• 1926 –
  Mary Cassatt, American artist (b. 1843)
• 1936 –
  Hans Poelzig, German architect (b. 1869)
• 1991 –
  Dame Peggy Ashcroft, British actress (b. 1907)
• 2000 –
  Attilio Bertolucci, Italian poet and writer (b. 1911)
• 2002 –
  June Jordan, American writer and teacher (b. 1936)
• 2003 –
  Dale Whittington, American racing driver (b. 1959)