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The following events took place on June 14. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 56 events. Showing 31 - 56.

• 1926

  Brazil leaves the League of Nations
• 1937

  Pennsylvania becomes the first (and only) state of the United States to celebrate Flag Day officially as a state holiday.
• 1937

  U.S. House of Representatives passes the Marihuana Tax Act.
• 1940

  World War II: Paris falls under German occupation, and Allied forces retreat.
• 1940

  The Soviet Union presents an ultimatum to Lithuania resulting in Lithuanian loss of independence.
• 1940

  A group of 728 Polish political prisoners from Tarnów become the first residents of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
• 1941

  June deportation: the first major wave of Soviet mass deportations and murder of Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians, begins.
• 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 liberate the captured in Ilocos Sur and start the Battle of Bessang Pass in Northern Luzon.
• 1949

  Albert II, a rhesus monkey, rides a V-2 rocket to an altitude of 134 km (83 mi), thereby becoming the first monkey in space.
• 1951

  UNIVAC I is dedicated by the U.S. Census Bureau.
• 1952

  The keel is laid for the nuclear submarine USS Nautilus.
• 1954

  U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law that places the words “under God” into the United States 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.
• 1959

  A group of Dominican exiles depart from Cuba and land in the Dominican Republic with the intent of overthrowing the totalitarian government of Rafael Trujillo. All but four are killed or executed.
• 1962

  The European Space Research Organisation is established in Paris – later becoming the European Space Agency.
• 1966

  The Vatican announces the abolition of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum (“index of prohibited books”), which was originally instituted in 1557.
• 1967

  Mariner program: Mariner 5 is launched towards Venus.
• 1967

  The People’s Republic of China tests its first hydrogen bomb.
• 1982

  Falklands War: Argentine forces in the capital Stanley conditionally surrender to British forces.
• 1985

  TWA Flight 847 is hijacked by Lebanese Islamist organization Hezbollah shortly after take-off from Athens, Greece.
• 1994

  The 1994 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot occurs after the New York Rangers win the Stanley Cup from Vancouver, causing an estimated $ CAD1.1 million, leading to 200 arrests and injuries.
• 2002

  Near-Earth asteroid 2002 MN misses the Earth by 75000 mi, about one-third of the distance between the Earth and the Moon.
• 2014

  A Ukraine military Ilyushin Il-76 airlifter is shot down, killing all 49 people on board.
• 2015

  A wildfire near Willow, Alaska in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough burns over 6,500 acres.

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