14 June
Notable Births
RJ Barrett
b. 2000
Canadian basketball player (born 2000)
Naomi Girma
b. 2000
American soccer player (born 2000)
Bobby Witt Jr.
b. 2000
American baseball player (born 2000)
Tzuyu
b. 1999
Taiwanese singer (born 1999)
Fujii Kaze
b. 1997
Japanese singer-songwriter and pianist
Taeil (singer)
b. 1994
South Korean singer (born 1994)
Gunna (rapper)
b. 1993
American rapper (born 1993)
Daryl Sabara
b. 1992
American actor (born 1992)
Devante Smith-Pelly
b. 1992
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1992)
Kostas Manolas
b. 1991
Greek footballer (born 1991)
Jesy Nelson
b. 1991
British singer (born 1991)
Patrice Cormier
b. 1990
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1990)
Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal
b. 1990
Norwegian long-distance runner
Lucy Hale
b. 1989
American actress and singer (born 1989)
Brad Takairangi
b. 1989
Cook Islands & New Zealand international rugby league player (born 1989)
Adrián Aldrete
b. 1988
Mexican footballer (born 1988)
Kevin McHale (actor)
b. 1988
American actor and singer (born 1988)
Andrew Cogliano
b. 1987
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1987)
Che Guevara
b. 1928
Argentine revolutionary (1928–1967)
Margaret Bourke-White
b. 1904
American photographer (1904–1971)
Notable Deaths
Melissa Hortman
d. 2025
American lawyer and politician (1970–2025)
George Nethercutt
d. 2024
American lawyer and politician (1944–2024)
A. B. Yehoshua
d. 2022
Israeli novelist, essayist, and playwright (1936–2022)
Sushant Singh Rajput
d. 2020
Indian actor (1986–2020)
Ann Morgan Guilbert
d. 2016
American actress (1928–2016)
Richard Cotton (geneticist)
d. 2015
Australian geneticist (1940–2015)
Anne Nicol Gaylor
d. 2015
American atheist and campaigner for abortion rights
Qiao Shi
d. 2015
Former Politburo Standing Committee member of the Chinese Communist Party
Isabelle Collin Dufresne
d. 2014
French-American artist and author (1935–2014)
Robert Lebeck
d. 2014
German photojournalist (1929–2014)
Peter Archer, Baron Archer of Sandwell
d. 2012
British lawyer and Labour Party politician
Bob Chappuis
d. 2012
American football player (1923–2012)
Karl-Heinz Kämmerling
d. 2012
German academic teacher of classical pianists (1930-2012)
Carlos Reichenbach
d. 2012
Brazilian filmmaker
Gitta Sereny
d. 2012
Austrian-British writer and historian (1921–2012)
Bob Bogle
d. 2009
American musician (1934–2009)
Ruth Graham
d. 2007
American author (1920–2007)
Jorge Luis Borges
d. 1986
Argentine writer (1899–1986)
Giacomo Leopardi
d. 1837
Italian poet, philosopher, and writer (1798–1837)
Benedict Arnold
d. 1801
British military officer (1741–1801)
On This Day in History
All 57 ›
2017
The Grenfell Tower fire, a catastrophic fire in a high-rise apartment building in North Kensington, London, UK, leaves 72 people dead and another 74 injured.
Grenfell Tower fire
2017
Republican U.S. House Majority Whip Steve Scalise of Louisiana, and three others, are shot and wounded while practicing for the annual Congressional Baseball Game.
Steve Scalise
2014
A Ukraine military Ilyushin Il-76 airlifter is shot down, killing all 49 people on board.
2014 Ukrainian Air Force Ilyushin Il-76 shootdown
2002
Near-Earth asteroid 2002 MN misses the Earth by 75,000 miles (121,000 km), about one-third of the distance between the Earth and the Moon.
Near-Earth object
1994
The 1994 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot occurs after the New York Rangers defeat the Vancouver Canucks to win the Stanley Cup, causing an estimated C$1.1 million, leading to 200 arrests and injuries.
1994 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot
1986
The Mindbender derails, killing three riders and severely injuring one at the Fantasyland (known today as Galaxyland) indoor amusement park at West Edmonton Mall in Edmonton, Alberta.
Mindbender (Galaxyland)
1985
Five member nations of the European Economic Community sign the Schengen Agreement establishing a free travel zone with no border controls.
European Economic Community
1982
Falklands War: Argentine forces in the capital Stanley conditionally surrender to British forces.
Falklands War
1972
Japan Air Lines Flight 471 crashes on approach to Palam International Airport (now Indira Gandhi International Airport) in New Delhi, India, killing 82 of the 87 people on board and four more people on the ground.
Japan Air Lines Flight 471
1967
Mariner program: Mariner 5 is launched towards Venus.
Mariner program
1966
The Vatican announces the abolition of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum ("index of prohibited books"), which was originally instituted in 1557.
Roman Curia
1962
The European Space Research Organisation is established in Paris – later becoming the European Space Agency.
European Space Research Organisation
1959
Disneyland Monorail System, the first daily operating monorail system in the Western Hemisphere, opens to the public in Anaheim, California.
Disneyland Monorail
1955
Chile becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
Chile
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.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
1951
UNIVAC I is dedicated by the U.S. Census Bureau.
UNIVAC I
1950
An Air France Douglas DC-4 crashes near Bahrain International Airport, killing 40 people. This came two days after another Air France DC-4 crashed in the same location.
1950 Bahrain Air France Douglas DC-4 crashes
1949
Albert II, a rhesus monkey, rides a V-2 rocket to an altitude of 134 km (83 mi), thereby becoming the first mammal and first monkey in space.
Albert II (monkey)
1945
World War II: Filipino troops of the Philippine Commonwealth Army liberate the captured in Ilocos Sur and start the Battle of Bessang Pass in Northern Luzon.
Philippine Army
1944
World War II: After several failed attempts, the British Army abandons Operation Perch, its plan to capture the German-occupied town of Caen.
Operation Perch