June
14
World
Blood Donor Day
Every year, on 14 June, countries around
the world celebrate World Blood Donor Day
(WBDD). The event, established in 2004,
serves to raise awareness of the need for
safe blood and blood products and to thank
blood donors for their voluntary life-saving
gifts of blood.
World Blood Donor Day is one of eight official
global public health campaigns marked by
the World Health Organization (WHO), along
with World Health Day, World Tuberculosis
Day, World Immunization Week, World Malaria
Day, World No Tobacco Day, World Hepatitis
Day, and World AIDS Day.
Events
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.
1285 – Forces led by Prince Tran Quang Khai
of Vietnam's Tran Dynasty destroys most
of the invading Mongol naval fleet in a
battle at Chuong Duong.
1287 – Kublai Khan defeated the force of
Nayan and other traditionalist Borjigin
princes in East Mongolia and Manchuria.
1381 – Richard II of England meets leaders
of Peasants' Revolt on Blackheath. The Tower
of London is stormed by rebels who enter
without resistance.
1645 – English Civil War: Battle of Naseby
– 12,000 Royalist forces are beaten by 15,000
Parliamentarian soldiers.
1648 – Margaret Jones is hanged in Boston
for witchcraft in the first such execution
for the Massachusetts colony.
1775 – American Revolutionary War: the Continental
Army is established by the Continental Congress,
marking the birth of the United States Army.
1777 – The Stars and Stripes is adopted
by Congress as the Flag of the United States.
1789 – Mutiny on the Bounty: Bounty mutiny
survivors including Captain William Bligh
and 18 others reach Timor after a nearly
7,400 km (4,600 mi) journey in an open boat.
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.
1800 – The French Army of First Consul Napoleon
Bonaparte defeats the Austrians at the Battle
of Marengo in Northern Italy and re-conquers
Italy.
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.
1821 – Badi VII, king of Sennar, surrenders
his throne and realm to Isma'il Pasha, general
of the Ottoman Empire, ending the existence
of that Sudanese kingdom.
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.
1846 – Bear Flag Revolt begins – Anglo settlers
in Sonoma, California, start a rebellion
against Mexico and proclaim the California
Republic.
1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Second
Winchester – a Union garrison is defeated
by the Army of Northern Virginia in the
Shenandoah Valley town of Winchester, Virginia.
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.
1907 – Norway adopts female suffrage.
1919 – John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown
depart St. John's, Newfoundland on the first
nonstop transatlantic flight.
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: U.S and Filipino forces
at the Battle of Bessang Pass in Ilocos
Sur province in Northern Luzon.
1945 – World War II: Filipino troops of
the 15th, 66th and 121st Infantry Regiment,
Philippine Commonwealth Army, USAFIP-NL
was completed and they liberating the captured
in Ilocos Sur start the Battle of Bessang
Pass in Northern Luzon.
1947 – Roswell UFO incident A supposed UFO
crash lands in Roswell, New Mexico
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 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.
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 Leónidas Trujillo Molina.
Save for four of them, all are killed and/or
executed.
1962 – The European Space Research Organisation
is established in Paris – later becoming
the European Space Agency.
1965 – Nguyen Cao Ky became Prime Minister
of South Vietnam at the head of a military
junta; General Nguyen Van Thieu became the
figurehead chief of state.
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
toward Venus.
1982 – The Falklands War ends: Argentine
forces in the capital Stanley unconditionally
surrender to British forces.
1985 – TWA Flight 847 is hijacked by Hezbollah
shortly after take-off from Athens, Greece.
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.
Holidays
and observances
Christian
Feast Day:
Elisha
Methodios I of Constantinople
June 14 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Flag Day (United States)
Freedom Day (Malawi)
Liberation Day (Falkland Islands and South
Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands)
Mourning and Commemoration Day or Leinapäev
(Estonia)
Mourning and Hope Day in Lithuania.
Women's Day (Iraq)
World Blood Donor Day (International observance)
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